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  1. Nope instead your insurance premiums will continue to cover other people's bills. You know, since that's how all insurance works.

  2. Re:This is unconstitutional on FCC To Halt Expansion of Broadband Subsidies For Poor People (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It's only "unconstitutional" if you ignore 200 years of constitutional jurisprudence.

  3. Re:I know it's crazy but... on FCC To Halt Expansion of Broadband Subsidies For Poor People (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If a poor person needs to use high speed broadband (they have computers, right?) then they can go straight to the public library and use it. For free.

    Because public libraries are funded by money that poofs into existence?

  4. Re: Just install a 3rd party ROM on the phone on Verizon To Force 'AppFlash' Spyware On Android Phones · · Score: 5, Insightful

    In comparison to Verizon? Yes. By many miles.

  5. Re:Cash Out on Jeff Bezos Is Now the World's Second Richest Person (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's easier to have higher percentage growth when you're less than 1/10th the size of your competitor.

  6. Re:Cash Out on Jeff Bezos Is Now the World's Second Richest Person (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    He's cherry picking numbers. Amazon does 10x the revenue of Alibaba just from first-party sales.

  7. Re:Cash Out on Jeff Bezos Is Now the World's Second Richest Person (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Alibaba info here: http://alibaba.newshq.business... under Full Fiscal Year 2016 Operational and Financial Results
    Amazon info here: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/e...

  8. Re:Cash Out on Jeff Bezos Is Now the World's Second Richest Person (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    That's some interesting alternative facts.

    Amazon Revenue FY2016: $136 billion USD
    Alibaba Revenue FY2016: $15.6 billion USD

  9. Re:Could jailbreaking being dead be a major factor on App Store Sales For Android To Overtake Apple's iOS, Research Firm Says (sfgate.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah jailbreaking. That thing that only a fraction of a single percent of iPhone owners do.

  10. Re:It's all they had left. on App Store Sales For Android To Overtake Apple's iOS, Research Firm Says (sfgate.com) · · Score: 1

    Laugh that it takes 5 times as many users to generate the same amount of revenue?

  11. Yeah these are the same tea leaf readers who used to say Windows Phone was gonna have double digit market share.

  12. Re:Let it begin! on Bay Area Tech Executives Indicted For H-1B Visa Fraud (mercurynews.com) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    +5 funny.

  13. Re:Hell, it's about time. on Bay Area Tech Executives Indicted For H-1B Visa Fraud (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    By electing a president of a multinational corporation who staffed his cabinet with globalist billionaires? Yeah, sure, bro.

  14. Re: Just the start on GameStop To Close At Least 150 Stores Due To Poor Q4 Sales (nintendowire.com) · · Score: 1

    I just looked on Gamestop's and you are comparing a used GoTY edition to the older, non-GoTY edition. Hardly apples to apples.

  15. Re:A bad hard drive isn't MS's fault on Class Action Lawsuit Launched Over Forced Windows 10 Upgrades (courthousenews.com) · · Score: 1

    Or it will simply fail such that you won't have that luxury.

  16. The trailer showed the same zooming both in replay and live play.

  17. 4k is being stated as the highest-level of the graphics. It's not locked at 4k only.

  18. No, the new version allows zooming in and out.

  19. Re:Consumerism is all about this on New Release Of StarCraft In 4K Ultra High Definition Announced (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Just because you may not want this doesn't mean no one does.

  20. Re:No LAN play? and will you have to rebuy this? on New Release Of StarCraft In 4K Ultra High Definition Announced (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Where are you pulling this bullshit from? Their promo video explocitly says LAN play.

  21. Because of the size and resolution of the sprites.

  22. Hahaha on FedEx Will Pay You $5 To Install Flash (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Still $100 too expensive.

  23. Boohoo. Then make better movies. It's not other people's fault for expressing their opinion in public.

  24. Google fired Symantec's employees? lolwut?

  25. You do realize that this site has always been accessible and viewable all without an account, right?