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Comment on Scottrade Booyah! by joe

joe — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:27:04 +0000

give me back the old scottrade

Comment on The romance of gold by The CLO

The CLO — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 15:13:08 +0000

You’ll be interested to know that both Glenn Beck (right wing nutjob) and Air America (left wing circle jerk radio station) have been running ads talking up why Gold is such a wonderful investment.

When the kooks on both sides of the spectrum are saying that something is really really great, that’s a flashing sign staying “keep as far away from this as possible”.

Comment on Scottrade Booyah! by Cecil

Cecil — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 07:37:26 +0000

Has anyone called Scottrade on the phone?

Comment on Scottrade Booyah! by What the bleep

What the bleep — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 05:46:56 +0000

I don’t understand and I’m furious. This new tax center has nothing but errors it’s calculating everything wrong.

Comment on Scottrade Booyah! by Cecil (admin)

Cecil (admin) — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 08:00:27 +0000

I don’t nearly trade as much as you. I could never get the old Gainskeeper to properly import or allow me to hand edit, so I never used it. Deep down, with no hard evidence, I think it was because I wasn’t using Windows and IE but I’m predisposed to find that problem.

Sadly, your OS and Browser can make it better (or worse). FWIW, I believe they bought the new code – it’s not their own “legal-wise”.

Comment on Scottrade Booyah! by marktomarket

marktomarket — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:49:41 +0000

I make about 5000 trades per year and the free Gainskeper they use to have was a godsend. It handled all my spits, options, shorts, pretty much everything I’ve thrown at it. It’s been flawless. Why Scottrade stopped using it I don’t understand and i’m furious. This new tax center has nothing but errors it’s calculating everything wrong. Was this something Scottrade built or did they buy something to replace Gainskeeper? They better fix it quick or i’m moving my account. You better recheck your account numbers.

Comment on Groan: Worst Cooks in America – Food Network by The CLO

The CLO — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 03:11:30 +0000

Maybe this is where The Food Network has officially jumped the shark. I mean, bad reality TV (as in, bad for reality TV, when even “good” reality TV is awful)? Ugh.

Comment on Disaster avoided? by Cecil (admin)

Cecil (admin) — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:14:19 +0000

Jed: I’m glad to see that the research in CF or LENR continues and when they develop the science enough for technology development we (humanity) might have something to show for the work involved. My post was about the complete FU of the Utah cold fusion claims made public a decade ago and how that worked out for all involved. I hope the AGW scientists will also suffer the same fate of hubris and bad practices.

I don’t hate physicists or climate scientists. Unless they bull shit us on the relevance of their findings.

Comment on Disaster avoided? by Jed Rothwell

Jed Rothwell — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:52:06 +0000

Cold fusion worked well. It was replicated by thousands of scientists, who published hundreds of peer-reviewed papers. Last week the Defenses Intelligence Agency published a paper describing recent progress in the field. See:

http://www.lenr-canr.org/

Comment on Globalization meets me by The CLO

The CLO — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:36:34 +0000

“Re: NY prices, “Buffalo”, ain’t NY, even tho’ it’s in NY state. NY is the five boroughs. “The City” is Manhattan. Granted, when you’re way out in the sticks (aka “anywhere west of the Hudson”) these distinctions don’t matter much anymore.

Re: the dog. Authentic NYC dogs are usually plainly dressed. NY’ers look down on Chicagoans because the latter dress up their dogs “excessively” (mustard, relish, onion, pickle, sport pepper, tomato and celery salt. No ketchup. NEVER ketchup!). By contrast, NY dogs normally have only mustard and sauerkraut. (FWIW, Chicago dogs are usually boiled, not grilled). Really, the only “secret” is an all-beef dog that is properly cooked. NYers generally favor natural casing dogs, Chicagoans usually don’t.

FWIW, I just checked Wikipedia, and if they’re to be believed, upstate NYers treat their dogs differently than folks in the city. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_dog_variations Other than that what it says there, I have no idea how Buffalo residents favor their hot dogs.

But like I said, if it’s all beef, properly cooked, on a decent bun, you’re there. Grilled or boiled is your preference, and toppings should be available almost everywhere, so I’m with you on the “WTF” regarding a $7 hot dog. BTW, Gray’s Papaya, one of NYC’s landmark hot dog franchises, sells their dogs for $1.25 each. In friggin’ Manhattan.”

As an aside, if you watched Food Network back when they were a cooking channel rather than an entertainment/personality channel, you may recall that Gray’s Papaya and Papaya King are the two mainstay NYC hot dog chains. Gray’s used to sell their hot dogs for 50 cents each, but the price went up to 75 cents in ‘99 and then to $1.25 in ‘06. Still, $1.25 for any foodstuff in Manhattan, that’s cheap.

Personally I don’t like Chicago-style dogs: too much excess, it detracts from the hot dog. Get me a nice Vienna Beef or kosher hot dog, put it in a bun and slather generously with mustard and a dash of celery salt, and I’m good to go. Tho’ I must admit that my rarely indulged guilty pleasure is a chili dog.