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QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 10, 2015 -> 02:05 PM) As is the connection between what voters want and how Congress actually behaves. No, this is the exact congress the voters wanted.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 10, 2015 -> 02:02 PM) Great. As soon as we're all billionaires we can make that happen. This is weak. If the young can vote Obama into office, they can show up in off cycle elections and vote the GOP out of the house/senate, too.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 10, 2015 -> 01:43 PM) Um...you realize we're talking about a letter that could easily be described as a "silly petition"? Yes, and you relize I'm not actually defending either side of this story, but merely responding to the bolded part of Reddy's post (included in my original reply). I'm simply saying to vote them out of office next time instead of resorting to this futile silliness. Our strongest voice can be heard through voting, not some silly petition about a law written in the 1700's after they win additional seats because all the progressive voters were too lazy to go out on election day and f***ing vote. I know, it's much easier to b**** about it from behind a keyboard, for example...with an Internets petition than to, you know, actually do something about it when we can.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Mar 10, 2015 -> 01:01 PM) that's exactly, EXACTLY my point. The Republicans would have a f***ing field day with this, but Democrats are so f***ing pathetic that they're unwilling to play the same game - the game that's been WORKING at the Congressional and State levels for years. This "above the fray" bulls*** has backfired so tremendously. You don't need for the SC to rule against the GOP, just make it a huge issue that hangs over their party. Because if you don't, in a few years Cotton's going to be running for President off this hype. But shrugging it off as just one more step in a line of ridiculous acts by the GOP is exactly what allows them to keep pushing the envelope further and further and further. At some point we have to say enough is e-f***ing-nough, right? Try doing that next election cycle instead of through silly petitions.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Mar 9, 2015 -> 06:02 PM) They make automatic winders for watches, so its still a b****. People who are in to watches own these and their watches are super expensive compared to this piece. A lot of newer watches don't require this. I almost never manually wind my watch, it does it through motion, I'm sure your watch does this also. You wear a GMT or a Sub?

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Mar 9, 2015 -> 06:04 PM) I disagree with the bolded immensely however the author of that article hit on something that makes more sense, spending a lot of money on a DISPOSABLE watch is insane. Most hight quality watches last forever and can be passed down for generations if you want to. My Rolex wont ever be "old technology" like this version of a watch will be. I found that post hilarious, I wear a GMTII, coke bezel, and if he thinks more than 100$ on a watch is a crazy, his head would explode if he saw the price tag on my watch.

QUOTE (bmags @ Mar 9, 2015 -> 03:34 PM) I disagree with a lot of this. I think the people that collect watches care a lot about status symbols. You basically have to see whether this hits the appropriates status. Mid-level watches are not $300...they are $3000. I have to be honest, if you make a smart watch a gadget, it's going to be a fad. It's only if they hit the appropriate function/style aspect that it will be more. Quite obviously watches have no purpose in today's world, yet they exist as one of the few fashion accessories for men. The interesting thing will be whether people who have a $10,000 JLC watch is going to view an Apple watch as something worth collecting. It depends how certain status symbols pick it up. They should obviously start sponsoring tennis events Exactly this.

QUOTE (bmags @ Mar 9, 2015 -> 02:19 PM) The battery life at least makes sense compared to manual watches, though, where you have to wind every morning. But winding is a little easier than charging for hours. But totally agree on watch market. This isn't replacing a phone...it's replacing a watch. Depends on the watch, mine can be wound manually, but so long as you wear it every few days, it doesn't require manual winding. The only time I'll manually wind it is if I'm not going to wear it for a few days at a time because I'm working from home or something.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Mar 9, 2015 -> 12:15 PM) Neither will catch on unless the cost is less than your smart phone and/or it can fully replace your smart phone. That's why the watch stuff is going to be limited to fitness tracking with notifications. Not to mention battery life sucks on these things with real screens. Glass may catch on, eventually, if it can replace the size of your smart phone screen into your field of vision (along with the ability to make calls and voice recognition is good enough to write emails/texts). Still, I don't think either are long for this world, especially as standard every day items we would use. The watch market is a different kind of beast... Personally, I have little interest in the smart watch category, but 300-500$ isn't very expensive for a watch, either, especially if it's made nicely, and this appears to be made very nicely. The battery life on all of these watches are abysmal, even the ones that are far more limited than Apple's...but they're also doing a hell of a lot more than a standard watch does...but that being said, I don't need my watch to do much, it's jewelry.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Mar 9, 2015 -> 09:28 AM) I will say that the even bigger picture is being missed here. it isn't JUST race, it is a government run amok, using law enforcement as a stealth tax system. It isn't about catching robbers and killers as it is shaking down peeps for tinted windows and making sure beauticians have the 'proper' licenses. There are towns all across the country that are infamous for shaking down motorists for the slightest of things, often just making them up, to provide revenue. I remember a story of a town that had only 250 residents but had a police force of 20, and had more tickets than most of their state combined. This is tyranny, and it doesn't matter the race. People rightly should be upset at the systematical targeting of citizens by police simply to feed their coffers. They complain, but then then they'll re-elect the very people that cause this from the top down.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 6, 2015 -> 12:48 PM) Yup. And I know this may not be a popular opinion back here, but overall I've more liked than disliked Emmanuel's initiatives. I think he's taking the right tack on a lot of the garbage he had to deal with. I like him better than Daley -- but that's not saying I like him. He does a lot of shady stuff, much like Daley did.

