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  1. Re:How "An Inconvenient Truth" can it get on Huge Freshwater Bulge In Arctic Ocean · · Score: 2

    Yes you moron, we DO need to get the government, our representative, to do something about these ocean currents- namely cutting down on pollution. Will you let your irrational hate blind you until the west coast is underwater?

  2. Re:Trickle Down on How the US Lost Out On iPhone Work · · Score: 1

    China only owns $1 trillion of our debt.

  3. Re:Mod points! on How the US Lost Out On iPhone Work · · Score: 1

    rose-colored goggle\s

  4. Re:Why Chinese goods are cheap on How the US Lost Out On iPhone Work · · Score: 1

    Also China's inflation is due to a massively hot economy that is developing at a rapid pace. We need to inflate to decrease the value of household debt in America and to combat China's currency manipulation.

  5. Re:Why Chinese goods are cheap on How the US Lost Out On iPhone Work · · Score: 1

    Your economics are entirely messed up. Core inflation is at an all time low right now because we're in a liquidity trap. Why do laymen feel the need to comment on economics? I just don't understand.

  6. Re:Perhaps that needs to be forced onto Apple on How the US Lost Out On iPhone Work · · Score: 1

    Say what?! Time to call in the CIA. A coup is in order.

  7. Re:Perhaps that needs to be forced onto Apple on How the US Lost Out On iPhone Work · · Score: 1

    China would grow regardless, but it would be slightly slower. That's a fair trade.

  8. Re:So, to translate: on How the US Lost Out On iPhone Work · · Score: 1

    GDP/capita in China is $6000, wage labor is on the low end. I've read they earn about $240/month.

  9. Re:To give an example on How the US Lost Out On iPhone Work · · Score: 1

    Small businesses can't take advantage of the massive tax credits and loopholes the giants pay. Google pays something like a 3% tax rate.

  10. Re:No, the US has too much freedom for Apple. on How the US Lost Out On iPhone Work · · Score: 1

    Lol the worker whose quality of work earns the socipath money is now a burden.

  11. Re:No, the US has too much freedom for Apple. on How the US Lost Out On iPhone Work · · Score: 1

    That's a generously high estimate. Most likely in reality it would be half that or even less.

  12. Re:No, it's the problem of so-called "free trade" on How the US Lost Out On iPhone Work · · Score: 1

    NAFTA wasn't a mistake to the people who pushed it through.

    It was originally meant to create trade partnerships with the likes of Taiwan, who had a GDP of $15,000/year and is now nearly at parity with us. But it was extended to the likes of China and Mexico by corporate lobbyists. The consequences have been devastating.

  13. Re:Yeah...but on How the US Lost Out On iPhone Work · · Score: 1

    Actually he's complicit in the destruction of our society and economy, and puts down others who don't wish to destroy their life for the sake of earning money. He's worse than most, since a better person would cobble together a union to demand fair pay and treatment from their employers.

  14. Re:Yeah...but on How the US Lost Out On iPhone Work · · Score: 1

    You just know the spoiled, sycophantic freaks who agree with Apple would be throwing a ruckus like you wouldn't believe if they were put in that situation. Honest to god I hope a heaven exists, just so the baby boomer generation complicit in the destruction of our society can meet their maker and be sent to the depths of Hades to be tortured for their sins.

  15. Re:Yeah...but on How the US Lost Out On iPhone Work · · Score: 1

    It also speaks to the sociopathic nature of the speaker in the article and the sycophantic tendencies of the people who agree with him.

  16. Re:Yeah...but on How the US Lost Out On iPhone Work · · Score: 1

    Admit it, you just like the girls.

  17. Re:Yeah...but on How the US Lost Out On iPhone Work · · Score: 1

    You're lying about the $1.20/hour. 1500 RMB is $240/month. That's $8/day, for far more than 8 hours of work per day. Please stop lying.

  18. Re:An interesting metric on How the US Lost Out On iPhone Work · · Score: 1

    Given you yourself are an insufferable douchebag that not a soul would tolerate living with, I find it rather ironic you would advise people cohabitate.

  19. Re:The open question... on 2011 Was the 9th Hottest Year On Record · · Score: 0

    You people are scum. Greedy douchebags who would rather the world burn around them than let go of one cent for humanity's benefit, and you will character assassinate as many as it takes without any guilt or conscience.

  20. Re:Isn't that anti-science? on Is Climate Change the New Evolution? · · Score: 1

    What? Do you enjoy living in a fantasy world where you make things up to satisfy your beliefs?

  21. Re:Isn't that anti-science? on Is Climate Change the New Evolution? · · Score: 1

    I like elephants.

    And cows. Moo00!

  22. Re:It would be a mistake on Samsung Could Soon Start To Twist Google's Arm · · Score: 1

    Are you nuts? You think the market could be monopolized by one stupid phone? If Google hadn't come webOS might have succeeded. Intel was gearing up to push MeeGo. webOS and MeeGo would have been far superior to freaking Android.

  23. Re:Eric Schmidt, master of non-answers on Eric Schmidt Doesn't Think Android Is Fragmented · · Score: 1

    No it doesn't. You've obviously never used it before. It works pretty much perfectly, and some browsers give you the option to maintain text format upon zooming back out, which saves you the slight pause of waiting for the reformat. I just wish they employed text reflow in desktop browsers.

  24. Re:Eric Schmidt, master of non-answers on Eric Schmidt Doesn't Think Android Is Fragmented · · Score: 1

    I doubt such a small feature could make Android's performance so poor.

  25. Re:I just got back from a job fair today on Do Companies Punish Workers Who Take Vacations? · · Score: 1

    Money is not a resource. Money is not gold. It is not a thing. It's just numbers in a computer. The government could print a $15 trillion coin and pay off all debt. The money would end up in banks... which aren't lending. Even now corporations and banks are sitting on record amounts of money but not spending it.

    >yet when things went south the federal response was to greatly increase spending. Its crazy.

    No it's not crazy you bumbling idiot. Check the CBO stats. Without the stimulus we'd be in a far worse situation. The biggest problem was the stimulus was too small. It was supposed to be 3 times bigger but instead political retards cut it down, with half going to useless tax cuts. Now we've lost far more revenue thanks to the recession.

    I hate explaining basic econ to people. They live in a fantasy where society experiences scarcity of wealth, and rely on their instinctual need to hunker down in the face of turmoil.