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    Probable Herniated/Bulging Disc

    I injured a disc a couple years ago, and had leg pain here and there for a few months. After that it would come and go depending on what activities I would do. About a year ago I tried to starting exercising seriously for the first time since I hurt my back (mostly lifting). As soon as I got to...
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    Temporary / emergency health insurance - who to go with?

    Make sure you continue comprehensive coverage if you have a pre-existing condition. Cause if you get temporary insurance for a time period and then try and get comprehensive later, they will exclude them depending on your state laws. If you are not worried about getting any sort of condition try...
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    Does the US government make any money of it's own?

    http://www.taxpolicycenter.org...nd/numbers/revenue.cfm
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    Would you call tax exempt funding as subsidization.

    Instead of typing all those useless details, you could have just asked "Do you think issuance of municipal bonds are a form subsidation from the federal government?" What are you trying to discover here?
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    need help with a dual wan setup

    Thanks for the replies guys. Spidey, how do you setup failover with two routers? Is it something that's a feature of certain routers, where you can have two of them and set them up to be linked?
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    need help with a dual wan setup

    For my home office I will have two wan connections to access the internet. Being able to failover and router stability are the most crucial components. I have come across a couple solutions but its hard to find out about reliability without hearing peoples opinions so I was wondering if anyone...
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    How do I read US Treasury Notes?

    The first three digits are called the handle, and the the next three are called the tick. A tick is a 1/32, and + represents .5 of a tick, a 2 represents a .25 tick, and a 6 represents a .75 tick. So 103-12 is the bid in the market, meaning you can freely sell that price, can be decimalized to...
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    So what do Christians think of Muslims and Hindus?

    A lot of religion stems from a persons lack of accepting (or believing, depending on perspective) that their existence is random. So many people don't realize their beliefs are a circumstance of chance (ie. geographical location, the type of people a person grew up around, etc.). So if one never...
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    Roulette Theory

    I'm not denying that you guys have won money, but that fact doesn't prove that the strategy is no less or more advantageous than simply betting on red or black, picking a number or many numbers, or any other bet on the roulette table (except betting 0,00,1,2,3: which does have an even lower...
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    Roulette Theory

    That strategy is no different than just picking red or black. Regardless of how you bet on a roulette table, its a fixed probability of winning and losing. Its also why over a lifetime's worth of gambling the casino will be up against any individual at least 3 standard deviations out.
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    If you were to start a business, what structure would you be?

    This would only include your income from your business. When you are employed, you already pay employment tax, except that the company you work for pays for half of it. Now what you should find out if you can combine incomes to reach the 97500 level, but I am unsure on that part of it.
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    I have wanted this URL for years

    Why not lease it from him, if he is up for that?
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    Leaving my current company for another.....

    There are temporary insurance plans that are pretty cheap, definitely a lot less than 450 a month. However they are only useful for emergencies, so if you are worried about other things, I would just look for a high deductible plan to hold you over. I feel like for someone your age $450 is a bit...
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    Billion dollar?!

    James Simon's fund charges somewhere along the lines of a 4% management fee and 40% of net profit. Himself as well as others that work for the fund probably own a bulk of the assets. On top that he has returned over 30% for something like 15 years even after fees.
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    What are some manufacturing systems that use catylists?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalyst#Notable_examples
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    Advice on where to go to college ...

    Well I ended up going to NU. The only thing that sucks is weather, but you will get over that soon if you choose Chicago. I am biased but I would also say go to NU if you have that choice. Chicago is one of the best cities to be in, and Evanston is only a train ride away. However, pre-med is...
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    Advice on where to go to college ...

