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  1. Re:Everyone loves a winner. on Nate Silver's Numbers Indicate Probable Obama Win, World Agrees · · Score: 1

    My comment was in reply to something another poster said.

    Go back and read the thread and realize how far off topic you are.

    The CiC makes decisions, and without more information I can't judge what happened there. As far as I can tell nothing really could be done in time. Since you keep going on about this I guess you think differently, or have been told differently.

  2. Re:As a classic car enthusiast... on Massachusetts "Right To Repair" Initiative On Ballot, May Override Compromise · · Score: 1

    To be clear, you are telling me I can get a 2002 750i for $1200.
    Which means I can get any parts I need for another $1200, since I could just buy another one for spare parts.

    I think I found my next toy if that is true.

  3. Re:As a classic car enthusiast... on Massachusetts "Right To Repair" Initiative On Ballot, May Override Compromise · · Score: 2

    Only if you pay for full coverage and a low deductible.
    If you have the money it is probably not worth buying that level of insurance.

    On a more common car windshields are about $200 installed.

  4. Re:Why stop at cars??? on Massachusetts "Right To Repair" Initiative On Ballot, May Override Compromise · · Score: 1

    I would agree. This sounds like extortion.

  5. Re:As a classic car enthusiast... on Massachusetts "Right To Repair" Initiative On Ballot, May Override Compromise · · Score: 1

    $1200? I think you left off a zero, or I should just buy 10 of them.

  6. Re:Owners shouldn't work on their cars on Massachusetts "Right To Repair" Initiative On Ballot, May Override Compromise · · Score: 2

    No one says they have to limit themselves to those interfaces. They can just provide the specs and documentation. They have to this information already requiring they make it public is not a huge stretch.

    You are just being a nutcase.

  7. Re:Everyone loves a winner. on Nate Silver's Numbers Indicate Probable Obama Win, World Agrees · · Score: 1

    I am not sure how a better healthcare system would have helped them.

  8. Re:Does *any* industry start a new union anymore? on Ask Slashdot: What Would It Take For Developers To Start Their Own Union? · · Score: 1

    We had no healthcare that meant a damn much before the 20th century. My employer can get a policy on me, since it is a group rate. I cannot. If I could find one I would never be able to afford it.

  9. Re:Does *any* industry start a new union anymore? on Ask Slashdot: What Would It Take For Developers To Start Their Own Union? · · Score: 1

    My employer.
    I would probably not be insurable without a group plan.
    Last time I checked this was the case.

  10. Re:Common emergency problem on Is It Time To Commit To Ongoing Payphone Availability? · · Score: 1

    I have not had a landline for more than a decade.

    Number portability should not have been fee based, it should have been required if they wanted operate as telcos.

  11. Re:Common emergency problem on Is It Time To Commit To Ongoing Payphone Availability? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What exactly is wrong with a tax to pay for stuff like this?

    This is exactly the sort of thing government is for.

  12. Re:Does *any* industry start a new union anymore? on Ask Slashdot: What Would It Take For Developers To Start Their Own Union? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Because abusing an individual is easy?
    Because you cannot afford your own healthcare unless you support something like single-payer.

  13. Re:War Crazy Obama on Nate Silver's Numbers Indicate Probable Obama Win, World Agrees · · Score: 1

    You mean the same nation that bombed Iran already once and wants to do it again? The same one that likes to invade Lebanon when they get bored?

    Which Romney? The one that started the campaign, the governor or the one now? We have no idea what he will say tomorrow much less in a few years.

  14. Re:Taking a hint from the last election on Nate Silver's Numbers Indicate Probable Obama Win, World Agrees · · Score: 3, Informative

    We are not talking about dealing with children, we are talking about adults making deals.

    We both want to lower the deficit, I want to increase taxes you want budget cuts. The simple answer really is to decide on the ratio. Anything else is being a petulant child.

  15. Re:Everyone loves a winner. on Nate Silver's Numbers Indicate Probable Obama Win, World Agrees · · Score: 1

    He is on the right compared to Nixon.
    His healthcare plan is out of the republican playbook from the 80s.

  16. Re:War Crazy Obama on Nate Silver's Numbers Indicate Probable Obama Win, World Agrees · · Score: 3, Informative

    You mean Romney who went campaigning in Israel? That guy?

    1. Congress would let no president stop it.
    2. If he used soldiers you would complain about that.
    3. Osama was not a leader of an opposing military force, just a criminal.
    4. Yeah, Dubya never did anything like that, oh wait he totally did.
    5. just like the last guy and Romney would do.

    He is not much different, but just enough to be the lesser of two evils.

  17. Re:Everyone loves a winner. on Nate Silver's Numbers Indicate Probable Obama Win, World Agrees · · Score: 5, Informative

    We have not had a left candidate that I can remember in my life. Surely not in the last decade.

    We have right and hard right. You can call that centrist if you like, but I will not.

  18. Re:Hopefully a civics lesson where Obama wins on Nate Silver's Numbers Indicate Probable Obama Win, World Agrees · · Score: 1

    Why do you think the Founding Fathers were infallible?

    They were no better than our politicians are today.

    Either way we need to abolish first past the poll and the electoral college, then institute Proportional representation for at least the senate. The idea that the common man should not get a real vote is an outdated ideology from a bunch of slave owning tax dodgers.

  19. Re:Everyone loves a winner. on Nate Silver's Numbers Indicate Probable Obama Win, World Agrees · · Score: 3, Informative

    So you would rather be the evil empire than one of the good guys, duly noted.

  20. Re:Better... on Nate Silver's Numbers Indicate Probable Obama Win, World Agrees · · Score: 1

    That page and its info on his tax plan was enough to convince me I am making the right choice by not voting for him.

  21. Re:Taking a hint from the last election on Nate Silver's Numbers Indicate Probable Obama Win, World Agrees · · Score: 5, Insightful

    More like grownups?
    Total refusal to compromise is acting like grownups.
    Not a one of their candidates said he would take a 10 to 1 ratio of budget cuts to tax increases.

    That is how a toddler acts, not a grownup.

  22. Re:Everyone loves a winner. on Nate Silver's Numbers Indicate Probable Obama Win, World Agrees · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Lets look at this a sane way.
    1. Diplomacy
    2. Taking care of our people like a first world nation should.
    3.More reasonable self image, so we can improve our faults instead of ignoring them. Maybe we can even go back to patriotism instead of just nationalism.
    4.Crazy talk. We are consuming more oil now
    5. More gibberish from a nutter. If you have evidence you would link that instead of these rantings.

  23. Re:Did you ever wonder why on Nate Silver's Numbers Indicate Probable Obama Win, World Agrees · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Because it is a good news story? It interests people?

    There is no conspiracy, if anything the media is making it look like a far closer race than it is. Again because that makes for a good story.

  24. Re:Taking a hint from the last election on Nate Silver's Numbers Indicate Probable Obama Win, World Agrees · · Score: 1

    That is not why he won last time. He won because McCain made himself unelectable. Redneck Barbie contributed to that as well.

    I think Obama for a president as been ok, not good not bad just ok. How anyone can think he was not a massive improvement for international relations I cannot grasp though.

  25. Re:It IS geek news on Nate Silver's Numbers Indicate Probable Obama Win, World Agrees · · Score: 1

    You think the president is deeply involved in every CIA operation?

    Would that not destroy plausible deniability?