Badger Posted August 25, 2018 Report Share Posted August 25, 2018 7 minutes ago, Pariah said: "Anytime you drive cattle through town, there's gonna be a lot of sh*t to clean up." ~Texas Bix Bender As someone who lived next door to someone who kept cows in pasture across the street during my childhood. When it comes to the bathroom, cattle lack privacy issues. Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archer Posted August 25, 2018 Report Share Posted August 25, 2018 Just because there are two opposing sides in a controversy doesn't necessarily mean that the truth is somewhere in the middle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_to_moderation A particularly good thing to remember when discussing politics. Sometimes only one side is right. Sometimes both sides are completely wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted August 25, 2018 Report Share Posted August 25, 2018 Most of the time they both are completely wrong. Note: On a serious note, I think in politics a lot of the time, a side is right for the wrong reasons (I dont know if that makes sense to you) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archer Posted August 25, 2018 Report Share Posted August 25, 2018 Slovotsky's Laws (not a comprehensive list, for that I recommend reading the Guardians of the Flame series) A hero's work is never done. Which is one of the minor reasons I don't recommend the profession. Boldness is like a condom. If you depend on it all the time, no matter how good it is, and no matter how good you are, eventually it will break. I always have a fallback position whenever I take a risk. If all else fails, I'll die horribly, at great length, and in great pain. Mind you, it's not a good fallback position... When it comes to dealing with the law of averages, it's best to be a habitual offender. Relax, the universe is out to get you. Doing the best thing right away is much better than doing the second-best thing after much hesitation. I didn't say it's easier, mind, just better. The difference between being a trusted friend and a devoted vassal is non-trivial. Me, I'd rather be the first; vassals tend to go the well too often. Not getting cut up into bloody little slices is the key to a sound plan. The old saw says that the first time is an accident, the second time a coincidence, and the third time enemy action. As a matter of policy, I'm suspicious of accidents, and I don't believe in coincidences. It takes a lot of time to make things go right, but they can all go to hell in a heartbeat. While it doesn't get the good press that hard work and industry get, laziness is a talent to be cultivated, like any other. Wanting it doesn't make it so. If it did, we'd all learn to want harder. I can already want quite vigorously, thank you very much. When it comes to throwing a fit, it's better to give than to receive -- and much better to avoid the whole thing entirely. I'm a simple man. All I want is enough sleep for two normal men, enough whiskey for three, and enough women for four. Travel, it seems to me, has always done more for flattening the arches, callusing the feet, and irritating the hemorrhoids than broadening the mind. Arguing is one of life's great pleasures, even if you have to argue with yourself. Course, I could enjoy the other side of that argument, too. The first ninety percent of the job takes the first ninety percent of the time. The last ten percent takes the other ninety percent of the time. There isn't any pleasing some people. The trick is to stop trying. I'd always liked Robert Thompson's idea of avoiding compromise, of letting the person with the strong convictions have his own way... and then I realized that encouraged people to have strong convictions when they don't have enough data. Pariah and Starlord 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archer Posted August 25, 2018 Report Share Posted August 25, 2018 7 minutes ago, Badger said: Most of the time they both are completely wrong. Note: On a serious note, I think in politics a lot of the time, a side is right for the wrong reasons (I dont know if that makes sense to you) I find that when one of the sides is right, that they've quite often reached that position for the wrong reasons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted August 25, 2018 Author Report Share Posted August 25, 2018 2 hours ago, archer said: Slovotsky's Laws (not a comprehensive list, for that I recommend reading the Guardians of the Flame series) A hero's work is never done. Which is one of the minor reasons I don't recommend the profession. Boldness is like a condom. If you depend on it all the time, no matter how good it is, and no matter how good you are, eventually it will break. I always have a fallback position whenever I take a risk. If all else fails, I'll die horribly, at great length, and in great pain. Mind you, it's not a good fallback position... When it comes to dealing with the law of averages, it's best to be a habitual offender. Relax, the universe is out to get you. Doing the best thing right away is much better than doing the second-best thing after much hesitation. I didn't say it's easier, mind, just better. The difference between being a trusted friend and a devoted vassal is non-trivial. Me, I'd rather be the first; vassals tend to go the well too often. Not getting cut up into bloody little slices is the key to a sound plan. The old saw says that the first time is an accident, the second time a coincidence, and the third time enemy action. As a matter of policy, I'm suspicious of accidents, and I don't believe in coincidences. It takes a lot of time to make things go right, but they can all go to hell in a heartbeat. While it doesn't get the good press that hard work and industry get, laziness is a talent to be cultivated, like any other. Wanting it doesn't make it so. If it did, we'd all learn to want harder. I can already want quite vigorously, thank you very much. When it comes to throwing a fit, it's better to give than to receive -- and much better to avoid the whole thing entirely. I'm a simple man. All I want is enough sleep for two normal men, enough whiskey for three, and enough women for four. Travel, it seems to me, has always done more for flattening the arches, callusing the feet, and irritating the hemorrhoids than broadening the mind. Arguing is one of life's great pleasures, even if you have to argue with yourself. Course, I could enjoy the other side of that argument, too. The first ninety percent of the job takes the first ninety percent of the time. The last ten percent takes the other ninety percent of the time. There isn't any pleasing some people. The trick is to stop trying. I'd always liked Robert Thompson's idea of avoiding compromise, of letting the person with the strong convictions have his own way... and then I realized that encouraged people to have strong convictions when they don't have enough data. Always liked Slovotsky's laws. