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    WSJ - Obamacare unmatched in its failure..

    We all know this was coming.... Idealism != reality When it comes to it, businesses will always find a way around onerous regulation. The most direct way is to pass the costs on to the consumers. The interesting thing that nobody seems to have picked up on is this - Obamacare was the...
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    Nate Silver's Blog - What Climate Change Cost?

    I always thought he was "by-the-numbers", "let the data decide" kind of guy.
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    Olympic lifters/Crossfit workout and diet thread

    Interesting.... KG or LB set? And the shipping cost is way less than I expected.... But it may take a week or 2 since its arriving via semi... How long have you been training? Do you compete or just lift for health/fitness/hobby/challenge?
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    WSJ - Obamacare unmatched in its failure..

    Sheesh, throw $5-10mm to a bunch of kids in Silicon Valley, and you'll get a website that not only works, but scales from the state to federal levels. Add another $10mm for hosting, and there you go. A working healthcare.gov. And it'll be in a templated form, so while the underlying...
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    A breath of fresh air

    No time for that. Gotta catch up on Arnold crushing things with his tank... Then it's Seinfeld's Comedians in Cars getting coffee...
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    A breath of fresh air

    Hey, I'm not on your ignore list... :eek: My feelings are hurt.... :D
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    Conservative Praises Putin's Stand on Gays

    A little naive, aren't we? Every attempt in history at utopias and social equality have failed. Humans, by their very nature, are selfish, greedy, ambitious, inconsiderate, hateful, and war-mongering. The sooner you come to grips with it, the better off you'll be. And no, you can't...
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    Conservative Praises Putin's Stand on Gays

    Caught that too. Or maybe "sympathy symptoms" ? Can't possibly be a typo... :D Otherwise, exGOPer's vibrating buttplug would start pounding away at the 12 setting...
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    The world is currently dominated by 2 egomaniacal ASSHOLES... Putin and Obama

    And P&R is ruled by 10 nut-jobs, and 10 lesser insane-types willing to egg the nut-jobs on...
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    best free screen shot program for windows 8...

    Does Win 8 not come with Paint? 1. Hit Prt Scr 2. Open Paint 3. Choose "File|New" or hit the New button 4. Hit "Ctrl-V" for paste 5. Crop/edit the image as needed 6. Save the file in the preferred format (BMP, JPG, PNG, etc) 7. Exit Eazy Peezy... Unless you have more...
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    NSA tracks most cell phones, but Malyasian jet dissappears

    Richter has a sense of humor. Since it was going 500+ knots/hour, I think it flew by w/o you noticing..
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    Top six US serial killers were all homosexuals

    I think it'd be more telling to learn to what extent all the killers were abused, molested, or otherwise stigmatized as kids. And whether the abuser's sex ended up being the target (i.e. was the Green River killer abused by promiscuous woman as a child? Were the others in OP abused by...
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    Memory keeps running low all of a sudden

    Run the command "msconfig", click the Startup tab, and uncheck all the programs you don't need running at boot time. You can also download and install CC Cleaner. Do a full clean of the system, registry, browser caches, and hard drives. Then reboot and see how things go.
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    Because it needed it's own thread.

    To be fair, I think all of us hanging out in P&R are complete lunatics... Just a matter of figuring out which one of us goes postal first in the real world....
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    If there is a consensus on global warming. . . .

    When's LEAPup going to out him, also? If only I had an IP address, or, even better, an email address....
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    LAPD Gets a Lamborghini Gallardo

    How is it a "F*** You"? Most likely, they got the vehicle from a criminal seizure action or civil forfeiture...
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    USA broken by the cost of criminals

    Why 3 strikes? I'm in favor of 0 strikes. I met Mike Reynolds when my family was considering our options when my nephew was mauled to death by the neighbors pit bulls. As much as I hate to say it, 3 strikes hasn't helped much. In fact, it was recently watered down. I'm in favor of...
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    Why don't commercial airliners have parachutes (like the space shuttle) ?

    How many mid-flight fires have there been? Other than the ValuJet crash in 1996, I don't recall reading about any. Usually, the fires are after crashes during takeoff or landings...
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    Why don't commercial airliners have parachutes (like the space shuttle) ?

    According to Plane Crash Info, roughly 59% of all crashes in the 1990s and 2000s had a degree of pilot error involved. Only between 18-24% were due to mechanical error. A big chute would help some, but not much. I imagine the number of scenarios where it would help would be limited.
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