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    Bitcoin Price Soars Above $9

    http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/07/bitcoin-price-soars-above-9-for-the-first-time-in-almost-a-year/ 'Official' bitcoin site: http://bitcoin.org It looks like Bitcoin is back stronger than ever. The price is now even higher than when this article was posted, going between the low...
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    Have you ever seen someone on a motorcycle go the speed limit?

    I've seen some motorcyclists go the speed limit, but it is quite rare. All the other ones I've seen are going at least 10+ MPH over the speed limit on the freeway, and 10-20+ MPH over the speed limit on surface streets. I know this is anecdotal but anyone else notice this?
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    What is going on with Bank of America?

    If I am reading these numbers right, Bank of America's market cap is about half of its total equity! Market cap is about 116 Billion according to google finance: http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:BAC Total equity is about 230 Billion according to the latest report on its balance sheet...
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    Bankers derived 'erotic thrill from credit crunch'

    News article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/financialcrisis/8085352/Bankers-derived-erotic-thrill-from-credit-crunch.html Original research paper: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/articles/blood-on-the-trading-floor.html Wow, absolutely unbelievable! Not only did these...
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    Health Savings Account Madness

    I am scheduled to have surgery tomorrow. Yesterday the hospital called me up and told me that I have to bring $3761 to the hospital on the day of my surgery, which is the deductible on my health plan. I was surprised because in the past I have always received bills after a procedure. I have a...
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    Politics and Religion Intertwined

    Putting aside one's political beliefs for a moment, if one were an agnostic, atheist or even a deist, wouldn't one be quite disturbed by the pervasive religiousness of politicians on both sides of the aisle? Wouldn't the fact that the great bulk of politicians claim to have a personal...
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    Official US Debt Clock/Dollar Collapse Thread

    I propose we consolidate the US debt and dollar collapse threads here. Take a look at this debt clock: http://usdebtclock.org/ There are multiple time bombs on this clock, not just the national debt. Everything from unfunded liabilities to massive personal debt. It is not looking good. In the...
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    Tax Reform: Why not have all income logged with IRS at point of inception?

    I was thinking... With the Internet and software technology today it would be relatively simple to have all paycheck (and other income such as income derived from a stock sale) and business transaction data sent directly to the IRS at the time such transactions were generated. The IRS could...
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    Fourth day on South Beach Diet, Already Lost 5 Pounds

    This is only my fourth day on phase 1 of the South Beach diet and I have already lost 5 pounds! Recently I was complaining to my girlfriend that I had gained 10 pounds (from 6'0" @ 185 to 195) since my vacation and she recommended the South Beach for both of us. It has been a bit tough since I...
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    From a scientific perspective is sentience fatally flawed?

    According to quantum physics, at the most fundamental level of quantum particles, reality can be described as waves of probabilities. This being the case, there is of course probability distributions associated with these waves, leading to rather predictable outcomes on the macro scale. A coffee...
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    Official ATP&N Bank of America & Citigroup Deathwatch

    Text Everyone has been talking about how these banks are too big to fail, but has anyone thought about the fact that they are too big to save? If Bank of America or Citigroup went down what do you think the consequences would be? Is anyone prepared for a collapse of such epic proportions...
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    Fed orders emergency rate cut to 1.5%

    Text It is clear to me that the Fed is running out of options. The bailout plan failed to revive the markets so now it is using emergency actions to try to stave off a full scale meltdown. Could there be a sucker rally just around the corner?
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    Why the bailout will be a disaster

    Text Peter Schiff explains in simple terms why the bailout will be a disaster. Distressed homeowners are going to milk this bailout for everything they can get and the cost to the economy will be enormous. A downgrading of U.S. treasury bonds could be in the pipeline given the fact that the...
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    Hyperinflation by 2010

    Rest of the article here: Text This is the scariest article I have ever read. As a long time anarcho-capitalist, I will be vindicated. The great social democracy experiment will utterly fail. The writing is on the wall, the sun is setting on the American empire.
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    Are politicians sociopaths?

    Before you vote in the poll please read this description of behavior exhibited by sociopaths: Text People need to start to realize that we may very well be ruled by a cabal of sociopaths. If this is the case, could one consider it a good thing that these sociopaths have been unleashed...
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    Europe's Philosophy of Failure

    Text This is absolutely insane. How can these parents let their children become little demons for the left wing and the state? These textbooks are apparently even teaching Luddite anti-technology doctrines. Maybe if I start spouting off excerpts and concepts from Theodore Kaczynski's...
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    Are Wells Fargo and other banks hiding their losses?

