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patrickgzill

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    Comment #5605008

    Apparently some think that the root password to the US Constitution is "4daChildr3n"

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    Comment #5598916

    What sane woman would get into tech, when being a lawyer or MBA is so much more lucrative?

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    Comment #5539579

    When Michael Lewis wrote Liar's Poker he was shocked over the number of people who contacted him, asking for advice on how to get into investment banking.

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    Comment #5532883

    I am embarassed to say I spent many hours with Pop-Pop when I should have been doing something else! http://www.ambrosiasw.com/games/pop-pop/

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    Comment #5532801

    You are aware, that the first slave owner in Virginia, who went to court over his slave, was a black man, right?

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    Comment #5532789

    Immediate compensation could be to allow "face value plus 5%" of the medallion to be used to pay any local/city taxes, with say 7 or 10 years given to use the credit. The IRS rules…

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    Comment #5522006

    Bureaucracy's main purpose is to create more bureaucracy. As a side effect, they collect taxes or issue you your driver's license, it is just a means to the end of self-perpetuatio…

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    Comment #5513001

    Be quiet... don't give them any ideas. Next I will have to declare "Nerf Gun Friday afternoon" benefits on my tax return ...

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    Comment #5512985

    Weird prediction: some 22 year old is reading a bunch of these now. He/she will enter the foreign service of his/her respective country and become a great career diplomat as a resu…

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    Comment #5447531

    OpenVZ gives you a container as they call it, which looks like its very own Linux OS. You can login to it, install packages with the package manager, etc. All processes you run, e.…

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    Comment #5420403

    ForkingDongleClub.com is available for purchase as a domain name, at the time of this writing.

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    Comment #5397931

    I bought the deal when it was on sale for $49 and I remember it being faster than that, however.

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    Comment #5346329

    If you are referring to the Kin-Slaying as the Noldor left the lands of the Valar, yes, that is precisely what he would have been trying to avoid.

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    Comment #5341108

    Some of what you say certainly fits with what Russians I have spoken with have told me. That EVERYONE was treated like crap, it wasn't limited to Jews.

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    Comment #5340949

    "It was understood that since Jews represented a minority percentage of the overall population, the university would only accept that percentage into the student body. This was in …

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    Comment #5340906

    It was his blood relative, for one. Two, they did not necessarily know the full power of the Ring. Third, Elves don't go around killing people without cause.

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    Comment #5193953

    You can write off leases as a business expense. You have to track depreciation and many other things, if you buy it outright. Leases go right into monthly expenses and reduce your …

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    Comment #5193584

    VERY old news. Read this info on zerohedge.com in like 2009.

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    Comment #5192383

    Do remember that the current flu vaccine (as an example) has an efficacy rate of less than 65%. So even if 100% of the population were vaccinated, herd immunity would not be possib…

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    Comment #5164105

    However, given Britain's often lousy climate, the royals probably pay for themselves in the value of the additional tourism dollars generated alone. If there was nobody living at B…

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    Comment #5155224

    CBS is majority owned by Sumner Redstone, an ardent Zionist - you knew that, right?

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    Comment #5149282

    IPMI is so bad, I don't even use it for my servers when it is available! Better to just wait and call someone at the datacenter who will take care of reboots properly.

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    Comment #5137143

    Did you mean "пиздец"? What you wrote would be be pronounced more like "peepets" or "pippets".

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    Comment #5117081

    I am simply gob-smacked that people who are communicating over the Internet (needs gold, even if you are using fiber for much of the way) via their computers or smartphones (needs …

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    Comment #5115955

    For those who don't want to watch an hour long presentation, you can watch a compilation of clips from different news show appearances, "Peter Schiff Was Right" http://www.youtube.…