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Well, if it's actual cheating, you can probably get an at-fault divorce with the cheater at fault.

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They stopped hiring? But there where does all the money go............

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You realize that Virginia is rich because of all the government jobs in and around DC right? It never stops growing.....

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I've gotta wonder if there was more to the story (like Gamefaqs had racked up a lot of debt prior to 2003- though I'm not sure what would create capital expenditures for which Gamefaqs would need a lot of debt), because 2.2M seems jawdroppingly low for this site at the time. It was still growing rapidly at that point. Sucks to sell at a general market bottom I guess.

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CJayC sold for $2.2 million. He got ripped off because he sold near the bottom of the market for internet companies in 2003. If he'd waited until say, 2006 or 2007, he'd likely have gotten a lot more. And if he'd been prescient enough to sell at the insane internet bubble peak in late 1999 or early 2000, he's be mega-rich now. Like Mitt Romney rich.

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IMO you should try really hard to make a marriage work for the sake of your children. But that could be personal anecdotal experience talking.

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CNet/CBS probably wrote off Gamefaqs as a site that's had its run. Or at least under the current form, what's there to lose with more independence?

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Intervening in the Chinese Civil War was proposed and debated after World War II. Of course the circumstances now are pretty different.

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Then you don't advocate non-intervention as a policy. You advocate an interventionist policy sometimes, and a non-interventionist one other times.

Which basically gives you the exact same foreign policy position as George W Bush!

Um......it doesn't. There's a spectrum here. Say.....

1920s France: We should intervene in 0% of situations.
Ron Paul: We should intervene in 1% of situations.
Barack Obama: We should intervene in 40% of situations.
George W. Bush: We should intervene in 60% of situations.
Dick Cheney: We should intervene in 90% of situations.
One world government liberals: We should intervene in 100% of situations.

The percentage could be very different from those of course, but the point is there is a spectrum. It's not that there's only 3 positions, 0%, 100%, and everything in between is the same.

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Whatever else you may think, there is one big difference here that was true in 1860 and is true today: Texas ratified the US Constitution. Iraq did not.

There is another difference today that was not present in 1860: today it is settled law (settled by war, true, but still settled law) that states may not secede.

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What does secession have to do with foreign policy?

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Leftists aren't going to dispute it until we come to a war they agree with. Leftists have an amazing ability to believe that they are for peace and have always been for peace during the times when they are for peace, completely forgetting the times when they were for war.

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He wasn't a good VP candidate even a month ago. There's a reason he lost in a landslide in his own state in 2006.

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Santorum has a much clearer rule than that most vague of vague standards. Anything whose primary purpose is not the birth of a child is bad.

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Nobody here to dispute that video, there's precious few neocons on this board!

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And it wasn't a case of intervention- the Persians told them to surrender or be destroyed.

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Freedom =/= Equality, and there can exist imperfect freedom. My own feeling is that America and the West historically draws much of its deep moral fiber from Sparta- much more than Athens. The Spartan idea of freedom and the American conservative idea of freedom are fairly similar.

And as for black and white, it's not, which is why it is so riveting. The Persians could and did make a good argument that everything else but freedom would be better for Greece if the Greeks just surrendered. In exchange for a small gift of allegiance, they would receive greater prosperity, greater equality (cept for King Xerxes anyway), and more of just about anything they might want. On the other side of the scale stood one thing only: freedom. And not even what we might consider a good notion of freedom, an idea of freedom that we would think had a lot of problems. And yet, even this, this freedom was so important to the Greeks that they abandoned every other consideration to fight a war in which they were vastly outnumbered and defeat seemed all but certain. That is how much they cared for freedom, and that is why it induces tears.

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Well....I guess the idea is this. In Greece, every free man was free. In Persia the only person who would be considered free in the same sense was the king. The Greeks would consider King Xerxes a free man, their equal, but all his subjects to be slaves.

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Sadly, it's also true that it only takes one side to start a war. I highly recommend the book Persian Fire, by the way- it's a history of the Persian invasion of Greece. And brings tears to my eyes to think of the courage it took to defend freedom against the greatest empire of the time.

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The government. Santorum has proven many times that he's a fan of big government when it supports his goals.

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what if the porn stars were married?

