patrickgzill

Apparently some think that the root password to the US Constitution is "4daChildr3n"

What sane woman would get into tech, when being a lawyer or MBA is so much more lucrative?

When Michael Lewis wrote Liar's Poker he was shocked over the number of people who contacted him, asking for advice on how to get into investment banking.

I am embarassed to say I spent many hours with Pop-Pop when I should have been doing something else! http://www.ambrosiasw.com/games/pop-pop/

You are aware, that the first slave owner in Virginia, who went to court over his slave, was a black man, right?

Immediate compensation could be to allow "face value plus 5%" of the medallion to be used to pay any local/city taxes, with say 7 or 10 years given to use the credit.

The IRS rules http://www.irs.gov/publications/p535/ch08.html state you have to amortize/depreciate the license over 15 years (180 months). So, any licenses that are 16 or more years old, have already been written off in full, so, a lesser amount would be needed to compensate the owners.

Bureaucracy's main purpose is to create more bureaucracy.

As a side effect, they collect taxes or issue you your driver's license, it is just a means to the end of self-perpetuation.

Eliminating the income tax and going to a much more transparent method like higher fuel taxes (everyone pays them because everyone uses transportation) or some other broadly based consumption tax, would be excellent.

Be quiet... don't give them any ideas. Next I will have to declare "Nerf Gun Friday afternoon" benefits on my tax return ...

Weird prediction: some 22 year old is reading a bunch of these now. He/she will enter the foreign service of his/her respective country and become a great career diplomat as a result.

OpenVZ gives you a container as they call it, which looks like its very own Linux OS. You can login to it, install packages with the package manager, etc. All processes you run, e.g. Apache/PHP, plus MySQL , run in this VM. PHP and MySQL would communicate over a Unix local socket, same as on non-virtualized Linux OS.

Docker appears to run each process, in isolation. So you would have 2 isolated processes (Apache/PHP, plus MySQL) which can only talk to each other over a local network pipe (which should be quite fast with minimal overhead).

(this is my understanding).

ForkingDongleClub.com is available for purchase as a domain name, at the time of this writing.

I bought the deal when it was on sale for $49 and I remember it being faster than that, however.

If you are referring to the Kin-Slaying as the Noldor left the lands of the Valar, yes, that is precisely what he would have been trying to avoid.

Some of what you say certainly fits with what Russians I have spoken with have told me. That EVERYONE was treated like crap, it wasn't limited to Jews.

"It was understood that since Jews represented a minority percentage of the overall population, the university would only accept that percentage into the student body. This was in line with the Soviet Union’s unofficial policy of anti-semitism in the post-Stalin era."

So, quotas... are there quotas, official or unofficial, in the USA university system?

It was his blood relative, for one. Two, they did not necessarily know the full power of the Ring. Third, Elves don't go around killing people without cause.

You can write off leases as a business expense. You have to track depreciation and many other things, if you buy it outright. Leases go right into monthly expenses and reduce your taxes immediately.

VERY old news. Read this info on zerohedge.com in like 2009.

Do remember that the current flu vaccine (as an example) has an efficacy rate of less than 65%. So even if 100% of the population were vaccinated, herd immunity would not be possible.

Herd immunity requires about 75% + efficacy of the vaccines (and assuming 100% of the target population is vaccinated), from what I can understand (it varies based on how the disease being vaccinated against, is spread).

There are vaccines being sold and marketed, that have efficacy rates as low as 35%.

However, given Britain's often lousy climate, the royals probably pay for themselves in the value of the additional tourism dollars generated alone.

If there was nobody living at Buckingham Palace, far fewer people would go see it.

CBS is majority owned by Sumner Redstone, an ardent Zionist - you knew that, right?

IPMI is so bad, I don't even use it for my servers when it is available! Better to just wait and call someone at the datacenter who will take care of reboots properly.

Did you mean "пиздец"? What you wrote would be be pronounced more like "peepets" or "pippets".

I am simply gob-smacked that people who are communicating over the Internet (needs gold, even if you are using fiber for much of the way) via their computers or smartphones (needs gold) don't realize how much gold is used in modern tech. Admittedly, fractions of a gram, but times millions of items!

And gold has been used in jewelry, art, decoration as well as monetary purposes for 1000s of years.

I would expect at the least, American readers to be familiar with the "Continental currency" and its devaluation to 1% of it previous value: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_American_currency#Contine...

For those who don't want to watch an hour long presentation, you can watch a compilation of clips from different news show appearances, "Peter Schiff Was Right" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I0QN-FYkpw

Gold has an intrinsic value, 1 gram of cotton based paper with some ink on it, does not.

You are both right and wrong.

The total amount of support given to the banks was far greater than the total amount of ALL residential mortgages everywhere in the USA. Total support given in all the various ways was over $10 Trillion, while the total value of all residential mortgages is under $4 Trillion.

No, I DO in fact, want the statistics, if a writer is going to make the claim that:

"And they don’t die like the rest of us. What’s unusual about them is not how much treatment they get compared to most Americans, but how little."

It should be easy to prove/disprove this, as doctors get surveyed all the time on different subjects.

I don't see any statistics, just a very well-written article with some anecdotes.

You've never seen one close down, because they do extensive research on vetting each location before they put one up; but also, they remove all identifying signage etc. within 24 hours of a location being closed, since they don't want to hurt their brand by implying failure.