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  1. Re:This is true for everyone on Chinese Huawei Takes on U.S. Telecom Market · · Score: 1

    I wish govt employees were paid $2/hr , because of their 'half paced' work ethic and slllooowwwww processes or 10x more complex red tape.

    Either pay them $2/hr, or sack 50% of them and make them work 2x faster with 90% less paper work.

    I guess I agree somewhat that no min wage will force lower prices since more people will have less money. Most things stablized with each other, having more 'artifical' prices/costs forces unneeded minimums in certain sectors.

    We just have to be carefull there isnt much exploitation, ie semi slaves, people working 15hrs a day for $50, when their economic output might produce a true value of $2000 a day, having a massive gap between their cost and their output isnt good because it concentrates wealth at the 'master/director' level.

    Yes rich people filter their wealth downwords, but for every million they spend, they probably have/keep $2million in the bank which doubles every 3 years.

  2. Re:Shouldn't this be what the WTO covers? on Chinese Huawei Takes on U.S. Telecom Market · · Score: 1

    Dude, australia is in worse numbers (relative numbers) but not whole numbers, ie GDP of $800b is nothing, but our debt/gdp levels and credit card levels in proportion are much worse. Plus we export more 'raw' stuff with zero added value. In a way, we are the luckiest and most GREEDIEST country on earth in terms of amount of LAND or percent of earth we have per population level. 20m people for a good percent of earth, even if most of it is desert like mars, but including oceans we probably have 10% of earth.

    Any way, financialsense.com is worth reading.

  3. Re:If you are concerned about overspending... on Chinese Huawei Takes on U.S. Telecom Market · · Score: 1

    tsk tsk little boy , you dont get it.

    1. growing economy depends on growing population, declining population (or more old people) actually hurt the economy.

    2. how do you grow? Make more babies, tonnes and tonnes of them, how do you do that? prevent abortion, it has nothing to do with ethics/goodness etc... They couldnt give a ratts ass about ethics.

    3. import heaps of immigrants legal and ILLEGAL.

  4. ZERO income tax, 30% bond issues is my solution on Chinese Huawei Takes on U.S. Telecom Market · · Score: 1

    Lets have zero % income tax, and let the govt borrow money via bonds. So have mandatory 30% bond issues.

    That way, the money you loose weekly buying bonds instead of tax, earns you interest instead of LOST interest if you actually saved, and paid in march each year.

    Tho, then again, looking at it this way, taxes are a way for the govt to "STEAL" or "borrow" your money with never paying it back. Your tax-receipt is kind of like a $0 value bond.

    The money spent on the house came from THIN AIR!!, its fractional reserve banking, ie you can lend out 9fold your assets, so $1billion in the kitty gives you permission to lend out $9billion.

    Look at the M3 money supply for the last years www.financialsense.com

    Where did the 3trillion dollars come from? Whos ass? or was it just magic via a spreadsheet, it sure didnt come from Asia/Europe, they cannot spare 3 trillion dollars. And if anyone has that money, then its usually in fixed assets, like land/bonds/funds/debt/shares, so you cannot sell it all, because there isnt enough cash in the world to transfer to you. ie we live in a world where we have probably 5-50x worth book value compared to real floating cash out there.

    And mr sybert, the gdp figures are fudged, they reallly really do enron accounting there, like if a PC is 15% faster this year, the GDP 'output' is recalced to be higher for all PCs, because its faster, not that it really made more money. Its bunk.

  5. Re:If you are concerned about overspending... on Chinese Huawei Takes on U.S. Telecom Market · · Score: 1

    So whats worse?

    A plan that didnt happen

    or

    A real budget blow out that DID happen (there are more off the books numbers too)

    Your DOLLAR is TOAST!!!

    The biggest pyramid scam on earth, once it runs out of customers, POOOF it goes south.

  6. hacks are not meant to be corporate dude on IRC On The PSP · · Score: 1

    Its a hack, live with it.

    Its not meant to be serious, more for 'look what we did' stuff, if you ever were a geek in the 80s you would know unless you were 4 and watching power ranges.

