Aspartame tastes gross.

So, uh, turn it off?

Okay, so I decided I'd actually not write off the whole website based on one stupid article. I poked around a half dozen other articles as well.

The one useful thing about this Lifehacker post is that it saved me time from reading the tripe at that site ever again.

My desktop backs up to the cloud using an encrypted CrashPlan archive. My laptop only has a few important files, so they get synced to the desktop, which then gets pushed up into CrashPlan.

See my note above... make sure you get a kit with some kind of buffing compound, not one of these ones that is some kind of "magic" wipe and restore. You'll need to put some elbow grease into it, actually buffing down the surface.

You need to use the kits that actually have buffing compound in them. There are kits where you supposedly just wipe something onto the lenses, and that doesn't work.

Note: If you buff your headlights with anything, you must seal them with a UV protectant, otherwise they will yellow very quickly.

Great topic.

I got a 110 a year or so ago and while it works just fine for my purposes, the acquisition time is far more of a pain in the neck than I anticipated. Sometimes if I want to go, I want to go now and the standing around for a couple minutes while the thing acquires a signal is annoying. Especially because it won't…

Right!

Sure, but it'd still be a converter not an adapter, and would be priced accordingly.

There are tons of fake cables out there that have an analog connector at one end (e.g. VGA, composite audio, RCA, S-video, etc.) and digital at the other end (e.g. HDMI, DVI, TOSLINK, etc.).

I agree. Your investments for retirement can be relied on to ride out dips in the market, but I wouldn't suggest someone put emergency funds into pure stocks.

Well, sure, you should always be balancing your investments to your needs. My retirement money is in a much higher risk portfolio than I would keep emergency funds in.

You don't have to ask what happens. OF COURSE you have the potential of a loss if you need to pull out your money and the investment is depressed. You'd have to be an idiot to think otherwise.

You think a massive power outage or severe weather event is going to mean you won't have access to a phone and an ATM for months on end?

You don't have to "trust" anything. As the investor, it's your name on the account - you can get to it in accordance with the terms of the investment, which you can read and understand on your own.

I was talking to my financial advisor about this. He pointed out that a lot of your invested assets can be had within 30 days for either a very small penalty (~1%) or no penalty at all.

It's more of a problem at restaurants than it is to bring one yourself. Just wash the rind and you'll get rid of most of the bad stuff.