How long is it acceptable to you that your EX needs to wait before he/she has sex? Who cares right? Why would you want to know that your EX had sex in the first place?

Well, if it wasn't your decision you may care about it. It depends on what the two of you had. For some people even next day is okay. For me after something special it could be months, even years

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Don't you think it's a fact of life that most people don't care or are too afraid to give their honest opinion on how others really look like? I often see it, for instance, in couples who go shopping for new clothes. When she'll ask him if her bum looks big, the boyfriend won't own up to that fact if he wants to keep his balls intact. Brutal honesty is a rare service many people would appreciate. I thought of creating an online service to deliver brutal honesty on any issue that deals with looks and appearance.

I reckon there could be brutal honesty services for lots of areas, for example people who overdo it with cosmetic surgery. Someone needs to tell them they look like ridiculous Madame Tussauds rather than the 20 year olds they think.

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At a bachelorette party I found myself wondering why girls have to drink out of penis straws and wear penis necklaces but not the other way around. I would love to see a guy wear a vagina necklace and drink out of a clitoris straw. I had no idea they existed until I turned Google Safe Search off and discovered them. The real world out there seems to be way more sophisticated than I could imagine. The good news is I don't have to invent my imagination to experience it. It's already been invented for me.

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All single people are trapped because they are judged by others or given pity for "being alone". However, I spend most of my days listening to married people talking about their divorce or wanting out of their marriage. I think we're screwed either way. I mean, really! Why is being single so bad? Next time anyone tries to hook me up with the most random person they can find, I'm going to throw my drink at them. I'm single. Not Desperate.

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If I tell you that whoever started the tradition of throwing coins into fountains must not have been wishing for money and you agree with the explanation then, like most people, you are not made for business. But if you add that the guy who started the tradition did not wish for money because he owned the fountain, I'd like to hire you.

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Last year, they passed a law in California to make it illegal to talk on a cell phone while driving. This year they made it illegal to text. Thank God I can still check email and comments on people's facebook pages. I love you so much 'letter of the law'. The world's a much safer place now!

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I'm slowly munching my last bite of it and inevitably I ask. Why is it that we can order a hamburger at most restaurants, but the only place we can order a hot dog is at a baseball game or the streets of NYC? I'm sensing some serious food discrimination here.

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their food and wine tastes good, their women like to dress nice and sleep with everyone, they don't like to work hard and they don't have to, they have a distinctly identifiabul french accent foreign women fall for and they have perfumes to cover their - pronounce it french and get laid - j'adore malodor. sounds like everything has been set perfect for them except for one thing. it's their looks. they think they are good-looking just because everything else about them and their country is so - get laid - parfait.

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they whine about losing business to GOOGLE and online media. NOBODY wants to buy your papers any more. if you want to stay in the paper business, print your news on toilet paper and distribute it daily to every public and private bathroom for a large discount to regular clean-ass paper. when i don't like what i read i can just wipe my ass with your crap and put it into good use. that's how i like to consume the tons of crap you're selling. i might consider using it to blow my nose too but that's only when you sell me something paperworthy.

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Disclaimer: I have few, if any facts to support what I am about to post and I'm not even sure I believe it myself. It's just a thought.

It seems to me that environmentalists may have been played like a stradivarius on this one. Not so long ago, environmentalists were actually doing good things and making substantial progress, especially in the area of pollution (clean air and water, hiking trails etc).
But now you don't seem to hear much about that anymore, all you hear about is this nebulous sword of Damocles known as Global Warming. I get the sneaking suspicion that it was all orchestrated, with marvelous success, to divert attention away from real progress and regulations pertaining to fundamental environmental issues.

As long as there is no agreement and people are kept arguing, nothing gets done...about anything.

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Wishing-trees, pumpkins, fairy-godmothers, glass slippers, fur boots, stepmother and mean sisters, princes on horses and pigeons. Who needs them anymore.

If the shoe fits, drive it.

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Imagine companies decided one day to charge for servicing us with a smile. Press 1 if you would like this service with a smile (small charge applies). Press 2 if you don't like to be served with a smile (get a discount). Press 1 and a beautiful Colgate-smile will soon be with you. Press 2 to save money. Why do we take it for granted that people will serve us with a smile on their face?

A smile doesn't pay for services so why do we expect it from others? They say we should all pay our tax with a smile. I tried...but they wanted cash!! Now that they made me lose my naivete, I am wondering. A smile is worth nothing to the government when you give it freely. But it might be worth something to the economy.

