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Comment on Why I Ignore Stock Market Doomsayers by Ron Byrnes

Ron Byrnes — Thu, 16 May 2013 17:20:13 +0000

Red letter day for the humble blog. The Federal Transportation Bureaucrat is in the house!

Comment on Why I Ignore Stock Market Doomsayers by DanDan the Transpo Man

DanDan the Transpo Man — Thu, 16 May 2013 17:11:40 +0000

This makes too much sense!

Comment on Why I Ignore Stock Market Doomsayers by Ron Byrnes

Ron Byrnes — Thu, 16 May 2013 16:42:19 +0000

Thanks Larry. MMM is among the most widely read personal finance bloggers. Millions of readers. Lots of good content.

Comment on Why I Ignore Stock Market Doomsayers by lbwoodgate

lbwoodgate — Thu, 16 May 2013 15:49:41 +0000

Good analysis Ron. Thanks for the link to Mr. Money Mustache, The Principle of Constant Optimization

Comment on The Art of Self Promotion by Rosemarie

Rosemarie — Mon, 06 May 2013 18:14:10 +0000

I’m in the music field. This is absolutely true.

Comment on The Art of Self Promotion by lbwoodgate

lbwoodgate — Mon, 06 May 2013 12:11:08 +0000

Wise counsel from an obviously sage man

Comment on Why I Don’t Own a Cell Phone by Ron Byrnes

Ron Byrnes — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 21:18:38 +0000

I’ve seen you walking the dog and die Zeit-ing. 95% of people seem to prefer texting to talking. Which makes me wonder why a less expensive texting only device hasn’t caught on.

Comment on Why I Don’t Own a Cell Phone by Dean Sawhill

Dean Sawhill — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 01:04:09 +0000

I guess I like texting for some reason. Sort of like Twitter. I don’t want to talk but the quick messages can be useful. I really enjoy listening to news and features podcasts and streaming foreign language broadcasts (I am a language teacher). The ability to listen to “die Zeit” and “radio france international” while I walk the dog has been like language training for me. For the last 10 years I have been listening weekly to 14 episodes from “die Zeit” (the world’s best newspaper) as I take a morning stroll. Nothing like hearing the spoken word. Of course lots of this could be done on an ipod instead of an iphone.

Comment on Why I Don’t Own a Cell Phone by lbwoodgate

lbwoodgate — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 11:49:19 +0000

As with most new technologies there are pluses and minuses. The cell phones do have those gps devices in them that not only aid authorities tracking lost individuals but came in very handy in tracking the Boston marathon bombers when they stole that SUV and the owner left his cell phone in the vehicle.

The bad part is the “authorities” can also trail you when you are not in need of them simply because their computer program picked you as a person of interests because you seemed to fit a certain profile. We’re beginning to rely too much on non-human methods of ascertaining information that can have consequences as we saw when the stock market plunged using automatic electronic trading when a bogus tweet occurred about the White House being bombed last week.

Comment on Why I Don’t Own a Cell Phone by JayNine

JayNine — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 10:18:09 +0000

Lol “anti social bastard” ! I can relate greatly with much of my own opinions about cell phones, public places, and teenagers (I have one if those as well). However, as an Indpendent Mother of two daughters, I chose to get one for us all. That dozens not mean I was happy about it. I still have family & an intrusive neighbour whom both feel if I CHOOSE NOT to answer my phone; they have the right to show up at my door… Family’s acceptable not the neighbour. There’s something the world has forgotten or re written somewhere that I don’t understand–cell phone manners. Maybe its time we write the handbook. One of us better speak ‘teenager’ lol! Cheers, J9;)