    What are your plans academically? Are you going into medicine, engineering, finance, etc.? I had almost the exact same choices as you did (minus emory) when I was applying, and I am also from SoCal.
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    I am going to india next week.. its an emergency trip

    It may just be easier to buy a pre paid phone when you get to calcutta. It won't be expensive at all. Also, you will need an adapter to plug in the phone, but as long as the DTA works at both voltages you won't need some type of converter (it should say on the back or bottom of it). Also, the...
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    The Martingale System

    Draw your self a bell curve, but nudge it off center by the amount of the house edge. That's how much you will lose over infinite iterations. Now there is a chance (.5- the house edge) that you can still land in the area that is to your winnings. However you will eventually, and probably sooner...
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    Top 5 corporations in the world?

    http://www.forbes.com/2006/03/29/06f2k_worlds-largest-public-companies_land.html These are public companies only. Just sort the list by revenue. Exxon Walmart RDS BP GM No surprise its three oil companies and company that needs oil for its products to run. Walmart is just a beast of...
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    Multi Monitor Setup

    bump to see if anyone has experience with a similar situation
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    Multi Monitor Setup

    Currently there is a Dell Optiplex GX745 that is setup with a radeon x1300 and has a dual monitor setup. I want to add 2 more monitors but instead of having both monitors add to the desktop, I want one to add to the desktop making it a 3 screen display and the 4th monitor to mirror the third...
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    Executive Summaries for Companies

    If you know the ticker symbol of the company, yahoo finance has pretty much all of that.
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    Move over Aquaman

    You should just take the subtitle file from the american version instead of using the dub. Unless you prefer the american voices.
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    stunning new archeological evidence on Jesus' life

    Where is your proof of all these occurences? I know you just explained what faith means to you, making my question in your eyes illogical or invalid. So then I ask, where did you get your faith?
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    stunning new archeological evidence on Jesus' life

    If you take the Bible literally, you have no credibility in the scientific arena either.
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    Hedge funds vs. ETFs vs. Spyders vs. Mutual Funds

    Just as a slight correction to what people have been saying about hedge funds, they are not all high risk investment vehicles. They are essentially just pooled money that is managed and traded by a firm. The strategies cover the whole spectrum of investing. It is true though that an individual...
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    Best way to make 30k..... --Investing Question--YAIT

    If I understand it right, you want your $500 deposits to compound into 30k. The best way to do that is to find a no load mutual fund you think can achieve the 10% average. A low risk way to achieve that would be to find an index that you think will make those gains and find the fund that tracks...
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    how do insurnace companies make money??

    I was told from an employee at one of the largest insurance companies that premiums cover around 97% of the payouts. The real profit margins came from trading. The insurances companies probably have some of the largest collective liquid reserves around.
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    Tivo Series 3 HD DVR

    Do you have On Demand with Comcast? If so, were you planning on just having a comcast box also had you kept the Tivo S3. I can't wait until someone gets a good cable card solution cause I hate the Comcast guide and UI.
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    Is it just me...

    You are only comparing one part of a much larger situation. Would you trade your life and where you were brought up with a some from a lower socioeconomic class just so it would be easier for you to get into college?
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    As an American, this video shames me...

    I guess I can't really dispute that.
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    As an American, this video shames me...

    Why does everyone love to claim that Americans are so stupid, yet they embrace so much of what Americans have created?
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    WTH? Is there no tie-break in women's australian open?

    Correct. In the mens, the same occurs in the 5th.
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    Texas versus California

    Jack Bauer is in LA, so Texas loses at the last minute.
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    The future looks bleak

    You somehow managed to disagree with me by agreeing with everything I said, which confused me for a minute. But that's ok. As to what soccerballtux asked: We are continuously paying back most of the debt in the form of interest and principal payments that the government makes everyday...
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    The future looks bleak

    The Chinese could request their money back at a market rate because the debt is securitized as treasury bonds. They could just sell them in the open market. Also the renmibi is generally fixed to the dollar. However the Chinese are preparing to float their currency and it currently moves...
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    Legality question

    Are you guilty if someone trespasses on your property and decides to deal drugs there? I don't know if that's a completely fair comparison, but I think its kind of relevant.
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    YAGT: Picked Up My Hairdresser

    I think people ask sometimes cause when they store a number in a cell phone they want to know what to label the number. Like home, work, cell...
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    Looking for a Denon AVR-8505 equivalent...

    I think you meant 5805, and if you did the previous models are 5801, 5802, and 5803. But I don't know what years they made each model, and I could be wrong, but I think they skipped the 5804 model designation.