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It took me years of working for a large company before I understood why it was the “buy” won out over “build”, every single time. If you buy something, you have a vendor to take the blame when something goes wrong. If it’s home-grown, you have to take responsibility for it. Nobody seems to want...

I’m going to file that one under “self-fulfilling prophecy“…

I have found that retirement is kind of its own reward. I have goals, but there's no driving "I gotta get this done" behind them. Goals, not timelines. Anything I accomplish, I do because I want to. I'm taking the opportunity to allow myself to get sidetracked once in a while, though I have...

Who's defending rule breakers? I haven't seen anyone doing that. As for those "in the know"... you appear to have picked an exceptionally poor example of that term. And when have you ever known any government agency, employee, elected official, or body thereof to miss the opportunity for a...

Tom

Yes. All right there in the applicable regs, whether it's 91, 107, or 49. Well, to be fair... they kind of HAVE informed the public, via the applicable regulations, about what can be flying overhead. :) Answer: Anything covered by numerous parts of the regulations, legally. Anything else...

Purple, in guy-speak. Men don't see violet.

Since you've posted the link twice, maybe go there and read the whole thing. It's important to read from the beginning, including the part about "Applicability" right up there at the top. There are operations that are excluded from Part 107. Anyone can buy a small drone not covered under Part...

I'm guessing you don't watch much TV. It wasn't a news program, though it was on one of the numerous so-called "news network" channels. Doesn't matter which, they are equally slimy and virtually indistinguishable other than by their political leaning. It was one of the innumerable vacuous time...

Was watching some of the incessant panic-mongering over this on TV this afternoon. Commentator was indignant over "whatever these drones are, they definitely should NOT be in the skies above our heads"... OK, why exactly? Even if there are drones - and there probably are a few, though every...

I have read that several colleges either have or are planning to switch back to grass for that reason. I don't know how much of it is based on data and how much is personal preference of coaches and ADs.

If you sell your stocks, you pay income tax on the capital gains to the government, once. And you absolutely don't have to pay anything to keep owning your car; I have one sitting in my garage that I've never paid a penny in taxes or license fees. You just pay those taxes and fees to drive them...

Now it's just co-ownership with the government. :(

Which is why I included the sentence immediately after it. In retrospect maybe out of order, but there nonetheless. I always regarded the retirement accounts as something to be contributed to, but never touched under any circumstances (except one). I did find one specific scenario where...

Buying the new one when you don't need it would make no sense to me, unless you want to roll the dice with arbitrage and hope someone is desperate enough for a new one to pay you substantially more than you paid for it. Selling your old one when it does have value to someone else but none to...

Absolutely not. If they did, they wouldn't have any viewers/listeners.

Not at all dumb. I've got money in brokerage accounts that I could liquidate and have in cash within minutes, or worst case a few days. Should that not count as liquid? By definition it is. I think the first and second numbers (net worth and net worth excluding primary residence) both have...

Lessons I've learned: Requiring a signature is meaningless. At my last employer, we shipped a few dozen laptops to new employees. FedEx, UPS, and USPS ALL lost at least one. Two were lost with no signature having been obtained despite shipping them with "adult signature required". One had a...