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Comment #1748808
This is excellent. I would have preferred a title like "US Navy drops frozen, dead mice in Guam to feed Tylenol to snakes."
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Comment #1748649
The essential nature of Social Security accounting is such that FICA tax is unrelated to FICA spending. At the moment, much of your FICA tax is spent on general fund items. In the …
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Comment #1748561
I see I have been rated down for posting the truth. If you would like to read about the truth, you can find it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Security_(United_States) "C…
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Comment #1748488
All social security revenue that is not paid out in benefits is replaced with unmarketable treasury securities and spent as part of the general fund. When social security ceases to…
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Comment #1748470
The federal government actually only has about 58-59 cents of revenue for each dollar it spends. It would be slightly more accurate (if extremely inflammatory) to make an applet th…
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Comment #1744891
Agorism is a political philosophy dedicated to the idea that free markets (and a more free society) can arise out of a trend toward disregarding governments in commercial matters. …
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Comment #1740165
The author seems to think that financial reform has done anything to harm the ability of big banks to extract dollars from productive humans. It has not. Among other things, it has…
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Comment #1722148
Ask a broker, but be careful. AAPL is among a lot of stocks that have a long way to fall before their prices can be called reasonable, but it's difficult to know when they will do …
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Comment #1695754
It is pretty easy to distinguish DRM from net-enabled features. You simply need to ask "Could the feature exist without an internet connection?" You claim that users will conflate …
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Comment #1695498
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Comment #1695354
Yes. It should be fairly simple to generate a program that generates all strings of length 20 that will be accepted by Wells Fargo's login page. I would consider such a program a c…
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Comment #1695323
Not at all. The reasoning is that it is simply impossible to "steal" a non-rivaled good, and it is absurd to claim ownership of an integer.