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I started to post this in the hamburger thread when somebody mentioned hot dogs, but saw the OP's post about getting off topic. Heaven Forbid! I dont wanna get censured by the moderators and ruin my life! I just know they are out to get us rule breakers. Waaaaaa...

Have you ever been harmed or damaged as a result of something somebody did with data they took from your computer? Not talking about things like the Target hack or someone hacking into your Amazon account and having fun, or some fraudulent activity that originated someway other than a...

We had hail damage from a recent storm and we need a new roof. We have not filed an insurance claim yet. We have met with about six roofing contractors -- they pretty much stormed the neighborhood. I asked them all for estimates. Only two have provided estimates. The others want to meet...

If you are an occasional ORP user you may want to see the changes Mr Welch has made to ORP recently. ORP News 05/06/2014: Exempting Social Security Benefits from State Income Taxes 05/10/2014: Taxes on IRA to Roth IRA Rollovers 03/10/2014: Seperate Life Expectencies 02/10/2014: File and...

This thread http://www.early-retirement.org/forums/f27/poll-how-many-of-us-are-engineers-60354.html has me wondering how many Professional Engineers we have. I have an engineering degree from an engineering college that is part of a university. Over the years I have had several job titles that...

This is an interesting piece on how websites like FaceBook, Google, etc, customize what they choose to show you. Worth a watch: Eli Pariser: Beware online "filter bubbles" - YouTube ... and just a little scary.

A few months ago DW's sister acquired a new puppy (from a rescue group in OKC) (DW's sister is a 10 out of 10 for rescues ... if you know that that means ... it requires evaluation and references evaluated by the resuce group) - it is how rescue groups evaluate potential adopters -- and she as...

The US Mint is making millions and millions of presidential $1 coins that nobody uses so they are going into storage. This is scheduled to continue into 2016 when almost 2 billion of these will be in storage. I might send this link to my senators and rep for comment. Coins Costing Taxpayers...

I run a FireCalc scenario entering the data on the initial FireCalc page and various tabs. The results seem to be normal. On the results page, I right click "Link To This Set Of Data" and "Add To Favorites". When I try to enter FireCalc through the Favorite I get: Forbidden You don't have...

"Today, Google's home page has one of the most interactive Google Doodles to date. In celebration of Les Paul's 96th birthday, Google's home page sports an interactive guitar version of its logo." You can play by strumming the strings with the mouse pointer or use the keyboard. Here's the...

Is anybody using the Lipitor $4 Co-Pay Card? https://www.lipitor.com/patients/lipitorcopaycard.aspx?source=redirect_lipitor/save I would like to know if it can be used with 90 day mail order prescriptions. The documentation only mentions one month supplies. The program runs through...

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I have been using Google Chrome for about a year. Chrome has some features that IE does not have, but some things don't get handled by Chrome quite as well as IE; for example, downloads, opening PDF documents, and opening Microsoft Office documents (.dox/docx, .xls, .ppt), but I have lived with...

Have a niece and nephew-in-law who spend a bundle every year on custom made Christmas cards. They hire a photographer to capture images of them and their three children and have cards printed. Guess they can afford it. This year's card is a tri-fold on heavy paper with a photo of the three...

Nice but short article on data mining at Acxiom. These data miners know everything about you - Acxiom (1) - CNNMoney.com "Who they are: The oldest and the biggest data aggregator out there, Acxiom says it has more than 32 billion data records. If you get direct-marketing mail, phone calls from...

This thread http://www.early-retirement.org/forums/f28/4-is-now-considered-to-high-53425.html got me interested in rereading The Trinity Study. The links on the reading list seem to be broken. I did find this: http://6aa7f5c4a9901a3e1a1682793cd11f5a6b732d29.gripelements.com/pdf/vol1014.pdf...

Why do so many women put their purses in the kiddie carrier part of the shopping cart? Do they realize how easy that makes it for the grab-and-go thief? Every now and then we hear that someone's purse was taken. Seems like most retailers have policies that keep employees from intervening. I...

Hopefully some of you clever people can offer suggestions for disposing of a vacation timeshare. For the one or two of you that might not be so clever, here's your opportunity for an upgrade in status.;) A little background: About a year ago DW's sister (in her 50's) got the "we'd like to...

I have discovered that a key negotiation skill is having the ability and willingness to wait faster than the other party.

Little did I know, as I was posting in http://www.early-retirement.org/forums/f28/credit-debit-or-none-of-the-above-49298.html that my card information had made it's way overseas and was being "tested" with an Apple music download. The card company called today to verify two charges, which I...

I was comparing FireCalc to another calculator, and to get apples and apples on the 'Your Portfolio' tab selected 'A portfolio with consistent annual market growth of n%, fixed income returns of m%, and an inflation rate of x%' because that is all the other calculator supports. While I realize...

Does anybody know if it is acceptable to tape a Business Reply Mail envelope (for which the addressee pays the postage) to a larger envelope? DW needs to mail something that will not fit inside the provided envelope. This is legitimate business -- not "mailing a brick".

Of course these things happen from time to time. When Mr Muszynski checked his statement he found a $23 quadrillion debit and a $15 overdraft fee. Man's Debit Card Charged $23 Quadrillion, Plus $15 Overdraft Fee - Money News Story - WMUR Manchester I like this part: "WMUR News 9 contacted...

:confused: This is hard to understand. It seems that some shoppers in a Wal-Mart knocked down a store employee and he died as a result. The article says at least three others were injured. Wal-Mart worker dies after shoppers knock him down - Yahoo! News

Has anybody been able to log on to HSBC in the last 24 hours? It appears they are having difficulties.:mad: Since about this time yesterday I have been getting : Service Unavailable We're sorry. Personal Internet Banking service is temporarily unavailable. Please try again shortly. We...