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 Bahamut.Milamber
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By Bahamut.Milamber 2015-03-27 13:26:51
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Knowledge is one thing. Applying it is another.
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By Asura.Kingnobody 2015-03-27 13:34:01
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Bahamut.Milamber said: »
Knowledge is one thing. Applying it within context is another.
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By Seraph.Ramyrez 2015-03-27 13:49:33
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Asura.Kingnobody said: »
Bahamut.Milamber said: »
Knowledge is one thing. Applying it within context is another.

I will not turn into a snake. It never helps.
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By Asura.Kingnobody 2015-03-27 13:54:13
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Seraph.Ramyrez said: »
Asura.Kingnobody said: »
Bahamut.Milamber said: »
Knowledge is one thing. Applying it within context is another.

I will not turn into a snake. It never helps.
....darn
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By Siren.Mosin 2015-03-27 13:55:19
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youtube is down, lordgrim will be malleable until it's fixed!
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By Seraph.Ramyrez 2015-03-27 13:56:56
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Asura.Kingnobody said: »
Seraph.Ramyrez said: »
Asura.Kingnobody said: »
Bahamut.Milamber said: »
Knowledge is one thing. Applying it within context is another.

I will not turn into a snake. It never helps.
....darn

That and 99 other great tips for being an evil overlord.

The Top 100 Things I'd Do If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord

This list is really god damn old. Like, my sophomore year of high school old. But still great. Sadly it doesn't still have the crazy eye-searing wallpaper and background .midi music it had back then.
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By Asura.Kingnobody 2015-03-27 14:00:44
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Siren.Mosin said: »
youtube is down, lordgrim will be malleable until it's fixed!
You got to admit, he hasn't posted in a while.

Either he gave up and started to take his rhetoric to other flower-heads, finally discovered the one truth called a textbook, or buried his body to let his flower grow.

I'm putting my money on #3.
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By Leviathan.Chaosx 2015-03-27 17:19:45
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Something weird is going on in the US economy, and it's not good
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By Asura.Kingnobody 2015-03-27 17:22:48
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Saving is not good?
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By Leviathan.Chaosx 2015-03-27 17:31:43
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Apparently not.
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By Asura.Kingnobody 2015-03-27 17:43:30
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The ***?

Do people want to stay poor for their entire lifetime?
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By fonewear 2015-03-27 17:49:59
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I was going to read but that looks like something boring !
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By fonewear 2015-03-27 17:52:12
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Asura.Kingnobody said: »
The ***?

Do people want to stay poor for their entire lifetime?

Being poor isn't so bad you get free stuff ! Obama phone etc.
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By Leviathan.Chaosx 2015-03-27 17:54:52
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Be poor and don't pay for food either.
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By fonewear 2015-03-27 17:56:27
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If I was on food stamps I could finally afford crab legs all the time !

When I was in high school all the food stamp people ate more expensive food than I ever have !
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By fonewear 2015-03-27 18:00:06
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All the poor people I know have cable TV cell phones etc. The struggle is real !

Meanwhile in Africa/India they are actually poor.

Watch Slum Dog Millionaire if you want to see how real poor people live.
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By Leviathan.Chaosx 2015-03-27 18:04:13
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Think of the children!
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By fonewear 2015-03-27 18:06:29
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Leviathan.Chaosx said: »
Think of the children!

I did and they *** cause they don't have an iphone 6 !

While the poor people in India don't have clean water to drink.

*** all that just get yourself a new iphone 6 though !

Cause Murica !
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By Garuda.Chanti 2015-03-27 18:28:07
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Asura.Kingnobody said: »
Saving is not good?
Correct.

Saving instead of spending is horrid for the economy. The consumers are supposed to rescue the economy by shopping till they drop after all.

And given the interest rates on saving today vs. the actual inflation rate it isn't good for the saver either.

But the great recession has made consumers world wide cautious. And in first world countries, more so.
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By Leviathan.Chaosx 2015-03-27 18:31:36
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You're supposed to rack up debt with credit cards and loans, not save. Debt saves the economy, but kills the individual.
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By Garuda.Chanti 2015-03-27 18:57:51
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Leviathan.Chaosx said: »
You're supposed to rack up debt with credit cards and loans, not save. Debt saves the economy, but kills the individual.
Quoted for truth.
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By Leviathan.Chaosx 2015-03-27 19:15:03
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A California jury on Friday cleared venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers of gender discrimination claims brought against it by a woman former partner in a trial that transfixed Silicon Valley.

After further deliberation, the jury also cleared Kleiner on a claim that the firm had retaliated against former partner Ellen Pao by terminating her employment after she sued in 2012.