    Its like hacking DNA, look mahh , my farts smell like roses

  7. Every credit card needs one hooked .... on Games That Shoot Back · · Score: 1

    to your balls.

    Then when you spend it, ouch!!!

  8. Re:All suits, no brains on Novell's Race Against Time · · Score: 1

    And the suits just dont care, they move on, get another job and think they made success totally based on numbers, they dont care if they leave a trail of 10 dead companies.

    Dont pay suites cash bonuses, only share bonuses, that THEY CANNOT SELL, so they 100% depend on dividends.

  9. Re:April 1st, Tiger and a 3-button mouse. on Mac OS X Tiger Goes Gold · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How about a mouse with a numeric keypad on it, so you can type txt using mobile phone combos, 5-2-6

    Would be good for a few things, numeric entries that you cant be bothered to type with, or Enter keys etc...

    Just in case any one patents this, ive posted it first, so NYA NYA NYA its mine, pay up. Oh and it was obvious, as in "drink some beer, oh I have an idea"

    All great inventions are products of chaos/randomness

  10. game developers are stil lazy... on Microsoft Offers New Data-Security Scheme · · Score: 1

    All they have to do is install a service that runs as admin/root to do that access then use IPC to talk to the game that is in UserMode. DUHH!!!!!

    How hard is that.

    Or just dump the (C) checks, everyone knows that if games NEVER got copied, prices would be the same, because marketforces/marketing/common prices NEVER change. If they get XX % profit today, then they wont lower their profits just to be NICE to customers when they only care about the shareholders.

  11. Re:This Does Not Work on Modern Computers! on Microsoft Offers New Data-Security Scheme · · Score: 1

    gee, i wonder why then when I had a HD crash/ or power loss or whatever happned, I couldnt recover most of my important files. Any recover program didnt give me the option of only seeing partial files, ie if I had 80% of my lost .cpp file, I will be happier, than 0%.

    But yes, I agree that real important data should be stored on a small partition, or better YET, a DAMN USB stick guys, even 512meg are cheap. And backup that stick to CDRW, (not cdr as they suck)

  12. Re:slashdotting commies on Brazil: Free Software's Biggest and Best Friend · · Score: 1

    "stipthinking free is better... it might be.. but not when the government forces poeple"

    So if they force people to PAY thats better? like getting raped by the IMF and World Banks, and UN?

    So its better that a govt spend $12m on software, rather than $2m on programmers/coders/managers and get it done cheaper?

    financialsense.com - your perfect economic world is going to go down in flames

  13. Re:Thank god for Jurassic Park... on Scientists Find Soft Tissue in T-Rex Fossil · · Score: 1

    no,

    1. I blame the idiotic religeos voters who have no clue and smarts to vote properly, they just think of themselves.

    2. I blame the politicians MOTHERS, they raised them to be pricks and selfish.

  14. Mini CD/DVD dude... businsss card size on Knoppix Used in Internet Banking Solution · · Score: 2, Informative

    They can use a mini-cd, the ones shaped like a business card, if thats not enough room for knoppix, then use a mini-dvd in businesscard shaped size.

  15. Re:They "think" it was "sabotaged" ? on EU Sleuths Think Microsoft Sabotaged Windows · · Score: 1

    all they had to do was kill the wmplayer10 exe and default it to the old mplayer2.exe (6.2)

    Too many stupid chiefs trying to control the tribe.

  16. Re:Focusing each mirror on The Solar Death Ray · · Score: 1

    Using a colored light in a room thats lowly lit, you can then see the focal point, so you do one at a time, put a sticky note on it once its ok, and then go on to the next one.

  17. 21st century grandmas should be hip on Millions of Pages Google Hijacked using ODP Feed · · Score: 1

    A woman of age 50 can be a grandma easily, (ie child at 23, gives birth at 20). That grandma grew up in the 60s/70s, and most likely went to clubs and hanged out with the hippies etc... so 21st grandmas are all hip and cool not like the yesteryear pre 40s teeners.

