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by PainInTheAS
Tue Mar 08, 2005 2:32 pm
Forum: FIRE Board
Topic: Is Hocus FIREd?
Replies: 79
Views: 138512

He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts--for support rather than illumination. Because of this, intercst has zero credibility as an engineer. He routinely distorts all facts to force-fit them into false conclusions. You mean, like throwing out a third of his data series so he can get a ...
by PainInTheAS
Tue Mar 08, 2005 1:56 pm
Forum: FIRE Board
Topic: Is Hocus FIREd?
Replies: 79
Views: 138512

The Gods too are fond of a joke. My name should not be in the title of a thread that examines a plan that I do not endorse. hocus2004, Perhaps if you submit a request with valid reasons beachbumz will consider your request. OTOH, he may just say "no" firmly and move to the next topic. Goo...
by PainInTheAS
Tue Jun 29, 2004 4:52 pm
Forum: Town Center
Topic: Congratulations
Replies: 63
Views: 79044

Th, I like the "son with a spare room system" (SRS) I think it has the potential to completely change our understanding of early retirement, asset allocation and multigenerational living. [...whack...] Hey ataloss, You missed a few "SWR"s in there. You're using Linux now, right?...
by PainInTheAS
Tue Jun 15, 2004 7:14 am
Forum: Town Center
Topic: I have retired
Replies: 44
Views: 57624

@$@@&&!$th@^*&@$!!! Oh, and you can't accessorize! Fascinating. I never hung out at Dory's board, and I didn't get this at all. I got your %$&*!$! accessories rite heah! Hey, you guys, don't stop. This is almost as juicy as as the "hocus against the world (and he's got us surro...
by PainInTheAS
Sun Jun 13, 2004 8:14 am
Forum: Town Center
Topic: Censorship
Replies: 55
Views: 71942

Please stop 'baiting' me, kenm. :shock: Perhaps, in this single thread, KenM is striving to take over the title of Official NFB Master Baiter from its current holder. (Sorry, couldn't resist that on wanderer!) :D PITA
by PainInTheAS
Fri Oct 17, 2003 9:22 am
Forum: FIRE Board
Topic: Millionaire "Code"
Replies: 14
Views: 13509

Here's the next part of the series ... very much in line with previous posts. http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7BC8850C8E%2D6899%2D40E6%2DA89E%2DA9895E92567D%7D&siteid=mktw&dist=PFsnapInvestH A strange mix of greed, invincibility and fantasy creates a bubble in our minds in t...
by PainInTheAS
Mon Sep 29, 2003 10:11 am
Forum: FIRE Board
Topic: My new website is up...sorta
Replies: 33
Views: 24265

PainInTheAS wrote:Try this link, although if I'm reading it correctly, platykurtic connotes fatter than normal tails, leptokurtic the opposite.


In the quote above, the bolded word should be flatter.

Made the rest of the post rather incoherent...

PITA
by PainInTheAS
Mon Sep 29, 2003 6:45 am
Forum: FIRE Board
Topic: My new website is up...sorta
Replies: 33
Views: 24265

Hi Kramer, the distribution is leptokurtic , which means it has big tails. (Sorry for big word -- I did have to look it up). I use Gurunet to lookup words I am unsure about or plain don't know, right clicking the word. Free. Came up blank. Tried dictionary.com and it came up blank also! :lol: Try t...
by PainInTheAS
Sun Jul 27, 2003 6:48 am
Forum: FIRE Board
Topic: I hate to have another swr thread
Replies: 27
Views: 20351

The amusing irony of the situation is, (and jwr will hopefully correct me if I'm wrong :)) but jwr's recent work appears to use the same data and a similar methodology as intercst's report - so which bit of it is "invalid" :D If I had to guess, the part that includes the data for which PE...
by PainInTheAS
Sat Jul 26, 2003 5:45 am
Forum: FIRE Board
Topic: How are you gonna implement whatever safe withdrawal rate?
Replies: 41
Views: 31174

LOL. ataloss, can you handle this one? (I thought mortality tables at least had the redeeming quality of not getting any one's hackles up.) :wink: Touche wanderer! In future I'll reserve my raised hackles for SWR and Zionist discussions! :lol: PITA
by PainInTheAS
Wed Jul 23, 2003 10:55 am
Forum: FIRE Board
Topic: How are you gonna implement whatever safe withdrawal rate?
Replies: 41
Views: 31174

Numbers here are a bit hard to read. Age listed in 3 colums followed by the years left to live. A US male is not projected to live past 95 until age 92. At age 62 a US male is projected to live to 79! Cut-Throat, This seem like a misapplication of life-expectancy figures. If you are an insurance co...
by PainInTheAS
Tue Jul 22, 2003 5:02 pm
Forum: FIRE Board
Topic: How are you gonna implement whatever safe withdrawal rate?
Replies: 41
Views: 31174

Also, I have also seen many people in their 80's - That spending money is not too fun after that age. - Have you considered that? I don't intend to put words in therealchips' mouth, but depending on how dearly you wish to cling to life, and the state of your health at an advanced age, a big pile co...
by PainInTheAS
Tue Jul 22, 2003 3:24 pm
Forum: FIRE Board
Topic: Expert Agrees to Discuss SWRs on NFB Board!
Replies: 22
Views: 30340

Re: Expert Agrees to Discuss SWRs on NFB Board!

I told Easterling that our process for the "A Night With..." event would be to formulate a question or two in advance that we intend to be the focal point of the one-hour or two-hour discussion-board event. We will give him the question or questions in advance and ask that he start the ev...
by PainInTheAS
Fri Jul 18, 2003 1:24 pm
Forum: FIRE Board
Topic: No! It isn't that simple.
Replies: 4
Views: 5646

Re: No! It isn't that simple.

JWR1945, I at once agree and disagree with you. I basically agree with the technical merit of your arguments, but I can't help wondering how much practical difference it makes to someone embarking on their SWR calculation. No! It isn't that simple. The first difference in the two answers has to do w...