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  1. Why would you believe? on Up To 10% of CD-Rs Fail Within a Few Years · · Score: 1

    How on earth can something be prooven to last a thousand years if it hasn't been around that long? Only the gullible or stupid would believe such a claim. Reburnning often is the only way to be sure

    (Except if you're dealing with Aliens in which case just nuke 'em from space - that's the other way to be sure)

  2. Re:Better off not working for them... on In France, Fired For Writing To MP Against 3 Strikes · · Score: 1

    Doesn't actually state which god though.

    Check your currency, it's the Great Architect.

  3. Re:Laugh Tracks on Red Dwarf Returns In a 3-Part Showing · · Score: 1

    No laugh tracks in the new episode tonight.

    Thankfully plenty of laughs though

  4. Getting to Know you on Red Dwarf Returns In a 3-Part Showing · · Score: 1

    Holy cow!

    There's a squid in the water supply

    (Rimmer is listening to "Getting to Know You")

    nice to see the Scutters as well :D

  5. Re:Surprise? on Apple Shifts iTunes Pricing; $0.69 Tracks MIA · · Score: 1

    In that case, though I'd like a citation, (it's not entirely clear in the wiki link)

    I can't see why Apple would do that

  6. Re:Surprise? on Apple Shifts iTunes Pricing; $0.69 Tracks MIA · · Score: 1

    I can't see how Apple Computer could do that

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v._Apple_Computer

  7. Re:Are you really that stupid on AP Says "Share Your Revenue, Or Face Lawsuits" · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The BBC is not paid for by tax. It's paid for by a license.

    The BBC is wholly independent of and separate from the British tax system

  8. It's called... on Auto Safety Tech May Encourage Dangerous Driving · · Score: 1

    Risk Compensation

    Remove air bags from cars and install a six inch metal spike in the steering wheel. People would drive more carefully. Simple.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_compensation

  9. Re:Tinfoil hats on Face Recognition — Clever Or Just Plain Creepy? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't worry, even version 1.9.84 will be Beta

  10. Re:Coming soon... on Satellite Collision Debris May Hamper Space Launch · · Score: 1

    What? Cheese?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark_cheese

  11. Re:Slashdotted on Earth Under Threat From Dark Comets · · Score: 1

    absorb or reradiate, make up your mind

  12. Re:Here's your sign... on Draconian DRM Revealed In Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    You should really consider reading this. It cracks me up and I have use the dreadful stuff every day

    http://adobegripes.tumblr.com/

  13. Who we are on Drug Deletes Fearful Memories · · Score: 1

    is a result of experience both good and bad. You would be deleting yourself.

  14. Re:No surprises here on High Tech Misery In China · · Score: 1

    "If electronic manufacturing came back to the US it would be competing with those other job opportunities."

    Only if you dropped your standard of living and accepted their conditions...

    Poverty and slavery

  15. Re:No surprises here on High Tech Misery In China · · Score: 1

    think egalitarianism

    we woulndn't have half the advances we've had in the last one hundred years without the industrial revolution which gave us the ability to express our opinions freely, through the efforts of people wanting equality and recognition of their worth, enjoy the 'free' internet, and fight what was previously a feudal society, which we pretty much have now but by other means... Capitalism

  16. Re:Exactly two ways to avoid this stuff on High Tech Misery In China · · Score: 1

    "Agricultural products cannot be considered in the same way that manufacturing or assembling jobs can"

    Yes they can, it's a product to be sold.

  17. Re:No surprises here on High Tech Misery In China · · Score: 1

    I never said I had a system that works better, but companies cannot keep chasing lower prices around the planet, they'll run out of planet.

    Then we get to the stage where people start asserting themselves and improve conditions for themselves and colleagues through effort, and then someone will say 'I'll do that for a dollar instead of two dollars' And then the whole cycle starts again... Recession every twenty(ish) years

    The problem is that banks don't understand the difference between value and worth.

    Something has to be better than we have now.

  18. Re:No surprises here on High Tech Misery In China · · Score: 1

    Haven't been called a twat in ages.

    Your point has value to everyone that hasn't lost a job because of the latest capitalistic caused global fuck up and I fear you may be confusing socialism with communism.

    Everybody is broke... Where has all the money gone?

    There simply wasn't any. Somewhere along the line value was confused with worth.

    Please learn to count or have the ability to pay back what is borrowed

  19. Re:MS fakery on Canon Tries To Shut Down "Fake" Canon Blog · · Score: 1

    It's nearly as good as the real fake steve

  20. No surprises here on High Tech Misery In China · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Capitalism can only work because it thrives on and creates the poor.

    We wouldn't be in the mess we're in without it.

    Call me a troll or flame me, but there has to be a better way than chasing the profit...

    Sustainability perhaps?

  21. Read on Net Neutrality Still Lives · · Score: 1

    I cannot aver to having read all 680 pages

    RTFPDF?

    Just a thought ;)

  22. Re:App Store anti-Competitive on Competition For the App Store Is Mounting · · Score: 2, Informative

    Apple doesn't have a monopoly, you are quite free to buy a phone from someone else.

  23. Re:Timing == Everything on 1,234,567,890 Seconds Since Unix Time Began · · Score: 1

    Not if you were planning on going to the London celebration. That bar has to be one of the worst.

  24. Re:Hello, on New Paper Offers Additional Reasoning for Fermi's Paradox · · Score: 1

    I for one welcome our unknowing overlords

  25. Re:Whisky on Power In Scotland From Tides and Whiskey · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm not a big fan of Talisker at all, a nice 18 year old famous grouse or 12 year old Oban - lovely