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  1. Re:Apparently what you need to be a superpower on Mexico Decriminalizes Small-Scale Drug Possession · · Score: 1

    It's not actually 100% certain that he was involved and he's dying of cancer. People that lost someone in the bombing agree with the move so why does it bother you?

    A large chunk of people bang on about the US being a Christian nation. Well fucking act like it for once and quit acting like a bunch of extremist terrorist mouth breathers.

  2. Re:Decriminalization in Light of the Drug War on Mexico Decriminalizes Small-Scale Drug Possession · · Score: 1

    This decriminalization may be the first sign that he is accepting the fact that narcotics is an integral part of Mexican culture.

    I hear that they cover their Xmas trees in PCP crystals and coke power.

  3. Re:Counterexample: Japan on Developing World's Parasites, Diseases Enter US · · Score: 1

    France and Germany are part of the EU and therefore loads of people from other countries can come and go as they please. So I'm not sure why you've mentioned them.

    1% of Japan's population are registered immigrants. As of 2004, they have 250,000 illegal immigrants. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/3708098.stm

    Japan also knows they are look at a serious population decline and will need immigration more and more in the up coming years. So no, the Japanese have no solved any problems. My guess is that their illegal population would be higher if if whites, latinos, etc didn't stick out like a sore thumb.

    There are problems with immigration but it does not help when people spread so much uninformed bullshit which you find quite often with Americans and the English. These two countries seem to be blessed with quite a high percentage of anti-immigration spackers. Maybe they realise their countries have committed genocide and shat all over other nations so they're afraid payback is coming.

    But there is no need to worry, no one is interested in genocide like your immigrant ancestors were when they moved in on the Indian's land.

  4. Re:IMMIGRATION on Developing World's Parasites, Diseases Enter US · · Score: 1

    So there were no illegals under the Bush administration?

  5. Re:Solution is You and Me on IBM, Other Multinationals "Detaching" From the US · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That's not always the case but to be fair, unless you were born into wealth, you have to work smarter and harder than everyone else.

    Except for periods where I feel burnt out and need to slack a bit, if I'm not sleeping or running on the treadmill, then I'm coding for myself or my employer.

    My existence, at the moment, is probably a bit pathetic to some (though I make time for some all Friday night to Saturday morning benders) but I'm am building up cash for investments through working a lot harder than my co-workers and I'm working on my own stuff which, hopefully, will turn into something I can I can either deploy and make money with or sell.

    In the end I fully expect to retire early. My goal is to retire 1 year early. That doesn't sound like much but I do find if I set the bar lower, I then find I'm going to achieve that quite early on and raise the bar and keep raising it as time goes on.

    It just depends what you want. Do you want small bits of work over a long period or bust your nuts for a shorter period and relax for a longer time?

    You need money to make money. If I bust my balls now coding and buying up trademarks and hopefully some patents then hopefully I can spend more time doing fuck all.

    Maybe this is the wrong mentality and I'll die tomorrow having busted my balls with nothing in return but this is the gambleI'm taking.

    I am an American who moved to the UK and that did change me. For starters, I don't have to buy private health care. :D But seriously, having to move somewhere, after building up a credit history and making something of yourself, to then find you have to start all over from scratch and can't even get a bank account because you haven't lived here long enough makes you re-think things. Having to start from scratch, with nothing, twice also makes you realise it's not that bad and I'm half tempted, if I get the opportunity, to go off to somewhere in Asia to help with off-shoring. Starting from scratch can make you feel youthful again and you gotta go where the money is.

    Things have change a bit in how they work but the over all theme has stayed the same; you don't get something for nothing and smart hard work always pays off.

  6. Re:The easiest solution on How To Prove Someone Is Female? · · Score: 1

    We are only equal unless it comes to sports. At that point the old pre 60's standards apply. Sports muscles are different from, for instance, muscles used in the military.

  7. For starters she's African so... on How To Prove Someone Is Female? · · Score: -1, Troll

    Africans can often, in general (male and female) look more masculine due to having more muscle and less fat. Some of this, as I know, comes from slave "breeding" but even if the slave bit was untrue, I thought it was fairly common knowledge that African women can look a bit more butch than other women.

    Breasts are more or less nothing than fat. The more athletic a woman is the smaller her tits. It's like that for all races.

    Yeah she is fugly and definitely manish but I've seen similar women before, most of which are African. It doesn't help that the women can be big nosed and fat lipped, like the men. Those features are considered less feminine anyway.

  8. Re:And the solution...? on IBM, Other Multinationals "Detaching" From the US · · Score: 1

    Cheat codes don't work as easily in real life.

