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  1. Re:Capitalism does not reward morality on Is a Moral Compass a Hindrance Or a Help For Startups? · · Score: 1

    Much of the economic wealth of the US in the 19th century came from the natural resources that were not yet exploited and the ability to exploit them and people without too many repercussions. As stated above, your a fool.
    Read a little about the lumber wealth of the new world for some insight into this topic.

  2. Re:Capitalism does not reward morality on Is a Moral Compass a Hindrance Or a Help For Startups? · · Score: 1

    When you say "edge case" you really show your true background. It must be nice to have been born into affluence. Are you that 27 year old millionaire that was on Yahoo finance?

    The real problem with capitalism, is that it values capital more then labor, much more. That's what screws people in our system. You are stealing a little time and labor from alot of people to build the capital, and there is nothing they can do about it because capital has the power.

    As one of the people, I prefer people have the power, not capital.

  3. Re:Capitalism does not reward morality on Is a Moral Compass a Hindrance Or a Help For Startups? · · Score: 1

    Your approach is madness. Charity orphanages would be perfect for oil field workers. We gave you 18 years, you give us 18 years, sounds fair, but it's slavery.

    Also, how many jobs in todays economy go to someone who knows someone, that's the way of the world and it only gets worse and quickly spirals into fuedalism in your scenario.

  4. Re:Capitalism does not reward morality on Is a Moral Compass a Hindrance Or a Help For Startups? · · Score: 1

    bullshit, The scenario where everything is owned happens every day to plenty of people.

  5. Re:IQ of congress on Number of Coders In Congress To Triple (From One To Three) · · Score: 1

    Just a cursory glance at this page shows plenty of hurricans making landfall in the last 10 years. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...

  6. Re:Let me be the first to say on Head of FCC Proposes Increasing Internet School Fund · · Score: 1

    It sounds like your in an urban area, rural areas have plenty of connectivity issues.

  7. Re:Yawn ... on Microsoft Azure Outage Across the Globe · · Score: 1

    Judging from my anecdotal evidence, your correct;
    All of these people who say "awesome, because, cloud" -- well, I have yet to be convinced that any of these vendors can provide as much uptime and reliability as a decent IT department.

    Unfortunately, also from my anecdotal evidence, decent IT departments are few and far between. Budget constraints have gutted them and few are willing to pay the premium for a good admin. They prefer to hire an "entry level" admin and set their salaries accordingly.
    That's why I have moved from Win to Lin. They wheat to chaff admin ratio is much better.

  8. Re:Was impressed until.. on What the US Can Learn From Canada's Internet Policy · · Score: 1

    citation needed.

    Possibly the policy cost would not be dischargable, but I'm pretty sure they would just stop the policy.

  9. Re:Was impressed until.. on What the US Can Learn From Canada's Internet Policy · · Score: 1

    classic case of, "I got mine"

  10. Re:Was impressed until.. on What the US Can Learn From Canada's Internet Policy · · Score: 1

    The conservatives basically won't be happy until they can warehouse poor people in pods and give them gruel twice a day.

  11. Re:Was impressed until.. on What the US Can Learn From Canada's Internet Policy · · Score: 1

    Interestingly enough, and unknown to many people, some state and local government agencies were not bound by those rules. They still might not be. You could switch to a job at a state agency and get caught with the pre-existing condition clause.

  12. Re:Split last-mile from ISP on Can the US Actually Cultivate Local Competition in Broadband? · · Score: 1

    Let me guess, this guy lives in an area where there is effectively one party in charge and nobody else bothers to run.

  13. Re:One problem solved, now the other... on US School Installs 'Shooter Detection' System · · Score: 1

    You don't sound very well informed, the system is definitely hard to get into without insurance or private pay. Even with those there are the difficulties you mention.

  14. Re:ISPs don't want to take Cogent's money on President Obama Backs Regulation of Broadband As a Utility · · Score: 1

    sorry, but netflix blows basic cable away.

  15. Re:ISPs don't want to take Cogent's money on President Obama Backs Regulation of Broadband As a Utility · · Score: 1

    When they double them without offering any additional value

    Orange is the New Black, Hemlock Grove, Disney movies, almost every show on Cartoon Network, every hit show from the cable providers (Breaking Bad, Walking Dead, etc)

    All added since the price increase, which I think was mostly to discourage dvd customers, since they want out of that market.

  16. Re:ISPs don't want to take Cogent's money on President Obama Backs Regulation of Broadband As a Utility · · Score: 2

    I think there were alot of Netflix early adopters that essentially want everything to be available, they won't be happy with less. I am one of the later adopters who grabbed it for the value. Essentially any show worth watching shows up on Netflix. There is some delay, but with their deep catalog I can always find something to watch. It's also about 1/10th the price of cable, more like 1/15th.

  17. Re:Point-to-multipoint vs. video on demand on President Obama Backs Regulation of Broadband As a Utility · · Score: 1

    I use Uverse, it is IPTV. There is no difference if that stream is AT&T's or Netflix's (on the last mile).

  18. Re:Worthless degrees on The Students Who Feel They Have the Right To Cheat · · Score: 1

    My kids learn fractions, you should move.

  19. Re:Ok... just turned two score, but... on The Students Who Feel They Have the Right To Cheat · · Score: 5, Insightful

    About to hit 42 myself and completely agree. And we were thought to be completely rotten teens by adults.... today's kids make us look like genius saints.
    -said every 42 year old in history...

  20. Re:Lucky for Stripe on Online Payment Firm Stripe Boots 3D Gun Designer Cody Wilson's Companies · · Score: 1

    I think you have confused faith and fact, sorry.

  21. Re:yesterday. Different kind of bums in January on Gigabit Internet Connections Make Property Values Rise · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure the cut-and-spend bums are any better then the tax-and-spend bums.

  22. Re:Lucky for Stripe on Online Payment Firm Stripe Boots 3D Gun Designer Cody Wilson's Companies · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, this discussion won't make it to the supreme court for clarification, so we can only look at existing decisions and say they are settled, because they are settled. That's what the court does, it verifies that the law is being implemented correctly based on what was written.

  23. Re:Lucky for Stripe on Online Payment Firm Stripe Boots 3D Gun Designer Cody Wilson's Companies · · Score: 1

    Give him a break, he's obviously slow (to embrace change, conservative).

  24. Re:Lucky for Stripe on Online Payment Firm Stripe Boots 3D Gun Designer Cody Wilson's Companies · · Score: 1

    No, he pointed to the place it says as confirmed by the Supreme Court. Ignorance is no defense.

  25. Re:There's a clue shortage on The Great IT Hiring He-Said / She-Said · · Score: 1

    Remarkably insightful. Thanks.

    If I had a nickel for everytime I assumed "right thing" was happening only to get "bare minimum" I would be rich man...
    And people wonder why I'm jaded.