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  1. Re:Turn signals are a good thing on Ford System Will Warn, Correct Lane-Drifting Drivers · · Score: 1

    Of course, when I had a F350 raised up, everybody gave me room right away. I miss that beast.

    Of course they do. Too many people use those trucks to cause mass destruction. I had one hit me at 50 MPH as it ran through a red light. I was on a motorcycle making a left-hand turn through a green arrow. Most of the time, douches drive them.

  2. Re:Turn signals are a good thing on Ford System Will Warn, Correct Lane-Drifting Drivers · · Score: 1

    That only happens where more street policing is necessary.
    Or Boston, Baltimore, and Washington D.C....

  3. Re:Turn signals are a good thing on Ford System Will Warn, Correct Lane-Drifting Drivers · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a good Pavlovian way to train people to START using turn signals for lane changes.

  4. Re:eh on Why We Agonize Over Buying $1 Apps · · Score: 1

    That's the bitch about software.

  5. Re:Laws can be amended. on Why We Agonize Over Buying $1 Apps · · Score: 1

    Bite your tongue on the use of the word "entitlement" when you speak the words Social Security.
    Everyone who works puts money into the basket for that, and by theory it's a nest egg. It's not like people sit around and do nothing, then get a paycheck at ${RETIREMENT_AGE}

  6. Re:I can tell you why... on Why We Agonize Over Buying $1 Apps · · Score: 1

    What the shit is everyones idea of a $4 coffee?
    I swear to god, that comparison is so old and outdated. I've never bought a $4 coffee, and I DO go to Starbucks.

    Replace the word coffee with what it is... something other than a coffee. When you use the word coffee, use the right price. It's like me saying "oh, I hate spending $200,000 on a car." when I'm talking about a house. Latte is not coffee, and cars are not houses.

  7. Re:Seriously? on Why We Agonize Over Buying $1 Apps · · Score: 1

    Therein lies the problem... most apps have no demo. You read, and if you like the description and screenshots then you buy.

  8. Re:erm on Recent Discovery Contains Oldest Depiction of the Tower of Babel · · Score: 1

    yeah, it was an actual name.

  9. Re:Tower of Babel on Recent Discovery Contains Oldest Depiction of the Tower of Babel · · Score: 1

    ... there's an app for that....

  10. Re:Tower of Babel on Recent Discovery Contains Oldest Depiction of the Tower of Babel · · Score: 1

    or as far fetched as it is, it was probably a large canoe with some families rowing ;)

  11. Re:Tower of Babel on Recent Discovery Contains Oldest Depiction of the Tower of Babel · · Score: 1

    I remember a day where languages slowly evolved in such ways, creating new words that were once derivative colloquialisms of others.

  12. Re:Babylon is in Central/Southern Africa? on Recent Discovery Contains Oldest Depiction of the Tower of Babel · · Score: 5, Funny

    I always thought that 7 meant read/write/execute, 6 meant read/write, 3 meant write/execute, and 777 meant wide-open?

  13. Re:Tower of Babel on Recent Discovery Contains Oldest Depiction of the Tower of Babel · · Score: 1

    in general, war is fascist.

  14. Re:Tower of Babel on Recent Discovery Contains Oldest Depiction of the Tower of Babel · · Score: 1

    I'd have to say that Stalin took the dickishness award by multitudes.

  15. Re:Tower of Babel on Recent Discovery Contains Oldest Depiction of the Tower of Babel · · Score: 1

    While I appreciate your historical references and teachings to us, please please please please (did I mention please? I'm trying to be nice) DON'T use acronyms. Unless you've been inundated with the name "adolf hilter", and whatever HG stands for, you don't translate the acronyms on the fly.. and it just ruins your entire paragraph.

  16. Re:Tower of Babel on Recent Discovery Contains Oldest Depiction of the Tower of Babel · · Score: 1

    So... what was with the (seemingly obvious) misspelling of 'contraire'?

  17. Re:Tower of Babel on Recent Discovery Contains Oldest Depiction of the Tower of Babel · · Score: 1

    When talking about socialism/communism, I'm sure he's referring to the marxist style relationship of the two.
    Unfortunately, with Lenin's death the early infant Marxism of soviet Russia never had a true play and socialism turned into totalitarianism.

  18. Re:AppleCare on Apple Fined By Italy For Misleading Customers About Warranty Terms · · Score: 1

    Just have to add in that the on-line service is just convenience. Most of the support is performed via phone or store.

  19. Re:Easy to fix on Apple Fined By Italy For Misleading Customers About Warranty Terms · · Score: 1

    I imagine it'd be quite simple to put a lifetime warranty on anything... the lifetime of that item. Besides, it's a computer item. It's a known consumable.
    Name one thing that has a lifetime warranty which doesn't have so many stipulations that when the time comes and it's broke that your basically stuck in the corner. (read: original purchase receipt, original packaging to send it back, registered item via mail and kept the company updated with address, etc etc)

  20. Re:Oh *now* they step in to protect their citizens on Apple Fined By Italy For Misleading Customers About Warranty Terms · · Score: 1

    That made no sense whatsoever.

  21. Re:Not surprised... on Apple Fined By Italy For Misleading Customers About Warranty Terms · · Score: 0

    It's a gaming machine, of course the graphics card is going to be better... the machine is kinda biased in that area. The same price point Macbook Pro ($1,199) has the same processor style.
    It's obviously not a gaming machine, so you're not in the demographic. No gaming machine needs Firewire-800, airplay, mini-displayport with thunderbolt, nor superdrive. Coming stock with 4GB ram & upgradable to 16GB I guess is outside of that demographic as well.

  22. Re:Not surprised... on Apple Fined By Italy For Misleading Customers About Warranty Terms · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Never had a problem... when I take it to the shop, plop it down, and say "it's broke, make it work".
    I did that with my iMac, and they replaced it in 90 seconds. From what you're saying, I feel lucky I live near Scottsdale, AZ then... because the reality distortion field is working in my favor.

  23. Re:Budgets on Apple Fined By Italy For Misleading Customers About Warranty Terms · · Score: 1

    ... or just wait for Italy to be solvent again and restructure it's government.
    I swear to christ, the country is like a phoenix.

  24. Re:Should Government micromanage our health? on IBM Granted Your-Paychecks-Are-What-You-Eat Patent · · Score: 1

    Be a good citizen, do as your told.
    The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the one, or the few.

  25. Re:How do you determine healthy food? on IBM Granted Your-Paychecks-Are-What-You-Eat Patent · · Score: 1

    low-fat != engineered.
    engineered == engineered.