OstiaAntica

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by OstiaAntica 13y ago
Perhaps a contractor is defrauding the government, submitting an open source project as their own development work?
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by OstiaAntica 13y ago
The feds didn't negotiate anything, the article the company sponsoring Data Tables is planning to take action against the government.
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by OstiaAntica 13y ago
Actually the shooter initially pled guilty. Dept. of Justice looked at these "questions" and concluded they are junk. http://www.justice.gov/crt/about/crm/mlk/part2.php#over
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by OstiaAntica 13y ago
Mandarin is not widely spoken in Hong Kong-- locals speak Cantonese and Mandarin was not taught in school while HK was under British rule.
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by OstiaAntica 14y ago
Costco is more concentrated in higher wage, higher cost states on the West Coast. They'd love to extend California wage rates to Walmart's red state operations.
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by OstiaAntica 14y ago
Society's income, or capacity to work, isn't a fixed pie.
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by OstiaAntica 14y ago
It isn't "fear" of change, it is that political systems get captured by status quo interest groups that fight against change.
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by OstiaAntica 14y ago
High marginal tax rates in Europe take away the incentive to create a startup, and the governments there confiscate much more of the winnings from successful companies. That, in turn, ensures that there is little venture capital to invest
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by OstiaAntica 14y ago
This practice is part of the problem. It is bidding up the cost of apartments for locals who need a place to live.
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by OstiaAntica 14y ago
Here's some more info: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-05-11/tesla-to-begin-r...
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by OstiaAntica 14y ago
Actually, Daimler-Mercedes bought 10% of Tesla a month before the U.S. government announced the loan. U.S. taxpayers are going to get the downside if the company fails but the European automaker gets the upside if it makes it. Well played
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by OstiaAntica 14y ago
Look, Tesla is billed as being greener than traditional autos but it is not. Drawing power from the grid is amazingly wasteful, and is often COAL. Trading oil for coal is not an environmental win-- Tesla's basic premise is a fraud. It re
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by OstiaAntica 14y ago
Tesla gets crony capitalist, Solyndra-type loan with the worst terms possible for taxpayers: http://www.thecuttingedgenews.com/index.php?article=53001&#3... http://techcrunch.com/2009/06/23/the-government-comes-throug... Coal is majorit
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by OstiaAntica 14y ago
A wealthy "investor" in a rigged game-- a company backed by half a billion dollars in taxpayer loan guarantees-- gets a new toy car. A car for which there is no market and is worse for the environment than regular cars, as it relies on tox
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by OstiaAntica 14y ago
Tesla is a crony capitalist scam, they are burning though nearly half billion in guaranteed loans from the U.S. government. This car is WORSE for the environment than regular autos (inefficiently powered across the grid by coal power plant
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by OstiaAntica 14y ago
GM is a ward of the U.S. Treasury, Ford never took a bailout. GM's bankrupt GMAC finance arm is another American state-run enterprise, the re-named Ally Bank.
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by OstiaAntica 14y ago
This pathology is NOT caught from eating pork. It can come from any food prepared by someone atypically shedding eggs (most likely someone from Latin America.) In fact you are more likely to get it from eating raw salad than cooked pork.
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by OstiaAntica 14y ago
Congress spends hundreds of billions bailing out banksters and auto unions, while easily solved issues like this are allowed to linger, destroying countless lives worldwide.
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by OstiaAntica 14y ago
Political parties are the weakest they've been in 200 years. The driving factor in American politics are Internet-powered movements like MoveOn.org and the Tea Party...these groups are capturing the the traditional party structure, and the
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by OstiaAntica 14y ago
Really? Car and housing prices have dropped significantly since 2008. Food prices have dropped steadily for several hundred years (exceptions for misguided policy like the ethanol mandate, which spiked corn prices globally).
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by OstiaAntica 14y ago
I think US anti-trust law, and various promises that Google has made to the authorities in the past as part of M & A deals, prohibit them from crossing the line.
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by OstiaAntica 14y ago
I've been a Pingdom customer for several years, with no plan to leave. Here's my perspective: 1. Our primary use of Pingdom is to show prospective clients our app uptime, as validated by a 3rd party. So Pingdom's main value for us is in
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by OstiaAntica 14y ago
Just a reminder, these meals are taxable as fringe benefits for your employees. "Meals provided to improve general morale or goodwill, or to attract prospective employees, are not provided for a substantial noncompensatory reason and are t
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by OstiaAntica 14y ago
Google is not permitted to allow the AdWord spend influence their search results.
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by OstiaAntica 15y ago
Most of the folks stockpiling for the end-times are extremely well-armed and will have no problem defending themselves. There has been a related push to expand "castle" or "stand-your-ground" laws to permit the use of lethal force as well.
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by OstiaAntica 15y ago
Nearly every single American green energy program, from the 1970s to today, has failed, or is in the process of failing. Some, like massive ethanol tax subsidies and mandates, have significantly damaged the environment. Battery cars are a
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by OstiaAntica 15y ago
"Clean Tech" is a big scam...politically connected VC like Doerr ripping off U.S. taxpayers to fund crony capitalist boondoggles like Solyndra and Fisker. The VC get all the upside, and taxpayers have all the downside. If the elites really
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by OstiaAntica 15y ago
Going after "money" in politics is treating a symptom. The disease is that the government is too big and has too much power. Limit the size and scope of government, and you'll reduce the influence of money in politics. One single reform--
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by OstiaAntica 15y ago
Actually, Sen. Rubio and his colleagues got played by the RIAA and MPAA. They were likely told that the "Internet" supported the bill (GoDaddy) and that the scope was limited to foreign sites. Further, incompetent and/or corrupt staff told
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by OstiaAntica 15y ago
True capitalists believe that government is a referee; government should not the bagman for losses or a source of investment funding.

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