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Why wouldn't oil companies earn record profits? They get to sell their oil at a higher price because demand exceeds supply? That's a great situation to be in for a commodity producer.

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The converse to Torkur's argument is that decades of being refused access to enormous reserves in Alaska and elsewhere for purported environmental reasons didn't help either. But ultimately policy makes very little difference here. The market ultimately rules. When the price of gasoline gets to a ce...

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There is a tremendous amount of data being evaluated in the intelligence community. You would have to expect that going backwards in time you could find clues that you might have missed or misinterpreted concerning OBL's location. It would be strange if there wasn't such data. I think Botef's conspi...

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Only an idiot would generalize about republicans and democrats to the extent that we are seeing in this thread.

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All in all it was a pretty successful outcome. It probably would have behooved the administration to control the information a little better from all the various officials who spoke about the matter afterwards. All sorts of conflicting info was released and then corrections issued. But that's basica...

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Whether America should emulate that or not is beside the point. The market will do what the market does. The manufacturing jobs will continue to move overseas where costs are lower. The implication is a lower standard of living in the developed world, and a better one in the developing world - over ...

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I'm with you on that Kiryan. It was a gutsy call and absolutely the right thing to do. The world needed proof that UBL was dead. If they bombed the place to smithereens nobody would ever know. Obama gets high praise on this one. Ever play stratego? I always likened UBL to the spy piece. Anyone on th...

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Rofl - stupidest thread of the year. :)

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No, not at all Ragorn. I think the higher you pay, the better pool of applicants to choose from. You will absolutely be able to choose more qualified people if you offer higher compensation. But the goal isn't perfection. Otherwise we would be paying teachers $500,000 per year so the best and the br...

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It works in baseball too. It comes down to what you believe a 'qualified applicant' is. If a qualified applicant for your shortstop position is a solid defender and will hit .250 with 5 to 10 home runs, you can probably offer less than a million per year. If you want Troy Tulowitzki you will have to...

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You guys hear about the Bin Laden cocktail? Two shots and a splash of water. :)

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== kudos to Obama for apparently taking unilateral action in a soverign foreign nation.. something I think many of us had doubts he was willing to do. I'm glad we didn't find a way to screw this up or let him get away. Actually, when he was campaigning, he said he'd absolutely go nuts on Pakistan i...

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I agree with both of those Ragorn.

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Sarvis,

It's common sense. The higher the compensation the more people will apply. If you disagree then that is your prerogative, but it's silly.

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I'm gonna go ahead and celebrate the victory. It's not a Republican victory, or a Democratic victory. It's not the End of All Terrorism. But it's something worth celebrating, as Americans, without bickering too much about circumstances. I think we can give it a rest for a day. My sentiments exactly...

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It's an interesting questions you raise about how a society or culture integrates others. My best guess is that it has to be done carefully. There is an potentially an interest, especially for a successful country, in maintaining certain values which may or may not be shared by the newcomers. Howeve...

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I don't know what you are reading - but I did do it. I posted job listings at low compensation and got no responses - and then gradually saw the response rate increase as i raised the compensation. No I didn't get thousands of applicants - but it would take the suspension of some serious common sens...

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It doesn't happen because i start the listing at an unreasonably low salary and then add a few bucks an hour until we start getting qualified applicants.

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As a business owner who has hired people with his own money, the idea is self-evident. If I have too many people respond to my 'help wanted' ad, I -KNOW- that I am offering too much money. That's just how it works. The number of applicants is directly proportional to the compensation offered. It's o...

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Best news in a long time. I'm with Kiryan - wrap him in Pigskin like the Russians do to their terrorists. Deprives him of paradise and 72 virgins according to their wacky beliefs. But regardless - just happy like everyone else that he's gone.

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Corth, The majority of applicants are not qualified. In my experience nearly half of all applications aren't even complete, most of the rest have no experience for the position, and a bunch will do stupid things like put down the wrong phone number or otherwise make themselves impossible to contact...

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Kindi, http://www.city-data.com/forum/long-island/1252652-30-000-applicants-suffolk-county-police.html 150 applicants for every Suffolk County (Long Island) police job expected to open over the course of the next 4 years. So by extrapolation, 600 applicants for every job expected to open in the next...

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Let me put it this way. Thousands of qualified applicants for every open position. The only conclusion any reasonable person can get from that is the district is offering a windfall salary. If the salary were more reasonable then you wouldn't have so many people fighting for those positions. It's l...

