SCAQTony

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by SCAQTony 11y ago
Hillary plays up being a victim in need of our help. ("...Hillary needs you more than ever.) Definitely sympathy oriented. Bernie comes across like a "general" prepping for a battle. Words like "revolution and "camp
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by SCAQTony 11y ago
Exactly! Like that scene in Doctor Strangelove when the President calls the Prime Minister of Russia to deliver the bad news that a errant US bomber with a nuke is heading towards Russia and the Russian Prime Minister complains that he only
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by SCAQTony 11y ago
I see. Though a troll, he might have known that a saner portion of the blogoshere would have read it and learned from it
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by SCAQTony 11y ago
That must of been it for I am astonished how well it read.
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by SCAQTony 11y ago
I applaud the professor's patience. His last well mannered response to the troll (AKA, self proclaimed literary writer) with the full blown narcissistic personality disorder (Could park his car right next to Kanye West) was a whopping
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by SCAQTony 11y ago
Nothing is free and when it is, it is rarely the best. You can buy a $1.00 hamburger at McDonalds that is not that filling nor nutritious. You can buy a $9.00 Big Wave Cheeseburger at Islands restaurant that is huge, yummy and filling. You
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by SCAQTony 11y ago
My hand is raised! My El Capitan upgrade was slower, did not run Open GPL, (till an recent upgrade) and iTunes keeps getting more confusing.
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Tim Cook's tweeted Super Bowl 50 photo attracts hecklers (shot with an iPhone 6)(appadvice.com)
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by SCAQTony 11y ago
Interest or lack of interest in regards to driving is primarily regional. This cities adore the car: 1. Austin 2. Los Angeles 3. Daytona Beach 4. Detroit 5. Portland 6. Phoenix 7. Snoqualmie 8. Atlanta 9. Los Vegas https://www.ya
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by SCAQTony 11y ago
You come from a kind place and I acknowledge that but IMHO, you may be overestimating the IQ of at last 50% of the citizenry. I border a poor neighbor in Los Angeles; their goals and aspirations are quite different then the readers on this
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by SCAQTony 11y ago
The United states pulls in $3-trillion in taxes. We have 225-million adults over 18-years old and if they (we) were handed out $2,000 a month each that would equal EDIT: [225 million * 2000 * 12 = 5.4 trillion per year.] If we're talki
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by SCAQTony 11y ago
Is "eugenics getting trendy again? eugenics: noun, (used with a singular verb) 1. the study of or belief in the possibility of improving the qualities of the human species or a human population, especially by such means as discouragin
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by SCAQTony 11y ago
Giving away 50-million books to poor kids (forgive me for generally speaking for Los Angeles) is a fantastic contribution! It will promote English language reading and better prepared children.
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by SCAQTony 11y ago
I just sent a postal money order for $1,000 to a struggling friend and the person was able to cash the check right there at the post office. I think making the US Post Office system into public banks is a great idea.
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by SCAQTony 11y ago
To be nominated for a Nobel a "qualified nominator" must follow this procedure: http://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/peace/ Note, Bullet point number three sets the bar fairly low regarding who is qualif
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by SCAQTony 11y ago
I would not want to do it that way but maybe most people would.
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by SCAQTony 11y ago
Imagine trying to sell a used car or other high asset items like fully loaded computers and Swiss watches. Who is going to take a check? [edit] “Limits on cash transactions would discourage foreign criminals from coming here to launder mone
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Europe wants end to anonymous Bitcoin transactions(theregister.co.uk)
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by SCAQTony 11y ago
That comment worried me: I found this reference from BankRate saying putting cash in a safety deposit box is only illegal if it is concealed for tax evasion purposes. http://www.bankrate.com/brm/news/bank/2001
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by SCAQTony 11y ago
If I was a company faced with that problem I look to see if I could take the money off shore and pay through wire transfers if the fees were cheaper than the negative interest rate being charge.
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by SCAQTony 11y ago
Exactly, my savings account would be deleted immediately and shoved into tax free or inflation protected bonds. I bet many banks when confronted with those individuals that have savings account with $200,000 cash as an emergency fund will e
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by SCAQTony 11y ago
...And his follow-up contribution to illustrate a modern economy circa 2015 was "Metropolis." "...Made in Germany during the Weimar Period, Metropolis is set in a futuristic urban dystopia and follows the attempts of Freder,
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by SCAQTony 11y ago
Where is that definition?
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Elon Musk exercises Tesla options, pays $50M tax bill with own cash(marketwatch.com)
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by SCAQTony 11y ago
Presuming one does not care about the problems of low gravity and what cosmic radiation can due to your eyes, body and brain. That you're okay with the antarctic cold 24/7 (Actually a year on Mars is 2-years long so perhaps it&#x2
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Future Use Cases for Blockchain Technology: [cheap] Copyright Registration(news.bitcoin.com)
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by SCAQTony 11y ago
I site these references: "The whole history of these books (i.e. the Gospels) is so defective and doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute enquiry into it: and such tricks have been played with their text, and with the texts of ot
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by SCAQTony 11y ago
It's a hard read. The scans are bad and it reads like a bible lecture. IMHO Lot of "straw men" in there. Paints the founders as being seriously religious (Jefferson was not religious) and the thesis is incomplete. Only goes t
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by SCAQTony 11y ago
Yes, I do think so: When Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush, Donald Trump, Scott Walker, Arguably Ted Cruz endorse NSA meta data collection, yeah, it's a safe bet that it is a Republican position. http://mashable.com/2015/05&#
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by SCAQTony 11y ago
But many Democrats would and many Republicans appreciate his pro-NSA stance, his calling for the prosecution of Edward Snowden, and finally his pro Israel government stance. Ultimately he is pretty right wing and his anti-guns thing is cons

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