When people are sad and depressed from losing their jobs and dreams, going around with a smile is economic viagra. The government should make my smile tax-deductible and lower my taxes. Fine, you want cash?

Press 1 to pay with a smile (discount applies). Press 2 to pay the full amount...

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You can get it pretty much in every restaurant in Israel. They are, single-handedly, the most refreshing thing I have ever tasted. Called lemonana. It's bold lemon and mint served in lemon. It's the perfect antidote to the sticky, oppressive summer days to come - frosty, crunchy and tart. You can eat it with a spoon or a fork. Highly recommended to try!

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Facebook is adding a "username" to people's account to "easily direct friends, family, and coworkers to your profile". Is my full name not enough to direct someone to my profile? I logged into MySpace account for the first time in a few weeks and I noticed they have a new bar at the bottom of the page...just like Facebook...with online friends and chat...just like Facebook. And yet Facebook is letting you choose a username...just like Myspace. We all know that Myspace is to Facebook like Yahoo is to Google. Tom and Jerry Zuckerberg. Mark your posts!

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I wonder why they put the label in such a stupid place. The only acceptable explanation, in this case, would have been if the label could somehow had been designed to match the tattoo or serve as its extension. I very much doubt that's the case here. The label's place is just stupid, made even more obvious by overlapping with the tattoo in the the neck.

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Allow an email function where the user can select a sender, subject and/or date in their inbox and delete or move ALL messages that meet the selected criteria. One or two clicks can remove hundreds of old, unwanted messages.

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Since GM is now owned by taxpayers, I would like to institute that I don't need to pay for my car loan anymore. Technically I own a portion of the company that produced my car, right? I don't like the fact that I purchased special order non-returnable domestic car parts for my damn taxpayer owned car. I'm pretty sure that had I brought my car to the dealership, the wiper blades would cost more to fix than the wipers on the Audi. When I can find 321 ways to spend that money every month instead of paying for something that won't even be made in 4 years, the temptation to stop paying the loan now that I own a portion of the company is just too strong to let go...

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The phrase 'better than sex' naturally begs the question of what kind of sex you're talking about. When I hear someone using it to describe an experience they had, I am always tempted to ask if they are making a statement about their sex life or a statement about the thing that's better than the kind of sex they're talking about but never really define it. The phrase begs many questions that go unanswered in the listener's mind. If you are the listener and your sex life doesn't suck don't nod your head in agreement, don't agree in any way.

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Why not allow insurance companies to issue driver's licenses with the catch that they then have to insure the driver for the duration of the license. The duration can be 3-5 years. Upon expiration the license has to be renewed. That's when drivers can pick new insurance companies and insurance companies choose new drivers. The scheme would encourage insurance companies to train their drivers well, and would allow them to better distinguish between who is safe and who is not.

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I empathize with the sense of fairness that propels people to desire a more equal distribution of wealth and resources. Should we all get the same pay and privileges? Sure.

But then, why shouldn't we all get the same love and respect, the same health and happiness, the same cute little butt and big boobs? Why don't we desire more of that as well? To be equally loved and appreciated. Why does life have to be such a capitalist bitch if its goal is to teach us 'communistically' that finding meaning in life is common to all, yet it should be defined individually?

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how do you usually answer this question. isn't better to say how tall you are, give color of eyes, describe physical appearance than say where you come from, who your father is etc etc people have stereotypes and if you say who you are by talking about your family or country to a stranger you might trigger a stereotype in people's minds. why do we ask this question? can't you just form your own opinion about me over time without asking me to tell you who i am?

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I have the perverse habit, or morbid curiosity if you like, to read obituaries. They are our dead, found each day on the back page of the newspaper. There they are, all gathered, a squad of fresh explorers, heading into the great unknown. New faces, names and personal histories come and go on the obits every single day. Unlike a cemetery, where stones never change, the obits get restocked daily. They remind me of the evanescent quality and fleeting image of our lives. A minute browsing through the obits can be just as educational, if not more, than a visit to the church or local cemetery. Where to, everybody, where to?

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I just had a thought that I hope is worth sharing. I was thinking about how we use our human brains. We are told we utilise only a small percentage of the brain's overall capacity. This awareness leads me to think about its actual structure, namely billions of neurons making connections continuously. I suddenly see the possibility that the whole of humankind functions as if it were a single brain made up of billions of neurons.

