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That's pretty. I'd trade you for my Honda Grom, highly customized. -chassis, motor, and suspension swap -Suzuki sticker kit -SV1000 badges On second thought, you should just keep that bike and ride it.

Welcome! In before someone mentions the Kay thread...

I don't think HD has any plans to rebadge a Ural

Huh, imagine that. HD feels "uncomfortable" about potentially alienating market demos outside of old white guys.

That isn't requiring a move to Michigan? Nice RF.

coming straight from the underground

It is?

Oh, I understand it. I can understand something and not like the outcome it delivers, despite the pros and cons associated with it.

Anything >3 miles is unacceptable. If I can't wake up at 7:45 and be in by 8, the commute is too long. YMMV, though some people consider the yardstick that if you wouldn't ride a bicycle that far to get to work, then it's too far.

Looking at the math... carry the one, divide by Avagadro's number, times the derivative of pi... that still leaves Trump a good 2.8M votes behind Hillary in the popular vote. But, c'est la vie -- Electoral College and stuff, right?

Hate is another one of those good Christian values, that's what separates them from the Muslim community, amirite?

Great guy. He will be missed by many.

Or, ya know, facts. https://www.thebalance.com/national-debt-under-obama-3306293

IBIP... and all the server jokes

Yea, the guy who doesn't pay Federal taxes "because that makes him smart" is going to get other companies (and NATO countries apparently) to "pay their fair share" -- how again?

I bet at least 25% of ALL employees consider quitting. Every day.

$3300 and six years later... 20/60 vision, back to using contacts and/or glasses. Could get a "free" retreatment, but 1) you have to pay a $75 reassessment fee from the LASIK place, plus whatever it costs to get your optometrist to do the extra testing and fill out the forms required by the LASIK place to get the retreatment. And 2) how many times do you really want to mechanically alter the structural integrity of your cornea? The only positive now, not having as bad a prescription as before, and could get away with standard spherical contacts rather than toric lenses, though after the last eye exam a week ago, torics are being recommended again. $3300 out of an HSA would've bought a lot of glasses or contacts. YMMV

"I can teach you to 'yut ughhhh!' / But I'd have to charge"

Meh. To each their own. I'd much rather screw myself over so I know who to blame, than figure out 20 years later that someone else took me to the cleaners for something relatively simple to learn. Are the people "advising" you that much smarter than you? Did they spend years at an Ivy league school? What's their personal financial situation? Do they have good credit? How much money do they make? What makes them "qualified" to advise you? What value do they bring if they're just going to plug your numbers into a templated spreadsheet, ask about your 'risk tolerance', and put together a [not really] 'custom' plan their 'firm' hands out to all 'clients'? Save for some super crazy tax loopholes that most of the common folk can't really take advantange of anyway, I have confidence you can learn this stuff, because you're good enough, you're smart enough, and doggone it, [some, one?] people like you.

No, and good luck. Half of them don't even have a fiduciary responsibility to you, in fact they just passed a law about that (http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/columnist/powell/2016/04/06/investors-new-fiduciary-rule-protection/82661384/). Welcome to America. Given that money is a pretty big deal, you should probably endeavor to learn about it yourself and not trust someone else to look out for you.

Good way to get an APB being part of the CFB

I think you're going to struggle to find any worthwhile investments for that sum of money unless you're going to do individual stocks, or an ETF like @jbot mentioned. Most decent mutual funds start at an initial $2500 investment, with better ones starting at $10,000, then $50,000, then $100,000+ It also depends on your risk tolerance, diversification strategy, timeline to withdrawl, etc. At $500 per kid -- you might just be better off in a CD.