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telegraph replied to the Retire Early Liberal Edition board. 5:13 PM

Re: Key to Getting Rich Work, Risk or Luck?

goofy:"Uh, dude, we had the huge lead in computers thanks largely to government spending."

We really didn't have any lead.

It was the Poles who cracked the enigma machine. Not us. They sent a copy of it to England and it [more]

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telegraph replied to the Retire Early Liberal Edition board. 4:55 PM

Re: Key to Getting Rich Work, Risk or Luck?

StockG:"Yes, you CAN work your way up, hit that home run, but as we've seen all too well, it sure helps if you were born on third base....good food, good schools, stable home, parents who can help with that Algebra homework...an expectation of [more]

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telegraph replied to the Retire Early Liberal Edition board. 11:14 AM

Re: Key to Getting Rich Work, Risk or Luck?

Once again, Goofy rewrites history to suit his 'liberals are all unlucky mime'....

Goofy:"Well, they were all smart enough and had enough ambition to be born white, to upper middle class parents, and in the United States which had an [more]

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telegraph replied to the Retire Early CampFIRE board. 10:39 AM

Re: This is the Ugly Face & Tyranny of Liberalism

Actually, no it is not.

The audience was at a TAX PAYER funded school graduation.

The valedictorian by accepting that role at graduation and giving a speech, which he knew had to be 'approved', accepted the 'rules'.

He [more]

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telegraph replied to the Climate Change board. 9:37 AM

Re: Methane Emissions Across..Parts of US Higher

"Usually what you do at that point is to fix the models then go from there. Many global warming enthusiasts think we should just jump right in and spend a trillion dollars. Science is hard and failure is common, thats why scientists get paid, so [more]

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telegraph replied to the Retire Early Liberal Edition board. 9:10 AM

Re: Key to Getting Rich Work, Risk or Luck?

SG continues the 'oh, he had 'connections' bit.......the 'wealth envy' and 'rich kid with connected parents' whine.


"Bill Gates was clearly a talented and highly motivated person."

On that we agree. So was Zuckerman. [more]

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telegraph replied to the Retire Early Liberal Edition board. 7:42 PM

Re: Key to Getting Rich Work, Risk or Luck?

"A few weeks later, I.B.M. took a chance by hiring Microsoft, then a small software firm, to develop an operating system for its first personal computer.[3]"


IBM neither had its own operating system, or had the patience to try [more]

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telegraph replied to the Retire Early Liberal Edition board. 7:34 PM

Re: Key to Getting Rich Work, Risk or Luck?

intrecst:"
And then we have Mitt Romney who made a career out of screwing good, Christian, middle-class workers out of their jobs, pensions & health care."

then we have the Kennedy clan, who did screw their female [more]

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telegraph replied to the Retire Early Liberal Edition board. 1:45 PM

Re: Key to Getting Rich Work, Risk or Luck?

"Bill Gates went to a wealthy private school where the parents bought a mainframe computer for the kids to learn on. This was back in the 1970s when such a thing was unheard of for most schools."

I went to a college with an IBM 360 [more]

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telegraph replied to the Retire Early CampFIRE board. 12:17 PM

Re: 0x6a74 passed away

the silliness continues

"1) Where there is motion, there is a mover, and ultimately a first mover, itself unmoved."

And Yeah...magically out of nothing, a 'first mover' arose....

Silliness #1.....you just take [more]

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telegraph replied to the Retire Early CampFIRE board. 12:06 PM

Re: 0x6a74 passed away

"Nope, once a Christian, always a Christian. Nothing can change that. "


There are actually 'unbaptizing' rituals and 'renounciations' of faith, and I'm sure the islamos will tell you that if you convert to islam, you are not [more]

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telegraph replied to the Retire Early CampFIRE board. 9:33 AM

Re: Things that bug me part MMCXLII

The big deal back then was high School graduation. About 1/3rd of the class didn't go on to college...some went on to trade schools....but 20% went on to work, or into the military (Vietnam war era)......

And of course, college graduation [more]

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telegraph replied to the Retire Early Liberal Edition board. 9:20 AM

Re: Key to Getting Rich Work, Risk or Luck?

SG continues to whine:

"2 - Clearly the wealthy grow up surrounded by other wealthy people and by wealth seeking role models. They tend to go to elite schools where they make friends and contacts with other wealthy people. When it comes [more]

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telegraph replied to the Retire Early Liberal Edition board. 9:00 AM

Re: Key to Getting Rich Work, Risk or Luck?

SG makes excuses:"1 - Everyone makes mistakes when they are growing up. And many make a mistake that is against the rules or even illegal. Maybe they cheat on a test or help someone else cheat on a test. Maybe they try shoplifting something from [more]

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telegraph replied to the Retire Early CampFIRE board. 6:48 PM

Re: Reality TV Isn't Real

"Like most of us hadn't clued into it already, but this guy is making made for TV execs look like bozos. "


You mean Gilligan's Island was all made up?


I'm sure all the folks on the Jerry Springer show are 100% [more]

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telegraph replied to the Retire Early CampFIRE board. 3:03 PM

Re: Prime America guaranteed return ?

"I did not mean anything by posting my question here. Since this was the retire early board, I maybe some people had some experience or heard of people taking out money from their 401K and reallocating it to the company I mentioned [more]

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telegraph posted to the Retire Early CampFIRE board. 9:35 AM

those wonderful islamos, part 438

Syrian Islamic group shoot dead 14-year-old in front of his parents for insulting the Prophet

Mohammad Qataa was shot in the face and neck by Al Qaeda-linked gunmen
Teenager was heard arguing while working as street vendor selling [more]

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telegraph posted to the Retire Early CampFIRE board. 9:30 AM

Dog attack - my town - 100 stitches

PLANO, Texas -
A Plano teenager is recovering after being attacked by a pit bull boxer mix that lives next door.

Patrick Ceaser, 14, got nearly 100 stitches and spent two days in the hospital over the weekend due to the [more]

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telegraph posted to the Retire Early CampFIRE board. 9:27 AM

Dog kills kid ....... story 1

JESSIEVILLE, Ark. (CBS Houston) — A 5-year-old boy who survived last month’s deadly tornado in Moore, Okla., was killed in a dog attack at a family friend’s home in Jessieville, Ark.

KTHV-TV reports that a Bull Mastiff dog attacked the boy [more]

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telegraph replied to the Retire Early Liberal Edition board. 7:45 AM

Re: Ideal Retirement Age

"Retirement is like a long vacation in Las Vegas. The goal is to enjoy it to the fullest, but not so fully that you run out of money. ~Jonathan Clements "


That would be hell....

Heck, Vegas is nothing but artificial [more]