Each neuron is a single human brain in this analogy. In our present world, billions of neurons exist, but the majority remain untapped potential. Every death is equivalent to the loss of a vital brain cell, and millions die every day in our world through neglect by the active neurons, and lack of nourishment.

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Roundabouts are a seeming contradiction, they slow traffic while they keep it moving. But they are safer than traffic lights because they demand that your - and more to the point everybody else's - operation is cooperation. They save fuel because unlike a light-directed intersection they don't require you to stop, idle and start again. They have no moving parts. And you can plant trees and flowers in the circle.

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President Obama issued an official White House proclamation naming the month of June as the official gay pride month. Without getting into personal views on the issue of gays, or as they are now known in a more politically inclusive way LGBT, is this really a necessary thing? We will soon run out of months as we try to separate groups by race, religion, ethnicity, gender, sexual preference etc.

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They're making a Daniel Craig ice lolly because a poll asked women which celebrity they'd most like to see on the end of a stick and the answer was Daniel Craig. His torso, in purple, will now be sold with the slogan "Licence to Chill"!! Why double standards? Why can't men also be asked which celebrity they'd like to lick? I never thought you could make anyone interested in lolly licks, but then again it's not that men would have voted for Moneypenny on a stick! They'd rather lick my favorite Olga, right?

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I'm having this debate in my head...Why is there a limit as to how many times a person can get remarried? I don't see the reason for setting limits. Why is a limit of 3 times better than a limit of 5 or 10 times? What's the point of setting limits on human relationships? Shouldn't people be free to arrange them in any way they want?

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For me, one of the most interesting aspects of the Abrahamic religions is that all three were created by members of the male gender. I think this goes a long way toward explaining why it was written that Men are created in the image of God (who -- surprise, surprise -- also happens to be a fella) and why woman was created From a man, not independently. By utilizing the literary devise of woman's being be borne from part of the male body (his rib), it placed the fairer sex in an eternally submissive position.

I've often thought about how these three religions might have been different If Women, not men, were the drivers behind their creation. For starters, I seriously doubt there would be one singular Heavenly Father.

Women tend to be the ones in a family that try to bring everyone together (utilizing the stereotypical mothering function), so my guess is that a woman-infused religious system would have created a heavenly couple, Mr and Mrs. God or the Heavenly Father and Mother.

Since women, not men, bring new life into the world via the womb, it's hard for me to imagine a woman-infused religion creating the tragic figure of Jesus dying on the cross to save the world from sin.

Most of the mothers I know would throw themselves in front of a bus in order to save their child EVEN if that child happens to be a rapist or a murderer. It's just the maternal instinct to want to shield your child from harm.

Anyway, this is all merely my own conjecture. What's yours?

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A 17-year-old girl in the United States pays a 21-year-old friend to beat her up, hoping the assault would cause her to miscarriage. He is charged with attempt murder.

She is charged with solicitation to commit murder. Yet women solicit doctors to abort their babies every day. Why is the former a crime and the latter a choice? Just a thought.

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You may think Obama's message was good news for Israel, you may think that all Israelis will benefit by ending violence. Here are some facts about Israel's economy to inform your opinion in a way that is upsetting to us Israelis.

Israel has put counter-terrorism at the center of its export economy and its economy has been booming since September 2001.

Let's call it trickle-down war economics.

Israel is the world's 4th largest arms dealer in the world, larger than the UK. Its technology sector, much of it linked to security makes up 60% of all exports.

Israel has become a shopping mall for homeland security technologies all over the world.

Nice Systems, Verint, Comverse, SuperCom, Check Point, New Age Security Solutions, Instinctive Shooting International etc are just some of the world's best and largest homeland security companies.

A call made to the New York Police Department will be recorded and analyzed by technology created by Nice Systems, an Israeli firm. Images captured in the London tube system are recorded on Verint video surveillance cameras, owned by the Israeli firm Comverse.

These are but two examples. When it comes to defense and security technology, Israel is the "Made in China" story. Not just cheaper, but also made by the best in the world.

In view of the above, I hope you can now begin to understand why, when the war with Lebanon started in August 2006, the Tel Aviv stock exchange went up. In the final quarter of the same year, which had also included the bloody escalation in the West Bank and Gaza following the election of Hamas, Israel's economy grew by a staggering 8%.

