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  1. Re:What kind of a deal did they negotiate? on Walmart Goes Solar In California · · Score: 1

    If all those places pay more why not go work there? Oh guess the brain washing has got them huh?

  2. Re:What kind of a deal did they negotiate? on Walmart Goes Solar In California · · Score: 1

    people voted and decided it was better so it must be true.

    I'd say the question still stands.

  3. Re:Who Knew? on Comcast Launches Program For Low-Income Families · · Score: 1

    "In other news, for 15 Euros ($20) / month I can have 30mbps, plus 100MB/month for 3G. And it's not a special-offer-for-poor-people."

    That's a European plan of some kind right? How is that not a "special-offer-for-poor-people."

  4. Re:Honest Question on White House Proposes "Wealthy Tax" · · Score: 1

    I have had real jobs, now I have a career and once you get to that point, yes your employer does care about your moral and ability to perform and continue performing, but when the strings get drawn in tight they will also draw them in tight.

  5. Re:Misprepresenting Libertarian Position on Atlas Takes Heat For Melting Glacier Claim · · Score: 1

    Even farther, the investors directly. Why the F... would you put your money in a company you didn't research and make sure they were legit?

  6. Re:Honest Question on White House Proposes "Wealthy Tax" · · Score: 1

    Including the guy that employees you. Sorry to make up for it you get laid off and everyone else has to work harder to make up for you not being there.

  7. Re:Honest Question on White House Proposes "Wealthy Tax" · · Score: 1

    That may sound good to a typical communist propagandist, but it's just not true. Without Entrepreneurs all the labor in the world would whither with no direction. How many wheels would get mounted if there wasn't a manager to tell the workers to do it? How many managers would there be if there wasn't investors and planners building the factory to put wheels on cars at some point. I'd give you a hint, the number is shaped like a goose egg. Eventually the workers will only do what feeds themselves if they are even able to do that.

  8. Re:This is Slashdot . . . on Siemens To Exit Nuclear Power Business · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Or just far to few to be of any relevance.

  9. Re:"privitize" on US House 'Creator' of TSA Wants To Kill It · · Score: 1

    the plural of anecdote is not data.

  10. Re:Ooo. Voice commands! on Xbox TV Launch Planned Before End of Year · · Score: 1

    That's funny. I don't know of anyone who has never yelled, "Where's the fucking remote." at least once or twice a week, if not hourly.

  11. Re:"privitize" on US House 'Creator' of TSA Wants To Kill It · · Score: 1

    I think you mean the rich get richer and the middle class get richer, and the poor get richer too. At least that's what happens in reality.

  12. Re:can you patent a hypothetical material? on Algorithm Predicts New Superhard Materials · · Score: 1

    So my patent on "A method of using time travel as a landfill to send trash far enough forward in time that it no longer is of consequence" wont be accepted?

  13. Re:Wait a minute... on Ask Slashdot: Best Use For a New Supercomputing Cluster? · · Score: 1

    Yea, I almost got caught by that super computer in the impulse buy section at the drugstore checkout too.

  14. Re:Conspiracy Theorists on "Wi-Fi Refugees" Shelter in West Virginia Mountains · · Score: 1

    Yea, anti vaccine, Scientology, AGW fanatics, creationists, flat earthers, EMACS users and most religious beliefs. All part of the lunatic fringe. Best to put them on a reserve somewhere.

  15. Re:I am ok with it almost... on EU Extends Music Copyright to 70 Years · · Score: 1

    what a moron. You can't even find the actual laws that assign copyright, dickhead? Only a complete dumbfuck couldn't do the 30 seconds of googling required to find out.

    http://copyright.gov/title17/92chap2.html

    Got it, shit for brains?

  16. Re:I am ok with it almost... on EU Extends Music Copyright to 70 Years · · Score: 1

    The business entity only has distribution rights. The copyright is still owned by the one that produced it.

  17. Re: "general unchecked avarice" on Is There a Hearing Aid Price Bubble? · · Score: 1

    why not sell the hearing aid for $50k $500k $5M then?

    Ohh yea, cause you're wrong.

    If hearing aids are so cheap and easy to make lets get together and start making them. $50 to make each we could sell at $150, still be really cheap and make a killing at it. Wonder why nobody else has thought of this.

  18. Re: "general unchecked avarice" on Is There a Hearing Aid Price Bubble? · · Score: 1

    You sound like a sniveling liberal born of well to do parents. Not all parents were able to invest as yours may have. There were far more poor in the 50-70s than you let on.

  19. Re: "general unchecked avarice" on Is There a Hearing Aid Price Bubble? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    isn't wanting something cheaper just as greedy as wanting something more expensive?

    If I demand a $5 hearing aid how is that less greedy than charging $5k? Value is set by the individuals on both sides of a transaction.

  20. Re:Why does this remind me of the Heathkit story? on Is There a Hearing Aid Price Bubble? · · Score: 1

    Heathkit: Nope. Sorry, can't afford a hearing aid.

  21. Re:Oh No! on Is There a Hearing Aid Price Bubble? · · Score: 1

    buu-dud drum.

  22. Re:Time to Usable on Windows 8 To Feature 'Fast Startup Mode' · · Score: 1

    why not? Cant we align all the boot files so they isn't a random seek time and everything is streamed straight off the disk linearly? Of course this would have to be changed whenever a boot option changes, but that shouldn't be to bad.

  23. Re:Moore's Law on IBM, 3M Team To Glue Together Silicon "Bricks" · · Score: 1

    Or Moore's law will continue due exactly to this with doubling every 18 months until they hit the 1000x improvement where they will then have to look to other tech approaches to continue keeping up with Moore's law.

  24. Re:I see two things happening on Tech Company To Build Science Ghost Town In New Mexico · · Score: 1

    In soviet Russia:

    1) Move to Science Ghost Town
    2) ???
    3) You insensitive clod

    FTFY.

  25. Re:Of course he had a point on Marx May Have Had a Point · · Score: 1

    That is your core problem right there, not a single one of the examples you offer are examples of true communism. They all are - or were - examples of corrupt dictatorships where someone adopted the label of "communism", "marxism", or even "socialism" to make their brand of ruling more palatable to those who might otherwise oppose it.

    Could be said in very similar fashion about the US and "true" capitalism.