Recent content by The Cosmic Avenger

If you're going to "The Price Is Right" it, you can't bid zero, thought, you have to bid...one dollar! :biggrin:

I bought this Brother color laser printer a few months ago on sale for $470, and I am very happy with it. We might have to replace the black toner before we die, but the rest will probably be part of our estate! Ironically, we got it because we don't print very often, so inkjets were so much...

Just a reminder, if you do NOT have your make and model in Amazon, check the compatibility. I got this message, and it told me Black Set 1 choice of that item "fit", although I wonder if it's because the trim is black, not chrome, although the gasket thingies are different. Either way, thanks...

An estate plan is important, but it won't always keep personal animosity out of it. My father was the eldest and an accountant, but his younger brother had much better emotional maturity and judgement. Their parents made my uncle the executor of their estate, and my father stopped speaking to...

I agree with @RunningBum's observation that "Neutral - paid off debts, did not squander on lifestyle upgrades, saved a significant portion" is a positive to me -- that's pretty much what we did! My rule of thumb is 10% of windfalls for splurging, although mine have been in the 6-digit range. We...

Excellent point about the health care, if you think about what we'd pay here even with an ACA plan, it might cost 20% of your portfolio over 10-20 years anyway.

If you think you can live off of the 80% pretty easily in Italy, I would consider it an acceptable risk. What are the restrictions on it? How long would you have to keep it tied up?

Ever since I learned that they pioneered a lot of ATM fees that are now considered standard (for example, charging your own customer for using another ATM, which would be on top of the expected fee from the actual owner of that ATM charging a non-customer, or charging your own customers fees for...

This. If you don't respond, eventually they basically consider it the equivalent of a default judgement, but if you keep contesting it until you can get your point through to them, usually they will keep it open and keep corresponding with you.

I noticed yesterday that the email link took me to the first post of a thread, and then I noticed that I was signed out, and when I signed back in the email link takes me to the most recently viewed post.

I stopped the daily summary a while ago, but I just noticed that I haven't had any subscription notices for days until yesterday, when I usually get quite a few daily.

Sorry for your troubles, Terry. In Maryland they often issue paper temporary tags until the metal ones are available, I guess NV doesn't do that? If you have a form, you might want to leave it on the dash or back ledge (if your car has one, and if your state doesn't require front plates)...

I always use DBAN on drives when I will no longer be actively using them, just in case, to securely destroy any remnant of data on them.

Agreed, I would probably follow one of these courses of action in your place, frank.

Is that a little suspicious to anyone else? I've done some upgrades and repairs on my own laptops, and if I were replacing a hinge, all I think I would need to check would be the screen and the keyboard, both of which can be tested without logging in. Then again, maybe since they are a...