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The words in question for "cartelicious" are "cartel" and "delicious". I believe you can do the rest.

> Look, the demand for a free service is infinite

There are few things in life that are as demonstrably false as that sentence.

That's an interesting correlation that you've transformed into causation.

It's far from obvious. Perhaps you missed the part where he involuntarily left the company?

I understand the sentiment of your first paragraph, but the thing about your graduation is a complete non sequitur. The quality of your graduation ceremony has nothing to do with the quality of your education, and protesting there doesn't hurt anything but your feelings.

so, I agree with your sentiment. However, you just equated not wearing a jacket and tie with looking like a slob... and then asked someone else not to make assumptions. I'd kindly suggest that his "snob" is roughly equivalent to your "slob".

If your business expenses are higher because you're buying chainsaws, then you're putting less money in your 30% "forbidden" bucket. It's a wash.

This just isn't true. I have Crohn's disease, have never let my coverage lapse, and I cannot buy individual health insurance at any price. I am an otherwise healthy, non-smoking, exercising 31 year old male.

I believe they are saying that you would have bought the chainsaw, ladder, etc tax-free already, as a business. A tax break would have absolutely no effect on the ability to afford these things in the scenario you described. The "found" money is therefore more analogous to a loan than a tax break.

The article is written from an American viewpoint, about the USA. The imbalance you perceive is in the culture and politics of the USA, not just the article.

Please explain where you see entitlement or a need for validation anywhere in there? It feels to me like you copied and pasted the wrong quote.

> And note: Buffett didn't say they should pay more. He said the rates should be raised. These are two completely different concepts. You could raise the rates and have people move their money in such a way as to not pay any more at all. From Buffett's position, simply talking about rates, this would be an acceptable outcome.

He said that a rich individuals' total tax burden, by percentage of all income, should be brought more in line with what the middle class pays. I am reasonably sure you're being purposefully obtuse here. The only way for a person to "move their money in such a way as to not pay any more at all", and still meet Buffett's criteria is to make less money, on purpose.

> So, the relevant question is whether increasing taxes on capital gains will have a change investors behavior making the economy less efficient.

This presumes that we currently have an optimally efficient economy. You're not allowing for the possibility that increasing the capital gains tax will make the economy more efficient, seeing as how, in your own view, the system is plenty distorted.

I'd just like to add - I've been a developer at HiiDef for almost a year, and it's a fantastic place to work. Definitely the best group of people I've worked with. And, for those of you who are just doing a find through the page, we are fully remote.

I don't see a freedom listed anywhere in these comments that doesn't come down to the ability to make a choice. In fact, I think a pretty good working definition for "a freedom" is "the ability to make a choice".

Furthermore, the government plays a big role in _increasing_ the number of choices available to people in the first and second income quartiles, as Steko suggested. Looking only at limitations that government places on freedom reveals your bias.

Nor is that what henrikschroder is claiming. I understand him to be saying that the majority of Americans have declining incomes, adjusted for inflation, over some recent period of time. Could be true, but I'd like to see numbers.

Rather than replying that Wisconsin had a projected budget surplus until Governor Walker spent ~$140 million in January, I'll just point out that backhanded comments like this one are kind of annoying, and hope that you remember for next time.

I'm gonna guess that it was a Garden of Eden reference.

I'd be interested in an example or two of what MobileRSS messed up. Just curious - I don't use either of these apps.

I am a little late to the party here, but Google says they have FAR fewer than 400,000 pages: http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy&hl=en&safe=off...

As of this comment, the number is 14,400

What about that sentence makes you call it vicious?

yeah, right. Google says about 14,000. http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8...

They types of diets are specified in the article.

I'm pretty sure you can tag the new release with whatever you want, and these kinds of decisions are left to the developers.

That seems to be more of a complete description of being professional than an indicator - I presume the OP is looking for things that indicate a person will do these things before they actually do them.

Furthermore, the original article was clearly primarily referencing environment.

"A quote from David put out by the University of Manchester saying "There is nothing in the natural environment that can cause cancer. So it has to be a man-made disease, down to pollution and changes to our diet and lifestyle" caused particular consternation."

from http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19591-briefing-cancer-...

I believe the OP has just misunderstood what the second article was objecting to.

It's really quite ridiculous. I made the backend to a travel site using data from Galileo reservation system (one of the big ones). At the time, they had a relatively new SOAP-ish API. The data you got back was huge and arranged in ways that are not in any way obvious. Many calls just return what appear to be screen scrapes of 70's era terminal screens, wrapped in XML. It was less than fantastic.

At the time I left the travel agency in question, Galileo was in the process of rolling out a new version of the API, but the few times I tried to get it to work, it seemed completely broken (this was for cruises, not flights, but it was the same general idea).

I don't know how to break this to you... that is also the name of a powerful laxative that some people have to take before a colonoscopy. And yes, it's a horrible name for something like that, but the association is still there for me.

Heh, well, I can't think of a good way to prove that one, so I thought I'd be careful not to overstate my case. :)

aha, another shortscreener! You're the first other I've met.