The verdict dashed Pao's hopes for personal vindication, but the trial's embarrassing disclosures about how Pao and other women were treated at Kleiner have cast a long shadow over Silicon Valley corporate culture and its lack of diversity.

The California Superior Court case laid bare the personnel matters of the firm that backed Google Inc and Amazon.com Inc, with Pao's attorneys painting Kleiner as a quarrelsome pressure cooker where a former male partner used business trips as opportunities to make advances to female colleagues.

Pao, now interim chief executive at social-news service Reddit, claimed her standing at Kleiner crumbled after she ended a brief affair with partner Ajit Nazre. Her career deteriorated after he and Kleiner started retaliating against her, amid a climate that was overall unfriendly toward women, her lawyers argued.

The firm disputed those charges, presenting evidence that Kleiner went out of its way to hire women.

Pao sought to illustrate her point with testimony from former Kleiner partner, Trae Vassallo, who said Nazre appeared at her hotel room on a business trip. He wore a bathrobe and carried a glass of wine, according to testimony.

Kleiner countered that it investigated Nazre after Vassallo complained, after which he quickly left the firm.
Jury clears Kleiner firm in Silicon Valley gender bias case
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By Ragnarok.Nausi 2015-03-27 19:33:17
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Obamacare sucking up all that disposable income.

Thanks Obama.
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By fonewear 2015-03-27 19:33:47
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The only silicon valley I enjoy is the "other silicon valley" if you know what I mean !
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By Shiva.Onorgul 2015-03-27 19:34:14
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Ragnarok.Nausi said: »
Obamacare sucking up all that disposable income.
Demonstrate it.
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By fonewear 2015-03-27 19:34:53
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My insurance rate doubled ! Thanks Obama !
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By Leviathan.Chaosx 2015-03-27 19:36:21
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I'll have to go look, but I think another budget was passed by the Senate, but Obama threatened to veto it again.
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By Odin.Jassik 2015-03-27 19:37:27
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Ragnarok.Nausi said: »
Obamacare sucking up all that disposable income.

Thanks Obama.

Would rather people spent their disposable income on things like health insurance than get sick and pass their medical bills onto the taxpayer like they did before ACA.
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By fonewear 2015-03-27 19:37:38
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Does this budget include the free college community college ! I want to learn how to paint damn it !
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By Leviathan.Chaosx 2015-03-27 19:38:24
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The Senate passed a Republican-authored budget plan early on Friday that seeks $5.1 trillion in domestic spending cuts over 10 years while boosting military funding.

The 52-46 vote on the non-binding budget resolution put Congress on a path to complete its first full budget in six years. It came at the end of a marathon 18-hour session that saw approval of dozens of amendments ranging from Iran sanctions to carbon emissions and immigration policies.

Two Republican senators who are running or considering running for president, Ted Cruz and Rand Paul, voted against their party's budget plan, which is similar to one passed by House Republicans on Wednesday.

In addition to aiming to eliminate deficits within 10 years, both documents seek to ease the path for a repeal or replacement of President Barack Obama's signature health care reform law.

But differences between the two documents still need to be worked out and a combined budget passed next month by both chambers. Doing so would allow Republicans to invoke parliamentary rules to repeal "Obamacare" with a simple majority in the Senate rather than a tough-to-achieve 60 vote threshold.

Under the convoluted U.S. spending process, the budgets do not become law, but influence government agency funding bills later in the year. They also showcase the fiscal vision for Republicans, who now control both Houses of Congress for the first time since 2006 and are eager to demonstrate their ability to govern.

"This balanced budget is an important first step to help Washington live within its means, just like hardworking families have to do every day," said Republican Senate Budget Chairman Mike Enzi.

He added that once a final budget is passed lawmakers would begin to work to find alternate savings that would allow them to ease statutory budget caps on military and domestic programs.

The Senate budget seeks to eliminate U.S. deficits by 2025 without raising taxes through deep cuts to social safety net programs, investments in transportation and education and other domestic programs.

At the same time, it proposes to boost defense spending by adding about $38 billion to an off-budget war funding account, and offers core Pentagon budget increases in subsequent years.

More than 50 non-binding amendments were considered on Thursday and Friday in an open "vote-a-rama" process that allowed senators to promote pet causes or try to force opposition members into votes that may be used in campaign ads.

Republicans passed a symbolic roll-back of the Obama administration's carbon emissions rules for power plants, while a Democratic proposal to recognize climate change risks for the military won approval.

Another Democratic amendment to let all Americans earn paid sick leave passed with a surprisingly strong 61 votes, with support from 14 Republicans. The Senate also voted unanimously to make it easier to reimpose sanctions if Iran violates any nuclear deal.
Senate passes Republican budget with deep safety net cuts
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