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  1. Returns on Best Buy $39.95 "Optimization" At Best a Waste of Money · · Score: 1

    I bet Best Buy "Optimizes" the computers that are returned so they don't have to sell them as open box. Not only do they get to sell them as new they even get to tack on forty dollars.

  2. Look before... on What Do You Do When Printers Cost Less Than Ink? · · Score: 1

    The best thing to do is look at the price of ink/toner before buying the printer. This was the first thing we did when me and the old lady were looking to buy a new printer.

  3. Re:Wristwatches are just plain convenient on Ten Things Mobile Phones Will Make Obsolete · · Score: 1

    In Chinatown you can buy a pretty nice looking watch for $10.

  4. Nicotine Stains? on Apple Voiding Smokers' Warranties? · · Score: 1

    I hate it when people call tar build up "nicotine stains", the stain is not caused by nicotine.

  5. Maybe on FreeCreditReport.com Wins 1,017 Domains By UDRP · · Score: 1

    Maybe they should take away freecreditreport.com's domain away and give it to annualcreditreport.com since it is the place to go to really get your free credit report.

  6. Re:Congrats! on Landmark Health Insurance Bill Passes House · · Score: 1

    I don't know about 600 pages, but I was able to shave it down to approx 1400 by just copying and pasting the document from a pdf to a word processor then changing to single spaced.

  7. Re:Bill Itself: 220-215 on Landmark Health Insurance Bill Passes House · · Score: 1

    I imagine a lot of professional investors have pretty good insurance.

  8. Re:It's Not About Health, It's About Control on Landmark Health Insurance Bill Passes House · · Score: 1
    Once the government is paying for your health care, they can pretty much mandate what you eat, what you smoke, what you drink, how long you live, etc.

    What is stopping private insurance companies from doing this?

  9. Re:What's in it? on Landmark Health Insurance Bill Passes House · · Score: 1
    But if no doctor ever diagnosed your condition, consider yourself good to go.

    Speaking from personal experience you sir are wrong. I wound up with a $10000 hospital bill because a doctor asked me if I had ever had thoughts of suicide and like most teenagers I said yes. Well, this was determined by my insurance company, against the opinion of my doctor, to be a preexisting condition.

  10. Re:Banning illegal aliens is shortsighted on Landmark Health Insurance Bill Passes House · · Score: 1
    We really need to upgrade our educational system.

    Sorry to break this to you, but you can't fix stupid.

  11. The article on Who Installs the Most Crapware? · · Score: 1

    The article had the worst navigation I have ever seen. No next at the bottom of the screen?

  12. Re:Well just download the ISO. on Canonical Halts Ubuntu CD Free-for-all · · Score: 4, Insightful
    not saavy enough to burn their own CDs

    What a pompous asshole. Some of us don't have a high speed internet connection to download the iso.

  13. I think on Is Working For the Gambling Industry a Black Mark? · · Score: 1

    it would be better than no experience at all.

  14. Re:Overheat on Software To Diagnose Faulty PC Hardware? · · Score: 1

    Can I have the old GPU?

  15. What site? on Do Retailers Often Screen User Reviews? · · Score: 2

    Why didn't the submitter say what site it was, I would like to know. The best way to stop this practice would be to let everyone know the site was doing it.

  16. Re:Sopssa is a closet Republican. on Firefox To Replace Menus With Office Ribbon · · Score: 1

    I didn't see the size of government shrink when G W was in office.

  17. Re:Eyecandy in cost of usability on Firefox To Replace Menus With Office Ribbon · · Score: 1

    If you would have read the article you would know that you can turn it off.

  18. Re:ext3 on Which Filesystem Do You Use On Portable Media For Linux Systems? · · Score: 1

    I don't think it's because they are lazy. I think for a lot of people just using a computer at all is a lot "like walking barefoot across broken glass" because they hate them.

  19. I wish on Has Texting Replaced Talking For Teens? · · Score: 1

    I wish my mom would have just texted me when I was out with my friends when I was growing up. It would have been much easier to pull off faking being sober texting than talking.

  20. Re:Citation Needed on ELF Knocks Down AM Towers To Save Earth, Intercoms · · Score: 0, Troll

    I don't know about that have you ever met a Diddohead, they seem to be under the influence of something bad. BTW does the fact that spellcheck suggested that Diddohead may have been dickhead spelled incorrectly mean anything?

  21. Re:Citation Needed on ELF Knocks Down AM Towers To Save Earth, Intercoms · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Democrat-biased CNN calls it terrorism.

    That still doesn't make it terrorism.

  22. Re:Me on FBI Investigating Mystery Laptops Sent To US Governors · · Score: 1

    I live in WV and Hughesnet is the only option for me.

  23. Re:It's about goddamn time on Mexico Decriminalizes Small-Scale Drug Possession · · Score: 2, Insightful
    I will pay for your drug habit or any other self destructive, can't cope, crutch you may have.

    I think you already are when people are put in prison for drug use.

  24. Cursive Sucks on 26 Years Old and Can't Write In Cursive · · Score: 1

    I am 35 and I quit writing in cursive a long time ago and now I cant do it anymore. People really need to stop writing in cursive when someone else needs to read what they write.

  25. Where else on Apple To Sell Wi-Fi-less iPhone In China · · Score: 1

    From the article

    must have WAPI support and chips made in China

    Where else would they be made?