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  1. Re:Maybe they learned on Iran's Hacking of US Navy 'Extensive,' Repairs Took $10M and 4 Months · · Score: 1

    Is there anything that this site can't blame on the Jews?

  2. Re:False flag? on Iran's Hacking of US Navy 'Extensive,' Repairs Took $10M and 4 Months · · Score: 4, Informative

    The Marine Corp's budget is $29B per year. An extra $10M would be an increase of 0.03%. The Department of Defense budget, minus the money spent on individual military branches, is $190B. $10M is 0.005% of that.

  3. Re:Translation: Piss off, Peasants on White House Responds To Net Neutrality Petition · · Score: 1

    It's seems like a majority of the users on this site either slept through 9th grade Social Studies, or haven't gotten to 9th grade yet.

  4. Re:As we've always said on Darker Arctic Boosting Global Warming · · Score: 0

    But if you ignore all of the evidence supporting the models as "hippie liberal bullshit", then they're easily disproved.

    You just need to use the Right Wing Scientific Method.

  5. Re:5th anniversary of stimilus on Kicktaxing: The Crazy Complexity of Paying Tax Correctly On Crowdfunding · · Score: 0

    So I'm guessing you are a shill that approves of NSA spying, drone strikes, and keeping Gitmo open along with all the other things Obama does, since you are coming here and making up stories to try and cover for the most corrupt presdent the US has ever had.

    You got me. I would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for you meddling kids.

  6. Re:stay out of business until 2017 on Kicktaxing: The Crazy Complexity of Paying Tax Correctly On Crowdfunding · · Score: 0

    Have you seen Japan's GDP growth over the past 20 years? That would be an optimistic scenario for the US if we hadn't printed all of that money.

  7. Re:stay out of business until 2017 on Kicktaxing: The Crazy Complexity of Paying Tax Correctly On Crowdfunding · · Score: 1

    Yeah. So why was every Democrat screaming in 2009 about how high stock values were a sign that the middle class was being shredded by big business?

    The DJIA dropped by 50% between 2007 and 2009. Please cite anyone complaining about "high stock values".

  8. Re:stay out of business until 2017 on Kicktaxing: The Crazy Complexity of Paying Tax Correctly On Crowdfunding · · Score: 1

    Small business owners are waiting for Obama to go away because their customers aren't willing to spend until Obama goes away.

    So how has the GDP been growing steadily since Obama took office?

  9. Re:stay out of business until 2017 on Kicktaxing: The Crazy Complexity of Paying Tax Correctly On Crowdfunding · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yeah. So why was every Republican screaming in 2009 about how businesses hated Obama and how his Presidency was going to tank the stock market?

  10. Re:stay out of business until 2017 on Kicktaxing: The Crazy Complexity of Paying Tax Correctly On Crowdfunding · · Score: 1, Insightful

    That is why he had Bernake print around $3.5 Trillion (not a misprint) and dump it into Wall Street to make sure his donors were taken care of.

    Oh, and as a small byproduct of that, it kept the US economy functioning.

  11. Re:Try again on Time Warner Deal Is How Comcast Will Fight Cord Cutters · · Score: 1

    perhaps they are both in that area but cover different neighborhoods

    That's exact the case. In NYC, they cover different boroughs.

  12. Re:Three Years? on Scientists Create Pizza That Can Last Years · · Score: 1

    He makes a fortune selling to re-enactors. He has complete uniforms for something like 12 countries going back to WW2. I'm a fan of the Vietnam tiger stripe camo pattern.

  13. Re:Statute of limitations on South Carolina Woman Jailed After Failing To Return Movie Rented Nine Years Ago · · Score: 1

    Oh yeah, that too. Movies used to take forever to hit the retail sale market.

    But the real price premium was the fact that the studios expected the buyer to make money off of rentals, and they wanted a cut.

  14. Re:stay out of business until 2017 on Kicktaxing: The Crazy Complexity of Paying Tax Correctly On Crowdfunding · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Who do you think is responsible for setting tax policy and spending tax revenues? Hint- it's not Obama. Did you sleep through 9th grade Social Studies? Or have you not gotten to 9th grade yet?

    Isn't it a weird coincidence that the Dow Jones Industrial Average has doubled since "anti-business" Obama took office?

  15. Re:Statute of limitations on South Carolina Woman Jailed After Failing To Return Movie Rented Nine Years Ago · · Score: 1

    When I think of movie rental stores, I think of VHS tapes. But the article just says "video", so it was probably a DVD.

    Regardless, movies sold to rental places were far more expensive than retail versions because you also got a license to rent them out. I lost a rental movie once and I think I got charged a "replacement fee" of about $150.

  16. Re:Is Israel the only middle-east starter-up? on Google Acquires Israeli Security Startup SlickLogin · · Score: 2

    Israel has virtually no natural resources to exploit. So they had to build their economy on other things.

    From Wikipedia-

    Science and technology in Israel is one of the country's most highly developed and industrialized sectors. The percentage of Israelis engaged in scientific and technological inquiry, and the amount spent on research and development (R&D) in relation to gross domestic product (GDP), is amongst the highest in the world.[72] Israel ranks fourth in the world in scientific activity, as measured by the number of scientific publications per million citizens. Israel's percentage of the total number of scientific articles published worldwide is almost 10 times higher than its percentage of the world's population.[73] Despite its small population relative to other industrialized nations around the world, Israel has the highest number of scientists, technicians, and engineers per capita in the world with 140 scientists, technicians, and engineers per 10,000 employees. In comparison, the same is 85 per 10,000 in the United States and 83 per 10,000 in Japan.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Israel

  17. Re:Three Years? on Scientists Create Pizza That Can Last Years · · Score: 1

    That food was 65 years old when I ate it. I don't think I ate any meat, though.

  18. Re:Statute of limitations on South Carolina Woman Jailed After Failing To Return Movie Rented Nine Years Ago · · Score: 1, Informative

    Unfortunately for her, the arrest warrant was issued in 2005 and I don't think those expire. It's stupid that this originated with a tape rental, and I'm shocked that the video store pressed charges, but those tapes were worth over $100 and theft is theft.

  19. Re:Try again on Time Warner Deal Is How Comcast Will Fight Cord Cutters · · Score: 1

    So pretty much never?

  20. Re:Three Years? on Scientists Create Pizza That Can Last Years · · Score: 4, Interesting

    My cousin owns a surplus store. I have recently eaten K rations from WW2. The sponge cake wasn't bad.

  21. Re:Try again on Time Warner Deal Is How Comcast Will Fight Cord Cutters · · Score: 1

    When was the last time that happened?

  22. Re:Here's who has a choice between TWC & Comca on Time Warner Deal Is How Comcast Will Fight Cord Cutters · · Score: 1

    That would drive consumer prices down.

  23. Try again on Time Warner Deal Is How Comcast Will Fight Cord Cutters · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "and removing (i.e. acquiring) the competition will let Comcast raise rates without losing customers."

    Nobody in America currently has a choice between Comcast and Time Warner. I hope the DOJ rejects the merger because the resulting company is too big. But the amount of competition in the cable internet market would not change at all.

  24. Re:Then again, maybe it’s not the suits at a on Under Armour/Lockheed Suit Blamed For US Skating Performance · · Score: 1

    So, you pretty much have to give them credit for actually winning.

    No. You could blame the suits like the media are doing.

  25. Re:Then again, maybe it’s not the suits at a on Under Armour/Lockheed Suit Blamed For US Skating Performance · · Score: 1

    If all Americans are "FAT and quite poor at sport", it shouldn't matter how many people live here.