  18. avoid c11, leave usa on Jon Johansen Breaks iTunes DRM Yet Again · · Score: 1

    Theres a reason for that c11 change

    1. they know interest rates are going to go up .25 every 3 months until hitting 10-15%

    2. people will say "fug it" and walk away from their houses

    3. house prices will fall

    4. people will either live at parents house, or 'sneak' into mexico "oh the irony"

    They dont want millions walking away from debt, they want pure slaves to debt to keep everyone busy to keep the rich in power.

    Your only chance, is byte the bullet, leave usa, you can for $30000 buy a great mansion on the beach in western afrika, (escapeartist.com)

    Sure its not USA, but if you have $$ and FedEX delivers to your city/town, then what more do you need really. Screw the education system etc.. everything can be thought yourself at 3x the speed without 1/2 the crap.

  19. Re:Take the article with a grain of salt on Advanced System Building Guide · · Score: 1

    Windows VM is crud, if you have 2gig ram, it still pags out firefox and what not, just to have 'spare ram' available for the justincase scenario, which is stupid ass really.

    I wonder if its just better to setup a .5gig ram disk and use that for windows since you cannot turn VM off, (unless you use XP-embedded and enable all modules then its like a real xp-sp1 box)

    Windows needs a smarted adaptive VM, maybe dynamic VM per app, so you can say give Photoshop 20gig of VM while the rest of the OS uses no VM at all.

  20. Re:This is NOT Planting Evidence on Anti-Piracy Bureau of Sweden Planted Evidence · · Score: 1

    Isnt the common case that the police find 2kg of gods wonderfull plant, but then record in the official records that they only found 1kg, and take the rest of the stash to their cop friends to sell on the side to lower ranked cops ;)

    btw someone splice the THC gene into roses or something or bamboo, then no one would know.

  21. Re:One way this can be proven on Anti-Piracy Bureau of Sweden Planted Evidence · · Score: 1

    or setup 20 gmail accounts called "ftplog_001" etc..

    and email the bziped logs to the email account.

    or use a large long hex string to confuse the 'normal' people in plush govt offices ;)

    Out of 50 characters, someones bound to get 1 character wrong.

  22. Re:Not only planting evidence... on Anti-Piracy Bureau of Sweden Planted Evidence · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That sure is entrapment, sure you can say "she could have sold her services elsewhere" but its still an IF, and you cannot predict the future. You cannot say with 100% sure chance that person would have sold to someone else. This aint precrime tomcruise world.

    And if the cops are so sure person X would have done it, then they could have easily just waited till they did, or are they that lazy and fat?

    OT, if she only reads you poems thats not illegal, so why should something else that cant be taxed not be legal. Is it because its selling something that makes a neat profit and cant be taxed that is annoying the govt/police? or their church going ways of the 18th century?

  23. Re:Sigh on Anti-Piracy Bureau of Sweden Planted Evidence · · Score: 1

    yes, because if you cant trust the govt then we wont obey ANY RULES or LAWS and say F.U.

    The govt and law enforcement can easily ruin any ones life, totally!!, but one case of infringement isnt going to ruin a company or cause life long problems for the company, it just moves on and keeps making sales.

    Id rather be a salesman/marketer any day than an enforcement agent.

  24. Re:Very bad example on e-Scrabble gets Cease and Desist Order from Hasbro · · Score: 1

    And people wonder why there are viruss on windows and malware :)

    re the lawsuit, surely the courts arent that busy or stupid to just not 'pickup' the phone and find the plaintiff and call them to inform them. If a written letter is needed, then hell, do both, if they have 59000 suits a year, then get a clue and email the people and call and send letters. Seriously lots of things in society need redesign but because of too many old farts in control and too many legacy people that 'cant change' because of rigid brains that cant addapt, we are all stuck with stupid-ass (tm) systems. Its like running win3.11 with 1000000s of patches but never a complete redesign.

  25. Re:I just use my normal cordless on Build Your Own Cell tower · · Score: 1

    How hard is it to build a red/green/orange cycle light 30sec/2min/5sec , trivial really, or you can be hardcore and use an old $50 PC and par ports and some relays and big-ass lights.

    Seriously, its not hard to build your own, no need to get some council/govt approved stop light costing $20000 where it only uses a $30 pole and $100 lights and $50 logic gates.

    I thought small communities 'built' their own stuff.