Robert A. Heinlein.

Yeah, but the composition is a bit off because the baby was holding the camera.

Jesus and Superman didn't fight the Romans and Lex Luther without expecting some backlash, you know.

Damn, I can't believe I missed that issue. I'll bet the story kicked ass. Who drew it?

First, your sig is funny. Second, I've always wondered how fast you had to be rolling to "push" start an automatic. Thanks for doing it to your car instead of mine. Third, I think you're wrong about how your car's steering wheel lock works. I know that in my cars, if I turn the wheel until it locks, I can unlock it by inserting the key and turning it to 'on'. But that's in Park. I've never tried it when the car was in gear. Are you really sure that makes any difference?

With the exception of the east half of Lawrence, pretty much all of Kansas seems to sympathize strongly with Tennessee's view of these "controversies".

Seems like an honest question; I'll take a shot, giving my own interpretation of TFA:

In essence, the plaintiffs are saying that, due to the aforementioned creative, scholarly, and aesthetic judgments, their textbooks present a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts. Boundless is, in their view, reproducing (perhaps I should say "echoing") not just the freely available parts, but the copyrighted arrangement that represents (they claim) a significant part of the value of the books. Ergo, lawsuit.

The IRS does indeed re-calculate everything. Last year they added a form to my return I had forgotten to file (but realized I was going to have to re-file shortly after sending in my return) that saved me $1000. It's the second time the processing agent has been extremely decent about handling my return, and I honestly cannot corroborate any of the horror stories that people spread about the IRS.

founder (intransitive verb) , To fail utterly; collapse

What's wrong with that?

That's not a mistake. That's negligence and dereliction of duty.

Cops are always telling us the shit they do is about our safety. So this must be about not giving a damn if we're safe. Fire 'em all.

I don't think that "giving X a good name" means what you think it does. I would say by the tone of your post that eugenics has a very bad name with you. It has a bad name with me too, and yet I do, in general, think well of Planned Parenthood's activities. Whatever Margaret Sanger may or may not have believed, I don't think eugenics has a good name with many people in the U.S.

So you didn't really answer the question. You did, however, reap the usual karma bonanza that accrues to posts that remind us all that the U.S. has done some very bad things in its history, so I guess that's good.

I vote we can mod parent up and get on to the next thing. People who make their living in IP can hardly expect to just ignore it when the shoe is on the other foot. And couldn't they just bill the extra expense back to their clients anyway?

That's not commenting. Or, rather, it's not commenting on what I wrote. It's just throwing around jargon that sounds vaguely related to the subject at hand. I never advocated any style or system of investment. I simply pointed out (wryly) that every action (or lack of one) has an opportunity cost and the stock market makes it very easy to see what those costs were--in hindsight. But here I am, over 24 hours later, still receiving snarky investment advice from people apparently convinced that discipline, patience, and OMGDIVIDENDS are all you need to have a happy experience in the market. Good luck with that, folks. And let me know how your dividend-payers do when interest rates finally start back up and people can get 6% at their local banking establishment. Hint: it takes a lot of years of dividends to make up for a 50% haircut in stock price.

What's that? You'll just sell when the handwriting is on the wall? For my comment on selling stock, see original post. Oh, you'll just ride it out and buy more when it's cheap? For my comment on sitting on stock as it plunges from a tidy profit to a sickening loss, see original post. Either way, there's no way not to hate yourself in the stock market.

As for your suggested "redistribute" phraseology, I would never have used it in my post because it's not fucking funny, and I was fucking joking as I clearly fucking stated at the time.

Learn to read for comprehension.

I received a boatload of well-intentioned advice that is completely redundant to someone of my age and investing experience. (I have been in the market since 1992, and I've been very successful at using Wall Street's greed and impatience against it--"value investing," if we must give a name to common sense.) You get the only response because your suggestion is at least not more of the same.

I find your suggestion interesting because I have found that for someone of my temperament it does not work. I find that if I buy stock in something I feel strongly about for other than financial reasons, I get too invested in it (crappy pun intended). I don't make the rational decisions required to do well in the market. I took a break from stocks in late 1999 (market too high, couldn't find anything I liked), and when I decided to come back in 2005 I promised myself I wouldn't be such a fanboy for my companies this time.

As for investing only what I can do without, I don't think it's that easy. My wife and I have an assload of money, far more than we need for day-to-day living. But the flip side to that is that if I only invested amounts I wouldn't mind losing, I wouldn't have invested enough to move the needle either plus or minus. So I do invest, but I don't have much money in unproven companies--probably about 3% of my portfolio, which is in turn only about 20% of our liquid assets.

Like I said to my sister in 1999, there's no way not to hate yourself if you invest in stocks. What are your options?

Buy a stock and it goes down, apparently forever. What a dope I am.
Buy a stock and it goes up. Sell, and it goes up further. Damn, I knew I got out too early.
Buy a stock and it goes up then back down. Shit! I got greedy and lost money.
Buy a stock and it goes up, you sell, then it goes down. I knew I had that stock figured out! Why the hell did I only buy 200 shares?

So sure, you can make money, or you can lose money, but there's really no way to be happy with the outcome. ;)

(Haters please note that this is intended as humor. I'm sure that, aside from the universally felt twinge at having left money on the table, parent poster is perfectly happy to have "only" doubled his/her money.

Clearly "equated" is in the eye of the beholder. I took his post as a caution against hubris and ethnocentricity. You heard an insult and a false comparison. Oh well. I'll drop it if you will.