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The true answer to fixing the spam situation is for everyone to post their general topics in the politics forum and just ignore General Discussion. Full circle. :)

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If the BBS is limited to people who actually play the mud then it'll REALLY be dead.

Ohhhh! :)

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You truly are special then. :)

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When was the last time you filed a sales tax return for goods you purchased online?

Thank you.

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http://www.fitsnews.com/2011/04/27/sc-house-overwhelmingly-rejects-amazon-deal/ Summary: The previous governor negotiated a deal with Amazon which would allow them to build a warehouse within South Carolina, but not have to collect sales tax from South Carolina residents who purchase goods from Amaz...

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At least Sarvis and Teflor aren't trying to sell me Viagra.

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Yes there is corruption at the local level. But until we change the constitution which says that the States must respect the "public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state." " to "Sometimes we'll respect the public acts, records, etc., of every other state&q...

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You are the only person I have ever met who believes that teachers and firefighters are grossly overpaid. But pretty much everything you say and think is the opposite of the truth, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised. At least where I live they are. So I guess that's two people. Though we have neve...

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Heh Sarvis, you beat me to it. Agreed. :)

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As an aside - now that the birther issue is more or less resolved, I noticed Trump demanding that Obama produce his school records. While under no circumstances would I like to see this become the next big conspiracy theory - argh - I have to say it is indeed a much more INTERESTING subject. The she...

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Corth... I don't like your answer because it feels inconsistent to me with your general distrust of government. How do you distrust government in most areas then say well Hawaii said he's a citizen so he is one despite the lack of transparency on the issue? I don't distrust government in the way yo...

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I wasn't going to read this because I assumed it was just a spammer digging up old threads. But I said 'what the hell', and decided to give it a look. And that's the reason why it's important to trust your first instinct.

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Parents are more than just temporary caregivers. They get to make choices every day that impact their children's future. Do we take away every one of those choices? No, because it would be impossible. So why take away this choice? Ultimately this is something that has been historically the parent's ...

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Nothing to apologize for here. I told everyone I knew that if Hawaii was issuing a certified transcript of the president's birth certificate, then so long as the 'full faith and credit' clause of the constitution is in effect, the president is a natural born citizen of the US, end of story. I'm quit...

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Anyone who defends the egregious examples of public unions gouging the taxpayers is essentially a dem political hack. Certainly these examples are outliers - not the norm - and that is a fair point to bring up. But anyone who actually thinks what is happening in those 'exhibit a' situations is ok is...

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I'm fine with that Sarvis. I agree everyone should pay a proportionate share of taxes. A flat tax rate would accomplish that nicely.

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Supply and demand determine the price of any commodity - and anyone who says otherwise is deluded or a liar.

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The crux of the issue, and the basic disagreement I have with Sarvis, is what weight we give to private property. Sarvis' mentality is that there is a certain amount of wealth which at it's core is owned by society at large, and it should be distributed equitably. The implication is that people don'...

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Ragorn wrote:Does that include, say, General Electric? :)

You would have to ask Obama. He's the one who is all cushy with GE's CEO.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/jef ... 36837.html

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It's always easy to say that someone else should make the necessary sacrifices or contributions. Whether that is the best course of action is another story. How much exactly do you tax 'the rich'? There is a point when it is obviously counterproductive. I respect politicians who will do the right th...

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Yes, and they're getting more spammed.

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Personal anectdote - I live on Long Island and frequently go to NYC. I recently went to a Hooters that had the calories on the menu. I had a very difficult time ordering. The wings that I would have ordered in the past were like 2700 calories and I just couldn't get myself to do it (even though I d...

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The short answer is you don't have any of your own money in the game. You borrow $1,000 at 0%, invest it at a guaranteed 3%, and then a year later you have $1,030. You owe $1,000 back, which you pay. You have $30. Even if there was massive inflation and that $30 buys you half as many widgets one yea...

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Personal anectdote - I live on Long Island and frequently go to NYC. I recently went to a Hooters that had the calories on the menu. I had a very difficult time ordering. The wings that I would have ordered in the past were like 2700 calories and I just couldn't get myself to do it (even though I do...

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borrowing money at 0% and buying a 100% safe investment at 3% means a guaranteed profit. Why not? Even if you have inflation you make money because you pay back the loan in devalued dollars. Either way you look at it you just earn the spread between 0 and 3%.

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