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  1. Re:Finally! on Barack Obama Wins US Presidency · · Score: 1

    over here, you don't really need a student loan... for starters, tuition is about 900â a year or so, then, getting a very cheap student room is pretty easy (about 200â/month)

  2. Re:Finally! on Barack Obama Wins US Presidency · · Score: 1

    nah, theft is actually what those super rich people are doing to society by keeping all the money they stole from you by enslaving all those chinese people to manufacture crap they can then sell you 100* the price it actually cost to build

  3. Re:Finally! on Barack Obama Wins US Presidency · · Score: 1

    that's because they got their actual funding from the private bankers (who sucked said riches into their own coffers, just like the current US economy)

  4. Re:Finally! on Barack Obama Wins US Presidency · · Score: 1

    bzzt, wrong, thanks for playing.
    The reason jobs went overseas was to increase the part of profit in business, so as to give all the profit money to the companies shareholders, who happened to be the pension funds.
    You can also add the trillions of bullshit derived financial products that just crapped out ;)

  5. Re:Finally! on Barack Obama Wins US Presidency · · Score: 1

    either the job is not that interesting, akin to flipping burgers, or your competitor across the street is paying double what you're offering. get over it and pay up ;)

  6. Re:Finally! on Barack Obama Wins US Presidency · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That's fine. How about those who would rather invest their money in innovative companies that build jobs? Oh, too bad, they have to give it to the government as a handout to the unproductive, who will remain unproductive as long as they're sucking on mama's teat.

    hmm, well... last I checked, companies in question were designing things in india, producing in china, and selling the shit in the US, all in the name of giving the pension funds their annual 20% profits... I don't see no US jobs in there
    so no, it doesn't make any sense to do what you're advocating

  7. Re:Finally! on Barack Obama Wins US Presidency · · Score: 2, Informative

    well, see over here, as a state employee in .fr, I make less than 30k net a year.
    out of that, I pay about 3k in income tax, and another 1.5k in local taxes.
    thing is, I don't have to worry about things like health insurance... when I go to the doctor, I present my state health insurance agency card, and off I go. same when I go to the pharmacy to pick up the goods... add to this, that my mother, who just came out from a double breast cancer also didn't have to pay a cent to be properly treated (including 4 or 5 surgeries)...
    now, try to beat that with the current fucked up healthcare system you have in the US...

  8. Re:Anyone know about the rest of the US? on Barack Obama Wins US Presidency · · Score: 1

    aren't these islands only composed of a large military base ?

  9. Re:Finally! on Barack Obama Wins US Presidency · · Score: 1, Interesting

    there is nothing wrong with paying taxes, when you can already afford a roof, transportation and food on your table.
    If I was an american earning 100k a year, I wouldn't mind paying 50% of my salary in taxes, if that was used to pay for proper healthcare for people doing the less honorable and underpayed jobs around me, like the janitor and the parking attendants...

  10. Re:Drat you Steve! on Users Rage Over Missing FireWire On New MacBooks · · Score: 1

    loads of studio sound cards use some form of firewire connection. see http://www.thomann.de/gb/firewire_audio_interfaces.html

  11. Sharepoint is the worst POS *ever* on Choosing a Replacement Email System For a University? · · Score: 1

    There are 4 public universities in Grenoble, fr, which couldn't agree on a solution, so the equivalent of the state (the region), decided for them to give 3MÂâ to Microsoft (as "it's used by everyone") for and exchange/sharepoint solution.

    well... it's the worst piece of shit *ever*. took 3 years to barely stabilize, requires a roomfull of servers (a dozen or so racksfull), is subject to monster spamming, takes forever to deliver mail 'cause it has to go through an unspecified number of anti-virus,...
    and I won't go into all the mailing list management crap.

  12. Re:Any have a link to the video? on Hackers Clone Elvis' Passport · · Score: 1

    how about getting youtube-dl ?

  13. Re:Yeah, Blu-Ray didn't win. on Bad Signs For Blu-ray · · Score: 1

    talking about how "Beta lost to VHS" is totally missing the point.
    in fact Beta still exists nowadays...

    if you search for "Digibeta" on google, you'll find that most SD professional products use that tape format ;)

  14. Re:Blu-Ray vs DVD on Bad Signs For Blu-ray · · Score: 1

    considering you can find 16G SD cards already, it can probably be done right now

  15. Re:DVD on Bad Signs For Blu-ray · · Score: 1

    how about using 1080p/24 instead which your all digital tv is now capable of ?

  16. Re:Noone likes DRM on Bad Signs For Blu-ray · · Score: 1

    how about what the fsck there's HDCP in the first place.
    after all, it's just a dumbass stopgap measure to prevent joe sixpack to do stuff.
    everyone else with half a brain and some knowledge of how digital video works is able to figure out where to solder a proper hack in his player to get the full un-encrypted picture out with something like http://www.pixelmagicsystems.com/products/sdi/bt656pro.htm (only for HD, obviously)

  17. Re:Noone likes DRM on Bad Signs For Blu-ray · · Score: 1

    it's the inkjet cartridge trick all over again ;)

  18. Re:Noone likes DRM on Bad Signs For Blu-ray · · Score: 1

    getting rid of unsold inventory to make space for new crap ;)

  19. Re:Noone likes DRM on Bad Signs For Blu-ray · · Score: 1

    probably because universal is part of the blue ray pact with sony ?

  20. Re:Noone likes DRM on Bad Signs For Blu-ray · · Score: 2, Insightful

    doesn't exactly work that way..

    1) parent buys disk
    2) parent puts disk in player for kids to watch (whatever kids movie)
    3) parent goes to the kitchen to make supper or something
    4) kids find it funny to open player and look at shiny disk, putting finger prints & scratches everywhere
    5) 30$ brand new disk is fscked the exact same day it was purchased, parent is pissed...
    6) parent goes fetch movie on thepiratebay.org and burns dvd out of the file, kids don't give a rats ass about High def

  21. Re:Noone likes DRM on Bad Signs For Blu-ray · · Score: 1

    they're managing restrictions to what the user can do with the product. so, it's "restrictions" and not "rights"

  22. Re:Facts on Nielsen Sends Wikipedia DMCA Takedown For Station Descriptions · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    neither parties did what you say.
    the british however, managed to start this civil war by boycotting american cotton.
    see http://www.themoneymasters.com/synopsis.htm

  23. Re:When a mobo manufacturer supports linux publicl on Foxconn Releases Test BIOS Fixing Linux Crashes · · Score: 1

    they're chinese. they need to save face. you have to understand someone's millenia-old culture prior to judging.

    PS: that's the sort of arrogance the world over is reproaching to the US.

  24. they need treatment... on Group Wants Wi-Fi Banned, Citing Allergy · · Score: 5, Funny

    send them to live in some remote caves in the mountains. as for me, I'm allergic to idiots

  25. Somehow this reminds me of something, but what ? on Linux Desktop to Appear On Every Asus Motherboard · · Score: 1

    ah, yeah, now I remember... coreboot