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  1. Re:Discounting the price of a book? on French Fine Amazon For Free Shipping · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Hardly seems relevant, I can just as easily talk about concentration of wealth, percentages of people living below the poverty line, or life-expectancy in america and call free market economics a failure.

    But that would make me look like an idiot wouldn't it.

  2. Re:The same issue as always on French Fine Amazon For Free Shipping · · Score: 1

    This is business, not social policy.

    With the vast amount of the world controlled, owned and run by business, how do you figure to separate the two numbnuts?

    "The customer is always right" is a slogan, not a universal truth.

  3. Re:The price of socialism on French Fine Amazon For Free Shipping · · Score: 1

    Ahhhh yes, the bad old days in the U.S. under FDR.

    Because, y'know, things are all sunshine and lollipops now right?

  4. Re:Discounting the price of a book? on French Fine Amazon For Free Shipping · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Anyone who has a dogmatic unswayable belief in one particular economic theory is anti-French, including the French economists I know.

    There, fixed that for you.

  5. Re:MOD PARENT DOWN! on Young IT Workers Disillusioned, Hard to Retain · · Score: 1

    He didn't say he wants something for nothing, what he's basically said (and I've heard it a lot), is that he's seen the "something", and that "something" is shit.

  6. Re:Spoiled on Young IT Workers Disillusioned, Hard to Retain · · Score: 1

    haha, yes, because the company you apply to work for will never try and lowball you...

    the "market rate", assuming no collusion, is the best you can get. This is exactly what current IT workers are doing, they know they can get more and so are asking for it.

  7. Re:Many managers are saddened they actually have t on Young IT Workers Disillusioned, Hard to Retain · · Score: 1

    That's exactly it though, reality.

    The reality is among the IT workforce there's competition to get workers, the workers know this and so are driving wages up. Apparently it's reasonable for management to bitch about this.

    Shoe on the other foot, with there being more competition for jobs and management will (and have) drive wages down a lot quicker than it usually takes for workers to realise they're worth more.

  8. Re:They didn't have a lot of choices... on Identity Theft Skeptic Ends Up As Fraud Victim · · Score: 1

    He said "the idiots who lost the discs".

    Also, you're aware that clarkson is a comedian yes?

  9. Re:That's so cool! on Beer Brewing Bender Completed · · Score: 1

    You'd be better off with the coopers plastic bottles than those corona bottles.
    If you DO use clear glass make damn sure you keep your beer away from sunlight.
    I'd also be worried about how thin the glass for those bottles is... exploding bottles are no fun at all.

  10. Re:So they moved from UNIX to Linux on NYSE Moves to Linux · · Score: 1

    The new communism.
      entrance requirements:
        Must be or be descended from a successful capitalist.

  11. Re:They are the Boogeymen! on Iran Builds Supercomputer From Banned AMD Parts · · Score: 1

    Yeah I'm sure castro is squealing with delight at the idea of economic cooperation with the US.

    Because, y'know, it worked so well for the rest of the continent...

  12. Re:Who Loves You, Baby? Putin Loves You, Baby !! on Russian Chatbot Passes Turing Test (Sort of) · · Score: 1

    Ha, yes, "humanity" in this case meaning the ethos of "every man for himself".

    I don't think purist communism is any better idea than purist capitalism, but we've had as many fascist capitalists as fascist communists.

    You've been duped.

  13. Re:I doubt it will be viable in notebooks on Ultracapacitors Soon to Replace Many Batteries? · · Score: 1

    jesus christ.. and I was going to deliberately write "watt hours" because I knew I wouldn't get the syntax, but I thought, no, no one will be such a pedantic pain in the arse as to pretend they don't know what I mean.

  14. Re:I doubt it will be viable in notebooks on Ultracapacitors Soon to Replace Many Batteries? · · Score: 1

    Yes... to around (from memory) 2,400 w/H My laptop charger here says it's managing to suck in a grand total of... 65 w/H, a significant improvement I would say.

  15. Re:Doublt benefit.. on Students Assigned to Write Wikipedia Articles · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I don't DISAGREE with you, but you could see such things as being like bug tracking software or //TODO's in code.

    Things that otherwise wouldn't get fixed, get fixed when someone is bored.

  16. Re:Labels or Folders? on Free IMAP On Gmail · · Score: 1

    You can create a label named Work/John which will show up as a normal label in gmail but IMAP will translate into a folder hierarchy.

  17. Re:Spot on Torvalds... on Torvalds On Pluggable Security Models · · Score: 3, Informative

    Did you even read the freakin discussion? The whole thing was about whether security should be modular, linus was arguing that it should stay modular, someone else was arguing that it should not and cited the scheduler as an example of linus preferring a singular option.

  18. Re:This Just In on The Gradual Public Awareness of the Might of Algorithms · · Score: 1

    Says the AC in a topic specifically ABOUT the applications...

  19. Re:News for nerds on Daniel Lyons of Forbes Admits Being Snowed by SCO · · Score: 1

    Doctors might call each other quacks, lawyers might call each other shysters, and computer scientists might call each other nerds.

    But reporters, should call each of them doctors, lawyers, and computer scientists.

  20. Re:Why does no one every read the license on Microsoft Installs New Software Without Permission · · Score: 1

    Fair point, sort've an opposite to the usual misconception about the bill of rights. And also, yes, most "Linux"'s, ie distributions come with things licensed other than GPL or BSD.

  21. Re:Why does no one every read the license on Microsoft Installs New Software Without Permission · · Score: 1

    You are correct, but it's more than "a few more", as you can do whatever the hell you like with your copy of GPL software other than redistribute it.

    Only when doing that do any restrictions kick in.

  22. Re:Teaser indeed... on AMD Releases 900+ Pages Of GPU Specs · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well, if I can't get specs, my next video card will be an nVidia. Why should I suffer because my HW vendor wants to hide something from me? Do they really believe that non-functional hardware gains them any marketshare?

    Now how does this make a lick of sense? nVidia haven't released ANY specs.
    Also, I'd imagine that 2d rendering is reasonably similar across chipsets, but I admit I'm just guessing there.

  23. Re:GPLv3 software? on Will GPLv3 Drive Users from Linux to FreeBSD? · · Score: 1

    Well, no, because it's his/FSF's license and software. If the people who develop the software that you are using for free decide they don't like RMS's interpretation of the spirit of the agreement, they can always license the software differently.

  24. Re:i.e. the poor are irrational and lazy on New Explanation For the Industrial Revolution · · Score: 1

    You're pretty much argued the GP's point, Nurture, rather than Nature, being the contributing factor for the poor being poor.

    The Author of the book strongly suggests Nature via genetics and evolution, which gets on my nerves too.

  25. Re:It's not one game on Nintendo - "Everyone is a Gamer" · · Score: 1

    All credibility is lost when saying the DS doesn't have any "deep" games.

    You might want to have a look at the catalogue for it these days...