Conflict and violence breeds more conflict and more violence and the need for better security everywhere in the world.

The conflict in Gaza and the West Bank is free advertising for Israeli security firms around the world. They are considered the experts and there is good reason for that. "Made in Israel" means tested in violence and proven to work.

Do you really think it is in Israel's economic interest for the Palestinians and other extremists to end all violence? Perhaps it might be.

But in the short-term, the answer is probably negative. If Israel can diversify its economy in the long term, then peace might have a better chance.

The world thinks the main obstacle is illegal settlements in the West Bank. It is definitely an issue but an easier one to solve from an economic point of view than diversifying the economy away from homeland security and defense spending and exports.

If a political deal is made, some of the illegal settlements can be sold out or rented to the new Palestinian owners who will buy them or rent them with loans and economic aid. Lavish economic compensation can entice Jewish settlers to relocate. Some of them will and some will have to be forced out.

But changing the structure of the Israeli economy can take years and it is a far more difficult task because it affects the economic well-being of a larger segment of Israel's population. The sad truth is that the Israeli economy, in its current structure, has an incentive to sponsor violence, not end it. It profits massively from it.

So for the time being, I am not very optimistic that there is the kind of economic change in the horizon to usher the kind of peace we can believe in.

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Composite white fillings, made of composite, provide natural-looking restoration. They are called white fillings because of the natural, tooth color of the material. They can be made on-site and completed in only one office visit to the dentist. I like Jon Stewart very much and I love to watch his show, but I think all TV celebrities should have white fillings. Don't you agree?

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"He will be hailed as a man of peace; he will be accomplished as a great orator; he will win hearts and minds and many will follow him; but he will be tha anti-Christ"

So, when do we receive his mark? :-)

Is Obama the anti-Christ?? I don't think he is as good as lot of people think. I don't have any good points to support this but the fact that he is a president in the US means a lot to me.

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Can you imagine it? I can't. I would struggle to get through the day without my fix. In that sense it's not much different from any other addiction. If you can't have it then you begin to exhibit withdrawal symptoms. These symptoms could include:

Feeling of purposelessness in life.

A general volatility in temper.

Starting up your web browser just to watch the error message and to gaze wistfully at the now-lifeless status bar.

Attempting to reconstruct the google search page in your head and fondly reminiscing about the good old days.

Frantically loading any saved web pages you may have in your cache to gaze lovingly at them. But it's like entering a Ferrari showroom, you can feel and get in the car, but you can't drive it anywhere. The showroom manager won't even let you take it on a test drive because he can sense you would never be able to afford it.

Just to clarify, the net is working fine now. But there have been times in my life, when my happiness has been cruelly crushed, when all hope is driven out of me to be replaced by a bleak vacuum of nothingness. There have been times when the internet stopped working.

** This post has been sponsored by the Board of Random Egregious Distractions (BORED)**

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What can be more ridiculous than a weight monitor chair that beeps, vibrates, cracks, moans or otherwise improvises its frustration with every new bite that adds a few extra unwelcome grams to your total weight. Basically, you sit on the chair to eat your lunch/dinner. The chair measures your weight before you indulge your appetite. 90 kilos. Right! Why don't you have a few more bites? 90.5 kilos, Silence..91, beep..91.2, small vibrations..91.5, cracking sounds, 92..loud moans..93, all modes of frustration-expression set loose..100, chair breaks down..there can be many ridiculous ways to lose weight, but few funnier than the one of which I speak. I rest my case..

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Wouldn't it be cool to compose music just by moving your body? As technology advances, just about anyone can become composers at low cost. Leads to more creativity, more songs, more music. I bet the Internet will provide free tutorials. There'll be classes but no exams. There'll be courses but no degrees, qualifications etc

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I always have these great ideas to freak people out and amuse myself, but I don't ever actually have the balls to do it.

So anyways...this morning I was doing my weekend jog w/ my friend (jogged 18 min then 5.5, woohoo!) and we had several cars of guys slow down to yell things out the window at us. This is not uncommon, but its just so weird. Because seriously? This is when you want to yell out at a girl? When she's sweaty and gross and up at the ass crack of dawn (or like, 10am, whatevs) to jog? But you know they aren't really hitting on you. They're bored and trying to be funny.

