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  1. Re: True Costs on Microsoft Cheaper To Use Than Open Source Software, UK CIO Says · · Score: 1

    Yeah I can just see the headlines if a government department bought Macs for its staff.

  2. Re:If not... on Did the Ignition Key Just Die? · · Score: 2

    The Windows 8 interface being a case in point where there's overwhelming dislike of that poorly thought out mess but there are still plenty of people here in favour of it because new is always better.

  3. Re: Breaking News: Rand Paul Invents... on Rand Paul Suggests Backing Bitcoin With Stocks · · Score: 1

    The NHS and the welfare state are different things. One is a health service and the other is a social security system. I'm not sure where the rest of your waffle is going but then this is a typical tactic by libertarians - end the argument by boring the shit out of the opponent.

  4. Re:Breaking News: Rand Paul Invents... on Rand Paul Suggests Backing Bitcoin With Stocks · · Score: 1

    I know it is genius. I am from here and the reference was to British youth or did you happen to miss that while you were quoting it? If British youth really were libertarian leaning as that opinion piece seems to suggest then they would see the NHS as a bad thing. Knowing more British youth than either you or the author, I'm telling you that's not true. But then you also missed the fact that I was making a sarcastic reference to the ridiculous hysteria about universal healthcare in your country.

  5. Re:Breaking News: Rand Paul Invents... on Rand Paul Suggests Backing Bitcoin With Stocks · · Score: 1

    Yes I did thanks. Not a strawman just knowledge of my country and its people.

  6. Re: Let police officers take care of it. on Death Wish Meets GPS: iPhone Theft Victims Confronting Perps · · Score: 1

    I thought it would be something like that. Easy tax avoidance strategy. Don't speed. Don't park where it says you shouldn't. Clean up after your dog. Your example is disgraceful for sure but I get so tired of hearing OMG TAX from people when they've been punished for deliberately breaking the law.

  7. Re: Let police officers take care of it. on Death Wish Meets GPS: iPhone Theft Victims Confronting Perps · · Score: 1

    Tax collection?

  8. Re: just can't win... on Why Microsoft Shouldn't Patch the XP Internet Explorer Flaw · · Score: 1

    Given that their monopoly abuse is what led to this clusterfuck they should provide patches until the end of time.

  9. Re:Breaking News: Rand Paul Invents... on Rand Paul Suggests Backing Bitcoin With Stocks · · Score: 1

    I'd dispute that British youth would support the removal of the NHS which as we all know is an attack on people's fundamental freedom to die of preventable diseases

  10. Re:Breaking News: Rand Paul Invents... on Rand Paul Suggests Backing Bitcoin With Stocks · · Score: 1

    Because they identify themselves as libertarian? Are they lying? How do I tell?

  11. Re:Breaking News: Rand Paul Invents... on Rand Paul Suggests Backing Bitcoin With Stocks · · Score: 1

    Define basic services. I've had libertarians on here say that fire services should be provided by the private sector and anyone who can't afford to pay should spend what little free time they have after working 80 hours a week just to feed their kids as a volunteer fireman. A lot of people would argue that things like education and healthcare are also basic services since they contribute to the well-being of the nation.

  12. Re: Plumber-architects on The Ways Programming Is Hard · · Score: 1

    Until you have to unblock a toilet.

  13. Re: programming is hard on The Ways Programming Is Hard · · Score: 1

    I'm glad I'm not the only one who hates that patronising phrase. You're not dying of starvation or disease so you should be happy all the time.

  14. Re: Was FORTRAN really that hard? on 50 Years of BASIC, the Language That Made Computers Personal · · Score: 1

    Yeah we've still got a few of them too. They work and rarely need any changes so they'll probably last a few more years. Server 2012 supports it so it's not going away quietly.

  15. Re:Was FORTRAN really that hard? on 50 Years of BASIC, the Language That Made Computers Personal · · Score: 1

    VB.NET is still very much alive.

  16. Re: The flaw in the Fermi Paradox on Are Habitable Exoplanets Bad News For Humanity? · · Score: 1

    Not to mention that even if they were in the solar system they wouldn't necessarily be in a form we'd recognise as life. The premise of the Fermi Paradox seems very simplistic to me, as if aliens would just turn up in flying saucers and be humanoids. You only need to look at how diverse life is on one single planet to imagine how utterly different an alien could be to us.

  17. Re: Are AFRICANS capable of interstellar travel? on Are Habitable Exoplanets Bad News For Humanity? · · Score: 1

    They managed to build huge fucking pyramids thousands of years before whitey managed to figure out how to make a house.

  18. Re: Fermi paradox on Are Habitable Exoplanets Bad News For Humanity? · · Score: 1

    Exactly. We can barely detect planets never mind any kind of starship or technological civilization.

  19. Re: Maybe not extinction... on Are Habitable Exoplanets Bad News For Humanity? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Capitalism didn't create the internet or WWW that you're currently talking shit on. In fact we learned today that the FCC is going to allow capitalists to fuck the internet up at least in the US.

  20. Re:How the west wasn't won on NASA Chief Tells the Critics of Exploration Plan: "Get Over It" · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And yet without governments there would be no space technology.

  21. Re:The King of 18th Century England Called on California Utility May Replace IT Workers with H-1B Workers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I have to pay my mortgage now. I can't afford to wait for your utopia.

  22. Re:Militia, then vs now on Retired SCOTUS Justice Wants To 'Fix' the Second Amendment · · Score: 1

    And a well-armed citizenry has prevented precisely none of those abuses.

  23. Re:Polution tax on Pollution In China Could Be Driving Freak Weather In US · · Score: 1

    Labour costs on a microwave are $700? Wow we need to outsource to the USA at once!

  24. Impossible! on Pollution In China Could Be Driving Freak Weather In US · · Score: -1, Troll

    Weather cannot be affected by human activity. Fox News and posters on the internet have comprehensively debunked the lies of these so-called "scientists" and "experts".

  25. Re:Nope, not okay for either on Microsoft Confirms It Is Dropping Windows 8.1 Support · · Score: 1

    One typo and one error in semantics oh noes. Datacenter still costs what it costs and you won't be able to legally use it unless you pay that money.