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  1. I gave a negaive Amazon review once on RIP: Prolific Amazon Customer Reviewer Harriet Klausner (1952-2015) (teleread.com) · · Score: 1

    and it was rejected. I don't know why. It was honest, objective, non-inflammatory. Just a boring review of how something broke in he first 3 months of lighter than typical usage (stopped working, no warranty).
    The reason given for the rejection was that it did not talk about the product directly. I said it worked fine until it stopped working and questioned the build quality. I stopped writing bad reviews after that, not that I've had another bad or defective product.
    I noticed on other sites many people have said the same thing that I did in my review. Amazon did however send me a replacement (of a different brand).

  2. The population density of sweden is 2x greater than kansas, 2.5x greater than nebraska, 10x greater than wyoming and 55x greater than alaska

  3. Re:Population Desnities on European ISPs Exaggerate Performance; US ISPs Slower But More Honest (itworld.com) · · Score: 1

    The EU population density is more uniform. The US population is mostly along the east and west coasts with a sparse interior.

  4. Re:Let's Remember the Important Thing Here on Landfall Nears For Strongest Hurricane In Recorded History (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    please keep these people in mind.

    Then what? I'll be thinking of you as you drown? That's kinda morbid

  5. Re:"says Burt P. Flickinger III" on Walmart Plays Catch-Up With Amazon · · Score: 1

    Not the most FAMOUS Robert Smith.

  6. Re:In and Out versus McDonalds on Is Too Much Choice Stressing Us Out? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    What do you consider long run, mcdonalds has been around for 60 years?

  7. Re:Shampoo on Is Too Much Choice Stressing Us Out? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    You joke, but I know someone who grew up communist who is exactly like this 100%.

  8. Re:Not wrong != optimized on Is Too Much Choice Stressing Us Out? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    But many people DO have trouble picking a jar of jam

    And over time, evolution is supposed to select those types of people out of the gene pool.

  9. Re:choices in jam (and other things) on Is Too Much Choice Stressing Us Out? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I've heard north korea only has one haircut.

  10. Re:If you only choose once, then what's the point? on Is Too Much Choice Stressing Us Out? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1
    You don't make 300 choices every time you go to the store. Your choices are built up over years of experience. My barber has three posters of haircut choices on the wall and I'm sure they'd off more on demand. When I go to get my haircut, I don't sit there for half an hour deliberating which of the 90 styles I should go with. The only choice I really have to make is sideburns or not.

    The thing is without choices, I would no be able to experiment try different things. The most closed person I know grew up in a communist country, won't even try new foods and lives on a diet of cabbage tomatoes and bread. How's that for reduction in choice?

  11. Re:Welcome to communism! on Is Too Much Choice Stressing Us Out? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    This was literally an objection that communism had to the west. Too many choices.

  12. Re:Capitalism on Is Too Much Choice Stressing Us Out? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    linux Oh, wait.

  13. Re:Irony on Is Too Much Choice Stressing Us Out? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Where can I find the "laws of Capitalism"?

  14. Re:Capitalism and cripple-to-option on Is Too Much Choice Stressing Us Out? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Caveat emptor has been around for thousands of years. I wouldn't bes urprised if primates practiced something like this also.

  15. Re:If, for what I wish was the last time on Is Too Much Choice Stressing Us Out? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    What is the design of capitalism and who designed it?

  16. Re:If, for what I wish was the last time on Is Too Much Choice Stressing Us Out? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Just because I'm a dickhead doesn't mean that I'm waiting just to screw everyone else over. If I have $10 and you're hungry and I don't give you money does not mean that I want to screw you over; it would most likely have nothing to do with you.

  17. Re:Gotta wonder. on The Problem With Mandatory Drone Registration (roboticstrends.com) · · Score: 1

    The skeye (as advertised on slashdot) looks to be about the size of a quarter. The RoboBee designed at Harvard to fly in swarms is the size of a penny. Not hard to envision these shrinking even further even with the inclusion of video transmitters.

  18. Re: License Plates and registrations ... on The Problem With Mandatory Drone Registration (roboticstrends.com) · · Score: 1
  19. Re:what's the point? on The Problem With Mandatory Drone Registration (roboticstrends.com) · · Score: 1

    When a paper airplane can be a drone, how are you going to register them all? Are you going to require registration for helium party balloons?

  20. Re:First guy to get the education question right on Interviews: John McAfee Answers Your Questions About His Presidential Bid · · Score: 1

    When you factor in the college wage premium, the cost is lower than it has been since the 50's. Median college debt is around $30k

  21. Lawful good on UK High Court: Uber Is Lawful (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    or lawful evil?

  22. Good thing I fly sailplanes

  23. I built planes in grade school capable of far more destruction than any quadrotor.

  24. Re:Bull on NBC News Reports US Will Require Registration For Consumer Drones (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    There are youtube channels that show you how to build a plane capable of carrying a few kg for of $3 of parts purchased from the dollar store. It only takes a few minutes and $100 of electronics.