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If I remember right the first (and maybe only) comment in the TECO source code was "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here".

If you have relatives from Europe look into citizenship via decent. My grandmother was born in Ireland and I was able to acquire Irish citizenship because of that. Now I have dual …

My wife still teaches "Consumer and Family Studies" in one of the few school systems here that still has that curriculum. From how amazed the kids are that you can prepare things f…

The S&P is growing because companies are borrowing to buy back their stock. It is illegal stock manipulation but that law is no longer enforced. This makes money that used to be ta…

It is amazing to hear people that would find "3/5 a person" to be revolting talk this way when a vote doesn't go their way.

You are lucky you got a reply. All I got was another bill.

Disgusting. A bitter old man with a Don Quixote complex thinking he is going to ride in and save the day in a brokered convention.

And people wonder why I call my job "Data Janitor".

Google "nicaragua neighborhood watch". It doesn't need to be high tech.

Yes. In Massachusetts for a startup by MIT professors and graduates. MA will enforce NDAs and non-compete agreements. It is nothing like California here.

Because MBs during that era were basically Chryslers. MB picked up on the cost cutting when they owned Chrysler and produced a lot of junk during that time.In later years they got …

If he will let them work from home I bet a few Yahoo employees would be willing to join on.

I have a cell phone and cash. A cell phone can never be what cash is. Anonymous.

Just look at the US tax code to figure out why most of the money in the hands of old white people. The tax benefits of IRA/401K accounts really favor people who have the guts to cu…

"The people who generally have their financial shit together don't usually realize when it's pay day." isn't a specious argument. You would have enough to pay your bills whether or…

An interesting post on a board the almost solely exists to help people find private equity investments. Leveraged buyouts private equity. It is just one form of it. Sometimes the m…

Which is why tax flight would be a big risk.It compounds over time. You pay taxes on the same money year after year. Nevermind what happens if you save even more. Why stay in an ec…

That is a tax that never made sense to me. I know they do it because it is easy to quantify equipment but once you start taxing the means of production all you get is less producti…

I'm thankful that the construction companies have enough sense to not build more new houses when the is a 6-12 backlog in existing houses. This kind of common sense isn't common in…

And yet as an older citizen of HN I am very concerned about privacy, enough that I use cash for at least half my purchases. Cash is wonderful because cash is anonymous. I wise boss…

I bought my first house in 1984. Banks were begging you to take out a mortgage and prices were in the tank. I bought the house with 5% down, PMI and a 14 percent, 1 year adjustable…

OK, I'm confused. Are you saying that it would have been better for Honduras to allow Zelaya to install himself as a dictator for life, Chavez style?

They deserve a lot of praise for defending their constitution without violence. The interim president stepped down when he said he would and did not run for the office. Elections w…

That is the whole idea behind fashion. There is a big difference between fashion and style.

It has been that way for years, at least since Windows 3.1. You trade off skill in programming for speed and memory usage in programming via GUI tools that do an OK job but not gre…