    Text We need to demand that these banks come clean and that they come clean now. The way that Bear Stearns played out was absolutely despicable. I think that if these executives, accountants and bankers lie about their books leading up to a collapse they should go to prison. The shareholders...
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    Politics vs. Personal Finances

    So many people these days have their priorities WAY out of whack. They are concerned about Iraq, politicians, what Bush is doing, elections and people/places that are thousands of miles away. All the while their own personal finances are a pile of sh!t and they are up to their eyeballs in debt...
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    Just landed first job out of college

    So I landed my first job out of college, and have been at this company a week as of tomorrow. I graduated in June with a bachelor's degree in computer science. I told my current boss who interviewed me that I had barely been exposed to MySQL and Perl, which the company uses extensively for...
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    Washington D.C. License Plates

    So as I was driving around I noticed someone with a Washington D.C. plate that said: TAXATION WITH NO REPRESENTATION. At first I thought that they had put that on there themselves, but then I saw a couple others. I looked it up and sure enough, the DMV had issued these plates. Text So...
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    Interviews for engineering jobs

    I graduated college about a month and a half ago with a B.A. in math-computer science from University of California San Diego. I took about a month off and have been looking for jobs for the past 2 weeks, so I just started interviewing. My first interview was a phone interview. Interview was...
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    Wtf is up with monster.com and resumes?

    I'm trying to upload my resume to monster.com in Word format. In Word everything looks fine, but after I upload it to monster.com everything looks distorted. Wtf is going on? Anyone else have this problem?
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    The end of the U.S. government

    I rarely see this discussed, as most people seem to be under the impression that the U.S. government will continue to exist long after they are dead. But the U.S. government, like all governments in history will eventually come to an end. So the questions are: when will it end? How will it end...
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    Looking for a notebook with ubuntu pre-installed

    What's a good notebook that has ubuntu pre-installed (with wireless card and all drivers working of course).
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    Mass franchise democracy: the greatest manifestation of the communist ideal

    Has anyone ever considered the fact that western democracies have the largest welfare states and wealthiest governments out of all the nations today and from history? If you think about it, mass franchise democracy is about as good as it can ever going to get for socialism. If a state allows...
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    Top Gear Gets Attacked By Southerners

    Text I am disgusted that people act like this in America. :| You would think these people have yet to evolve from prehistoric times.
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    Saw something funny today

    I was driving with my friend back to my house to pick up my car to go somewhere, and on the way we saw a speed trap. After I got my car and I was following my friend we drove past the speed trap again, but the second time I saw a trash truck that was pulled over as it was getting trash. The...
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    The Economy Bomb - The top 1% are becoming expats

    Text With the top 1% of earners becoming expats in droves, bankruptcy of the massive federal entitlement state is imminent. I wonder what other draconian laws are going to be drummed up by the statists in order to stop the out-flow of wealth. So far we have a law that says that expats have to...
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    Why do Japanese people immigrate to the U.S.?

    Can someone explain why Japanese people immigrate to the U.S.? I can see why people from poor countries like Mexico come here, but why would someone leave a first world country like Japan? Personally, I know I wouldn't want to move to Japan and have to go through the hassle of adjusting to the...
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    The left and having children

    I have gotten into an argument with leftists on a number of occasions online as well as offline. One of the huge problems that I see in society in general is people failing to plan for children. It seems to me that people are going out there (men as well as women) and are recklessly starting...
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    No strong AI for you! Serle's Chinse Room Argument

    Now, Searle asks us to suppose that he is sitting inside the computer. In other words, he is in a small room in which he receives Chinese characters, consults a rule book, and returns the Chinese characters that the rules dictate. Searle notes that he doesn't, of course, understand a word of...
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    Bizarre Incident With Autoplay Service in XP

    Yesterday I was on my laptop and I opened and closed my CD ROM drive with nothing inside of it. All of a sudden my hard drive started going crazy and these endless Autoplay windows kept coming up in some kind of infinite loop. So I opened up the task manager and saw that 'svchost' was doing it...
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    Question about firewire 800 and external hard drive

    My friend wants to get an external hard drive for his laptop, and he wants to use firewire. His laptop, however, does not have a firewire port so he has to get a PCMCIA card to add firewire. He is considering getting this card and this hard drive. My question is: is it worth it getting the...
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    School District In Kentucky to Spend $10,000 Per Student On Math Software

    Text $10,000 per student for math software is a royal ripoff no matter how you cut the cards. I love it how one of the researchers praising the software is on the company's payroll and also how they claim they have to sell hardware with the software because it interferes with other programs...
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    Can anyone access www.ucsd.edu?

    I can't connect to www.ucsd.edu or any of the other ucsd domains. Can anyone else?
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    The Cowardice of the Conservative

    Text This article makes excellent points regarding the disingenuous nature of conservatives. They denounce 'outrageous' liberal wealth re-distribution schemes while endorsing a huge number of big government agencies like the DEA. The most hilarious part of this article is the advertisement...
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    Seattle Public School System's Definitions of Racism

    These are only a couple of snippets. Text If I am interpreting this correctly, according to the educrats in the seattle government school system you are racist if you advocate a future time orientation or individualism. It is safe to say that many government school systems are now...
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    If you could opt out of social security, would you do it?

    If you could opt out of social security starting tomorrow, would you do it? This means that you would cease having to pay 7% and your employer wouldn't have to pay anything either. But to go along with that you would only receive benefits up to the point that you already paid in. State your...
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    Would you marry someone who was uneducated?

    Would you marry someone who was uneducated? When I mean uneducated I don't necessarily mean someone without a college degree. I'm talking about someone who is just flat out unknowledgeable i.e. they have no desirable skills, do not read books etc. I have four uncles, all of them relatively...