roboneal

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by roboneal 16y ago
Arguably, that is the crux of the 1st Amendment issue -- government regulation of speech - including that of "evil" or "unpopular" drug companies -- is a slippery slope.
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by roboneal 16y ago
Author tries to connect NYC car bomb (if it went off, troops in the streets - laws thrown out), oil spill (might kill all life on planet), and the panic buying (pushing and shoving at the supermarket) after the Boston water main break into
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by roboneal 16y ago
Our "gas prices" are essentially the same as anywhere else. It's our "gas taxes" which are lower.
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by roboneal 16y ago
And it's not just for $600 or larger transactions, it's an accumulation of said transactions for a tax year. This is going to be a paperwork nightmare.
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by roboneal 16y ago
You a projecting modern commodity trading exchange concepts onto history - until the advent of "virtual" trading of gold - there DEFINITELY was fluctuations of the value of gold and silver between countries.
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by roboneal 16y ago
You may need to brush up on the history of currency. So called "gold and silver" standards did not eliminate fluctuating exchange rates and valuation/devaluation cycles. For example: "In 1663, a new gold coinage was introduced based on the
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by roboneal 16y ago
But are politicians in Greece cutting spending? All I see are nationwide strikes protesting proposed cuts. It's more likely they will be bailed out by the more fiscally sound countries.
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by roboneal 16y ago
>> Why you think so? While China may have pegged it's exchange rate to the U.S. , it has the power to decouple at any time to adjust to changing market conditions. Greece (and soon Portugal, Spain, & Italy) don't have that abili
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by roboneal 16y ago
Ultimately, the "euro" experiment is doomed to failure. You can't have a unified currency and monetary policy, while individual countries have massively different domestic spending policies.
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by roboneal 16y ago
Simple solution: Make it MUCH easier to legally immigrate or work temporarily here. Hire more INS workers, reduce backlogs, etc. but punish SEVERELY anyone who circumvents the improved process. No excuses.
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by roboneal 16y ago
Article is particularly light on the "why soliders get a kick out killing" and effectively says, buried at end of the article, that studies have shown 98 percent of men don't and suffer for it.
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by roboneal 16y ago
If the numbers of computers infected are true (163K for Pricewater House alone), Mcafee could easily lose considerable marketshare overnight.
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by roboneal 16y ago
"Our modern societies keep working toward very efficient and accurate ways to kill one another" We could always go back to the less accurate ways of killing each other like a good old fashion Viking raid, barbarian hordes, firebombing citi
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by roboneal 16y ago
Yeah - they edited out that part because it shows plain as day people entering that building with weapons (roughly 31min in). Didn't fit the narrative.
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by roboneal 16y ago
Not sure what your definition of "raw" is -- The video itself is not even raw - opens with a George Orwell quote, spliced in commentary, a slideshow of the children of the victims, edited, arrows pointing at "cameras", etc. It's painfully o
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by roboneal 16y ago
Registering a domain name called collateralmurder.com with the lede "WikiLeaks has released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people" is not releasing "raw info".
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by roboneal 16y ago
The commentary of this soldier, and possibly others, would have provided some context to this incident. He supports the initial engagement, but criticizes the secondary attack on the van and a later firing of a Hellfire missile into a build
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by roboneal 16y ago
$787 Billion Tax Dollar Funded Bank Bailout engineered by the former CEO of Goldman Sachs -- nope, nothing suspicious there.
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by roboneal 16y ago
That's $1500 PER CAPITA (every man, woman & child). All things being equal - $6K a year for a family of 4 is consequential.
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by roboneal 16y ago
Where are you getting your state & local tax numbers? The numbers I found show total state & local tax collected per capita for Texas is $3,580 vs. $5,028 for California. That's a 40% increase over Texas. Nothing to sneeze at. Tex
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by roboneal 16y ago
Good point. However, the similarity is also just as simple - the "instincts" of our Federal government is not all that different than the Chinese Communist government.
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by roboneal 16y ago
Biggest suppliers of cheap money - so called central banks underwritten by essentially clueless taxpayers - scratch that - future taxpayers.
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by roboneal 16y ago
The chairman may be subject to Senate confirmation and dragged in front of a committee now and then. However, the larger practices of the Federal Reserve, especially dealings internationally, are not regulated and essentially secret.
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by roboneal 17y ago
To stretch the metaphor further, we are more "Siamese" twins - sharing vital organs. China floods American markets with cheap goods - creating a deflationary effect which creates an illusionary perception of a "rise in our standard of livin
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GAO: Postal Service business 'not viable'(voices.washingtonpost.com)
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by roboneal 17y ago
I'm not sure if they gain much traction without some sort of "free" account level (say 50M or less). Not even a video demo or trial account.
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by roboneal 17y ago
His best analogy was people complaining that there flight from NYC to LA was "delayed an hour" and comparing it to the fact it often took years to cross the country ("people dieing and babies being born in the group you traveled with").
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by roboneal 17y ago
Are the stats I quoted so out of context as to be worthy of downvoting? I think it's an honest perspective and would have an impact on the educational outcomes of immigrant populations.
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by roboneal 17y ago
Per Statistics Canada, Canada's immigrant population is highly educated, 90% emigrated legally, and a large percentage are Asian in origin. Is it safe to say that doesn't reflect recent (last 25 years) immigration patterns to the U.S. or to
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by roboneal 17y ago
Summary: 1. Finnish parents read with their children. 2. Low immigration - so "Finnish as a second language" is not a problem there. 3. Education and educators are valued highly by Finnish culture. 4. And contrary to all our K-4 efforts, ki

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