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by higher 16y ago
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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by higher 16y ago
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 future, much of your income tax will be spent on FICA item
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by higher 16y ago
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) "Congress invested these surpluses into special series, non
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by higher 16y ago
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 run a nominal surplus, the money to pay for those securiti
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by higher 16y ago
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 that generates a receipt for only entitlement spending, as en
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by higher 16y ago
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. It comes with all the typical and commonly rejected anarchi
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by higher 16y ago
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 granted FOIA-immunity to the SEC, so that in addition to
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by higher 16y ago
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 it.
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by higher 16y ago
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 the two regardless, but I doubt this. Imagine an alternate
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by higher 16y ago
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by higher 16y ago
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 compressed version of a string containing my username and p
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by higher 16y ago
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.