So, what you’re saying is that your needs were definitely more important than the needs of everyone else who was on standby, and doubly so because you happen to fly a lot. None of them could possibly be flying home for anything important, right? And certainly none of them had your status.

Delta will do this as well. I had a traffic accident occur right in front of me in an area where I couldn’t turn around or back out.

Cuisinart’s customer service is terrible, for the record.

Cuisinart’s customer service is terrible, for the record.

What do you think of these mid-tier “fit to order” sites?

Okay, but just think about it for a second. What is faster, brute forcing every piece of literature in existence, or brute forcing every letter/number combination in existence (which, by definition, contains every piece of literature in existence)? You’re right - they’re not brute forcing every piece of literature,…

Bible verses (or other well-known phrases) are still a bad idea because password crackers now incorporate them into their cracking routines. You need to come up with something unique.

I was all prepared to state that password cracking now involves retrieved text from the internet, so using known poems is still a bad idea... but this is clever.

I like to think I’m generally good at gauging the right amount, but I do find that it changes from person to person. I usually try to watch them for cues - if they look away a lot, I usually assume they’re uncomfortable and will maintain a little less eye contact.

Is there something preventing you from adjusting that routine?

Well... “take a buy-out” isn’t really a strategy any more than “invest” is a strategy. It’s a possible thing to do, but doesn’t tell you much about how.

I mean, $10 million is insane even for people who want to “live it up” a little at retirement.

In some ways it feels like a sham. Companies offer a plan that’s supposed to pay your retirement, but it’s fully contingent on the company’s ability to stay solvent and interested in paying out.

I started late-ish, only starting my retirement savings at 29.

Well, nothing is really free but in some businesses there are non-monetary ways that you can fairly sustainably avoid charging users directly. You are, after all, browsing a free website right now, and for a lot of cases, advertising is a reasonable way to do that.

My issue is that hey, they might be a great, free, anonymous VPN service right now. And that’s wonderful.

“That’s also not a terrible price for a good oral thermometer, smart or otherwise.”

“That’s also not a terrible price for a good oral thermometer, smart or otherwise.”

Those “must be nice” comments usually tell more about the speaker than the target. People see themselves in everyone around them.

How specific I am with details depends on why someone is asking.

$30,000 is not going to be a sufficient living in 45 years, in my opinion.

You don’t understand the issue at hand if you think that’s the crux of the problem.