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    Reforming the US tax code

    Because they can't seize your property for non-payment of income tax? Clearly we don't agree on this, I've lived in both types of states and for my personal situation I vastly prefer no income tax, if you feel the other way you should probably move. Keep in mind also that the "threshold"...
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    Reforming the US tax code

    Well hopefully you've saved enough money to be able to ride out a year or so of property tax payments and will be able to secure another source of income. If not, you can always sell the house, right? You could also try the ag exempt route for lower rates if it's that big of a concern.
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    cnbc ‘freaking out’ over low ratings.

    Here's my business plan for them - stop pretending they are anything but an entertainment channel, hire a bunch of former beauty queens, dress them in tight short skirts and teach them how to read a teleprompter. Watch the ratings return.
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    Reforming the US tax code

    I disagree, and I also live in a no income tax state, probably the same one as you. The reason high property taxes are preferable to high income taxes to me is that high property taxes preserve choice - I don't have to own or rent an expensive piece of property. The other part of it is...
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    Zimmerman's Neighbor-Hood.

    That's not how it works in the United States or other countries whose legal system is derived form English common law, it is innocent until proven guilty; the burden is on the state to prove the case. In this situation obviously the state does not feel like there is enough evidence to charge...
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    QuoteTracker To Be Finished End of 2011

    Looks like it is not on the ftp site anymore, can someone post it here? Edit: Found it! Thanks to everyone on this thread for keeping this great product going, like others I have my charts tweaked just the way I want and hate the thought of having to move to something else.
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    You are all under arrest...for reading ET

    I become more convinced every day that we are living in the 21st century version of the Roman principate. For encryption, I like the twofish algorithm. The fact that NSA endorses rjindael makes many wary of it.
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    Even Rush Limbaugh is saying its time to get the F*** out of Afghanistan.

    There's no need for keeping regulars/heavy infantry on the ground there in some kind of perpetual meat grinder. Just have enough SF and spook networks there to provide intel and carry on light infantry and forward observation activities against insurgent base camps and new taliban-style groups...
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    Santorum: Separation Of Church And State 'Makes Me Want To Throw Up'

    The religion of the founders / power holders of this nation is Masonry/Mystery School/Hermeticism. Look at the layout, architecture, and symbolism of Washington, DC - it's right there in the open.
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    Why does California have so much industry/jobs?

    This is an interesting thread, I moved from Maryland to Austin, TX last year and a couple of observations. First as someone mentioned earlier the top talent, especially in IT definitely heads to Silicon Valley. Austin tech companies aren't able to retain any of UT's (one of the original public...
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    Why does California have so much industry/jobs?

    What about Texas?
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    Ping and Latency

    I've said it on here a bunch of times before, ICMP is not a reliable measure of speed through an ISP network, they typically give it a low priority.
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    T-bonds at 0% why not just keep the money?

    So the Saudi sovereign wealth fund should just mosy down to the local citibank huh?
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    10% unemployment but H1B visas accelerating

    They do switch employers, how it works is they are contractors or sub-contractors, they are actually employed by a company owned by an Indian who may or may not be a US citizen, this company's sole function is to hold the visa for them, in return the company takes a cut of their bill rate off...
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    Cheap virtual machines

    You guys do know that ISP's separate ICMP traffic using COS/QOS and give it a low priority? I wouldn't count on it for much more than a very rough estimate.
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    Will my long option be excercised automatically at IB?

    What happens if I’m assigned stock at expiration, and my account doesn’t have the funds necessary to satisfy the margin requirement? Overview: If an expired USD option position results in an automatic exercise (the Options Clearing Corporation will automatically exercise any stock...
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    Dumping hard drives in the Chicago River

    first use a utility to wipe drive with all 0's, all 1's and then random then use something like this <iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/S_BgtldCwqw" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> then incinerate the remains if you are really paranoid
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    Dem Congressman: Regulations Create Jobs

    broken window fallacy
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    laptop reliability

    I have too, had multiple motherboards fry on those suckers. Currently use a dell vostro, heavy as lead and hot as the sun but no problems.
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    Irresponsible

    $300 a month for car insurance? Is that really how high it is in NYC area? I pay around $800 a year and I'm maxed out on liability coverage etc, and I don't live in the sticks either. Wow.
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