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"Insurance like this is very unlikely to be worthwhile -- the premiums will be massive relative to the benefits, or the exclusions so broad as to make few claims allowed.
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"You should not bail. With the low miles you drive, your energy and (potentially) depreciation savings from swapping to a more efficient car will never make up the cost of buying the new car and making your Explorer loan whole.
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It is perfect legal for you to use any name you wish, so long as you have no intent to defraud. Do so consistently for long enough and the law recognizes that your new name is your real name -- this is "common......" [
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"Core vs. non-core in CPI has always made plenty of sense. Because sustained changes in food and energy costs should feed back into the prices on the core basket, core didn't so much ignore food and energy as mute their volatility.
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2 months ago
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"The best way to justify whatever you are doing, if you feel you must justify it, is in affirmative terms.
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3 months ago
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3 months ago
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"Important: it's not exactly an egalitarian decision. A man decides not to have (biological) children for the time being, a woman decides forever.
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3 months ago
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4 months ago
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"Suedehead, the patronizing (racist?) motivation you suggest for cross-cultural adoption can't drive more than a trivial percentage of adoptions. If there's a political component to some adoptions, it's far more likely to be the "it's a crowded..." [
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5 months ago
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"Wood -- it can't rotate. As long as the state primaries and caucuses are used to select delegates Iowa and New Hampshire will go first by force of their own laws. 50% delegate penalties are about the only tool that the parties could use to try to..." [
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6 months ago
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"A sequential primary and caucus system will always have Iowa and New Hampshire first because by their respective laws they will always go first, even if that means Halloween of the prior year.
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6 months ago
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"According to the article the AFL-CIO and other labor groups support the rule, as a means to preserve the benefits of younger workers. Hardly a right-wing conspiracy.
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6 months ago
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"Recent SEC rules, which have been struck down by one Federal court but which aren't quite dead yet, require most hedge funds to go through a quite onerous registration process, and have key personnel meet a number of qualifications.
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6 months ago
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"It's important to note though that any carbon dioxide rules from this (or a future) administration without further Congressional authorization are going to have to follow the rather elaborate rule-making procedures in the EPA. Elaborate scientific......" [
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7 months ago
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"If we have to take Knocked Up seriously (do we?), I still think people are getting it wrong.
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8 months ago
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"Rail doesn't need help. Even in the US, most places where job and housing patterns are suitable to some form of rail, that form of rail is present, vital, popular, and subsidized by generous general-fund grants. There are far more unsuitable and..." [
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9 months ago
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"For a less grim point of view, you could read census abstracts from 1900 or 1910, and see exactly how people lived before all this big bad technology came around. Or you could go a local cemetary and stroll around the 1900 or 1910 burials and see......" [
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9 months ago
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"Medical insurance doesn't work -- it can't work, really, if you think about it -- if you can plan to incur covered care which exceed your premiums. That's why individual policies will always have hefty maternity waiting periods and exclusions which....." [
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9 months ago
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"Kamanetz's "generation debt" stuff has been pretty thin, but this article contained some pretty good and thoughtful points: that there are many fields where an ambitious person can make money without a college degree and that masses of..." [
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10 months ago
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"Spitbull's characterization of university police forces couldn't be more wrong, at least as far as the UCLA PD.
Public university police forces in California have full government powers (as they are, after all, a government agency).
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10 months ago
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The powers that Bush has asked for / asserted have been, by and large, war-fighting powers. Bush's people want Democrat Presidents to have those powers, too, because Bush's people think of war as a foreign policy......" [
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11 months ago
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"Is a better speech than that, muddgirl, and a necessary one for graduates at elite schools, where enlightened self-improvement is a distant third behind behind making money and causing social change in terms of public goals. I do think that he's too..." [
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"What Pope Guilty said. Taibi seems to be accusing the liberal elite of being bad leftists, when, in fact, they are not leftists and would pale at the suggestion they were.
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"Nit: a confessor is the minister receiving the confession. The person making the confession is the "penitent."
OP: I am a lawyer, but not yours, and in my view it is essential that you receive the advice of your lawyer and that as part....." [
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"It's a mistake to think that Hell Houses convert anyone. Like a lot of Evangelical showmanship, they're just a modern twist an old fashioned revivals, and, like revivals, they're designed to strengthen a pre-existing Christian faith which has become..." [
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