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  1. You pay for it with your anonymous data on How Do I Keep My Privacy While Using Google? · · Score: 1

    How about this, write Google a big fat check in exchange for a no tracking cookie. Wait you want it free too bad.

    You have no right to ask Google to give you anything if you're not willing to pay for it.

  2. Re:Are there scanners that accept a stack of sheet on The DIY Book Scanner · · Score: 5, Informative

    You must not have ever gone to college. A textbook for $15? Get real.

  3. Re:Hulu? on Stargate Universe · · Score: 1

    Just because the lawyers claim it to be true doesn't mean that the advertisers are going to believe the made up numbers.

  4. So what I'm hearing is... on FCC To Probe Exclusive Mobile Deals · · Score: 5, Funny

    Four Senators want iPhones but don't want to leave Verizon...

    As with everything, until it inconveniences a Senator directly they don't see it as a problem

  5. Re:No on Pixar's Next Three Films Will Be Sequels · · Score: 1

    It's Disney making these movies too.

  6. Re:BooHoo on iPhone Users Angry Over AT&T Upgrade Policy · · Score: 1

    Buy a $20 prepaid T-mobile phone at Walmart.
    Port your AT&T number to it
    Pay the ETF to AT&T
    Open new AT&T Account
    Port number from T-Mobile.
    Save the T-mobile phone in a drawer
    Wait for iPhone 3gs+ in 2010
    lather, rinse, repeat.

  7. Re:Wow on Solar Panels Reach $1 a Watt · · Score: 1

    You'd think so, but after conversations with PV solar installers it turns out that if the grid goes down you can't power your house during daylight without a battery system and disconnecting from the grid.

  8. Re:Buying a low-power TV to save on costs on DAM Pops Energy Star's Bubble · · Score: 1

    I'd love to start a class action lawsuit so an attorney can get rich while I get a $5 off coupon on my next $2000 HDTV. Where do I sign up?

  9. Re:$400 a month? on Switching To Solar Power — Six Months Later · · Score: 1

    Some (many? most?)states have laws on the books protecting solar cells as well. I know that in Arizona and Utah an HOA can not ban you from putting up solar cells but they can restrict them to locations that don't deter views of other owners.

    Eg surface of your roof = ok, in front of your neighbors dining room window = not ok.

  10. Re:$400 a month? on Switching To Solar Power — Six Months Later · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Can't we all agree that at the very least if he's going to fly around the country and world lecturing people about cutting their carbon foot print he should at least fly commercial and not take his giant carbon foot print private plane?

  11. Re:Lost sleep? on How Does a 9/80 Work Schedule Work Out? · · Score: 1

    or 30-40 minutes less commute time

  12. Re:The state of Utah is trying something out. on How Does a 9/80 Work Schedule Work Out? · · Score: 1

    try working with the state on anything. All government offices are closed on Fridays and they don't stay open later which would be actually helpful, instead they open earlier...

    Which makes more sense, having the DMV open at 6PM or 6AM, now guess which one is true.

  13. Re:Taxpayers shouldn't be bailing out any of these on Should Taxpayers Back Cars Only the Rich Can Afford? · · Score: 1

    When did the market decide in the finance and banking sector? I don't remember "the market" giving $700B of our money to the banks rather than letting them fail like they should have.

  14. Re:NO MORE on Political Sites Scale Up For Election Traffic · · Score: 1

    why is this marked Troll? He's right. No matter how many times someone punches F5 the results are going to be the same.

  15. Re:FOX on Streaming Election Night Broadcast TV? · · Score: 0, Troll

    Whoosh!

    And remember you can replace FOX with CNN and right-wing with left-wing and still have a true statement.

  16. Re:Yes on Streaming Election Night Broadcast TV? · · Score: 1

    I agree. The real winners make "FAIL" jokes just like on digg.

  17. Re:They're cleanable. on Recovering Moldy Electronics? · · Score: 1

    I just installed one of these as a backup for my plug in pump. It also won't keep up with 5" per hour but as long as you have municipal water coming in, it will run forever unlike a battery powered pump.

  18. Re:This would be a non-issue if we had... on Tax Write-Offs For Free (As In Speech) Work? · · Score: 1

    Many poor and middle class Americans have a negative savings rate, meaning they spend more than they take in. They would pay the 30% sales tax on 100%+ of their income. This includes people who are currently in the 0%, 10%, 15%, 25% and 28% brackets. These people are also known as poor, lower-middle class, and middle class tax payers. Notice that until someone earns more than $165k before they move into a tax bracket that is higher than the 30% sales tax rate as proposed by the "fair" tax.

    Those with higher incomes tend to save and invest significantly more than those with lower incomes, this means that "Joe the Plumber" who has a 0% savings rate starts paying 30% tax on every dollar he brings in. Where as now he's paying significantly less than 30%. But on the other hand a banking CEO who made $100 Million but *only* spent $50 Million of it will have his tax drop from approximately $35 Million to $15 Million. Is that even remotely fair? Moving tax liability from the CEO to Joe?

  19. Re:Yeah... on US House Limits Constituent Emails · · Score: 1

    ding ding ding we have a winner.

    If I had mod points I'd be helping this post get to "Insightful 5"

  20. Re:Why didn't they just buy scrablous? on Scrabulous Is Dead, Hasbro's Version Brain-Dead · · Score: 5, Informative

    From what I understand Hasbro did offer to buy scrabulous and the developers wanted "fuck you money" for it rather than taking what they were offered and thanking Hasbro for not suing them for an obvious trademark infringement.

  21. Re:Why can't he sell it back? on Switching To Solar Power – One Month Later · · Score: 1, Informative
  22. Re:Please adhere to RFC on Gmail, SPF, and Broken Email Forwarding? · · Score: 4, Funny

    I present you Select/Copy/Paste. You can do that with almost all the new Operating Systems

    not on my iPhone you insensitive clod.

  23. Re:This is not AVG itself on AVG Fakes User Agent, Floods the Internet · · Score: 1

    It does it in Firefox too.

  24. Re:I turned it off on AVG Fakes User Agent, Floods the Internet · · Score: 1

    I turned it off too but the stupid exclamation point annoyed me more than the stupid check marks on Google searches.

    Now that I know what they're doing though I'll shut it off again.

  25. Re:Nothing like hypocrisy! on Cool/Weird Stuff To Do On a Cluster? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Al Gore is that you posting from your CO2 spewing private jet?