I like the 4 way idea. Each person from a different locale being prideful in their locales cars/trucks.

Forgot about the Japanese/Koreans .. they make a ton of cars as well.

That would be like betty white's show "off their rockers"

Maybe I am missing something, but when you drain your emergency fund, you then go into savings. Now if your point was when you have no savings, then I think the article should be renamed. I was unemployed for 2 years and lost my emergency fund after about a year. I hit some of my retirement accounts to make up for…

One is used for guesstimating and one is used for GAAP accounting. This isn't just automotive, this is all industries.

True when making estimates, but not true for actual reporting. When reporting labor costs, like they are in the article above, I doubt they are including building, utilities, etc. in their "labor costs". The unions would tell them to get out of town with that data.

I think it depends on what kinds of programs you are studying, how good a student you are, and what your expectations are. I have two graduate degrees (A MS and a MBA). The MBA I did for fun. Literally, I was bored and did the MBA to learn more. The funny thing as my behavior for it was "try hard, and let the…

Okay smart ass. This was a personal system, not work. Yes I was using rsync to the external hard drive. I would like for you to tell me how to do network based rync offsite from home, for free, with 100% reliability and zero chance of security breach.

Offering insurance does not mean they pay any part of it. I worked for a company which offered insurance to its part time employees. Basically it was "you pay full cost, we cover nothing, but you get access to it." At the time if you were working 1/2 time, you were making about $200 a week. The full monty in terms…

You are confusing operational costs with labor costs. Labor costs are directly associated with labor. This would be Labor ($xx/hour), plus the cost of any benefits associated with that individual (health/life insurance, unemployment, bonuses, ss, medicare, etc.). A typical formula looks like Cost of Goods Sold =…

Why is it when everyone talks about wages they talk about a decent future, living wage, and middle class. Who is to say that a specific job is supposed to pay a living wage, making you middle class and creating a decent future. Flipping burgers as a line worker is not supposed to be a full time job for the 50 years…

Yeah .. and I assume you are doing everything spot on as well? We all get lazy after the 100th time of doing the same thing.

Umm yeah .. I know. Just time and effort dude.

Yeah .. I learned that as well. As I said - I learned a lot of things from this exercise. At the end of the day, I was able to piece back together lots of data, and the 5% that was done was mostly personal files. The rest was mostly media. I now have a different backup strategy, which works well and no issues.

My nightmare story happened to me. I am a very technical guy and was running a linux server as my NAS storage. RAID 10. I felt good. One day, I was running a backup on my systems as I do once a week. 4tb backup disk, 4tb NAS. So I have to delete the previous backup to do a full backup. Well I leave and I had an…

I knew everything you listed as dirty laundry from reading the press. Sorry but those were not big secrets.

I recently got rid of my land line (my kids are not in college, and I am consolidating) so I moved my home to my cell. Damn do I get a lot of crap calls. I have three plans.

So you lost money in an investment vehicle where 1) you get to pick stocks, 2) You only get to pick stocks in things some director at your company picks, 3) Are not able to do your own research/listen to experts. So yeah - you lost money. 401ks are bad for that because they allow people with agendas to pick the…

I do understand the daily driver and lack of range anxiety however the long distance haul is what I care about. I am not independently wealthy, thus I have 1 car. If I am going to spend 80-100k on a car (All rebates should never be considered in the price of a car), I definitely cannot have an older one for longer…

This program had a lot of losers, not because of the program exactly, but because of the paperwork. I remember lots of companies here in Indiana that applied for those loans, good companies, good minds, good products, and wanted those loans and the government kept pushing through red tape, and pushing out timelines,…