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  1. Re:The headline is missing three words on As Value of Cryptocurrencies Falls, a Lot of New and Risk-Taking Investors Are Suffering Immensely (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I read this act. Have you? A trick question: who owns the shares of Fed that very offered to public?

  2. Re:The headline is missing three words on As Value of Cryptocurrencies Falls, a Lot of New and Risk-Taking Investors Are Suffering Immensely (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    You are engaging in double think. Look at the act for yourself. Calling everything a conspiracy is a way of reducing the variables to one thing you can refute with minimum thought.

    Nope. You're just snatching the first dubious links from anti-Semitic conspiracy websites in order to affirm your believes. Without even a cursory attempt to double-check them.

  3. Re:The headline is missing three words on As Value of Cryptocurrencies Falls, a Lot of New and Risk-Taking Investors Are Suffering Immensely (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I said the FED was privately owned which means it is not owned by the everyday, average man on the street taxpayer.

    Incorrect. Fed is not privately owned. Its member banks are. They have no impact on Fed policy which is set by its board, appointed directly by the President. Fed also operates under the charter provided by the Congress.

    And even individual Fed banks are only "private". Their "owners" can not hold more than $25k in its stock, this stock can't sold, loaned or used as a collateral.

  4. Re:The headline is missing three words on As Value of Cryptocurrencies Falls, a Lot of New and Risk-Taking Investors Are Suffering Immensely (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Again, you're just glossing over everything. Stocks in the Fed are the way to participate for the membership FDIC-insured banks. They don't confer the power to set the policy. Also, your list is just a pure BS from a conspiracy site.

    http://www.usagold.com/federal... - here's a nice discussion.

  5. Re:The headline is missing three words on As Value of Cryptocurrencies Falls, a Lot of New and Risk-Taking Investors Are Suffering Immensely (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    "Stand-alone" in the sense that the NPS and the IRS are both sovereign within their domain. They are not ruled directly by the executive branch, and instead operate autonomously based on the laws passed by the Congress. Compare this with the State Dept which is directly controlled by the President (through his appointees).

  6. Re:The headline is missing three words on As Value of Cryptocurrencies Falls, a Lot of New and Risk-Taking Investors Are Suffering Immensely (nytimes.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Are you sure?

    Yup. The US Federal Reserve System is a stand-alone government entity, like the National Park Service or the IRS. What trips some people is the fact that the Fed uses multiple private banks to perform its duties instead of a single government bank like in most of other countries. This is no different from Pentagon using Boeing or Lockheed to build its planes.

  7. Re:The headline is missing three words on As Value of Cryptocurrencies Falls, a Lot of New and Risk-Taking Investors Are Suffering Immensely (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Ponzi schemes have a single authority. Bitcoin does not.
    Ponzi schemes are fraudulent, with hidden information.

    Let me introduce you to MMM. It's a decentralized completely transparent Ponzi scheme! Buy now!

  8. Re:The headline is missing three words on As Value of Cryptocurrencies Falls, a Lot of New and Risk-Taking Investors Are Suffering Immensely (nytimes.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Actually, the Federal Reserve is not privately owned. And it's also totally different from a planned economy. Duh.

  9. Can you provide a couple of links on Youtube? From a public person and comparable with Jones rants.

  10. Re:Randomization... on Hacked Water Heaters Could Trigger Mass Blackouts Someday (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    It's still enough to make sure that you don't get water temperature drops. The recirculation pump also keeps the heater itself warm. It obviously reduces the efficiency, though.

  11. Re:First post... in before... on 'Why Liberal Arts and the Humanities Are as Important as Engineering' (wadhwa.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry. Are you complaining that people don't raptly listen about how you are persecuted on the Internet? And comparing it to a still real discrimination in housing, employment and other matters? Let me call you a whaaaambulance, stat.

  12. Re:Randomization... on Hacked Water Heaters Could Trigger Mass Blackouts Someday (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Get a recirculation pump installed and connect it to a tankless heater. The piping in the house will serve as a heat reservoir and you'll also get immediate hot water.

  13. Re:First post... in before... on 'Why Liberal Arts and the Humanities Are as Important as Engineering' (wadhwa.com) · · Score: 1

    Thing is, blacks and women are still having problems with their human rights. Discrimination is still rampant.

    Men? Not so much.

  14. Re:First post... in before... on 'Why Liberal Arts and the Humanities Are as Important as Engineering' (wadhwa.com) · · Score: 0

    Yeah, those poor MRAs. Why are they always the whiniest bunch of losers?

  15. Re:Think of the children! on France Bans Smartphones in School (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes he did. Virginia allows automatic weapon possession with only minor permit requirements: http://lawcenter.giffords.org/... It's difficult to transport them across the state but as long as you stay inside the state it's fine.

  16. Re:Think of the children! on France Bans Smartphones in School (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    My friend got an AK-74. A fully automatic one, with only a cursory background check. He lived in Virginia before dying in a parachute accident.

  17. Re:Idiots on European Court Ruling Raises Hurdles For CRISPR Crops (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 2, Informative

    Monsanto hasn’t sued farmers who simply got some cross-pollinated crops. Not once. Not a single time.

  18. Re:Danger? on Are There Dangers in a Cashless Society? (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    This is nonsense. Banks will gladly open a checking account for anybody with a pulse and an SSN. Opening an account without an SSN is trickier, but it’s still possible if you can get an ITIN.

  19. Re:betteridges rule on Are There Dangers in a Cashless Society? (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    Ahh.. You are a filthy junkie. That explains it.

  20. Re:Forget wall street, it benefits fascists on Are There Dangers in a Cashless Society? (slate.com) · · Score: 0

    Why do you want to track transactions and why are you talking about yourself in 5he third person?

  21. Don't laugh on Elon Musk Calls Boss of Tesla Troll Who's Heavily Invested In Oil Industry (electrek.co) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Don't laugh, but Congress and the Executive branch are explicitly exempt from the insider trading rules. There's a law stating just that.

  22. Re: fuck musk on Elon Musk Calls Boss of Tesla Troll Who's Heavily Invested In Oil Industry (electrek.co) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Manipulating stock market through spreading FUD is entirely legal. It's only illegal if you have privileged internal information.

  23. Re:Congratulations! on Fukushima's Nuclear Signature Found In California Wine (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 2

    The barrier was pretty much a Kabuki theater. What helped somewhat was the watertable lowering done by pumping water further inland.

    Ultimately, the amount of radiation in the leaking water is negligible. The water stored in the containers on site is just twice more radioactive than low-grade nuclear waste that can be legally discharged into sea.

  24. Re:Cost Issue, Not Skill Issue on Microsoft Could Move Some Jobs Abroad Because of US Immigration Policies, Top Exec Says (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The thing is, the top median income in Iowa is $51k per year. The top 80% percentile income is $95k. People are quite likely to move to California if they are offered $35k more.

    Or we can look at the median income in the Bay Area which tops at around $100k for Santa Clara county. Again, the average H1B salary in Google or Microsoft tops this. H1B salaries are near or slightly above the median software developer salaries.

  25. That's easy. A company in the US buys software from India and owns it. A company in India does all the development.

    Who is going to be taxed? You can tax the sale, but you can bet that it's not going to reflect the full cost. And you simply can't tax the _use_ of a foreign-made software.