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  1. Re:BASICally my reply is... on Washington May Count CS As Foreign Language For College Admission · · Score: 1

    Why do you assume the endpoint should be making programmers better understand other people, instead of other people learning how to understand and work with technology?

  2. Re:Kind of.. on DOT Warns of Dystopian Future For Transportation · · Score: 1

    Except you forgot to pay gas, maintenance and insurance on those 40 miles. which works out to around 0.35 cents a mile(which I still think is low). For 40 miles that is $12, but because it is not a direct cost so people tend to ignore it.

  3. Re:Please develop for my dying platform! on Blackberry CEO: Net Neutrality Means Mandating Cross-Platform Apps · · Score: 1

    He is not an idiot, he is a politician trying to twist the meaning of the word "Net" and make it mean "Application".

  4. Re:Open Source Tax Preparation Software on Intuit Charges More For Previously Offered TurboTax Features, Users Livid · · Score: 3, Informative

    As I recall the company was called the IRS. Yes that is right the IRS put out software so you could do your taxes.

    You know why you don't see it? Lobbying by tax preparation companies.

  5. Not Micromanagement on LAPD Orders Body Cams That Will Start Recording When Police Use Tasers · · Score: 1

    the patrol officer culture is concerned that the technology will be an unfair intrusion into their routine activities — for instance, it might invite over-managing minor policy violations.

    If you are tasering someone, you are basically assault/battery of someone. That hardly seems like a minor issue, especially if I do to to a police officer they will try to send me to jail for a couple years.

  6. Re:where did Amazon service suffer as a result? on The Fire Phone Debacle and What It Means For Amazon's Future · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Jeff Bezos isn't giving us investors enough money

    Amazon has never given ANY investors any money, speculators on the other hand and Jeff Bezos himself has done remarkably well. If you your benchmark for wildly successful is wrapped in the stock price you are 100% correct. If you are an investor looking for a return, Amazon has basically done nothing.

    So what if their sales have been wildly successful, can they actually make any money doing it is the problem.

  7. To FCC on Hotel Group Asks FCC For Permission To Block Some Outside Wi-Fi · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How are we supposed to make money without creating artificial scarcity to make people use our product?

    Signed,

    The Free Market

  8. Re:I hate these misleading statements... on Man Caught Trying To Sell Plans For New Aircraft Carrier · · Score: 0

    It is called entrapment. Not saying the person is evidently of questionable morals, but when the government actively is trying to get you to commit a crime so that they can arrest you for it; it is kinda scary.

  9. Re:Still won't be able to get a job... on World's Youngest Microsoft Certificated Professional Is Five Years Old · · Score: 1

    H/R Drone: That would be a "Yes" then...

  10. Re:Still a niche company on Tesla Delays Launch of Model X Until Q3 2015 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What makes it a risky investment, in my opinion, is the fact that once the production/price/market variables become favorable for the technology, the big companies will be able to scale it at a much lower cost, as that is what they are good at.

    I very much doubt that Tesla is going to outsource its manufacturing for key components. It is going to keep those in house, and it will be expensive in the near future, but they will not have worry about competitors getting cheap access to those components. Too many of the current car companies are focused upon assembling a car; they are not engineering huge advantages in technology or going in new directions.

    Tesla is going to have these guys beat for no other reason than they are going to sit on their hands until it is too late. If you want a better explanation, they are going to have engineer their own product and manufacturing of specialty parts. They don't seem interesting in committing to electric cars now and when Tesla is big enough to be mainstream it will still take them 3 to 5 years to get their own product out the door.

  11. Don't have to Sell on Can Ello Legally Promise To Remain Ad-Free? · · Score: 1

    If they are bought by an advertiser, they don't have sell the information to someone to use it themselves.

  12. Probably Cause on CHP Officers Steal, Forward Nude Pictures From Arrestee Smartphones · · Score: 1

    Well we should have someone get a warrant because they have probable cause that crimes are being committed then.

    Oh wait, who will police the police? Internal affairs, not really.

  13. Re:This is silly on Automation Coming To Restaurants, But Not Because of Minimum Wage Hikes · · Score: 2, Interesting

    How the hell this even gets marks as informative is beyond me.

