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@Aceman, thank you for an amusing first post. Did you know that there is a theory in psychology called the "Dunning Kruger" effect? The gist of it is that the people who know the least about a subject are the ones who believe most firmly in their opinions. (BTW I have a commercial ASEL...

FWIW I flew with them a few years ago and their attitude is unchanged. Mass Flyer mentions some issues with stopping points, like airports with no fuel. Part of Camil and Catherine's program is to promote the rally to local tourism organizations, charging fees to bring the rally to town...

Catherine? Hello? Is that you?

I'm not a fan of TOD's because it creates a maintenance requirement. Divorces, deaths, children becoming adults, values of TOD assets changing, family squabbles, etc. Many events can require that TODs get changed with no errors. The classic Oops is an executor discovering that the decedent's...

Yes. My wife retired as an SVP in a megabank Investments & Trusts division and had many horror stories over the years about incompetently prepared documents. It was not unusual for her to have to go to court to get things straightened out. From the OP's posts it is clear that he thinks this...

Not sure what an LLC has to do with an estate plan or a rev trust but, yes, they are easy. 10 minutes max on line plus $150 does it in our state.

Would you rebuild your own airplane engine? ... I didn't think so. These are questions to ask an expert estate planning attorney in your state. As @flyingron said a rev trust is a small piece of a good estate plan.

Here's the way to do it for real! https://www.flyinn.co.nz/ We flew with Matt and Jo a few years ago. Spectacular!

Thanks. I dunno; I think I'll stick to my Google Fi, which involves zero screwing around. Voice, data, texts, all the same as the US except there are per-minute call charges in some countries. For the little bit of calling we do, the per-minute charges don't even show in the round-off of the...

You have to have an eSim for each country, right? Once I called home from the transit lounge in Seoul Korea on the way to Singapore. Would a single eSim have supported both countries?

If you're doing more than a one-off trip I just don't see that any kind of screwing around would be worth it. Google Fi, which we have been using for years, and others like T-Mobile give you totally seamless international coverage. One time we were in Vienna, trapped in the baggage claim area...

Google Fi will provide you with a SIM card and you can port your current number to them. Each time you enter a new country (200+ countries IIRC) you get a text welcoming you to the country and asking for a few minutes to set up your connection (it happens fast). From that point you have...

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WADR actually what is obvious is that you have never managed an inventory of any size. There are many reasons why shelf stock doesn't match the number the software has. One simple one is where a previous order picker took the wrong quantity. The picker doesn't know this, and if he picked too...

Well ... Er ... Not always. When I was in graduate school I worked for a contractor who flew research payloads for ONR out of Churchill Manitoba. A typical flight was a 10 million cu. ft. balloon carrying a package of over 1,000# to altitudes above 100K ft. At altitude the diameter of the...

No one knows the future, which is why diversification is so important.

Long range strategy is to buy yourself a domain name and set up family email accounts there. I did that years ago. IIRC I pay my ISP something like $25/year plus ten bucks a month for what I have. This won't fix the comcast problem of course, but you should never have to change your email...

Many people look at their advisors this way and it is highly hazardous to their financial health. The question is whether he is producing results that beat the gains of the market overall. Almost for sure he is not. Underperformance by even a few percent compounds into big numbers. At a...

Absolutely nothing. The world is full of spurious correlations and full of people who think they are predictive. For those interested in this type of thing, Nate Silver's "the signal and the noise" is an excellent read...

That's a good book and one I have recommended over the years. But this spring Charles Ellis "Winning the Loser's Game" came out with an excellent update and revision. I think Ellis has pulled ahead in the race and I now recommend that one. With very careful attention to the definition of words...