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  1. Re:yes, worth it on Watchmen 50 Days On, Was It Worth the Gamble? · · Score: 1

    You are bad at hollywood accounting. They have made it back easily, and a profit, and they will make more. They post results like that to inflate the production costs so it looks like they did not make anything so they don't have to pay a share of profits out. But, it is not too hard to see that fancy jets and brand new cars are expensed as production costs.

  2. yes, worth it on Watchmen 50 Days On, Was It Worth the Gamble? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Warner Bros made money. If they make a good director's cut they will make a boat load of new money.

  3. Not over yet on Judge In Pirate Bay Trial Biased · · Score: 1

    Rocky did not kick the Russian's ass until the last round.

  4. Re:Business love the rent model, Customers hate th on Developing Battery Replacement Infrastructure For Electric Cars · · Score: 1

    It's a nitch market and they are not depending on their tank as their primary transportation either.

  5. Re:er... on Bethesda Announces New Fallout Game For 2010 · · Score: 1

    This was not good change. It you liked Oblivion it was a good change, but I hated Oblivion. Diablo III and Starcraft II show that something work best the way they were.

  6. Re:Elder Scrolls? on Bethesda Announces New Fallout Game For 2010 · · Score: 1

    When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. All Bethesda has is that stupid 3D engine and everything they touch they try to force into it. It was Oblivion with guns.

  7. Business love the rent model, Customers hate them on Developing Battery Replacement Infrastructure For Electric Cars · · Score: 1

    This plan fails as you are going to have a hard time knowing that the battery you get is going to be as good as the one you gave. It will be little comfort that you get a free replacement when you are stranded 20 miles from nowhere. Even if this only happened one time would you ever do it again? Nope. Also, it has been shown over and over that if given the choice, Customers will pick the option where they own the product.

  8. I look forward to my new $13.7 on A Layman's Guide To Bandwidth Pricing · · Score: 4, Informative

    In the mean time, support Massa get his bill passed. If we wait, TWC will just come up with something else equally bad and US taxpayers paid for $200 billion in infrastructure so there should be limits on what Time Warner can do.
    http://blog.wired.com/business/2009/04/congressman-to.html
    Write your congressman to support this bill
    https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml
    Get it passed.

  9. Re:Treason on Rep. Jane Harman Focus In Yet Another Warrantless Wiretap Scandal · · Score: 1

    So people use the vernacular version. Problem solved. Harman is a traitor.

  10. Re:Treason on Rep. Jane Harman Focus In Yet Another Warrantless Wiretap Scandal · · Score: 1

    Sorry a traitor is a traitor. Why are people scared to say it?

  11. Re:Treason on Rep. Jane Harman Focus In Yet Another Warrantless Wiretap Scandal · · Score: 2, Insightful

    A technicality of the law. It is still treason by definition. Harman picked another countries interest over he own. AIPAC picked another countries interest over the US. So they prosecute her under a difference criminal law, but I still have no problem calling her actions and AIPAC's actions what they are, treason.

  12. Re:Treason on Rep. Jane Harman Focus In Yet Another Warrantless Wiretap Scandal · · Score: 3, Informative

    Jane Harman was caught sheltering spys. That is treason.

  13. Treason on Rep. Jane Harman Focus In Yet Another Warrantless Wiretap Scandal · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Rep. Harman should be investigated for treason. AIPAC should be investigated for treason.

  14. used the free marketing wrong on Reflections On the Less-Cool Effects of Filesharing · · Score: 1

    This really seems a bit of a self serving cry in your milk story. If your business plan is not making money then you are doing something wrong. Instead of doing what small businesses do best and adapting quickly to new developments in the marketplace, this just talks about how unfair the world is. A sense of entitlement is not going to make you any money.

  15. Re:Help New York Rep. Eric Massa on Time Warner Pulls Plug On Metered Billing Tests · · Score: 2, Informative
  16. Help New York Rep. Eric Massa on Time Warner Pulls Plug On Metered Billing Tests · · Score: 3, Informative

    Support his bill to "encourage" what Time Warner can do with the $200 billion in infrastructure that was paid for by taxpayers.
    http://blog.wired.com/business/2009/04/congressman
    Write your congressman to support this bill
    https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml
    Get it passed.

  17. Re:Wow, I wish I could change to them on Swedish ISP Deletes Customer ID Info · · Score: 1

    I am a US citizen and I care more about my privacy than most US ISP's. I would sign up for Bahnhof in a flash, I hope they expand worldwide.

  18. Wow, I wish I could change to them on Swedish ISP Deletes Customer ID Info · · Score: 3, Interesting

    They take care of their customers and can still run after a nuclear war. (and you know some guy in there is doing the maniacal laugh every once in a while) http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/04/15/inside-the-james-bond-villain-data-center/

  19. Wow, can you say "Microsoft desparation" on Microsoft Family Safety Filter Blocks Google · · Score: 1, Funny

    That is just pathetic.

  20. Re:Welcome to Hope and Change on The End of Tax-Free Internet Shopping? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Better than whiny and lazy as seen in the tea bag protests. (make an actual policy? that is someone else's todo)

  21. Backing down would be opt-in only on Digg Backs Down On DiggBar · · Score: 2, Informative

    I am pretty sure the only reason people are not opt-out in larger numbers is, because digg has not made it easy to do or advertised that you can turn it off at all. They need to turn it off for everyone and let them opt-in and then see what their numbers look like before spewing them like they show diggbar in a positive light.

  22. Re:They can either do it openly or covertly on Time Warner Broadband Cap Trial Rescheduled In Texas · · Score: 1

    How about you just accept that you are wrong. Your not even willing to produce any data to refute the arguments. You are claiming stuff out of thin air with no proof.

  23. Re:They can either do it openly or covertly on Time Warner Broadband Cap Trial Rescheduled In Texas · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No I am not. US Taxpayers own $200 billion in Time Warner infrastructure. It is not their to do what they want with it. And you are making assumptions about their profitability. Time Warner is making a lot of money as is even with the AOL boat anchor.

    Time Warner 2009 Q4 - Excluding one-time items, profit was 23 cents a share.

    If they are having problems, the data is certainly not showing it. Of course yelling and whining is very popular with them.

  24. Re:They can either do it openly or covertly on Time Warner Broadband Cap Trial Rescheduled In Texas · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Time Warner can do what ever they want if they pay back the $200 billion in infrastructure they received from taxpayers enabling a monopoly in some areas. All the data so far shows that a very small percentage of people are very heavy users and it remains to be be seen if that is actually causing any problems for Time Warner. What is clear is that Time Warner is trying to protect their outdated cable tv business model, and as long as we paid for the infrastructure they should have limits to what they can do with it. They should publish data on their problems if they want any reasonable resolution. Until then, "d" is the only option that can be picked.

  25. Silly NASA, you only get 100m per segment on NASA Taking Ethernet Into Deeper Space · · Score: 2, Funny

    Only 2000m total. Would be an interesting launch to watch though when the cable runs out.