    1. I would love to see the facts that most minimum wage holders belong to middle class households. Especially considering the middle class has been shrinking for years
    2. Many businesses that pay minimum wage are doing so because they can get away with it. A great example is Best Buy, I know the poor are not walking in there to $3000 TV with their paycheck.
    3. Most people are poor because a significant amount of money totally out of circulation from the general public. With a reduced money supply you have greater poverty

    For you naysayers who want to mark down my post, my list has as many facts as the parent, if that tells you anything.

  14. Re:No Brainer on As Prison Population Sinks, Jails Are a Steal · · Score: 1

    I would say Walking Dead spin-offs galore!

  15. Re:Extrapolation on Texas Health Worker Tests Positive For Ebola · · Score: 1

    As Disco Stu points out, Disco's growth in the 70's was tremendous and if these trends continue... HHEEYY!!!

  16. Re:Possible sequence on Apple Sapphire Glass Supplier GT Advanced Files For Bankruptcy · · Score: 1

    6) Apples turns around and buys company with a discount for the debt owed.

    Why you ask? The stock at at 10 before today and 20 not that long ago. At 10, the company is 1.43 Billion dollars. So they get the whole thing for 600 million. If they had try to outright buy them, it could have easily cost 2 Billion dollars.

    Lucky I don't work for Apple, because that is what I would have done and that would truly be Evil.

  17. Re:The "old boys' club" on State of Iowa Tells Tesla To Cancel Its Scheduled Test Drives · · Score: 1

    Considering they were offering test drives, I fail to see where they are selling a retail motor vehicle, at least at this point in time.

    The question, from the above code that a manufacturer or importer cannot be licensed as a vehicle dealer is discriminatory and whether that is beneficial to the public. Depending on the judge and interpretation of the law, if no public good can be established it can be a reason to overturn a law.

  18. Re:Goldman Sachs All Throughout the Obama Admin on The Secret Goldman Sachs Tapes · · Score: 4, Informative

    He did this in 2008, http://online.wsj.com/articles..., an easy $500 million that no one else would be able to get.

  19. Re:Goldman Sachs All Throughout the Obama Admin on The Secret Goldman Sachs Tapes · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Warren Buffet, a government employee and/or consultant? Please

    Warren Buffet has probably one of the few people who has always gotten the best of Goldman Sach's because whenever they really fuck things over, he squeezed them for top of the line deals. Pretty much what Goldman Sach's did to anyone else given half the chance.

  20. We tax whatever we want to tax, there is no magic line that we cannot cross if we don't want too. We can AND DO tax wealth all the time. It is called property taxes. We also have DEATH taxes, or in reality an inheritance tax. To discourage excessive wealth accumulation.

  21. You still pay sales tax, property tax, and any local taxes or fees for stuff like utilities or water, or phone or internet. I mean the "FEDERAL" government is the only one that charges taxes for ANYTHING.

  22. Re:Thus the problem with the TEA party on To Fight $5.2B In Identity Theft, IRS May Need To Change the Way You File Taxes · · Score: 2

    I was going to down vote you but I thought better to reply.

    It has been proven time and again that a person on the low end of the scale will spend a greater portion of their salary on day to day purchases than a rich person.

    Do you really think if you gave a man like Larry Elison $1000 or $1M or $10M that he is going to run around like a kid in a candy store and spend it on daily needs? Most likely he WILL stick it under his mattress or something similar because at a certain point you don't need more.

  23. Re:More importantly on Is the Tesla Model 3 Actually Going To Cost $50,000? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Your right gas cars are total non-perishable and never wear-out or need replacement parts, and gasoline can be recycled as well.

  24. Re:This is not a new or unique problem on US Patent Office Seeking Consultant That Can Stamp Out Fraud By Patent Examiners · · Score: 1

    I don't even believe that you have to use Bogus applications, I think you can resubmit rejected applications with slight alterations. Then you can compare the original submission results with the new submission results and see the differences. If someone is not doing the work, it should be obvious based upon the underlying research for acceptance or rejection.

  25. The Start on Hackers Behind Biggest-Ever Password Theft Begin Attacks · · Score: 0

    Does this mean we are approaching a preemptive strike from Russia? We always hear about our infrastructure being comprised via the internet, I guess a war with Russia is a good way to find out!