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  1. Nobody is arguing for a permanent deflationary economy, just that the FED unwillingness to follow it's mandate for a stable currency and permit chronic inflation is nothing but theft. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  2. Movie Pirate Compensation? on Falsely Accused Movie Pirate Deserves $17K Compensation, Court Says (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    I think Johnny Depp got way more than 17K.

  3. Re:Wrong even if correct on Bitcoin Could Rise By 165% To $2,000 in 2017 Driven by Trump's 'Spending Binge' and Dollar Rally (cnbc.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    [quote]Deflation increases the value of your savings, thus discouraging you from working[/quote]

    Really? So I just got a 'raise' at work from deflation, somehow that is demotivating? I am not going to bother with the rest of what you are saying.
    Inflation is a hidden tax that is destructive to savings and the economy.

  4. Re:Now make it a requirement that it's US-owned on Apple's Top Assembler Foxconn Confirms Plans for US Investment, To Create 50,000 Jobs (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    It's dominant because it has been the most successful. People subjugating and killing each other.... they all do.

  5. Car makers have been doing this for years. Manufacturers like Honda and BMW have plants to build cars for the domestic market. It make good business and political sense.....

  6. Re:Remember the Foxconn suicides? on Apple's Top Assembler Foxconn Confirms Plans for US Investment, To Create 50,000 Jobs (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Except here it will be robots jumping out of the windows.

  7. I love how Nixon was discredited in pretty much every aspect of his presidency but some stuff he says about China is canon.....

  8. Re:Now make it a requirement that it's US-owned on Apple's Top Assembler Foxconn Confirms Plans for US Investment, To Create 50,000 Jobs (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes. Because without having civic responsibility in the long run their business will be doomed.

  9. Classical Records on Vinyl Records Outsold Digital Downloads In the UK Last Week (adweek.com) · · Score: 1

    If you go used you can get things that are not available any more and can't be found on youtube or anywhere else.

  10. Re:Terrible decision, regardless of patent feeling on Supreme Court Rules For Samsung in Smartphone Fight With Apple (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    There is no rule of law in this country any more... if we are going to ignore the law at least let it be the dumb ones.

  11. Re:Terrible decision, regardless of patent feeling on Supreme Court Rules For Samsung in Smartphone Fight With Apple (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I don't give a shit what congress said 100+ years ago. Rationalizing that rounded corners is worth the entire profits of a phone is intuitively wrong.

  12. Re:between 3 and 10 Mb/s is slow? on Millions In US Still Living Life In Internet Slow Lane (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    What I don't understand is why a DOCSIS modem can't split say a 3.5mb line up into 3 separate 1mb lines. This would make sharing a line much better...

  13. Re: I'd kill for 3Mbps on Millions In US Still Living Life In Internet Slow Lane (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    i have 3.5 and netflix works fine

  14. I was going to joke about Nguyen being as common as Smith, but according to wikipedia as much as 40% of the population have the surname. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  15. Send them to Canada! on Climate Change Will Stir 'Unimaginable' Refugee Crisis, Says Military (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    --EOM--

  16. Re:Saint Nicolas on Russia Says Foreign Spies Plan Cyber Attack On Banking System (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    My grandfather was an immigrant we used to put wooden shoes on the porch he would put gifts in them.

  17. Re: Are we there yet? on Bitcoin Exchange Ordered To Give IRS Years of Data On Millions of Users (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    They aren't saying coinbase broke any laws. If they want to bust someone for tax evasion, by all means get a warrant and have coinbase release their records. What the IRS is asking to do is a huge overreach.

  18. Re:Are we there yet? on Bitcoin Exchange Ordered To Give IRS Years of Data On Millions of Users (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    That's equivalent to 802$ in 1970 dollars when the bank secrecy act was first passed....

  19. Re:Are we there yet? on Bitcoin Exchange Ordered To Give IRS Years of Data On Millions of Users (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    That 10,000$ specified by the 'Bank Secrecy Act' when passed in 1970 is worth 62,000$ today.

  20. Re:Are we there yet? on Bitcoin Exchange Ordered To Give IRS Years of Data On Millions of Users (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    No more or less than Coinbase's records.

  21. Are we there yet? on Bitcoin Exchange Ordered To Give IRS Years of Data On Millions of Users (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What is the difference between this and the IRS asking for banks to release 3 years of all of its customers records, because cash is anonymous?

  22. Re:Did that say classrooms? on UK ISPs To Start Sending 'Piracy Alerts' Soon (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Teaching kids about condoms and vpns is a parent's responsibility.

  23. Like what? I am curious to see what you can come up with. Also I like the interface but despise windows 8... the interface is fine for a phone.

  24. If you discount time wasting games and hookup apps there are plenty of applications for windows phone, although I think for some people that's all they care about.

  25. Re:guessing game on PC Market Shows Signs of Recovery (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    I am using a 950 myself, but not everyone has the ability to upgrade graphics card and add SSD. I imagine such a machine is pretty clunky now without any upgrades.