  9. Re:And the solution...? on IBM, Other Multinationals "Detaching" From the US · · Score: 1

    I'm not saying everyone in those positions earned them but the fact still remains that they can be jailed for company practices where as lower employees could really only face that by doing something wrong themselves.

  10. Re:He's right on Switzerland's Data Protection Watchdog Wants Street View Disabled · · Score: 1

    I thought of that and picked a few streets locally and both sides were not viewable inside. You can't do it, that's why you're not going to. You're not breaking anyone else's privacy. If, what you claim is true, then it is Google that broke their privacy, no you.

  11. Re:And the solution...? on IBM, Other Multinationals "Detaching" From the US · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Corporate taxes are a joke. They just get passed on to the consumer anyway, and they make businesses less competitive internationally. But it is politically rewarding to go after the big evil corporations and for them to pay their way.

    Bullshit.

    Are you telling me it's taxes are just enough that Sony has to â299 for the PS3 in the EU and $299 in the US and that it has nothing to do with the euro being worth more therefore allowing them to make a bigger profit for no additional work?

    Or why MS may be raising the price of the of the 360 arcade in the UK depsite the fact manufactuer costs are probably lower as is inflation? I'm sure it has nothing to do with the increase on the pound over the dollar and therefore a small rise means a larger rise in profits. http://www.edge-online.com/news/xbox-360-arcade-getting-a-price-increase

    The fact is nothing will ever be good enough for corporations as long as it's cheaper elsewhere. Even if they paid no tax in the US, if the over all cost was cheaper in India they'd go there.

    What they ought to do is allow companies to go where ever they want but the directors have to live where the majority of their employees live.

  12. Re:Solution is You and Me on IBM, Other Multinationals "Detaching" From the US · · Score: 4, Informative

    You're right that the jobs aren't automatically American jobs but even if Obama is a "redistributionist you're still ignoring the original guy's point that this happened long before Obama came into office.

    In fact a load of it happened under Bush. Are you telling me he's a "redistributionist" who scared off companies? In fact it's usually Republicans that allow companies to import people on H1-Bs and allow them to move work over seas with no negative effect. That is probably what makes companies move.

    The fact is that when it comes down to it, neither Obama or Bush really make a difference. Foreign workers definitely don't do a better job (like wise their work isn't inferior). What it's all about is someone in Manila can be paid for a year on a couple months of my salary, they have no expectations of pensions, private health care, etc. They're just happy to have a good job.

    My company employs over seas staff. I know what they're paid, what they get and it's quite obvious why my company uses them. The employment laws are more lax and they 6 people for 1 of me.

    It's not fucking rocket science.

  13. Re:And the solution...? on IBM, Other Multinationals "Detaching" From the US · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You'll never be able to compete with wages in India, China, the Philippines, etc

    Every country grows up by companies not giving employees much. Then everything becomes dependant on those employees and they start demanding things, starting unions, wanting protection and business gets expensive so businesses move.

    Once everyone is on the same level of wealth companies can't move around or at least have less reason to. So that means either westerners need to start accepting less or ensure that poorer countries become less poor.

    This whole mentality that everything should be dirt cheap but wages should be high isn't helping either. Both the US and UK seem to have a thing again immigrants taking jobs but don't want to pay wages that locals will accept.

    You can't have it both ways and no matter what you think, the higher ups will always be paid more even if you the little guy does the actual work. You have to remember the higher ups are responsible for a lot and it's a risky job. They can even go to jail for something the little guy did without his knowledge.

  14. Re:Only faces and plates? on Switzerland's Data Protection Watchdog Wants Street View Disabled · · Score: 1

    Can you provide 3 examples of street view images that show show a good view inside someone's house?

    Considering they take the pictures in the day light and most houses are unoccupied in the day, they're usually pitch black inside. Even some shops are hard to see in.

    Quite frankly, I think this is just a myth started by the ignorant. Being able to tell that someone might have a sofa in front of their window is hardly an issue. That and your curtains should be shut if you're not home anyway so you're not advertising to the burglar walking down the street, letting him know you have a big ass flat screen TV.

  15. Re:Call me paranoid... on Switzerland's Data Protection Watchdog Wants Street View Disabled · · Score: 1

    Because they're going to publish those pictures online for millions, nay, billions of people to gawk at.

    What a load of shit.

    Unless you live in a famous area (and therefore deal with a lot of people in person gawking at your area) then the odds of anyone outside of locals looking at your stupid little street are almost nil.

    Seriously, why in god's name would anyone want to look at. for example, Blunt Street, Clay Center Kansas? Who wil evne know it exists? This idea that things appearing on the internet automatically get viewed by everyone is just fucking retarded.

