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  1. Re:Peter Jackson on Hollywood Accounting — How Harry Potter Loses Money · · Score: 1

    If it said "gross income," they would have no legal leg to stand on not to pay him. I almost guarantee the contract said "net income."

  2. Re:Health care impact on Price Shocks May Be Coming For Helium Supply · · Score: 1

    libertarian

    That word does not mean what you apparently think it means given the sentence you used it in.

  3. Re:where's the beef? on Opera 10.60 Released, With Faster JS, WebM Video Support · · Score: 1

    You forgot their commanding lead with ~26% of global market share in the mobile market. That's about 12.5M users based on global smart phone penetration.

  4. Re:If Opera implemented other things right,I'd use on Opera 10.60 Released, With Faster JS, WebM Video Support · · Score: 1

    Bah, my bad for not previewing while using angle brackets.

    6 < 11
    60 > 11

  5. Re:If Opera implemented other things right,I'd use on Opera 10.60 Released, With Faster JS, WebM Video Support · · Score: 2, Interesting

    No.
    6 11.

  6. Re:Three words.... on Chase Bank May Drop Support of Chrome, Opera · · Score: 1

    That's my response to any site that attempts to block access to "unsupported" browsers. I email every contact address I can find and tell them their developers are morons and the site works perfectly well with other browsers. I don't know how the decisions are made at any of them, but a number of sites I've done that with stopped their abjectly stupid policies of actively blocking browsers they deemed "unsupported."

  7. Re:Three words.... on Chase Bank May Drop Support of Chrome, Opera · · Score: 1

    Not only is it built-in, it's been built-in for years, and masking tends to work even on sites that try their level best to prevent browsers other than IE/Firefox from even loading their content. Sites also typically work perfectly when you mask as IE or Firefox.

    Developers who try to lock out browsers that display the site perfectly well are morons, and should be fired for their ignorance.

  8. Re:That's what they said about CD-Rs on SanDisk WORM SD Card Can Store Data For 100 Years · · Score: 1

    Interestingly enough I have yet to encounter a single failure among the CD-Rs I have used in the last 12 or so years. Granted none of them are really cheap, but they're not the super-expensive varieties either.

  9. Re:I feel happier with NoScript on Google Shares Insights On Accelerating Web Sites · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You should load it because the adview provides the revenue for the sites you use. If you think they are paid per click, you know nothing about web advertising. They're paid per impression, and if everyone blocks the ads, free sites go away.

    If a site is unusable, fine. Blocking everything just because you can means you're either ignorant or selfish.

  10. Re:Why not block ads if you don't click? on Google Shares Insights On Accelerating Web Sites · · Score: 1

    Most advertising revenue is paid per adview, not per click. There may be additional revenue per click, but that is not the primary payment source.

  11. Re:You are 20 years too late. on In NJ, Higher Tech Lowers Crime · · Score: 1

    Pretty much.

  12. Re:Compounded Charges... on In NJ, Higher Tech Lowers Crime · · Score: 1

    Their cognizance of the penalties is irrelevant once it reaches that point. If they can't control themselves, they get incarcerated. If they can, they don't. Pretty simple compared to the status quo now.

  13. Re:You are 20 years too late. on In NJ, Higher Tech Lowers Crime · · Score: 1

    Crimes that involve consensual activity between the participants. Like prostitution. There is no victim as long as all parties are willing to engage in the transaction. Possession and use of drugs are also victimless. This is not to excuse criminal activity as a result of impaired mental function from drug use, any more than legalization of alcohol excuses vehicular homicide as a result of driving drunk. It's a pretty easy definition to follow.

  14. Re:Guns don't kill people... on UK Police To Allow Gun Users To Renew Licenses With iPhone App · · Score: 1

    Most people don't understand that. The violence in the US is cultural. It has nothing to do with what weapons are available to whom.

  15. Re:Simple gun control measures on UK Police To Allow Gun Users To Renew Licenses With iPhone App · · Score: 1

    Which means it's not a loophole, and you still have to comply with in-state regulations. This comment does nothing to refute anything in the previous comment.

  16. Re:Mothers on UK Police To Allow Gun Users To Renew Licenses With iPhone App · · Score: 1

    What are the better alternatives for defense? I hear that a lot, but nobody seems to have an actual answer. Tasers are limited in the number of attackers they work against. So are pepper spray devices.

  17. Re:Well, it's not like we didn't see this one comi on FCC Vote Marks Effort To Take Greater Control of the Web · · Score: 1

    Yeah, prisonplanet.com is pretty loony. However, the audio is exactly as advertised. You're a moron to disregard a factual clip just because of the site hosting it.

  18. Re:The Price of being the sole superpower on $1 Trillion In Minerals Found In Afghanistan · · Score: 1

    The fact that it was a NATO response is irrelevant to my point: the claim that it was limited to air strikes is false. There where 16,000 US troops on the ground.

  19. Re:From a Completely BETTER Perspective on DTV Transition - One Year Later · · Score: 1

    30-35 miles is well within the transmission range. 100-150 miles is not, which is how far a significant amount of the population in rural areas are from transmitters. There are far more rural areas in the US than there are urban ones.

  20. Re:The Price of being the sole superpower on $1 Trillion In Minerals Found In Afghanistan · · Score: 1

    While I don't really support US intervention in other countries, it's false to claim the US only bombed the country. I personally know two people who were on the ground in Bosnia. What one saw and personally did there as an Army Ranger turned him against the US military permanently.

    This isn't to say the Serbs didn't do most of the work freeing themselves, just a rebuttal against the claim that the US only used bombs there.

  21. Re:I read the article... on BIOS Will Be Dead In Three Years · · Score: 1

    640k should be enough for anyone.

  22. Re:Use ads on Anti-Speed Camera Activist Buys Police Department's Web Domain · · Score: 1

    That really depends on how corrupt the city is.

  23. Re:When you're not a monopoly, on Apple Blindsides More AppStore Developers · · Score: 1

    Apple doesn't have a monopoly in the smartphone market. Symbian phones account for 3 times the market share Apple has, and Blackberry phones account for 1.25 times the market share.

  24. Re:Innocent world theory does not apply to govs. on Wikileaks Was Launched With Intercepts From Tor · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The attempts by large groups to dominate the weak occurred long before capitalism, and will continue should capitalism ever cease to exist. It is simply one model of domination. There are many more in existence.

  25. Re:Well for starters on IRS Wants a Cut of Sales On eBay and Craigslist · · Score: 1

    That's pretty much my take on it as well. There's no way they'll dry up a source of money as large as the income tax. It gives them too much power to throw away. The only way it would ever disappear is by force.