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  1. Re:Fiscal Policy on Ask Slashdot: What Planks Would You Want In a Platform of a Political Party? · · Score: 1

    For a start, a country which can print its own currency can't really go bankrupt.

    And what if declaring bankruptcy would be better than cutting the deficit?

  2. Re:How to get home after staying after school on Why PC Sales Are Declining · · Score: 1

    It wouldn't be homework it would be part of the class. How would a school set programming homework, you can't guarantee anyone has a computer, let alone one with a compiler.

  3. Re:Bringing home programming homework on Why PC Sales Are Declining · · Score: 1

    He doesn't bring home his programming homework, he does it at school.

    And you replace your laptop with a bigger laptop or a tablet.

  4. Re:The folks who want the latest stuff just build on Why PC Sales Are Declining · · Score: 1

    The market for playing Crysis 3 on a high-end PC isn't that great. Most people will either play low-end PC games on Intel integrated video, console games on AMD or on a phone.

  5. Well this sounds totally scalable on Building a Better Tech School · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Will every other school be getting perks like a government bureaucrat working for you full time, and free expensive office space from a company?

  6. Re:Winter of Discontent on Margaret Thatcher Dies At 87 · · Score: 1

    She won because the left-wing vote was split between multiple parties whilst she had the right-wing vote for herself. She wouldn't have lasted long in a country with a modern voting system.

  7. Re:Bullshit! on Should California Have Banned Checking Smartphone Maps While Driving? · · Score: 1

    Since when is it acceptable to eat whilst driving????

    And why do you need to look at the odometer? Or fiddle with the heating and radio? You can do all those things before you set off.

  8. Re:No you don't. on No Such Thing As a Tax-Free Lunch At Google? · · Score: 1

    Yeah except government finances have absolutely nothing in common with household finances. For a start, households can't increase their income as they like, and can't print money. Nor do they benefit from the same low interest rates as governments.

  9. Re:The question on Intrade Shutdown Hurts Academics · · Score: 1

    Government has the right to do so, and has always had the right to do so. They can ban anything they like, and have the means to enforce it.

  10. Re:Too expensive on Is the Wii U Already Dead? · · Score: 1

    The Xbox and Playstation aren't competing against your PC, they're competing against the average PC which is probably a laptop with onboard graphics and no controller.

  11. Re:Nobody goes to war anymore. on US Stealth Jet Has To Talk To Allied Planes Over Unsecured Radio · · Score: 1

    I will say there is something 'unchivalrous', unfair and perhaps war-crime-worthy in using weapons that do not expose one's own fighters to some level of risk.

    They used to say that about arrows.

  12. Re:Buy local honey on Laser Intended For Mars Used To Detect "Honey Laundering" · · Score: 2

    If the honey in your grocery store is cheaper, now you know why. People expect their food to be dirt cheap without any consequences. This, and the horseburger scandal are the natural end-game to decades of relentless cost-cutting by supermarkets and bargain-chasing by consumers.

  13. Re:Kids on Six Months Without Adobe Flash, and I Feel Fine · · Score: 1

    There's a reason they secretly enroll you into the HTML5 trial on Youtube without telling you: it's because it's awful. I had weeks of terrible playback before I worked out what was going on and reverted to flash.

    I wonder how many other people are wondering why Youtube keeps stuttering and don't know anything about it.

  14. Re:Well no on How Much Beef Is In Your Burger? · · Score: 1

    Customers don't 'demand' anything from big chains, they eat what they're given. That's why they spend billions on advertising.

  15. Re:McDonalds! on How Much Beef Is In Your Burger? · · Score: 1

    If you're that interested in food standards, why are you going to McDonalds in the first place?

  16. Re:I'm curious to see how many retailers actually on Credit Card Swipe Fees Begin Sunday In USA · · Score: 1

    That's impossible, the machine doesn't even allow you to enter your PIN until it's shown you the total.

  17. Re:Quality of years, not quantity on US Near Bottom In Life Expectancy In Developed World · · Score: 1

    I don't know what Nexium is, but if smoking improved quality of life most smokers wouldn't want to quit.

  18. Re:Quality of years, not quantity on US Near Bottom In Life Expectancy In Developed World · · Score: 1

    A sedentary obese life is not a higher quality. They live like that because they can't overcome their urges, or live in an environment which promotes poor health. They don't make an informed decision to be unfit, and most would be healthy if they could. Bad food isn't tastier either, it's usually incredibly bland with most if not all of the flavour coming from salt, sugar and grease. That's why people eat so much of it, it doesn't have the rich flavours to satisfy with smaller portions, and it's so lacking in nutrition the brain keeps you wanting more food because it doesn't think you've eaten.

  19. Re:Quality of years, not quantity on US Near Bottom In Life Expectancy In Developed World · · Score: 1

    If you're unhealthy you have a lower quality of life too, not just a lower quantity.

  20. Re:Yeah, but we're very productive on US Near Bottom In Life Expectancy In Developed World · · Score: 1

    GDP per hour worked isn't a measure of a worker's productivity, it's a measure of the productivity of the economy as a whole. The US, with its vast natural advantages, big companies and huge single market has efficiency gains which give it a large GDP even though its workers are less efficient than Europeans working at smaller companies with smaller markets.

    And those GDP figures include non-productive economic activities like patent trolling, ambulance chasing and continually knocking down and rebuilding stadiums at public expense, all of which add to GDP but don't make the country better off.

  21. Re:Yeah, but we're very productive on US Near Bottom In Life Expectancy In Developed World · · Score: 1

    The working environment in Europe is much more professional than the US where they spend a lot of time chatting and browsing the web. A German would consider an American office to be a giant adult daycare centre.

    If anything, with such a laid-back working environment where you spend all day reading Dilbert and talking about the baseball game, you should be less stressed than a European who has to go to work and concentrate in silence all day.

  22. Re:inequality on US Near Bottom In Life Expectancy In Developed World · · Score: 1

    Inequality and poverty correlate with health problems even for rich people.

  23. Re:One antimalarial course per child on OLPC To Sell 7-Inch XO Tablet In Wal-Mart · · Score: 1

    Without health you don't have anything, it's the sine qua non of development. You first world people take it for granted because you're not stunted through being diseased as a child.

  24. Re:Carmack, Newell and Stephenson on Gabe Newell Reveals More About Steam Boxes, New Input Devices · · Score: 3, Informative

    A keyboard has no precision at all, it's either 1 or 0.

  25. Re:Lousy ideas on Using Technology To Make Guns Safer · · Score: 1

    Perhaps randomly shooting in the dark in your own home when you're too tired to aim isn't such a smart idea.