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  1. Re:Too bad really... on Bill Gates Says Windows Phone Strategy Was Inadequate · · Score: 1

    Sure

  2. Re:Windows Phone could have been the best phone OS on Bill Gates Says Windows Phone Strategy Was Inadequate · · Score: 2

    Not all accounts. Try WP8 before you dismiss it, you may not like it, but it is absolutely worth a look.

  3. Re:Too bad really... on Bill Gates Says Windows Phone Strategy Was Inadequate · · Score: 2

    It's actually good. Not perfect by any stretch, but good. WP9 will probably be caught up on features and have new stuff to boot.

    Most of the people ragging on it are either people who reflexively hate MS or people who used WP7 early on and dont' realize that things change.

    When people talk about getting new phones I always recomend they give it a try, if you dont' like it that's fine, but don't just dismiss it out of hand, try it out and see if you like it.

  4. Re:Terrorist Organisations on The IIPA Copyright Demands For Canada and Spain · · Score: 1

    That would be so, so sweet.

  5. Re:IIPA on The IIPA Copyright Demands For Canada and Spain · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Silly. It's by the coporations of the corporations for the corporations. You need to the get the new revision of the handbook.

  6. Re:Price Fixing? on Australian Govt Forces Apple, Adobe, Microsoft To Explain Price Hikes · · Score: 1

    Last I heard there were people willing to loan the government money at NEGATIVE interest.

  7. Already have one don't they? on Apple Said To Be Working On a 'Watch-Like Device' · · Score: 1

    So an iPod Nano with a wrist-strap?

  8. Re:Good one Youtube on Printable AR-15 Mag Gets More Reliable; YouTube Pulls Video of Demo · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Considering the target of the AWB is a class of weapons that is rarely used in crime it'sobviously not about reducing gun crime. In the FBI statistics rifles as a whole (not even just "assault weapons") are ahead of only "other guns", behind shotguns and WELL behind handguns. Yet the ban will almost exclusively affect rifles. If it actually IS about gun crime then the people making the laws are utterly incompetent and therefore shouldn't be allowed to make the laws anyway.

  9. Re:Trolls... on Canadian ISP Fights Back Against Copyright Trolls · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Suing people is big business. It costs more to defend yoruself then to settle and porn companies in particular delight in threatening people with public lawsuits to scare them into settling regardless of evidence.

  10. Re:Debunked on Hidden Viral Gene Discovered In GMO Crops · · Score: 1

    You're expecting someone to read and undertand an article?

  11. Re:The greedy are not trustworthy on Hidden Viral Gene Discovered In GMO Crops · · Score: 2

    I'm not goign to take a side on whether or not it's safe. But there's a perfectly reasonable reason to avoid that. Two in fact.

    1: Monitoring which foods are and aren't GMO will cost money that they'd rather not spend.
    2: there's a lot of people who (correctly or incorrectly) fear GMO and thus sales would drop.

  12. Re:Anything that screws monsanto on Hidden Viral Gene Discovered In GMO Crops · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Actually there's plenty of food in the world. The poblem is that large parts of it can't pay enough for us to bother getting it to them.

  13. Re:i have purchased the affected products. on How Much Beef Is In Your Burger? · · Score: 1

    Before Mad Cow disease was there any known health issues with feeding cows cow brain?

  14. Re:i have purchased the affected products. on How Much Beef Is In Your Burger? · · Score: 1

    That's racist

  15. Re:Actually on How Much Beef Is In Your Burger? · · Score: 1

    My points expired yesterday

    ;.;

    I have actually had a hamburger that had a slice of ham on it, it was pretty good. IIRC the place was called Zip's in Spokane, WA.

  16. Re:Corollary on Bad Grammar Make Bestest Password, Research Say · · Score: 1

    I had a customer who's name on their account which we are required to gather to get access to the account) was "fuck you". It was amusing because neither he nor his girlfriend (who the account belonged to) knew that, so I had to send them their account on the computer to find out. Their reaction was quite funny.

  17. Re:Reminds me of food waste statistics on Dean Kamen Invents Stomach Pump For Dieters · · Score: 2

    Truth.

    It's not a production problem, it hasn't been a production problem since the Middle Ages (if even then), it's always been a distribution problem. Not just with the infrastructure, but also with the fact that the people in those areas don't have the money to make shipping to them economically worthwhile. make no mistake, if they had the money to pay for the food the infrastructure issues would be worked around quickly.

  18. Re:Hard To Prepare Foods = The Win on Dean Kamen Invents Stomach Pump For Dieters · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't be surprised

  19. Re:Did You Think, Maybe... on Dean Kamen Invents Stomach Pump For Dieters · · Score: 1

    "flatulent middle aged coke-snorting stripper"

    Damn it, I didn't need any more fetishes!

  20. Re:I wrote a letter to the CEO once on Linguistics Identifies Anonymous Users · · Score: 1

    You can also have someone else write it for you.

  21. Re:Or just stay single. on The Problem With Internet Dating's Frictionless Market · · Score: 1

    The assumption is that being in a relationship will be less depressing. It may be true for some people, but not for everyone.

  22. Heard this before on America's Real Criminal Element: Lead · · Score: -1

    I've heard this before and I'm not surprised

  23. Re:Good luck with that on Petition For Metric In US Halfway To Requiring Response From the White House · · Score: 5, Insightful

    All but three countries in the world have done it. Are you saying we're unable to cope with an issue that nearly every country has managed to handle?

  24. Re:That's a lot! on Petition For Metric In US Halfway To Requiring Response From the White House · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No. But we should do something smart to help the entire population.

  25. Re:Never underestimate familiarity on Petition For Metric In US Halfway To Requiring Response From the White House · · Score: 1

    More expensive than not switching?