You'll finally understand what it's like to love something more than yourself, and the nonstop worry that brings...and the fun. And no to you non-parents, until you have kids, you haven't.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 4, 2015 -> 05:36 PM) Whatever the reasoning is, it causes people's bills to be higher, not to mention wastes time. And I'm sure they know this. Which means they COULD choose to manage apps differently and/or memory differently, but don't. So, yeah, rip off. Apple doesn't care about "power" users, and never really have. They'll up the memory when enough of their regular customers are affected, but not until then. And while annoying to us (power users), the vast majority of their users 1) don't notice and 2) don't really care. I guarantee those teen girls you see with sparkly iPhones and customers such as my parents have never once questioned why that's happening. I bet the 6s has 2 gigs, though, it seems about time seeing as they just upped the iPad Air 2 to 2 gigs.

QUOTE (Leonard Zelig @ Mar 3, 2015 -> 03:21 PM) I've been putting protein powder in my hot oat bran for breakfast to get protein in the morning, but I read that heat can decrease the quality of whey. Anybody know anything about this? Am I killing the protein? It doesn't do anything. It can start breaking down chemical bonds, but it's not killing the protein, your body would break down those chemical bonds anyway through digestion. You can cook meat until it's burned, eat it and still get protein. So, heating up some powder isn't going to do much.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Mar 2, 2015 -> 10:52 AM) A lot of weight loss, getting fit and getting healthy is an internal mental war. You need motivation. You need to see some kind of result. Seeing the data, for me, helps to create that picture in my mind of what needs to happen to lose weight or continue to lose weight. I've slowly been getting back into it again...after sustaining a neck injury about 6 months ago (bulging disc), I was shelved from working out for quite a few months...it's crazy how quickly you'll put weight back on (not good weight), and I can easily tell because my pants are all getting tight again. I need to re-lose about an inch off my waist, I'm probably back at 31.5" or so after being down to 29.5 late last year. And aside from working out, 90% of it's diet, diet, and more diet...and not what I call a deprivation diet, but a diet where you simply eat good food, vs junk...I've been eating a bit too much junk combined with not working out (when I worked out I was able to eat whatever I wanted), and that catches up to you quickly. Now that spring is coming back, it'll be much easier to get back into this now...I'm a known winter hibernator, and combining that with the injury, it was a convergence of bad.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Mar 2, 2015 -> 10:00 AM) So I've never really understood this...and I know it's because I am ignorant on the subject...but, why is someone concerned about heart rate for lower intensity workouts? People like to see results, and with such data software can be used to build graphs, etc...which show progress over time. I don't personally use any of it, but if its what a person needs to push themselves or to continue exercising to some degree, I'm all for it. There is so much bad information out there in this "health industry" that it's hard to wade through it all, or even talk to people about it. You can tell them product XYZ does absolutely nothing, and they won't believe you despite the long term science showing what works and what doesn't work (most of it works for nothing more than draining your bank account). They'd sooner believe an unregulated supplement industry because of the lies they print on their labels, which they then absolve themselves of by the fine print you'll find on every single one of those labels that none of those claims are backed by the FDA, or any sort of actual non-biased science. It's an unregulated multi-billion dollar business...that alone should make a person skeptical of any supplement they take, but it doesn't...most don't bother questioning any of it.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Feb 27, 2015 -> 06:10 PM) That obviously makes sense when much of the projected world growth is in Asia, the Middle East and pockets of South America and Africa. Trusting foreign companies to report accurate results/earnings, though, not an exact science. (Of course, we went through a slew of companies like Enron and Worldcom gaming numbers over a decade ago, too.) The absolute hardest part of investing is buying things nobody else wants with the belief that company or industry will rebound. Take for instance, at this moment, the metals sector...very depressed, and falling like a rock. IMO, right now, VALE is a strong buy, BECAUSE the industry they're in is falling apart and the stock is sinking like a rock. It isn't sexy, it isn't appealing...but I believe that one day, the iron ore industry (steel) will rise again...and VALE will lead the way when it happens...they're also foreign. But that's the market. Buying bargins when nobody else is interested.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Feb 27, 2015 -> 11:38 AM) Anyone use a fitness tracker? The wifey and I are looking at the Fit Bit Charge HR. Neither of us are working out a ton, but it would be nice to know how much we are walking and moving around during the day. I've experimented with them, so have a few people I know...but they're mostly "meh" at the moment. I have a very hard time trusting these types of devices "tracking sleep", when most of them can barely track heart rate, let alone steps with any semblance of accuracy. These devices are in their infancy, and IMO are downright terrible at the moment. That new Microsoft band can barely track heart rate with any sort of accuracy over a long period of time (or even a short period of time depending on who's wearing it).

