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Comment Re:Irrelevant! (Score 1) 307

Please stop repeating this lie, granted it is repeated enough on alot of hate sites. For you it was probably a mistake since you did not know the truth.
Congress want to protect the taxpayer from having to take over the duties that the USPS said they would do,back in the 70s, the postmaster general and the postal unions want to make the taxpayers pay for their poor management and keep things as they are.
The postal accountability law,2006, requires the USPS to actually do some proper financial management and dropping it would not make them competitive again; even ignore the money they owe for this they would of lost money for the last couple of years. Without the money set aside they would not be able the meet the obligations they agreed to back in the 1970s and the people who retiring now would not have the monies that they are suppose to get.
BTW the 75 years is number of years that is for ACCOUNTING purposes they have to figure future liabilities. It is NOT how long they have to fund benefits. That 75 years of accounting is followed by the DoD, social security, department of Housing, etc

Comment Re:Where do you draw the line? (Score 3, Informative) 650

Microsoft has been really clear on their end of life policy for probably a decade if not more. The only way to say they have not is if you say all those increases in time they have given are an indication of unclearness.
However with your definition of $100 USD, cost to upgrade OS from XP to Windows 7, as being "an arm and a leg" not to sure about the rest you wrote.

Comment Re:Haircuts are cheap (Score 1) 110

In insurance they sure are; and only the kook sites keep saying otherwise.
Men pay more for all other types of insurance, car, life, etc. The one type of insurance that historically men paid a little less for was health and that was not just for because they had less reasons to have medical visits in studies of doctor visit men just visit doctor far less and run up lower costs for visit that are not related to differences in the sexes. As such men could in the past purchase insurance that took that in to account; same way that other types of insurance still do.
Or I could just go for the humorous response of don't women benefit the most for a cure of erectile dysfunction.

Comment Re:Now you've got me wondering (Score 1) 273

For currencies there is a amount of value where you don't have to track the increase/loss.
So with your example of the Euro say you purchased a bunch of Euros for your trip last year and now this year you decided to go to your bank and convert it to US dollars. If you got back more dollars this year you could pocket that money and pay no taxes; if you did the same thing with bitcoins you would need to pay the taxes on the increae.
This change makes it easier for people with alot of virtual currencies to manage them but harder on the average person; where with regular currencies it is average person but harder to manage/pay taxes on the currencies traders.

Comment So what percent are they given to projects? (Score 1) 125

Anyone found anything indicating what percent they will be donating to a tax exempt space organization?
They say they want to get $10 million to that fund.
The cost of a hole in Mars goes for $5 to $5000. They also have another naming purchase plan for exoplanets where it is $4.99 for each person attempting to name it and then $0.99 for each vote for that name, and 1000 votes needed.

Comment Re:please explain to a non american (Score 1) 342

It is because car are big purchase items. These laws came about because of problems with manufacturing companies owning distribution then limiting markets and sales or pulling out of market.
if you purchase a $400 computer and then the maker leaves your state it does not matter that much if you cannot get warrenty work. However go purchase a $32,000 car and that is a completly different matter.
It is not just cars that most states have this regulation against but alot of other markets are restricted where the maker cannot also directly sell to the end user.

Comment Re:If you don't like it.... (Score 0) 431

Since you think that jews and christian use to think the earth was flat these kids have already proven they know more then you.
That Christians and Jews throught the earth was flat was an 19th century invention by a couple of atheists that got it place in teaching material and it spread from there. You can easily see that this is false but looking at art work 1000 years old which shows the earth as a round orb.

Comment Re:That debt is solid gold! (Score 1) 538

Not that bad but close. The amount you have to pay back each year is lowered if you don't earn enough money, interest does not change. Then after enough years, which is long, the entire debt is removed.
So you can go get that doctor degree in Middle Ages Romanian literature and when you cannot find a job for that all your salary from McDonalds will not be taken.

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