It was Feaster famine for the Big Green Tree that year, I guess.

Fighting with the Sichuan team? I never thought Chang’d do such a thing.

Oh, right! That’s why Charlotte has a toll-free I-485 beltway, while Durham and Raleigh have the Durham Freeway extension and eventually half the Raleigh beltway as toll roads. That’s all that money flowin’ into the capital district, just like the Hunger Games!

COTY.

It’s easy for these market drops to worry you. Fight that impulse! And remember, in a long time horizon, your odds are better with an age-appropriate mix of stocks and bonds than ANY other investment. If you’re worried whether your allocation is right, maybe consider switching to a Target Retirement Date fund in your…

Good advice. I’d go a slightly different direction. Yes to using a $10-15m pot with 4% withdrawal rate as the key for ongoing income. I’d probably diversify the remaining pot pretty heavily, with a surprisingly large muni, Treasury and international bond allocation (probably 50% of what’s there.) It’s back to the old…

Nope, nope, nope nope nope on Dave Ramsey, ELP and the 12% guaranteed return bullshit.

...Uncle RICK? You’re alive? I thought you died of cancer back in the 2000s. We sold off your 50 caliber anti tank weapon (sorry!) but your copy of None Dare Call It Treason is still in the boxes. Also, the biohazard suit went into the dumpster too.

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As others are noting, it would be scarily easy to do under a dictatorial or authoritarian regime.

The Big Lead: Chris, Cris, the make-up...

Funny, as xkcd always is, but the big risk to enterprise IT is a different use case: a lost or stolen device where owner is not present. Data breaches are expensive and defensible encryption is a very useful strategy in the event a device goes missing.

It has everything to do with the thinly-veneered racism underlying your post, to wit, which you can imagine as if spoken in an Eric Cartman voice: “Africa is full of poooor people who suck and can never do better in life!”

“One survey found that two-thirds of Americans believed that the proportion of the world population living in extreme poverty has almost doubled over the last 20 years. Another 29 percent believed that the proportion had remained roughly the same.

Washington Post has this story today. Chilling.

OK, serious advice/guidance sought!

There’s actually a Mars Hill University: http://www.mhu.edu/

You butt-hurt you’re not getting Google Fiber?

Oh, God. The painful memories.

Ironically, the coffee-and-salads place around the corner from this door is like 4 bucks a latte.