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  1. Re:Misdirection - It's A Trap! on Canadian Telcos Lobby Against Pick-and-Pay TV · · Score: 1

    Most people will not want a dozen or more channels. The real end game will be a la carte episode/movies. Like amazon is doing on the ps3. The old stuff is free with prime the new stuff is pay per episode. I imagine some of it will be free/cheap with commercials. This will mean far more competition and will drive down prices in a huge way. This is what cable providers really fear.

  2. Re:Disagree on Egypt Banned Porn, But How Much of the Internet Is That? · · Score: 1

    The latter is the staring in it I mentioned. Who would lose interest in actual sex vs touching yourself. No matter how hot the video it can't compare to sex with even the most hideous wife. You can turn the lights out in that case.

  3. Re:Disagree on Egypt Banned Porn, But How Much of the Internet Is That? · · Score: 2

    What in the world makes you think it would harm a marriage or even most marriages?

    Unless you mean staring in it, that I guess could.

  4. Re:Get out of my face on EA Defends Itself Against Thousands of Anti-Gay Letters · · Score: 1

    It already is sort of a configuration option. You have to pick just the right dialogue to make that happen.

  5. Re:Anti-Gay? on EA Defends Itself Against Thousands of Anti-Gay Letters · · Score: 1

    You have no right to force others comply with your twisted world view.

  6. Re:Get out of my face on EA Defends Itself Against Thousands of Anti-Gay Letters · · Score: 1

    Then don't play those games.
    Some people like that sort of thing, and they should not have their videogames damaged by your desires.

    If you are so deep in the closet that two dudes kissing makes you uncomfortable then I am not sure how you can see the tv to play video games. I as a comfortable adult hetero don't care if dudes want to go after each other, that leaves more women for me.

  7. Re:So, why don't they... on EA Defends Itself Against Thousands of Anti-Gay Letters · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I say make it on by default. Nothing better than pissing off a bunch of mouth breathers.

  8. Re:What...No technological advancement? on MIT Institute's Gloomy Prediction: 'Global Economic Collapse' By 2030 · · Score: 1

    The owner thinks they are saving gas, but there has been a lot of energy wasted, far more than the gas savings in the manufacture of the batteries.

    Either this is not true or toyota is taking a huge loss on these cars. I would guess you are wrong and toyota is correct. The TDIs use diesel which has more energy per unit volume than gasoline. It also allows for compression ignition instead of the wasteful spark ignition system found in gasoline powered cars. The TDIs are if anything poorly designed from an environmental point of view as they are not very aerodynamic nor are they as light as they could be while remaining safe.

  9. Re:What...No technological advancement? on MIT Institute's Gloomy Prediction: 'Global Economic Collapse' By 2030 · · Score: 1

    What is this other resource the Prius uses?
    Nickel is far too expensive to not recycle if you are attacking the batteries.

  10. Re:Macs don't get hacked on Flashback Trojan Hits 600,000 Macs and Counting · · Score: 1

    Which is why these users should just stop doing this. If you don't want to pay to edit images, use gimp otherwise pay.

  11. Re:sure it is on Chevy Volt To Resume Production One Week Early Following Record Sales · · Score: 0

    Why a payment? Buy the thing in cash. Cars are not so expensive a nurse should be getting a loan for them.

    A coal plant is far cleaner than ICE cars, and far easier to change out one power plant than a million. More environmental damage is done building yet another SUV.

    Also any new reasonable car can get 40mpg, lots of normal cheap ICE ones too.

  12. Re:The good old days... on Science Reveals Why Airplane Food Tastes So Bad · · Score: 1

    Standard vodka is not at highly flammable. It is only 40% abv, so not even flammable at all without heating it.

    Double proof vodka sure is, but they don't normally have that in the airport dutyfree.

  13. Re:Whoops! Solely AP Not MPR on Domestic Drilling Doesn't Decrease Gasoline Prices · · Score: 1

    By reinstating the tax rates as they were 40 years ago.

    Either we make some plans for $10/gal gas or we let people starve. I bet I can guess which you would prefer.