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 25, 2015 -> 11:31 AM) Just for comparison's sake, this is the one my lion's share is in. Your's is a very good fund to be in. http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/DSPIX:US 88% of my 401k's overall value is in the S&P500 Index. Though that WAS over 95%, over the years I slowly started upping my contributions to foreign index and bond index while lowering my contribution to the S&P500 index (just to slowly bring a bit of balance), without doing a forced rebalancing.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Feb 25, 2015 -> 04:35 PM) I still have my iPhone 4S (3G), which I plan to replace. But in the meantime, I put on the new OS version a couple months ago, and coincidentally (not) we are suddenly going from typically using 75% of our data to 125%. Two months straight. Doesn't help that the friggin web developer kit that ALL iPhone browsers must use insists on reloading a web page every. Friggin. Time. you go back to that page, which is an immense design flaw that drives me nuts. Anyone who has an iPhone 6 - does the browser kit behind the native or other browsers still have that idiotic flaw? The reloading of tabs occurs if the device is out of memory (not storage), but actual RAM. Because Apple cuts corners on only putting 1GB of memory in their phones (2GB exists in the iPad air2), whether it be for their battery power excuse or not, that's why browsers often reload tabs. The entire OS and every background task on iOS devices is running off of 1GB of memory...which while impressive...it's past time they up it to 2gb.

As someone that's partially color blind, welcome to how I see a lot of things. I can see certain colors just fine, but colors like this all blend to me, all the time.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Feb 18, 2015 -> 08:16 PM) Yeah, especially since all my other positions don't have this difference. DAL is the only position I've bought into at multiple price points, so it makes sense that the reason for the difference is what SS2k5 said above. There should be some sort of summary price that takes into account the different price points and the share amounts you bought them at and let you know what your current "overall" price is. This is the value you'd compare to the current stock price to find out how much you are ahead/behind. But yes, what SS said is correct, it's the multiple price points that are making the difference here. EDIT: And BTW, good to see you're investing in the market.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Feb 17, 2015 -> 08:30 PM) Even a cheap suit can be tailored to better fit you. Even big chains like K&G have in-house tailors. The material still doesn't look or feel the same.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Feb 17, 2015 -> 03:59 PM) I wear suits 2-3 times a week and while it sounded awesome as a kid, I f***ing hate it now, especially in the summer. I own 7 suits - (in order of purchase) navy (#1 purchase no matter what for any interview), dark gray, dark gray pinstripe, light gray, light gray pinstripe, black and a white/black checkered patterned one that I rarely wear. Haven't yet jumped into the tan and browns yet. I also have three sport coats, two navy and one light tan to go with jeans. All purchased at Mens Wearhouse/Joseph A. Bank. My cheap suits there ("buy ONE get THREE free!") last every bit as long as the real expensive stuff, which is a waste of money IMO. I buy cheap ass dress shoes. 40-50 dollar kenneth coles on amazon. They last 1-2 years and then I buy again. I go through dress shoes too quickly to buy anything nice. I bought a nice pair a few years ago, like 200-250 and they were basically done after one year and the cost to repair them was like 100 bucks. f*** that jazz. I own a ton of white collared shirts, and more collared shirts with some shade/pattern of blue than I care to admit. I have a decent tie selection/collection, although the ties I bought 10-12 years ago (at age 20) are now out of date. I'm officially old. I despise clothing. I despise "fashion." Not that I don't enjoy looking nice or seeing my wife in a gorgeous outfit, but frankly for all the money and comfort and everything it's just not worth it. If it were socially acceptable I would wear the same thing every day. I disagree with the cheap suit thing, while I wouldn't recommend getting nothing but expensive suits, I would recommend getting ONE very nice suit that you wear out for a night on the town. Think Vegas, a fancy party, or something similar. The material, the way it looks, the way it feels, the way it drapes...you can tell...they simply look and feel better. I absolutely love my nice suit...and hate my cheap one.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 17, 2015 -> 02:31 PM) We are working on a pricing structure for one of our software systems that we are going to strip all of the extras off of it, and sell it at about half price as a basic program. I am looking for a name other than "Lite/Light" to call it... Any ideas? Essentials, or something such as this. Calling it light, or lite sends the message it's stripped down garbage. Instead, send the message that it's simply what they need, without the fancy bells and whistles (without actually saying that). People never like being told, well...we understand you cannot afford this Rolex, but this Casio is JUST as good (when they KNOW it's not).