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by newbie12 13y ago
Income and wealth are not the same thing. Wealth is a measure of total assets, while income is annual wages and investment income. A lot of high income people carry huge student loan and housing debt and are not wealthy.
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by newbie12 13y ago
Bombermine is more fun.
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by newbie12 13y ago
Why? Our "poor" have televisions, air conditioning, cars, and homes. There's so much food in America that obesity is a major health issue. This is a profound success and departure from the normal human condition of misery. Please put do
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by newbie12 13y ago
I've lived, studied, and worked abroad, and you definitely get the wanderlust out of your system. The U.S. is amazing and there's a reason everybody wants to come here. The U.S. is actually getting more interesting as regional spots like
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by newbie12 13y ago
Yeah but you obviously have a doctorate and commensurate experience to get hired. With respect to local hiring, I'm sure making less than what you'd earn in Seattle or San Jose is ok, but it isn't the high life that the OP was talking abou
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by newbie12 13y ago
Yep, I've worked in China and the only way to get to live abroad on a fat expat stipend is to have your existing US or European employer rotate you there. If you try to get a job through local channels you'll be getting a crappy local sala
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by newbie12 13y ago
Pull yourself together, your posts are easily proven factually wrong and your garbage posts are destroying HN. In addition to BP's $4billion criminal settlement, BP executives were individually indicted for manslaughter and other crimes, an
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by newbie12 13y ago
The Texas plant was fined by federal regulators in 2006. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/04/18/fertili... A better question is why local zoning failed to keep the plant away from homes, and why their insurance company wasn'
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by newbie12 13y ago
Hitchhiking is pretty dangerous. Better to use a car-sharing board. I once took a long-distance Greyhound bus to Florida at Christmas, which was filled with homeless wanderers who had splurged for the bus ticket because they said hitchhik
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by newbie12 13y ago
Actually, the opposite is true. They've got more cash coming in, and cash in the bank, which is masking the operating loss on each sale.
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by newbie12 13y ago
Problem is that my business is in VA, and I'm now subject to complying with taxing authorities in, say, California, where I don't have representation or a physical presence. It is unconstitutional in principle.
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by newbie12 13y ago
Correct, running the debugging bar in Sf2 will kill performance.
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by newbie12 13y ago
No, Miranda means they don't have to answer questions and they can have a lawyer present.
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by newbie12 13y ago
Don't blame Bush, the Obama administration Justice department created the Miranda exception for "operational terrorists". This has nothing to do with enemy combatants; rather, there is the possibility that an active terror suspect on US soi
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by newbie12 14y ago
Why do you assume the regulated entity will be better? Private carriers UPS and FedEx deliver to the doorstep of my farm, whereas the "universal service" US Postal Service won't come near us and requires we have a PO Box in town.
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by newbie12 14y ago
Nope, the medallion systems exist to block new competition. Sure there are some regulations that seem to favor consumers-- such as price controls-- but these are a short-term benefit, and at the cost of reduced innovation. Far better to a
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by newbie12 14y ago
Bitter and jealous is no way to go through life. All of these guys executed on their project or have specialized knowledge. The pie is not zero-sum, and we live in the greatest, most fair time in human history.
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by newbie12 14y ago
Of course should be allowed to own the truck, but I'd have a problem with him parking it visibly and operating it regularly in a residential neighborhood.
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by newbie12 14y ago
Kids bike and play in neighborhood streets. Surely you recognize that some untrained guy driving a massive firetruck up and down that street just to get groceries is a problem.
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by newbie12 14y ago
This is long established common law. Just because it is your property, you cannot escape your obligation to mitigate obvious hazards, particularly where children are involved. So hanging a tree swing that is unsafe and snaps, injuring a c
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by newbie12 14y ago
As a kid I watched a UPS truck run down my dog on a quiet residential street.
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by newbie12 14y ago
These trucks are huge and have blind spots...there's a reason you need a commercial driver's license to operate them in most states.
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by newbie12 14y ago
I'd be pissed to be his neighbor. The firetruck spews dirty exhaust, is unsafe if there are kids running around, and definitely is an eyesore. Even though there's no HOA he is probably running afoul of city or county zoning rules...you sh
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by newbie12 14y ago
Because they used to stink and rattle.
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by newbie12 14y ago
Opposite for me. I was only able to launch my startup after getting married, and having a wife with steady income and health care.
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by newbie12 14y ago
Over 1.5 million students are home schooled in the U.S. http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=91
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by newbie12 14y ago
Not sure where you live, but most school districts are already a combination of county and state funding. The state funding does the work of helping poorer districts, and targeted federal funding in turn helps poor states. You are assumin
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by newbie12 14y ago
Don't forget us rural folk on satellite broadband! We're screwed too.
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by newbie12 14y ago
That's only partially true-- Amtrak owns the Northeast corridor. Amtrak's only innovation in forty years (!) on the NEC is Acela, a "high speed" offering that is marginally faster than regular service (shorter times mainly because Acela ma
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by newbie12 14y ago
The table is missing railroad unions-- the anti-efficiency factor that's ruined American passenger rail.

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