  14. Re:Whoops! Solely AP Not MPR on Domestic Drilling Doesn't Decrease Gasoline Prices · · Score: 1

    Those people can be given assistance if necessary. Ideally price raises would be slow steady and predictable. Unlike actual market swings. This means people would have many years to get new automobiles.

    Perfect is the enemy of Good. There are lots of ways to assist the needy with transportation, pretending $10/gal gasoline is not going to happen is not one of them.

  15. Re:Whoops! Solely AP Not MPR on Domestic Drilling Doesn't Decrease Gasoline Prices · · Score: 0

    No, they will just drill less oil and refine less of it.

    If anything we should be making gasoline and other fossil fuels more expensive instead of less so.

  16. Re:A Few Notes on Your Suggestion on Domestic Drilling Doesn't Decrease Gasoline Prices · · Score: 0

    Well that sure was a really odd way to spell fungible.
    Your nice little attack on wall street was cute though. The reality is markets set prices add a small amount of supply to a market of that size is not going to have a huge impact.

  17. Re:adoption associated with.less productive employ on How Big US Firms Use Open Source Software · · Score: 1

    So the claim here is that a high paid worker is a very productive one?

    Why is there no citation for that little gem?

  18. Re:Metro UIr (beta)! on Microsoft Demos Metro UI For Enterprise Apps · · Score: 1

    That and the fact that about 90% of the time the only thing the dashboard does is mean that those few metrics that are easy to put in the dashboard are improved at the cost of those that do not show up very well in a dashboard. Its easy to measure stuff, it is hard to measure the right stuff.

  19. Re:I like this on Microsoft Demos Metro UI For Enterprise Apps · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Too much wasted real estate. Why all the pictures of people?

    This is one of those things the MBAs will love to waste everyone's time with, and other than look shiny offer nothing.

  20. Re:Embrace Metro on Microsoft Demos Metro UI For Enterprise Apps · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Or embrace this as an good time to invest that consultant money in switching to another platform.

  21. Re:Limits to feasibility: remember TeGenero case on Peoples' Immune Systems Can Now Be Duplicated In Mice · · Score: 1

    Lemurs are primates.
    Flying lemurs are not lemurs nor are they primates.

  22. Re:I think PETA just had a heart attack on Peoples' Immune Systems Can Now Be Duplicated In Mice · · Score: 0

    Insulin has not been made from canines in a very long time. It was never a commercial product as far as I can tell, but was experimented with in the 1920s. Bovine insulin was used for several decades. In the 1980s biosynthetic insulin was widely available and is pretty much all you can find these days.

    You live in 2012 and rather than use google and the other wonders of our time to learn something you repeated a stupid lie told to you by someone who is probably dumber than you. OUT! OUT! DEMONS OF IGNORANCE AND STUPIDITY! LEAVE THIS MAN ALONE!

    Now you at least are cured of this particular ignorance. Next time use google before posting such ignorant drivel.

  23. Re:I wish... on LibreOffice 3.5.1 Released With Fixes · · Score: 1

    Because a real DB is also free so why use a dumbed down one?

  24. Re:Incentive on Science and Engineering Workforce Has Stalled In the US · · Score: 1

    This is totally untrue. Only a at a few top 10 schools is that even close to true. Even in those cases most of the facilities are paid for by the school at large not the teams. Most university sports programs are huge money sinks.

    http://www.quickanded.com/2010/06/contrary-to-popular-belief-college-sports-teams-lose-money.html

    I do not know where you got this idea, but even the NCAA admits this.
    http://www.ncaapublications.com/productdownloads/REV_EXP_2010.pdf

    In case you don't want to read all that let me sum it up for you: only 14 of the 120 athletic programs in the Football Bowl Subdivision made money.

  25. Re:Same Story / Different Day on Azure Failure Was a Leap Year Glitch · · Score: 1

    They hire a bunch of H1Bs and temp workers. They were the subject of some state reviews over the constant use of temps, why would a temp care about something 4 years into the future?