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by newbie12 14y ago
The USPS is a zombie. It going to collapse in 10-15 years and stick taxpayers with $40 billion in unfunded retirement health benefits, among other costs. Congress is trying to get ahead of the problem with the pre-funding requirement.
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by newbie12 14y ago
It is retiree health care that has to be pre-funded, through 2016. The USPS was operating that benefit program as pay-as-you-go, which was creating a huge unfunded liability for taxpayers. http://www.cnbc.com/id/45018432/The_Truth_About_Th
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by newbie12 14y ago
Disagree, the courts have to fix this. Congress (and the Obama Administration) are ignorant and corrupt, they just passed fake "Patent Reform" and won't act again for some time.
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by newbie12 14y ago
For $300 you can buy the awesome AR Parrot Drone 2.0, which has a video camera, about twice the flying time, and runs through your smart phone.
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by newbie12 14y ago
Of the 40 hour week, from 10 to 30 hours are spent working for the government. Your tax rate is dependent on where you live and how much you earn, of course.
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DC-area schools consider copyright policy that takes ownership of students’ work(washingtonpost.com)
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by newbie12 14y ago
Also has a nice Dependency Injection pattern, and the Twig template system is wonderful.
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by newbie12 14y ago
Symfony2 is excellent and is growing in terms of usage, conferences, and so on. The framework actually borrows best practices from Django, Ruby, and Java. The false description of Symfony2 as "dying" makes me wonder how much the original
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by newbie12 14y ago
Actually they're getting crushed by lousy spending and monetary policy, and regulations that dampen local competition. The next leg down for Japan will, however, be demographic, as retirees turn the nation's savings rate negative and the b
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by newbie12 14y ago
Yeah I received the email from Twitter, account created in April 2007 and haven't tweeted since 2010.
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by newbie12 14y ago
Hi, it isn't really clear what the product is. How does it interface with my meter or other hardware? Do I need to buy the app and a power monitor? How does it communicate with my existing home network, or the internet? The copy is writ
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by newbie12 14y ago
The article ignores the real issue-- the impact of violent video games and movie content on children. There's no First Amendment right for kids to access violent content.
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by newbie12 14y ago
That doesn't explain the mass rampage murders, which have been all committed by wealthy or upper-middle class perpetrators. Plus, violent crime in America is decreasing even while poverty is increasing.
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by newbie12 14y ago
You can't just post that and not include the problem.
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by newbie12 14y ago
Wrong order. He had a romantic relationship, THEN recommended him to Square for a job (without disclosing the relationship). Not an impossible position at all-- more of an abuse of trust.
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by newbie12 14y ago
Or, he might be able to use freelancing online to establish a working relationship with a company that would hire him directly. It is just tough, the money is terrible and I think this guy is going to need more structure than working from
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by newbie12 14y ago
Wow this is naive. Nobody is going to hire a felon parolee for anything other than menial work. I don't think there are recruiters for washing dishes. The only hope, as the OP says, is to figure out a way to market a tech skill directly,
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by newbie12 14y ago
You don't know the details of the crime. For a sentence that long, it likely involved a firearm or some type of physical violence. Protecting the public probably meant locking this guy up until he reached middle age. Having said that, now
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by newbie12 14y ago
Check again. Google's revenue in France is $2 billion, but their overall gross profit margin is little more than half that...so roughly they are making $15 per French citizen.
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by newbie12 14y ago
That type of confiscation of legitimately earned wealth would be profoundly immoral.
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by newbie12 14y ago
Dire poverty is self-inflicted. Corrupt, heavy-handed governments, pursuing illogical economic policies or deliberate starvation of opposition tribes. You could write that check tomorrow and the day after, Zimbabwe or North Korea or Somal
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by newbie12 14y ago
You weren't paying attention. Cornyn was a judicial system reformer in Texas as both a judge and as AG. Open government and fighting good ol' boy corruption were his beat.
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by newbie12 14y ago
Sen. Cornyn is also the former Attorney General for Texas and a former judge. He's a serious guy on these issues and one of the top thinkers on judiciary issues for the GOP.
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by newbie12 14y ago
Here: http://gawker.com/5216918/martin-luther-king-jrs-children-ar...
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by newbie12 14y ago
Yeah, FDR, LBJ and Nixon took the naked use of power to another level. The OP is a bunch of nonsense. Come to terms with it-- this is the action of the Obama DoJ.
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by newbie12 14y ago
Bush initially opposed the TSA, a bipartisan majority of Congress foisted that on him.
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by newbie12 14y ago
Ortiz is an Obama Administration appointee who wants to run for the Massachusetts governorship. She's making this argument to try to salvage her political career...it isn't a courtroom argument and it will be easy for her to trip up, she d
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by newbie12 14y ago
Rep. Issa is the real deal, he's a special member of Congress. He's a California tech entrepreneur and also voted against the TARP bailouts. http://issa.house.gov/about/about-darrell
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by newbie12 14y ago
A lot of the SOE's aren't economical and flat-out wouldn't exist in a private marketplace. Further, many times, the most wasteful, old, and inefficient equipment is also the worst polluting.
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by newbie12 14y ago
Actually China is facing a demographic decline-- from growing wealth and the echo of the "one child" policy. If demographics are all that matter, the next century will belong to India, the Middle East, and Africa.

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