“Patent trolls need to be the ones prosecuted. All they do is hold back progress.”

Ahem...one thing I =did= forget is the annual fees to maintain your account. For Vanguard these are quite low. Below is a link to the Summary Prospectus for one of their (many) funds; it shows that there is no investment, reinvestment, nor withdrawal fee but there IS an annual fee - they tell you how much that would…

“”...do you have any suggestions as to who is most trustworthy and will give me sound advice that is not influenced by their own potential profit from the transaction?...”

“...If I have money in a mutual fund (presumably with the high fees etc), how difficult is it to move this to an index fund?...”

“...Don’t eagles go after preys that are large if not larger than they are?”

Man, it’s a dog-eat-dog world out there.

Poor branch.

I don’t have a boy child but I really have to wonder what a parent who finds out about their boy child’s penile length is actually going to DO with that information?

My apologies for not being clearer - I =meant= to say “someone saying touching someone else’s skin is somehow dangerous due to the spread of bacteria is scary”.

It for sure is a different culture from mine that calls a guy who put a gun against my head and robs me “Brother”.

The reviews on the Amazon pages point out the differences. I posted a laudatory comment above about the Kitchenaide mixer we have - Pro 600 - thinking this one and that one were similar enough that this one rulz. The reviews on Amazon suggest, however, that the power (ability to mix harder dough) may be somewhat less.

The reviews on the Amazon pages point out the differences. I posted a laudatory comment above about the Kitchenaide…

We bought one of these (see addendum) a few years ago at a discounted price, though I don’t think it was THIS discounted, and could not be happier with it. In fact, this morning my wife just took some “leftover” bananas and made banana bread using it - I’ll be enjoying that probably by noon.

We bought one of these (see addendum) a few years ago at a discounted price, though I don’t think it was THIS…

Or perhaps the person who would never let their kid play in the dirt...or maybe even not outside, period.

“was :’-(“

“...I can die peacefully now, I think.”

“...Finally, all of those hours playing Microsoft Flight Simulator paid off!

Usually when one is practicing touch-n-goes you use words along the line of “for the option”, meaning “I may or may not stay on the runway this time”.

Yup -take a look at Dulles (or Ohare and many others) to see those designations:

I’ve done that three times and I don’t even have an instrument rating.

“...According to the divorce settlement, he still owes her $7,000,000...”