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stay away from them, they're total garbage. not only do they have a limited service area, but their signals tend to be poorer than at&t, verizon and tmobile. they are also unreliable. my friends used them and we noticed about 1 in 10 text msgs sent or received through them never arrive...

you can apply the wainscotting-look wallpaper instead. sorry but wainscotting is a pain. besides your problem, there's another one you'll encounter: there will be areas of the drywall that aren't true or flat, and then you'll have gaps to deal with.

jobs probably saw the unveiling of the new iPhone and said to himself, "oh screw this, i'm outta here" . . . . . . . . . (too soon?)

these large discount brokers like TDA and e-trade are trying to get the active traders, who are far more profitable than buy & holders. the TOS software platform and backend of course are worth nowhere near the amount TDA paid to acquire TOS; TDA could have developed it for under $20...

OTHO, 4 out of 5 people i know under age 30 have an iPhone, and some of them also have an ipad. some of them make $14k per year. do i feel sorry for them? nope. people who are in trouble usually dug themselves into that hole. in addition, young people have been able to borrow money at...

come on, so NOBODY here uses E-trade with portfolio margin???? i guess this confirms my belief that 99.9999% of ET are small fry

i wouldn't mind dating a tall chick (i'm around 6'1" - 6'2"). the thing is, i find very few chicks over 6' who are very attractive. most of the tall ones i've seen are either fat, ugly or ruggedly masculine (pre-ops??). i know 3 chicks who are 6 feet and they all outweigh me by over 50 lbs...

i used to respect buffet before, but not lately. the guy is full of shit. he knows that rich people right now are the most hated group in America, so he's doing everything he can PR-wise to distance himself from them. so he spews this shit about how rich people should pay more. if you...

i have a couple of questions about E-trade: 1. does their portfolio margin offer leverage like OCC TIMS? Or is it more restricted like IB's? 2. they stated that for a margin call, they can liquidate without notifying the client. in practice, do they actually do this like IB does?

yes i know all these online saving accounts offer ACH withdrawls, but the OP's requirement was a 2-3 day transfer. add to that the fact that (some) brokers hold ACH deposits before you can invest them, and it makes ACH transfers totally useless for quick access to funds for investing. that's...

do these online savings banks like Ing and ally allow you to initiate (via online) a wire transfer into a brokerage account?

IB does not use the same PM formula as other brokers. IB's calculation offers less leverage, but it's also less volatile (the margin changes less as the market moves)

yeah you need to keep a HUGE margin buffer with IB because of their auto-liquidation. i had a short position that should have been worth -$100 instead jump to over -$100,000 because of a bullshit mark value. something like that can cause auto-liquidation anyone who defends IB's...

if he tortured humans he'd still be in jail. humans > pitbulls and let me pre-empt anyone who says dogs are equivalent to humans by asking, when was the last time you had sex with a dog? (a butch ex-wife technically still counts as a human) at least now he's making money instead of being...

lack of willpower, not grains and starches, is the problem. grains and starches were common 70 years ago in the US so why weren't obesity and diabetes a problem back then? rice and noodles are a staple of the diet in china and japan, so why is their population thinner than north america's...

the reason the income gap is widening is simple: the days of easy money are over (at least for now). remember 1997-2000, when any dumbass with an AA degree from heald institute of technology could land a $65k job as a "web designer"? or 2004-2007 when any moron who could turn hold a hammer...

umm there's a typo in the title. "2030" should read "2000" bear in mind that the definition of 'obese' is awfully lenient. you can be a guy who's 18% body fat or a woman who's 27% body fat, and they don't even consider that obese. it's just "overweight". (that would correspond to a...

how was the GS deal great? he netted 35% from it. had he simply bought & sold SPY in the same period, he would have netted 55% including dividends.

you guys who like the auto-liquidation, wait until one day you have a short position with a 0.10x0.20 with a $150 mark. you'll be singing to a different tune and yes something like that HAS happened

as i posted before, they've done this from time to time. they did it a few times back when they first released portfolio margin (changed the formula with little or no notice). by the way, are you sure they changed their formula? the bid/ask spreads have gone crazy lately and that could have...