Then it's probably okay for them to make it, as long as they don't show it to anyone else. Because anyone else using it would be adultery.

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That's when you send in the police and drag all the liberal commies off to jail. It's just like the War on Drugs. Hmm....War on Sex. Has a nice ring to it.

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That's not the way to think about it. This is just one step on the road to a ban on all extramarital sex. And I doubt Rick Santorum cares about whether sex is protected or not, what matters to him is whether the participants are married.

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The man has principles* and isn't afraid to say what he believes. Also, it's a good response to the recent debate on birth control. As in, I'll see your pre-Viagra colonoscopies and raise you a ban on porn!

Even if the principles are terrrible.

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Really makes you salivate for that whole global currency the leftists are pushing for, huh?

You know, now that I think about it, I never hear about a global currency from anyone except the right. Either to claim that the left is going to force it upon us, or to promote gold as a global currency.

Either way, I think I'll be happy if the Euro goes away and the European countries reinstate their own currencies. European nations should be proud of their heritage and independence and shouldn't want a United States of Europe. Plus, the deutsche mark, drachma, lira, etc. just sound so much cooler than the euro. I mean, they use drachmas in the Bible. How cool is that? And if Italy wants to name its new currency the denarius instead of the lira, I'd be in full support of that.

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Oh, actually, never mind, they're trying to get ISPs to enforce antipiracy measure for them instead of the courts. Well, that's quite telling- they can't turn a profit on litigation so they're contracting with ISPs instead. Probably more effective. And not SOPA at all.

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This means profits for lawyers more than anything else. Let them try to litigate against small individuals. The only way the RIAA can win money is if people settle with them. If they go to trial everyone loses except the lawyers. They tried this before and this is what they realized pretty quickly.

I think that's probably why they wanted SOPA in the first place- so they could pass the costs of enforcing piracy from themselves onto the government.

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http://seekingalpha.com/article/438521-austerity-gold-standard-greece

Here's an article that does a pretty good job of explaining the perils of issuing sovereign debt in a currency you don't control, such as gold, or the Euro for Greece and other European nations right now.

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Yeah, economic czar is the wrong term. Monetary czar is better. Which he already is right now, of course.

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http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/rick-santorum-wants-ban-hardcore-pornography-222833811.html

Hey liberal women, Rick Santorum will see your abstention from sex and raise you a ban on hardcore pornography.

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If that single issue is important enough! For example, if a candidate proposed repealing the First Amendment, that would be a dealbreaker for most of us, would it not?

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Depends on what field it is. For law and medicine it matters a ton, for most PhD programs it's not that important.

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Well, I'd say it's something that has to be done gradually. Remember, too, that fiat money is already subject to demand- everything is. If people stop demanding the dollar, its value will fall. Same with treasuries- it seems crazy that the US government can borrow for lower than ever right now, but that's what the market demands! When the demand falls, we will have to change.

There is hope on this too- the Federal Reserve is not Congress. Unlike Congress, the Fed does not have a long history of uninterrupted constant increases to spending. Bernanke says that once the crisis is over, he will stop QE, and it could be true. Now, the reason the system we've built up in the past couple of decades is bad is leverage. It creates bubbles, creates imaginary wealth. Since 2008, the banks have been undergoing a period of extreme detox- deleveraging that is. Normally this would create lots of deflation as the money supply shrinks dramatically, but the Fed has been going out and printing money. That's why the massive printing of money has not yet substantially increased the cost of things.

So the idea is to shift the toxic waste from the private sector to the Fed. This doesn't get rid of it, but it does let us deal with it over a long period of time, as opposed to sending the country into a death spiral immediately.

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On another note, the national debt isn't as big a problem right now as it seems because yields on US Treasuries are so low right now that the government might as well borrow. This is debt that has an interest rate that is literally lower than inflation. I dunno how long that can last, probably not too long (seems the only reason to hold treasuries at these rates is because it's better than doing nothing and you're scared of everything else), but as long as it does........

Let's just say that if any investment bank could borrow money at these rates, they'd be all over it. Then they've invest the money if stuff that gives them a higher return and make big profits.

