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  1. Re:The US isn't all first world. on Developing World's Parasites, Diseases Enter US · · Score: 1

    other than through your NI taxes, which are considerably less than US insurance premiums (when the actual cost of the premium is considered)

    That doesn't sound right to me... I pay £340 a month in NI taxes! That's about $560 USD - is health insurance really that expensive in the US?

  2. Re:Return on investment on Switching To Solar Power, One Year Later · · Score: 1

    WTF?! I live in the UK, and I spend about £33 GBP a month (~$54 USD)! How the hell do you manage to use so much electricity?!

  3. Re:Multi-fuel is a bad idea on Waste Coffee Grounds Offer New Source of Biodiesel · · Score: 1

    In the UK, diesel costs around 25% per litre thank petrol does. So if I get 25% better fuel economy, I'm not really saving any money... plus cars with diesel engines are more expensive here too...

  4. Re:What a waste of resources on NVIDIA Shows Interactive Ray Tracing On GPUs · · Score: 1

    The gameplay improvement is in deformable physical environments. Combined with mainstream physics engines, raytracing would allow for a sea-change in gameplay by allowing interactive gaming environments

    You must be a middle manager of some kind. "sea-change"?! Pah! What gaming environment is not interactive?! How exactly can we not use mainstream physics engines without raytracing? How can we not have deformable physical environments without raytracing?

  5. Re:First Post on Game Developer's Response To Pirates · · Score: 1

    But... if he hadn't paid for it... and he hadn't pirated it... how exactly would he be using it?!

  6. Re:Obvious on China to Build a Zero-Carbon Green City · · Score: 1

    the Tibet situation is one of the most appalling things to happen in the last 50 years or so

    There are far worse things that have happened, but for some reason Tibet seems to the the fashionable thing to go on about. Rwanda, Zimbabwe, Darfur, Somalia, Kenya, the Congo and Iraq to name but a few.

  7. Re:Good Luck... on China to Build a Zero-Carbon Green City · · Score: 1

    Few cities have been spared this cruel fate. Toronto, Canada is one of those few cities where commuting via mass transit is even a viable option for your average working-class guy, or even upper-middle class workers.

    Except London, Barcelona, Istanbul, Curitiba, Tokyo, Bangkok, Singapore...no doubt many more (these are just some places I've seen for myself). So it can be done!

  8. Re:no sale here either on Inside Apple's iPhone SDK Gag Order · · Score: 1

    The LG Viewty combines touch screen with tactile feedback - it will vibrate a little when you touch 'virtual' buttons. The amount it vibrates is configurable, and it works well.

  9. Re:Anyone recommend an online Mandarin turorial? on Chinese Government Accused of Hacking Congress · · Score: 1

    It certainly will be difficuly translating that without tone marks or tone numbers. Maybe you should post in Hanzi or Pinyin?!

  10. Re:Gotta agree with BOTH of you. on Chinese Government Accused of Hacking Congress · · Score: 1

    As an aside, the Japanese aren't the only ones living in denial: The American population may well be indoctrinated but they're not the only ones. Try and find an American school book which examines - honestly - America's history as it pertains to the genocide of the indigenous peoples of the americas. Good luck with that.