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  1. Re:Free stuff isn't, freedom is! on Is Cheap Broadband UnAmerican? · · Score: 1

    yep

    Laws of supply and demand

    raise interest rates slowly.
    Housing market cools off slowly
    people still have cash on hand start to buy other goods

    Building supplies no longer in hot demad slowly begin to refill storages. Manufactors don't like that so they cut proudctuion a bit, but don't fire anyone.

    Prices begin to fall

    Of course they will never fall below 10-20% of what they are now, but it will give people time to get used to it.

    Overall infaltion goes up. again

    I don 't like the sytem but that is how it is.

  2. Re:Free stuff isn't, freedom is! on Is Cheap Broadband UnAmerican? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Ten years for the collapse of one of the major finacial mortage houses like Fanny-mae. Greenspan has already sent out warnings on them.

    The Dollar sucks world wide. Very much so. A slightly depressed dollar is okay, but we went from 1 pound equalling a $.80 ish to 1 pound equalling $.50 in a year. Now a Euro is 1 to $.77 dollars. When bush took offive it was .95~ euro's to the Dollar.

    I hadn't heard about OPEC. If they switch it will hurt this country a lot. Of course a swift kick in the ass would probably be good for the USA.

  3. Re:Free stuff isn't, freedom is! on Is Cheap Broadband UnAmerican? · · Score: 1

    Um why do you think steel in particular, but copper ad wood have been clmbing?

    most USA steel plants are shut down, and China are biggest supplier is not exporting as much as they used because they are using it.

    Copper and Wood are being sent to iraq, and afganistan to help rebuild.

    To top it all off Gas is climbing even higher. With oil prices going up, PVC piping is climbing up now.

    Between all that and the huricane's, tornado's, etc that have hit this country recently, just about every quarter the manufactors are raising there prices 3-5% averaging 15-20% a year overall.

    This can't be sustained much longer. The only solution is to gently cut the housing market back . That can be done be raising interest rates. But that affects a lot of other trades.

  4. Re:ads.osdn.com on Does Adblock Violate A Social Contract? · · Score: 1

    I am.

    Also Ads.osnews.com as well.

    I don't like ads. I have never bought anything from them and never will.

  5. All ads suck on Does Adblock Violate A Social Contract? · · Score: 1

    I have the right to tune out, ignore, and block any fscking ad I want.

    I hate ads with a passion. Annoying, useless, worthless, did i mention I find them annoying?

    TV goes to mute and/or I switch to using my powerbook. at home I don't use a radio, but instead use my small 1600 song collection which gives me some 5 days of never listening to the same thing.

    I adblock nearly everything online I come across.

    Let's just say I have never bought anything from an ad, an i plan I keeping it that way.

  6. Re:Free stuff isn't, freedom is! on Is Cheap Broadband UnAmerican? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You do realize that the only thing keeping this country afloat for the past 3 years have been the extra low interest rates pushing a boom for the housing market right?

    Steel, Copper, wood, have all tripled in price in the last two years. The moment the people can't affoard to build new houses, is the same time when this country goes down into a massive recission. If it is bad enough I fully expect Fanny-mae or one of the mortage programs like it to crash and burn within ten years.

    I work in Electrical industry. All winters slow down. This past winter has hundreds of contractors still sitting at home. Last year most were busy for 40 hours a week all winter long.

    Sure it's only one state, but it only takes one domino.

  7. Re:Flamebait. on Windows Journalist Takes On Tiger · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Thurrot is the Enderle ofthe Mac world.(actually they have enderle too)

    Windows Ru13z and you can't compare to the power Longhorn will have over Tiger.

    In reality one will have to compare The next version of OS X after tiger to Longhorn.

    he doesn't really understand Longhorn doesn't exsist yet as a product. Even Beta's don't mean it will make it to the market. With the feature cuts Longhorn hasbeen undergoing, soon it will compare to win XP with better security(I Hope).

  8. Re:Hey maaaaaan... on How to Prevent IP Theft by Your Own Employees? · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's because it's stealthy.

    To enter you must ping the webserver on several ports in the correct order.

    Shh don't say a word about it.

  9. Re:Public Interest? on Newspapers Back Apple Bloggers · · Score: 1

    Ah okay so I steal Windows Source code for longhorn and find a guy to post it to his blog and we both get off the hook?

    Thanks now I can go back to cracking Windows without fear. Can I use your idea in front of a judge just in case?

    Apple went after ThinkSecret precisely because someone broke their NDA. That is illegal behavior. If the ThinkSecret guy told Apple part of what he knew(say this username that logs in from this IP) this never would of went to court. Apple isn't out to ruin this kid just to find out who is breaking their contract. If the 'Source' was smart he would be posting through anonymous proxy's anyway. This could of been over quickly but no somebody had the bright idea that a personal website is now a news Organization.

  10. Re:What Bad Things? on The Top Three Reasons for Humans in Space · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Don't worry you will still be taxed and have part of your life's work go to fund Dubya's ego and friends.

