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    America' obesity: A more devastating crisis than mortgage or credit card?

    some of the biggest (pun intended) social problems will be healthcare and medicare, because of the aging and growing (pun intended again) population. but there is one unintended, positive side-effect of the fattening population: reduced life-expectancies. people live a lot longer now than...
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    Chuck Norris Trading Facts

    chuck norris had $30m in uninsured deposits at indymac. he did not lose a penny of it. in fact when he showed up that morning to withdraw his money, there were two lines: one for chuck norris, and one for everyone else. chuck norris doesn't wait for nobody. when he asked for his $30m...
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    Why just there are NOT many female traders?

    women don't want to work in heavily male-dominated fields because a lot of you posers are annoying and immature. look at this freakin forum :p
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    12k Calories a Day!!!

    yep it is biologically impossible to do this unless he has some medical condition such as hyperactive thyroid. his daily maintenance calories is probably 2800. that means he'd need to burn 9200 through exercise. he trains 30h per week, which means he needs an exercise that burns 2150...
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    12k Calories a Day!!!

    i say total b.s. he claims to train 30 hours per week. let's assume 3/4 of that is intense swimming (450 cal per hour) and the rest is jogging (600 cal per hour). that's still only 14.6k cal per week from training, or about 2100 per day. there's no way the other 10k cal is disappearing...
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    Best Way To Destroy Data on Hard Disk Drive

    the urgency of this post suggests nefarious intent. anyway, i'd open the case, then smash the platters with a sledge hammer then burn them with a propane torch then run them over a large speaker magnet then pour toilet bowl cleaner on them
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    Is anyone getting sick of the Olympics already?

    years from now, they will write about the cheating in the same way as has been written about the east germans in the 70s.
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    The Olympics Thread

    is this what happens when you get old? 5's become 8's and 6's become 10's? :eek:
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    Surfer's Long Term Portfolio Discovered!

    so he made, what, 15-20% over 7 years? i could have put money into a money market account and made 40% over that time.
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    "Hot Wheels" worth more than GM

    a decade ago, gm had an electric vehicle. at the time gas was dirt cheap and nobody wanted to buy these battery powered cars because even with the tax credits, they were absurdly expensive and weren't practical. today, all-electric vehicles still suck. they're still the niche vehicles that...
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    Best vehicle to buy sub-prime junk?

    you can buy mbs's outright but it requires deep pockets. i looked into it a few years ago, and from my recollection it required 7- or 8-figure minimum. it's not a retail product.
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    Oil-to-Gas Multiplier?

    there's no simple fixed multiplier because you're comparing apples & oranges. crude futures are the predicted future price of wholesale crude. retail gas price at the pump is wholesale gas + profit + taxes. some of the taxes are %-based and some are fixed. it's impossible to have a...
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    WOW!!! The biggest news in housing market and nobody on ET notices...

    i've dealt with poor-credit people and most of them are deadbeats and scumbags. you cannot trust them. this bill tries to help these scumbags and there will be fraud as a result. aren't these the same people who lied about how much income they make, and now we're gonna trust them yet again...
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    Ford Versus Toyota

    impossible! according to the resident expert traderzones, all japanese models are designed by japanese. how can a toyota be designed by americans? (lol he's such a buffoon. ) :D
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    how does this guy's name fit on his passport?

    His Royal Highness Pengiran Digadong Sahibul Mal Pengiran Muda Jefri Bolkiah ibni Al-Marhum Sultan Haji Omar Ali Saifuddien Sa'adul Khairi Waddien http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefri_Bolkiah can anyone translate his name? it's practically a short essay
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    Which countries have low taxes and have balanced budgets?

    singapore has been running large surpluses for a number of years, although for 2008-2009 they probably will have a slight deficit. their "secret"? don't spend wildly on military. their military is defensive only.
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    General Motors to hold news conference Tuesday...

    you're so dumb it's laughable. i've worked in pd for multiple international companies including one of the largest in the world (>250k employees), and there is no one development or design process for the entire company. no company operates like that, idiot. the more complex the product, the...
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    Here is what I don't understand about IndyMac

    for checking accounts over $100k, you're fubar, but for cd's you can use http://www.cdars.com/index.php the rates also aren't as attractive as if you shopped individually but you get safety and convenience.
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    The Bear Market is Over

    lol yep. the only thing worse than a poser is one who has low iq. also, anyone with that size account wouldn't be under reg-t. actually if you wanted to call him out, you'd ask him to post not the account statement, but the various menus on ib's website after logging on, because the menus...
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    Which Vanguard money fund is safest?

    vanguard mmf's are still safe but if you look at their holdings, they are not "equivalent" to fidelity fund for fund, except their treasury funds.
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