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JohnJ commented on the blog post Zombie Vince Foster Has Kidnapped Breitbart Murder Witness
“Man, that is one crack PI! He must have gone to the Young Conservative Private Investigator Home School”
Does Regent University have a PI degree?
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JohnJ commented on the blog post Twitter’s Continued Defense of User’s Rights
Here’s a good point; this shows that the hoovering of data that the government is doing has already defeated it’s own purpose. They can’t sort it or they wouldn’t need the courts.
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JohnJ commented on the blog post It’s All Fun and Games Until Jesus Loses An Eye
That was a mangled metaphor, not a personal insult; sorry.
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JohnJ commented on the blog post It’s All Fun and Games Until Jesus Loses An Eye
So calling some pansy-assed is equivalent to what Captain Viagra said?
Either way. Dan’s reply was an apology. Read it yourselves.
Also, the convention was entitled “Journalism On The Edge” and had around 2800 students. Something like 20 “walked out”.
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JohnJ commented on the diary post Sibel Edmonds Finally Wins by David Swanson.
I was told by a friend that his child went the whole FBI agent route in college and became an agent about 6 months before 9/11. They quit that job a few months later. It seems that for weeks before 9/11 the FBI and Secret Service were in a panic about where to put W [...]
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JohnJ commented on the blog post Andrew Breitbart NOT Killed By ACORN Deathdrone … Or Was He?
Hey, what did the Pinto do to you?
If you said that horrible Chevy Vega, I might have agreed, since most of their engines overheated and warped. ;)
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JohnJ commented on the blog post Revealed Preferences: Evidence Points to Banks Owning the Place
those who are at the top of the heap statistically, but still close enough to the rest of us that they can (legitimately) fear reverting back to the mean and falling into poverty.
Bingo!
This is my exact impression of the lower 1%ers I have known. I suspect that they are most terrified of becoming the exact thing they have been semi-secretly looking down their noses at; us.
The people from my ex-father-in-law’s yacht club were totally different. I heard many times the old “if you pay any taxes at all, fire your accountant”, but more of a cynical, “the system is screwed up” vein. I really doubt that most of them would have bat an eye if you told them they were going to have to start paying some taxes; in fact if you framed it as leaving a better world for their grandkids, they would probably give an “about time”.
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JohnJ commented on the diary post Will the Powers That Be Finally Get Their Wish And Kill the PC? by Phoenix Woman.
One of the IT security guys at work (big $10B + company) tells me that basically the Government went to all the firewall companies and more or less forced them to put a back door for the government to use. I don’t know if it is true, but interesting coming from someone who does that [...]
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JohnJ commented on the diary post Will the Powers That Be Finally Get Their Wish And Kill the PC? by Phoenix Woman.
Definitely time for a home-work computer to go along with your real computer ;)
I can put one together for under $300. Much less if I have an old case, keyboard, etc.
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JohnJ commented on the diary post Will the Powers That Be Finally Get Their Wish And Kill the PC? by Phoenix Woman.
Funny story; A non-techy woman I know got a divorce uncontested.
She set her husband’s phone to silent ring and auto-answer. Guess what she heard when she called?….
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JohnJ commented on the diary post Will the Powers That Be Finally Get Their Wish And Kill the PC? by Phoenix Woman.
It looks like the law community is paranoid as well.
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JohnJ commented on the diary post Will the Powers That Be Finally Get Their Wish And Kill the PC? by Phoenix Woman.
They ain’t gonna’ do away with our desktops. Remember, home computers were invented by us geeks before a few of us became greedy and joined the ruling class. I knew at least one guy that had built basically a PC before that group of IBM guys got together and threw together that clunky Intel based machine [...]
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JohnJ commented on the diary post Will the Powers That Be Finally Get Their Wish And Kill the PC? by Phoenix Woman.
As far as spying and whatnot this really just just reeks of parnoia and stupidty frankly. I mean mobile phones spying on you? How exactly. Please explain that. And the other stuff about mobile phones just doesnt even make any sense. And im not even a phone of any of the phone companies.
Don’t know much [...]
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JohnJ commented on the blog post The Roundup for March 1, 2012
Thanks, sorry.
I just got home from work and hadn’t gone back far enough here yet.
I don’t have access to a computer during the day.
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JohnJ commented on the blog post The Roundup for March 1, 2012
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JohnJ commented on the blog post Stratfor “Source” James Casey Leaves FBI
Way off topic:
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JohnJ commented on the blog post Jeb Bush ga Ginza hoomen e mukatte imasu!
Former governor of America’s Wang,
As a reluctant Floridian (can’t make enough money to move out), I resemble that remark!
Seriously.
After dad being a single term preznit and his idiot son losing 2 elections, but being appointed anyway; I don’t think even Amerikans are stupid enough to let Jeb anywhere near the whitehouse. -
JohnJ commented on the blog post Latest Details on Payroll Tax/UI Bill Includes Cuts to Health Care Prevention Fund, Jobless Benefits
it seems a bit redundant to have the state test.
Unless, like pRick Scott in Floida, you or your wife owns the drug testing shops.
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JohnJ commented on the blog post Senate Dems Could Add UI and Doc Fix to Unfunded Payroll Tax Cut Bill
Please, please, please.
I just ran out my FL UI and started the EUI. Florida is saying they will zero our accounts at the end of the month if congress doesn’t extend the benefits.
I am somewhat sympathetic to those working that want more money, but I am going to have to move my family to the street March 1st without my UI.
0bummer already gave anyone that was ever in the military (including stateside desk jockeys) a $5k to $10k advantage over qualified people as is. Since he guaranteed I would be out of work longer, for doG’s sake, at least let me collect that huge $250/week on UI a little longer.
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JohnJ commented on the blog post Republicans Cave on Payroll Tax Cut, Propose Full-Year Extension Without Offsets
Ouch.
I just transitioned from state to tier 1 Federal EUC. This means I have 2 weeks until I get to move my family into the street.
Florida is already warning they are going to empty our accounts on Feb.29,2012
Glad that payroll tax reduction is so important to those with jobs.
Hey, if the UE extension doesn’t pass, that means I am no longer one of the unemployed, right?
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