    Death , Taxes and Corrupt politicains are constants amoung humans.

    Of course being on Mars when Dubya sets off WWIII --Priceless.

  11. Re:Gentoo on Easy, Fast, Cheap Way to Generate CPU Load? · · Score: 1

    It was my suggestion. se the Gentoo live cd and install to /dev/null of the live cd.

    that should keep things busy for a while.

  12. Re:Not Permissions, Just Common Sense Default ACLs on Longhorn to use UNIX-like User Permissions · · Score: 1

    shhh will tell you a secret.

    OSX is based off of BSD it's self based off of Unix.

    OS X doens't have root enabled.

    Admin accounts need permission to access system files.

    other than the very simple Application management, It is basic unix user/group/world permissions.

  13. Re:More color-coded warnings? on DNS Cache Poisoning Spreads Malware · · Score: 2, Funny

    forget rainbow, wait till the perfect orange sunset, and run around screaming even mother nature knows terrorists are coming.

  14. Re:Shockwave on 'Transformers' Live Action Movie from DreamWorks? · · Score: 1

    Yea but now he is a bit smaller, he is Ipud. your helpful little music friend.

  15. Re:hmmmm... on Sun's Schwartz Attacks GPL · · Score: 1

    Schwartz won't listen to that. He hears it's not based on money makeing scheme's and must hate it.

    The GPL has only one Goal. to insure software remains free from control. Like the Bitkeeper move. If it isn't Free you can't trust it to be around and updated tomorrow.

    No company lasts forever, but GPL'ed software can.

  16. Re:Ofcourse they have to be secure. on Mabir.A Virus Targets Symbian Phones · · Score: 1

    Of course the guy who ran to the market early to steal your market share, had to have a major recall in order to restore 3 million phones that were infected with a virus. Now that compnay is on the verge of bankruptcy and your selling phones like hot cakes.

    In ANY other industry the security holes of Windows would be considered unsafe, and MSFT would be facing billions of dollars of damage and recalls.

    Because Software doesn't really exsist as a physical item, they don't have that problem.

  17. Re:Solved Problem on A Home-Made Power Supply that Lasts 1000 Years? · · Score: 1

    It's not the signal but it's source which is important.

  18. Re:Assuming you are serious.... on A Home-Made Power Supply that Lasts 1000 Years? · · Score: 1

    Or a very accurate pendlum drop that will last that long.

  19. Of course Monley's don't like Macs on Monkeys Don't Like Macs · · Score: 1

    Mac's are for the intelligent population, Monkey's are well below average.

    let those below average intelligent people use Windows. The rest of us know what a real OS can do for us, instead of to us.

  20. Re:Sad Thing on USB Fundue Set · · Score: 1

    from another article today slashdot

    They should of put in a few actions shots I can see that now. It would be hilarious. Fundue dipping for lunch with the sexy secretary.

  21. Re:food! on iCopulate Romances iPods, Executive Pong · · Score: 2

    They should of put in a few actions shots I can see that now. It would be hilarious. Fundue dipping for lunch with the sexy secretary.

  22. Re:it's part of the reason i bought one (kind of') on Mac mini as Embedded Development Platform · · Score: 2, Interesting

    your right you can.

    of course in order to do so with similar performace you need a machine weighing at 7lbs veruses the 15" power book at 5.6

    You need to carry a spare battery to last roughly the same amout of time on the battery.

    And unless you are running Windows your Driver support is flaky at best.

    Linux is ready for the desktop & server, just not for the laptop.

  23. Re:Of course. on Return of the Mac · · Score: 1

    What you don't have.

    Great easy to setup on the fly wireless networking.
    hot plug monitor multi-monitor support.
    Easy application install ( open cd, drag one file to application directory).

    I switch network adpators in three mouse clicks on my mac.

    While running my laptop I can plug in my 18"lcd The screen flashes twice(display restarting?) and I have a bigger screen. What's that I want to switch to my TV Uplug one, and plug in the other.

  24. OT: as a reply to your sig. on William Shatner Pitches 'Starfleet Academy' Show · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    No your not the only one to thinkof minority report as a horror flick. i saw all those personalized ads indentifingyou by retinal scanners, and I got chills down my spine.

    I can't stand ads today, I would have to kill people to live in a place that way. That or move to the mountians, and jus order everything online.

  25. Re:Radio is not crap everywhere. on Microsoft's Tips for Buying an MP3 Player · · Score: 1

    NO,

    Radio has one and only one use other than dispensing music.

    And that's dispensing news. Currently Radio has broken more stories than TV or the Internet.(changing slowly)

    but for music. It's almost as bad as TV, a hundred different channels all playing the top 40ish songs of their category.

    As I said. I set my ENTIRE library to shuffle. If I am in the mood for one kind I use a different playlist. I created them years ago, and guess what they still work.

    In most cases a 128mb mp3 player can hold a greater variety than most stations play.