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  1. Re:Uh-oh. on Larry Ellison Buys His Own Hawaiian Island · · Score: 1

    So go back to being broke alone?

    The PIIGS have been broke a lot longer than the EU. I remember getting a thousand lira to the mark.

  2. Re:hard drive prices/GB are also dropping on SSD Prices Down 46% Since 2011 · · Score: 1

    Why is the OS drive taking up 96GB?
    Just make symlinks or whatever windows calls them.

  3. Re:SSD? on SSD Prices Down 46% Since 2011 · · Score: 1

    This is not my experience. If you steer clear of the fastest of the cheaper lot, OCZ you will be fine.

  4. Re:Biased much? on RIM Drops Playbook Price By 66% · · Score: 2

    Not all of them. The thing is MS is not competing in that space though. The bad ones are sub $200, and the cheapest "surface" is going to be $399ish.

  5. Re:It was only a matter of time on Android App Lets You Steal Contactless Credit Card Data · · Score: 1

    You don't need a secure system at all. Credit card numbers should be near worthless. They should require something held and something known.

    Even that can be skipped if all purchases must be authorized by the purchaser via a website or text message. You give your CC number, you get txt or website login, that then gives you a chance to approve or deny.

  6. Re:Uh-oh. on Larry Ellison Buys His Own Hawaiian Island · · Score: 1

    I have sex several times a week, with a woman even and we have 0 children. Clearly the two are not so tightly linked. She is not starving nor is she pumping out kids like a starving woman would.

    Having enough food and being comfortable reduces humans breeding. Educating women does so even more. Increasing starvation would lead to more children being born rather than less.

  7. Re:so what? on Larry Ellison Buys His Own Hawaiian Island · · Score: 2

    A new lion can come and kill the old owner. If I shoot you while you sleep in your bed can I have your land?

    Clearly not, property ownership is very different for humans than territory for animals.

  8. Re:Uh-oh. on Larry Ellison Buys His Own Hawaiian Island · · Score: 5, Informative

    We send rice directly to Haiti. All that did was destroy their rice farms. Meaning more poor people to go on food aid. We destroyed one of the larger parts of their economy with this aid.

  9. Re:Uh-oh. on Larry Ellison Buys His Own Hawaiian Island · · Score: 1

    The real solutions of course has to be they have a functional government that taxes their mineral wealth like all first world nations do.

  10. Re:Uh-oh. on Larry Ellison Buys His Own Hawaiian Island · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I disagree. What exactly is wrong with the German form of capitalism and socialism blended? What about the Nordic nations?

    Pure anything is garbage, no single system is without flaws.

  11. Re:What's the point of your post on Larry Ellison Buys His Own Hawaiian Island · · Score: 1

    Malthus, I thought you died long ago, how are you?

    Not feeding them will not stop them from breeding. In fact quite the opposite.

  12. Re:What a flake Ellison is on Larry Ellison Buys His Own Hawaiian Island · · Score: 1

    Oh how wrong you are. I only ever got them, because the woman I was sleeping with wanted them as pets.

  13. Re:Uh-oh. on Larry Ellison Buys His Own Hawaiian Island · · Score: 3, Informative

    Educate their women, which can only happen when they have enough to eat. Educated women on average have less children. They also wait until they have achieved other life goals to have children.

    The food by itself only makes the situation worse. It bankrupts farmers and only serves to make more poor people. If the food was sourced as locally as possible and education was available and useful then the problem could be addressed.

    Of course this is all based on the naive notion that the main purpose of food aid is to benefit those receiving the aid. That is merely a side effect, its real purpose is to consume market surpluses and enrich the producers of these commodities at the expense of future competition, the farmers that the aid puts out of work.

    Humans unlike other animals stop breeding like rabbits once they have a comfortable living. For evidence look at the birth rates in first world nations.

  14. Re:What's the point of your post on Larry Ellison Buys His Own Hawaiian Island · · Score: 1

    Why not?
    In what rational way is it wrong for someone to point out the ridiculousness of a situation even if he benefits from it?

  15. Re:What a flake Ellison is on Larry Ellison Buys His Own Hawaiian Island · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I know, I kept them as pets for years. I had to stop since they don't live long enough for as attached as I got. I trained some to fetch, they liked to be petted, very much like little dogs.

    Far smarter and kinder than Mr.Ellison.

  16. Re:What a flake Ellison is on Larry Ellison Buys His Own Hawaiian Island · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think Ellison is used to investing with rats, just his kind of folks.

    That was mean, rats are actually no where near as bad as this asshole.

  17. Re:Interesting timing... on AMD To Open-Source Its Linux Execution & Compilation Stack · · Score: 1

    Good for you. I meant that to explain why intel buying nvidia would not end the linux driver.

  18. Re:Why such a low maximum resolution? on Windows Phone 8 Officially Unveiled · · Score: 1

    There is a lot of stuff you can do over HDMI that is not playing movies. Most mobile browsers also make for a decent ten foot interface.

  19. Re:Interesting timing... on AMD To Open-Source Its Linux Execution & Compilation Stack · · Score: 1

    What?
    Intel has their drivers in the main tree. They work great. NVIDIA provides a binary blob that does not play well with others.

  20. Re:Why such a low maximum resolution? on Windows Phone 8 Officially Unveiled · · Score: 1

    I have 32GB of storage, what device do you have?

  21. Re:Why such a low maximum resolution? on Windows Phone 8 Officially Unveiled · · Score: 1

    I bet we do see it in the next 2 years.

  22. Re:False assumptions from gatekeepers on David Lowery On the Ethics of Music Piracy · · Score: 1

    I agree we do not agree, and will need to leave it at that. I believe it will disincent those only interested in income, I do not believe that to be a downside.

    I do believe we have broken the rules of arguing on the internet.

  23. Re:False assumptions from gatekeepers on David Lowery On the Ethics of Music Piracy · · Score: 1

    GM can charge anything they like when they sell a car. I am not sure if you are aware of how capitalism works, but price and cost are only barely coupled.

    I should be able to make a perfect copy of it using my own materials though. Exactly the same as anything else. Not that I would, corvettes are for old people and barely qualify as super cars.

  24. Re:What a lame announcement... on Windows Phone 8 Officially Unveiled · · Score: 1

    Can they yet accept skype calls without the skype app open?

    Every time I want to skype with my brother who has a WP7 phone I have to send him a text message first.

  25. Re:I used to agree on NVIDIA Responds To Linus Torvalds · · Score: 1

    So you think it is fine that for the past 8 months this hardware has had this issue?

    Even if I installed the lastest driver when NVIDIA sent them out I would still have tons of tearing for months.

    I bet they still don't work with compositing on.