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  1. Re:While I like the idea on Uber Gives Up On New York Taxi Service · · Score: 1

    cabs can't compete on price

    so there's not a free market for taxi service.

    The unregulated free market will not find the traffic-optimal solution to meeting taxi demand.

    on what do you base this assertion?

    -jcr

  2. Re:While I like the idea on Uber Gives Up On New York Taxi Service · · Score: 1

    "Progressives" all suffer from the fatal conceit.

    -jcr

  3. Re:While I like the idea on Uber Gives Up On New York Taxi Service · · Score: 2

    The entire island of manhattan would be covered in taxi cabs.

    Nope. There would be a substantial increase, which would continue until the supply met the demand.

    -jcr

  4. Re:No ARM MacBook on Report: Apple To Switch From Samsung to TSMC For ARM CPU Production · · Score: 1

    Why do you think Surface won't sell?

    For all the same reasons that MS's previous attempts at tablets have failed. They keep trying to cram Windows into it.

    -jcr

  5. Re:OK, where's the gun? on Lawsuit Challenges New York Sugary Drink Ban · · Score: 1

    Where is the gun.

    Do you really not understand that a gun is behind all government coercion?

    -jcr

  6. Re:How many more? on The Three Pillars of Nokia Strategy Have All Failed · · Score: 1

    I plug in cables in the dark, or when I don't have my glasses on, every day.

    -jcr

  7. Re:Good on Lawsuit Challenges New York Sugary Drink Ban · · Score: 2

    Do you believe that it's appropriate to put a gun to someone's head because you think they're drinking too much soda?

    Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force.

    -jcr

  8. Re:How many more? on The Three Pillars of Nokia Strategy Have All Failed · · Score: -1

    Try this: plug in a micro USB cable with your eyes closed. Then, try plugging in a Lightning cable with your eyes closed. I don't even have to go into how fragile Micro-USB connectors are.

    -jcr

  9. Re:No ARM MacBook on Report: Apple To Switch From Samsung to TSMC For ARM CPU Production · · Score: 4, Insightful

    to compete with Microsoft's Surface

    You're funny.

    -jcr

  10. Waste of time. on US Election's Only VP Debate Tonight: Weigh In With Your Reactions · · Score: 0

    Ruling Party douchebags pretending there's a difference between their brands.

    -jcr

  11. Re:Obama's kind of been a dick about this on US Supreme Court Says Wiretapping Immunity Will Stand · · Score: 1

    The fact that he lied was a big disappointment.

    Only to the suckers who bought his act.

    -jcr

  12. Government forgives itself. on US Supreme Court Says Wiretapping Immunity Will Stand · · Score: 1

    One more case to show that relying on a branch of the federal government to limit the powers of the federal government is an exercise of futility.

    -jcr

  13. Re:It gets worse, BTW. on PETA Condemns Pokemon For Promoting Animal Abuse · · Score: 1

    Project much?

    -jcr

  14. Re:It gets worse, BTW. on PETA Condemns Pokemon For Promoting Animal Abuse · · Score: 1

    condemning Pokemon isn't that crazy.

    Yes, it is.

    -jcr

  15. Re:Hypocrits. Fuck PETA on PETA Condemns Pokemon For Promoting Animal Abuse · · Score: 1

    Mod Parent UP!

    -jcr

  16. It gets worse, BTW. on PETA Condemns Pokemon For Promoting Animal Abuse · · Score: 2

    As batshit crazy as this is, it's not the worst example of PETA making themselves look like the brain-dead nut cult that they are. The crazy bitch who runs that group wrote a letter to Arafat once complaining about the PLO using a donkey laden with explosives to try to kill people in Israel. No complaint about killing the PEOPLE, mind you.

    If you're an animal lover, support the ASPCA.

    -jcr

  17. Re:Do the same with a handful of transistors on BrewPi: Raspberry Pi and Arduino Powered Fermentation Chamber · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Is it because people don't teach or know how to do it the old school way anymore?

    Got it on the first guess. Hell, I'd be surprised if 2% of /. readers can even read resistor color codes.

    Of course, that being said, it's probably less work to calibrate a computer controlled sensor and cooler than to achieve the same precision with thermistors.

    -jcr

  18. Re:How is it even difficult? on The Day Leo Traynor Confronted His Troll · · Score: 1

    Or you can just look for whoever's reading your blog far more than any other visitor. Your usual readers might hit your site daily or so. A stalker might be just about camped out on it.

    -jcr

  19. Re:Trolling? on The Day Leo Traynor Confronted His Troll · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Nobody knows what trolling is anymore!

    Just like nobody seems to know what hacking is, either.

    -jcr

  20. Re:Trolling? on The Day Leo Traynor Confronted His Troll · · Score: 2

    Yeah, trolling is something very different from what went on here. Trolling means posting inflammatory messages just to elicit a reaction.

    -jcr

  21. Re:No need to.... on Why Apple Replaced iOS Maps · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sure they are. What's your point?

    -jcr

  22. Re:No need to.... on Why Apple Replaced iOS Maps · · Score: 3

    I'm a customer of theirs, too. Does that mean they work for me?

    -jcr

  23. Re:Not the military's job. on US Military Designates Julian Assange an "Enemy of State" · · Score: 1

    I've read the constitution myself. Have you?

    -jcr

  24. Re:No need to.... on Why Apple Replaced iOS Maps · · Score: 1

    No, I'm self-employed. Apple's a customer of mine, but I haven't been an employee there for quite a few years.

    -jcr

  25. Re:No need to.... on Why Apple Replaced iOS Maps · · Score: 4, Insightful

    calling the Apple winner over Android because it takes 80% of the mobile profits!

    Where I come from, earning a profit is success. Earning 80% of the profit in a market segment is winning, big-time.

    -jcr