Being big and powerful really does have its benefits. When small countries like Greece and Portugal do what we do, the interest they pay on their bonds goes sky high. Meanwhile the bond yields for the US, Germany, and Japan are at record lows. It seems to defy sense almost- Congress does not avoid default until the last day, and the result is stocks go down while US treasuries go up. The very instruments that were about to default. Their price goes up and the yield/interest goes down. Incredible. But as long as the market acts this way, might as well take advantage of it, no?

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Mainly foolmo and his you're with us or you're against us approach on the gold standard.

But the more important issue is that I don't agree with Ron Paul's position on the gold standard, though I agree with him on almost everything else. The problem is that I believe going on the gold standard will cause a massive, unparalleled, depression. There isn't a good moral reason for using gold as currency instead of credit either. The real hazard of fiat currency is what happened in Germany, Argentina, and Zimbabwe, which is something that cannot happen to us as long as we have the world's reserve currency. There's no need for us to give that up willingly at any time before the world pries it away from us. Which looks like it could be a long time right now as the other central banks of the world have gone quite as wild as the Fed in printing money.

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Might have to bail on this one in favor of Mitt. You people make it really hard to support Ron Paul, and I disagree with him on the gold standard. Can we have Ron Paul as president but Ben Bernanke as economic czar? RP can cut out all the government spending and borrowing, but Bernanke can keep the money printing going.

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Up for more support of Governor Romney.

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I hope Bernanke toys with them. Make a tweet saying "QE3 QE3 QE3 QE3 multiplier QE3 must lower unemployment QE3." Then make another tweet saying "lol just kidding 60 seconds later." Watch the chaos unfold.

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Oh man, now there are going to be Wall Street bots monitoring that twitter feed 24/7 initiating massive trades in milliseconds based on the bots' analysis of the tweets. No time for a human to review because then other people would know about the news too and the opportunity would go away.

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The punishment is so disproportionate to the possible gain that it's simply stupid, even if you had no moral qualms. If you have no morals, you need to commit big crimes, like ponzi schemes, to make it worthwhile on a cost-benefit analysis.

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Let's go Governor Romney!

And Massachusetts isn't as liberal as they say (or as we say in New Hampshire). Massachusetts still has a law against selling alcohol on Sunday, so supermarkets actually throw a net over the alcohol that day! Is that what a liberal state would do? No, sir, Mass. still has parts of its Puritan heritage.

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The "birth control is immoral" argument may be liberal vs conservative, but the "government should pay for things that people don't feel like paying for themselves" is more of a capitalist/progressive sort of argument.

I meant the birth control is immoral issue, yeah. The other one is......well it's also a moral issue.

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Strikes do not have to involve paid employees. See hunger strikes. This implies that these women see this as a women vs. men issue, but it is really a conservative vs. liberal issue. A genuine conservative vs. liberal issue, in a country where most issues painted as that are not.

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Also, the conservative community needs to seriously look into pronouncing Viagra and similar medicines as immoral.

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Excellent. The next step is to ban all sex outside of marriage.

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In many cases, those loan forgiveness programs are written into the contract of the loan itself, so it's not even a bailout. It's what you are entitled to by the terms of the contract.

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Because people are willing to pay. Because jobs that don't require a college degree are being outsourced to third world countries.

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Inflation is a good thing, actually. Not HYPERinflation, of course, but a slight uptick in inflation would help out the middle class and the poor quite a bit, while encouraging the rich to actually spend and invest instead of stashing their money in trust funds and sitting on it.

I agree.

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I wish a candidate were brave enough to come out and promise the voters a 10% raise per year, every year. It wouldn't even be hard to achieve. A lot easier than $2.00 gas.

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You're right that it makes more mathematical sense, and it's safer, for there to be a contract, but when you factor in human psychology and such, free choice has a pretty good chance of really outperforming the contract.

People are still free to donate though. If someone goes to Harvard and gets their tuition and living expenses paid for in exchange for 5% of their income for 25 years, there's still plenty of room for further donations if he feels like it. Unless this person is supremely arrogant about their earning potential (in which case they probably wouldn't agree to this pay structure in the first place), a 5% income contract isn't going to make them more sore towards the school than a 200k loan.

I think one thing this system would do is break up the current price equality among schools. Less prestigious schools will have to charge much higher rates to be able to break even. And when they charge those higher rates, students will think twice before attending. People are going to think twice about paying 40% of their income to attend some second-rate school.

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