    There is loads of stuff that goes unless by billions. Even on a hugely popular site, like Youtube, which tries to get you watching the videos, still has thousands (if not millions) of videos seen by fewer than a 1000 people.

    You're probably one of those people with a child that thinks there is a pedophile around every corner just waiting to pounce your little precious.

    Your house, like your child, is nothing special. No one cares about them, so take the fucking stick out of your ass and use your energy for something productive.

  16. Re:Call me paranoid... on Switzerland's Data Protection Watchdog Wants Street View Disabled · · Score: 1

    Why is someone who lives in the city not worthy of protection unlike everyone else? Some people live beside shops and museums. Do they not deserve online privacy?

    A lot of crime is committed by drug users, the homeless, etc. These aren't people that research their next hit online. These are people that wake up needing a fix and get straight into stealing form shops and homes. I've volunteered at a homeless charity and I can assure you most of the people breaking into homes just do it. A lot of them prefer shops because it's easier to sell new goods to people. Perhaps shops should have online privacy and be the sole deciders on what parts of their shops are displayed online?

    Anyone rich enough to live in a Mansion always runs the risk of people planning hits on their property. These properties are too far away from roads for street view to be of any real use. If anything, the satellite view would make it easier for planning a crime on these properties.

    Street View poses no real threat. But between the people afraid of anything new and those who think their junk is actually valuable to other people, it will have a hard time gaining acceptance.

  17. Re:Call me paranoid... on Switzerland's Data Protection Watchdog Wants Street View Disabled · · Score: 1

    There has always been enough information available about you online if people really wanted it. A lot of it is provided by the government with public records. A picture of your house isn't going to change the world and for all you know, I've taken pictures of your house and even put them on stealthisguysstuff.com.

    I don't like the idea of a precedent being sent that says I have to be careful about taking pictures in public because some sissy is afraid of his house being in a picture online.

    Street view provides a useful service that shouldn't be ruined just because some people don't like change.

  18. Re:Painkillers? on A Broken Heart Really Does Hurt, Scientists Claim · · Score: 0, Troll

    That's gay.

    It's not like he said find the dirtiest skankiest piece of pussy in the area and fuck it and meaningless sex is a lot healthier than curing your problems with pills. Pill poppers don't get more respect than people that have one night stands so you have it a bit backwards.

  19. Re:Open X Alliance on Amazon, MS, and Yahoo Against Google's Library · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They may be but Amazon, MS and Yahoo are not and they stand to benefit from this too. They're not doing it for the non-profit.

  20. Re:Free speech and democracy? on Flickr Yanks Image of Obama As Joker · · Score: 1

    That needs this Youtube video as a follow up.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVS4Zgjm8HE

  21. It should always be cheaper in the UK on Windows 7 To Sell In UK For Half the US Price · · Score: 1

    They need to pass a law that when a company is too fucking lazy to localise English then it should be considered incorrect and even defective and therefore must be priced as such.

  22. Re:Arbitrage on Windows 7 To Sell In UK For Half the US Price · · Score: 1

    America is too vague to reference anything other than the US. It generally seems to be twatty Candians that get upset about this. America is not a continent. North America, South American and Central America are.

    The only thing that references the term America with no other prefix or suffix is the United States of America therefore referencing only the USA as America is the only correct way to use the term.

    People do accept that America can reference other areas purely because if people use it enough it gets recognised. If more people start say totes rather than totally then it becomes accepted. That doesn't stop you from being an illiterate fuck-wit when you use it.

    No matter where you go in the world, if you say you went on holiday to America, no one is going to think you were in fucking Chile.

    Ok, possibly they may think you were in Canada since that is officially American Jr.

  23. Re:Analyzing the spelling of Analyse on Windows 7 To Sell In UK For Half the US Price · · Score: 1

    Actually a lot of English is more traditional in the US because it hasn't been influenced by so many other languages. Even in the case of aluminum, that was the original name that Humphry Davy (a Brit btw) came up with was alumium but then settled on aluminum. It was then decided by others that it didn't sound right and they wanted it to match the other elements so they gave it a ium, like Lithium, sodium, etc.

    Americans have just stuck with an earlier term.

  24. Re:Well, considering.... on Windows 7 To Sell In UK For Half the US Price · · Score: 1

    £65 is still pricey for a virus magnet.

  25. Re:Translating it into English was really cheap! on Windows 7 To Sell In UK For Half the US Price · · Score: 1

    retard is a git.

    No, a git would be a bastard or maybe a cunt but not a retard.