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Comment Re:Expecting honesty from politicians?!???!?!! (Score 1) 630

Find a post where someone says all taxes should be abolished.

Can't?

OK, then maybe we can start the discussion again.

Easy: http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/09/michele-bachmann-taxpayers-should-keep-every-dollar-they-earn.php

The way the republican party is going you can't find anything too extreme that one of them hasn't said at some point

Comment Re:Can I finally use my damn TWIC card for somethi (Score 1) 388

Not like anyone cares, but I found the new and improved final ruling about data retention:

TSA will retain the data it receives in accordance with record schedules approved by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). TSA will retain records for individuals who are not a match or potential match to a watchlist for one year after the individual no longer has access. In addition, for those individuals who may originally have appeared to be a match to a watch list, but subsequently cleared, TSA will retain the records for at least seven years, or one year after access has been terminated. For individuals who are an actual match to a watch list or otherwise determined to pose a threat to transportation security, TSA will retain the records for 99 years, or seven years after TSA learns that an individual is deceased.

http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/privacy/privacy_pia_tsa_twic_fr.pdf

Comment Re:Can I finally use my damn TWIC card for somethi (Score 1) 388

Oh how I wish! I've been hoping they would let TWIC holders bypass TSA security at airports since I got my card a couple of years ago.

Tangent: I had to get the card for my job and was rather unhappy at having to surrender my fingerprints to the government. I spent a while digging through their documentation online to find out what happens to my personal data (fingerprints) after my card expires. The short answer is, they haven't decided yet what they'll (pretend) to do with the data when the card expires. Also, yours and my fingerprints were sent to multiple government security agencies for that background check. Can I assume those agencies are going to delete my information once they are done with the background check? Sadly, no :-(

Comment Re:How can they say that it's a game of skill? (Score 3, Insightful) 104

In any game or sport there are elements of luck. Take Scrabble for example. I doubt many would deny that Scrabble is a game skill. Yet there's a huge amount of luck involved in which letters you choose, and when you get them.

Granted, luck plays a large factor in a single hand of poker. However, poker is not a game of individual hands. The better players will be distinguished from the less skillful in the long run; hundreds of thousands of hands.

Comment Re:Gambling online is completely fucking stupid (Score 5, Interesting) 296

I would go so far as to say it is almost a 100% certainty that you are being cheated, systematically, in a way you can never detect. It is not necessary for them to kill you in every hand. Only to ensure that their shills win at a slightly elevated rate.

You don't have a very good grasp as to how online poker works. There is no reason whatsoever for an online casino to cheat their customers. In fact, it works against their interest. Money is taken out of each and every pot played. It is NOT in the casino's interest to make their customers go broke faster than normal. If you go broke fast, you may leave forever. If you go broke slowly you will likely reload your account with new funds. Regardless, a hired "shill" will not be able to pull a profit undetected faster than the rake which collects money every single hand on every single table.

You sound like the many many people who try online poker, lose badly, and chose to blame the system rather than a lack of skill.

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