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Just buy a landrover and be prepared to hit the gas because we’ve evolved.

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[quote=afx114][quote=temeculaguy]Or maybe it’s just some guys who went to harvard and think that they are smarter than you and will get you to give them your money.[/quote]

Or maybe one could take the initiative to do some research and read up on the technology and how it works so that we can have an actual discussion on the pros/cons rather than a series of lazy dismissive comments?

A virtual currency is inevitable. It may be Bitcoin, or it may be some other technology. But the underlying fact is that our current systems are obsolete in today’s insta-economy. In 10 years we will laugh at having to wait 7 days for a wire transfer. By then we’ll feel about today’s banking the same way we now feel about sending a hand-written letter via the post office.[/quote]

That’s banking and not the currency. Your currency is already virtual. The simple fact is that most of the $ value of your tangible assets, stocks, 401K, is nothing more than bits.

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[quote=paramount]
Humans are evolving to a new higher enlightened level of consciousness, and in this Brave New World Bitcoin fits perfectly. The dollar doesn’t.[/quote]

ROFLMAO

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[quote=CDMA ENG][quote=CA renter]For one thing, this contractor is trying to get the BAC level lowered from .08 to .05. That way, more people can be arrested for DUI, and more people can be fined and go to those private jails. Hooray for privatization!

Of course, they will sell it as being “for our own good.”

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I think I heard this same arguement from CCPOA.

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Just don’t pull out a camera…

http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Youtube-Video-Posted-to-Oxnard-Police-Departments-Facebook-Page-Raises-Questions-232938781.html

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[quote=CA renter]Social Security is a defined benefit retirement plan/insurance, and while employers contribute to it (which would likely always be the case), it is a public plan. I am a staunch supporter of DB pension plans…for everyone. Always was, and always will be. 🙂

I should amend my comment by saying that the employer would contribute to the plan, but that the plan is fully portable, and not on the employers’ books.[/quote]

SSI is a good model of a DB. 12.4% contribution rate that provides a payout of 28% your maximum earnings after 35 years of services and minimum retirement age of 66 to get the 28%. Life expectancy at 66 for a male is 16 years. If you retire at 62, that payout goes to 21% of the last year max income (and is calculated off all 35 years) If you didn’t earn max for 35 years, you get even less.

Let’s contrast with California Safety worker plans, paying 90% payout at 30 years of service for 1 year of maximum contribution as early as age 55.

a little different aren’t they?

And yet, SSI will have problems if they don’t increase the contribution rates or levels.

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The PD departments need to start getting sued and the Officers need to start being held PERSONALLY responsible.

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What happens when Starbucks starts accepting Bitcoins?[/quote]

Theft of Tide will fall dramatically.

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Lots of talk, no books titles…

enough said.

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How care is administered and how care is paid for go hand in hand.

The primary problem with the USA model is very simple, people are isolated from the cost of their health care. It’s treated like an all you can eat buffet and the doctors are paid for procedures and not results.

Add the pernicious penalties for perceived failure in the form of lawsuits and there’s no reason for the doctors to prescribe every possible test.

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[quote=CDMA ENG]Of course there are “Death Panels”!

It does not matter that it is under the “Social” medicine or Private.

There will always be a group of doctors that must make a decision about medical resources.

Transplant decision being the first one to come to mind.

One kidney two patients. Who gets its? The 62 year old former alcholic or the 16 year old boy with malform kidneys.

Choice is pretty easy.

Also I was talking to my “mate” yesterday. His “mum” is still in the UK and told me he is not excited about socialized medicine having experienced it for himself.

He said that it is fine when you are young and healthy but when you get older that the care system there is “less than aggressive” to treat older patients. There is a aloof attitude towards the treatment of the eldery especially when it cost the state more money.

“They are old and going to die anyway” was his commentary about doctors attitudes.

I am not anti nationalized healtcare. However I have never heard anyone yet tell me how it is going to actually work that makes sense to me.

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PS I havent watched the video…[/quote]

By doing exactly what I’ve highlighted and stop spending $25,000+ a year per 80+ year old in a futile effort to add 3 months more to a bed ridden end of life drama to the 1% over 80 that are going to die.

5% of the population is responsible for 49% of our health expenditures. A large block of that spending is money that is essentially doing nothing more that added a minor extension to life. IMHO, it’s poorly spent.

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Wow CAR that’s stunning. In California to think the public sector unions don’t have far more away is just stunning. Even the LA Times acknowledges that point

As for the video was it done a few years ago during the prop wars when you couldn’t turn on the tv or radio insert or October without being barraged by inflammatory ads discussing the exact same topics?

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[quote=SK in CV][quote=paramount][quote=Rich Toscano]Passing mention of a same-sex couple = “radical gay agenda”[/quote]

Seems innocent and subtle; it’s anything but…

Kids can’t live in a bubble forever, but I want to decide how and when to teach my children about any sexuality (regardless of how subtle the suggestion is….) prior to Jr. High in particular.

Gay Literature is being presented to innocent children in California starting in Kindergarten (ie. Harvey Milk) and 1st grade. I call that Radical.

I call that Social Engineering.

Sadly, this agenda will spread Nationwide.

Private/Charter Schools: Now More than Ever…[/quote]

I’ve yet to figure out what is “radical” in all this. Twenty years ago, maybe. Today, not even a little bit. How is it the least bit harmful? It’s the real world today. It’s not violent. It’s not evil. Why should it be hidden?[/quote]

I’m curious what the gay literature is that is being used. Seriously, give us a title?

What’s the reference to Harvey Milk? In what context to they bring it up?

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An update. LAPD settled with the 2 Latinas for a mere $4.2 Million.

Torrance is being bucky and their police department has been fighting even needing to identify the officers that shot David Perdue.

Judge: Torrance must name officers who shot wrong man in Dorner manhunt

That’s one of our local Police Department’s view of accountability, we shot you, you don’t get to know who shot you.

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CE, I hear you. Frankly, the environmental agenda being pushed in the schools is much heavier handed, IMO.

We only have one planet — what’s wrong with teaching children to be responsible stewards of it?[/quote]

Let me highlight what you’re missing.

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CE, I hear you. Frankly, the environmental agenda being pushed in the schools is much heavier handed, IMO.

Perhaps the OP can actually post the title of the book so people can get a look at it. In the book I referenced, it’s literally one line, the mentions it in the exact same context of the 13 others they mention, a fond memory of someone in her life.

For me personally, I’m not sure what’s going to be the ‘tougher’ discussion with my three year old, why Rebecca has two daddies and no mommy or why I think Johnny’s ‘Real Housewife’ wannabe parents are douchebags, and what a douchebag is. But alas, that’s my choice.

Now switching topics, when should I have the conversation with my son about meth mouth Wendy? He’s only 3, I think it’s a little early, but by the time he hits 5 or 6th grade, I know I need to have it, because, frankly, I live on the edge or poor neighborhoods and the girls are way more trouble than the boys.

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