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted August 25, 2018 Author Report Share Posted August 25, 2018 6 hours ago, Badger said: Given what you posted this under of my advice. Was there a previous Mrs. Starlord we don't know about from when you lived in Palm Springs? Nope, same Mrs. Starlord. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 28, 2018 Report Share Posted August 28, 2018 When a financial advisor you already have shows signs that he thinks of your money as his money, it is past time to get a new financial advisor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted August 28, 2018 Report Share Posted August 28, 2018 I replaced my financial advisor with a Vanguard index fund. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 28, 2018 Report Share Posted August 28, 2018 That's OK until the entire market (or sector of the market) collapses. It's taken many sectors of the market a decade to get back to where they were before the meltdown of 2008 happened. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted August 28, 2018 Report Share Posted August 28, 2018 48 minutes ago, Cancer said: That's OK until the entire market (or sector of the market) collapses. It's taken many sectors of the market a decade to get back to where they were before the meltdown of 2008 happened. No financial advisor is going to save you from that either. Warren Effing Buffet lost $10B in '08. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archer Posted August 28, 2018 Report Share Posted August 28, 2018 I keep my IRA in mutual funds. I barely lost anything in 2008 and had made up those losses by 2010. Yeah, that was a flat couple of years but not an utter catastrophe. Considering I'd made 48% one year in fairly conservative growth funds and 32% the next year (earlier in the 2000's), going down 15% in a year a few years later after I'd shifted my money out of growth funds wasn't hugely worrisome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 28, 2018 Report Share Posted August 28, 2018 2 hours ago, Old Man said: Warren Effing Buffet lost $10B in '08. For him, pocket change. Also: http://dilbert.com/strip/2004-05-02 Note that was 2004. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted August 29, 2018 Report Share Posted August 29, 2018 So it's to be Dilbert strips, is it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted August 29, 2018 Report Share Posted August 29, 2018 5 hours ago, archer said: I keep my IRA in mutual funds. I barely lost anything in 2008 and had made up those losses by 2010. Yeah, that was a flat couple of years but not an utter catastrophe. Considering I'd made 48% one year in fairly conservative growth funds and 32% the next year (earlier in the 2000's), going down 15% in a year a few years later after I'd shifted my money out of growth funds wasn't hugely worrisome. Well done! I too keep my IRA in mutual funds, specifically index funds (which have no fees). I dimly recall losing about 20% in '08 and it taking until '12 to recover, but I didn't switch over to index funds until '14. Since then I've averaged a 7.7% rate of return, which wasn't hard to do in the current environment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 18, 2018 Report Share Posted September 18, 2018 When offered, buy a vowel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archer Posted September 18, 2018 Report Share Posted September 18, 2018 5 hours ago, Cancer said: When offered, buy a vowel. I do that every time I play Sudoku. Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted September 18, 2018 Report Share Posted September 18, 2018 Simplify, simplify, simplify. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted September 18, 2018 Report Share Posted September 18, 2018 2 hours ago, archer said: I do that every time I play Sudoku. Is that you, mother? (she doesn't do well with sudoku) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 18, 2018 Report Share Posted September 18, 2018 "There is only one way to deal with the chaos that today's world has become, and that is to go out and become one with the environment. "In other words, get polluted." -- Dirty Duck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted September 18, 2018 Report Share Posted September 18, 2018 The surest way to antagonize everyone is by trying to please everyone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 28, 2018 Report Share Posted September 28, 2018 It might be amusing to send in a sample of dog drool into one of those Discover Your Heritage DNA testing outfits in hopes of getting back an analysis that says "You are a son of a b***h." Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 6, 2018 Report Share Posted October 6, 2018 If it looks too good to be true, it probably is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted October 6, 2018 Report Share Posted October 6, 2018 On 9/28/2018 at 10:07 AM, Cancer said: It might be amusing to send in a sample of dog drool into one of those Discover Your Heritage DNA testing outfits in hopes of getting back an analysis that says "You are a son of a b***h." Nah, I am afraid they would say that with my own DNA, and them's fighting words where I come from. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted October 10, 2018 Report Share Posted October 10, 2018 Don't let your calculator results overpower your common sense. Bazza 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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