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    Comment #43000295

    twitter doesn't have near the income it used to have. or audience. it does have the same profit. 0%

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    Comment #43000262

    kind of drive themselves.

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    Comment #43000057

    This does not make any sense. Is the person speaking drunk or mentally impaired in some way?

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    Comment #42983813

    Social Security is advertised as an "insurance fund", rather than a transfer payment. If it was advertised as a handout, then many of the recipients would be asking for a broom; pr…

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    Comment #42913545

    No. The story I read was for "Interim Top Secret". If you have a clear National Agency Check (arrest and convictions), and do not flag as a drug user / mental case, then you can be…

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    Comment #42898059

    The average SS recipient receives more in benefits than they contributed. (including reasonable interest). It is a tax, and an income redistribution program. For the record, I agre…

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    Comment #42898042

    The 'brand' of the FBI is worthless. For half of the country it was investigating the criminal. For the other half of the country it is the result of the purge. No-one will trust t…

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    Comment #42898025

    I am 62 years old. What is the number 1 discussion topic with my retired colleagues? How to minimize taxes in retirement. (the RMD causes panic because if forces taxation). Many ge…

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    Comment #42898011

    The interest payments are yesterdays sins. Increase social security taxes (example: no longer stop taxing wages over $150k for a start) Decrease social security benefits. Means tes…

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    Comment #42897978

    Oh, but they did. Trump has been spewing out his plans for 10 years. His inability to understand complex situations, lack of world knowledge, ignorance of history. The voters knew …

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    Comment #42803881

    Googling for statistics was difficult. Lots of month to month 'headlines', but the averages were difficult to determine. Highly variable. Best I can come up with is last year 250,0…

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    Comment #42769789

    there is a bit of sarcasm in there, but most server and desktop machines stay on all the time. Amortized over 1000 days of uptime, that 30 second boot time is not worth messing wit…

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    Comment #42768878

    There are many multi user systems still in use. Think HPC, universities, places where the security requirements do not allow code / data to be shared by access from a users laptop.…

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    Comment #42768783

    The conspiracy I follow is systemd is the result of a bunch of noobs trying to duplicate the Mac experience on linux. Such as the focus on laptop over traditional multi-user system…