So that got me thinking... what if we could find a way to just freak them out. For example... car slows down at stop sign and yells out typical "shake it baby WOO" and instead of ignoring them or giving them dirty looks, we smile? And make a bee-line for the car and be like "omg you guys are SOOOO cute, so you want our numbers? omg we should TOTALLY go out tonight" etc etc. It might just get them to stop yelling out to random girls. it'd be a public service really. Just a thought.

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Obviously old computers, typewriters, telephones, calculators, etc are no longer high quality to the industrialized world as technology continually advances. However, these out-dated pieces of capital could increase productivity in alarming rates to those who could employee them in the third world. This minor act of philanthropy (or business venture) would do much more for the well being of people than typical charity.

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Taiwan, Hong Kong, Thailand, Malaysia, etc...or as I like to call them: "Hey, can I get a fork?" countries. Hand2mouth feeding would be better in this case >>>

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I don't like using quotes when I speak. Sometimes the quote is a good fit but it's not your words, you use it to suggest that you read extensively or just want to impress. The truth of the matter is that most people memorize a few quotes to use and never read the original work. "I feel like quoting from books you haven't read is like wearing the t-shirts of bands you've never listened to." Say you read it from me next time you use it :)

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I've often thought that the traditional bracelets and necklaces were not completely reliable, as often the person with dementia will remove them, but in my experience, most people with the condition still tend to wear their shoes everywhere, especially if they plan on going outdoors...

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Have you ever thought how easy it would be for someone to get a sample of your DNA? My hair likes to fall out. I bet I have littered my hair all over the place. All it would take is for some hair collector dude to pick a piece up and there'd go my DNA. It'd be easier than stealing a social security number. Why would someone need a sample of some random DNA, right? Just a thought.

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slot in batteries and heat it up. use a solar backpack to recharge the batteries when they run out.

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don't you hate the sort of people who are not smart but think they are, the sort of guys who blab about 'their' ideas, try to impress all the time or push their opinions on to others? they are so full of hot air, aren't they? it's always the case. i thought of a clever way to bring them down to earth and deflate their egos. at some point they will get to ask 'it's a great idea don't you think?' to which I reply, "yeees, it's interesting, where did you read that?"...'oh no no no this is my idea...' :P

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Microsoft rolled out its answer to Google, known as Bing. Now, perhaps there are some folks out there who are looking for a new search engine, but I don't really know any of those people. I like Google, it's straightforward and I know how to use it. So, what's Bing going to bring to this game? Microsoft has been in a bit of copycat mode lately with Vista (Microsoft OSX) to Silverlight (Microsoft Flash) and now Bing (Microsoft Google). Perhaps it should put its gigantic heads together and come up with a product that won't immediately be compared to a superior one that's already been serving the market quite well. It's just a thought.

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the problem with retailers' cards is that each retailer awards its own card and people end up carrying too many of them. since every retailer accepts credit cards, credit card companies should allow for an additional magnetic bar or chip to be added at the back of the credit card that will store any and all retailer's points (gas station, supermarket, groceries, malls, airlines etc). swipe the card once so that the scanner reads the balance and gives the discount, swipe it once again to make payment.

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a newspaper that reports business news but doesn't report anything financial. the content is geared toward explaining how the businesses work rather than how much money they made or lost. no numbers, no financial predictions, only words and text.

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to be sin or not to be sin...

how about a software that works on any chat platform and allows you to see when others are on invisible mode without them knowing about it? how cool is that?

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in ozzieland double-dipping is considered bad-etiquette and bad-hygiene. personally, i have no problem with it. sometimes i can't be bothered and i will flip the back-end to double-dip but still people don't like it. i always wondered why they don't come up with containers that have partitions for double-dippers. the partitions could be colored so each person knows which one is theirs. double-dippers can dip freely without contaminating the container. i think it's a good idea and an easy one to do.

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Now that Obama capped CEO compensation at $500,000, I am thinking of starting a new bank where Wall Street fat cats can park restricted stock bonuses, corporate jets, yachts and all sorts of ponzinous financial assets. Out of respect to the public, the bank's premises will be non-descript and decrepit-looking, the exact opposite of what a modern-day Poshbank would look like. Poshbanks are dead. Long leave my Scumbank in little Burglardeshi...

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if trimming fat should always be rewarded in a recession then for every kilo an obese child loses, parents get a tax break. if weight is regained, tax rates go up again. any loss in tax revenues gets recovered from reduced health care costs. if we require principles that are easy to understand and healthy to implement, let's swap fat for tax then! :)

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