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  1. Re:People still pirate? on Canadian Piracy Rates Plummet As Industry Points To New Copyright Notice System · · Score: 1

    I don't download any music files since I can just stream it from Youtube.

  2. Re:Now Germany! on US Levels Espionage Charges Against 6 Chinese Nationals · · Score: 1

    Might as well roll the red carpet and let the Russians in.

  3. Re:Now Germany! on US Levels Espionage Charges Against 6 Chinese Nationals · · Score: 1

    How about the Netherlands? Who did they invade? Same thing they don't spend on their own defense. Last thing I heard from them was how they sold all their tanks. Used to have 100 Leopard 2. Now 0.

  4. Re:This is backward! on Oregon Testing Pay-Per-Mile Driving Fee To Replace Gas Tax · · Score: 1

    Don't be worry. They'll do both. They'll call the fuel tax the carbon tax and this one will be road wear tax.

  5. Re:roll it into state/fed taxes on Oregon Testing Pay-Per-Mile Driving Fee To Replace Gas Tax · · Score: 1

    It's usually a bad idea not to charge people according to usage as it distorts the problem.

  6. Re:Now Germany! on US Levels Espionage Charges Against 6 Chinese Nationals · · Score: 1

    Greece has 353 Leopard 2 MBTs. Russia has 930 T-90s, 4500 T-80s in reserve, 8000 T-72 MBTs in reserve.

    Russia also has 443 Su-27 derived aircraft.

  7. Re:Now Germany! on US Levels Espionage Charges Against 6 Chinese Nationals · · Score: 1

    Greece has more tanks than Germany. That's how few tanks Germany has. Russia has like 10x the amount of tanks.

  8. Re:Now Germany! on US Levels Espionage Charges Against 6 Chinese Nationals · · Score: 0

    Germany isn't a colony.

    Bwahahaha. Poor deluded person. Germany does not have the capability to defend itself against anything. They delegated their military defense to the USA now they have to pay the price.

  9. Re:On behalf of planet earth on US Levels Espionage Charges Against 6 Chinese Nationals · · Score: 1

    There is also the General Electric - Enercon windmill case a couple of years back.

  10. Re:Installation Issue - Try telling Comcast that! on Software Glitch Caused Crash of Airbus A400M Military Transport Aircraft · · Score: 1

    Let me guess you paid a toll both for the problem report call and probably another fee for the "technician" visiting.

  11. Re:Does not understand the market, obviously. on Stock Market Valuation Exceeds Its Components' Actual Value · · Score: 1

    A lot of us know that Apple stock is inflated yes.

  12. Re:This will be a historic mission. on Arab Mars Probe Planned For 2020 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They'll probably just pay someone else to do it for them with the oil money as usual.

  13. Re:Votes mean nothing on Canadian Prime Minister To Music Lobby: Here's Your Copyright Term Extension · · Score: 1

    "Majority" choice my ass. In republics we elect oligarchs to rule for us. I wish it was mob rule like in an Athenian Democracy.

  14. Re:Big job on MAME Changing License To Fully Libre One · · Score: 2

    Sure. I disagree with the news item text though. "been available under a modified BSD license" my ass. It's a non-commercial license pure and simple. Nothing BSD about it.

  15. Re:"Cashless" is meaningless on The Solution To Argentina's Banking Problems Is To Go Cashless · · Score: 1

    The banks are being forbidden by the ECB to buy Greek government bonds in case you did not read those news either. They still need the financial assistance anyway.

  16. Re:Future Shock is here on GE Is 3D Printing a Working Jet Engine · · Score: 1

    [X] Giant Robot

  17. Re:"Cashless" is meaningless on The Solution To Argentina's Banking Problems Is To Go Cashless · · Score: 1

    You don't get it do you? Been hearing the news? The ECB is threatening to stop providing "liquidity assistance" to Greek banks. Banks not the government.

    The government will also hit into a liquidity problem eventually but the government is actually the entity with the least liquidity issues.

  18. Re:Do not get fooled by Keynesian arguments on The Solution To Argentina's Banking Problems Is To Go Cashless · · Score: 1

    I did the math once. It takes a decade of work to get enough money to buy a house here. That's assuming you save it all and don't spend a dime on things like food, clothes, transportation, housing, etc. In my grandfathers time, who bought the house may parents live in, he saved the money for it in two years while working two jobs. That's the difference. It used to be like 3 years salary and now it is 10.

    Low people don't care to progress because they know the chance of them actually succeeding is near that of winning the lottery. So why bother.

    You are wrong though. The living standards in the US started getting worse when personal income taxes for the rich went down and the loan rates went down.

    When loan rates go to zero house prices tend to infinity. Also back when personal income taxes for the rich were higher they would rather keep the money in their corporations and increase net wealth creation via empire building.

  19. Re:Do not get fooled by Keynesian arguments on The Solution To Argentina's Banking Problems Is To Go Cashless · · Score: 1

    In other words they take inflation into account as expected.

  20. Re:Do not get fooled by Keynesian arguments on The Solution To Argentina's Banking Problems Is To Go Cashless · · Score: 1

    "zero interest" articles are usually priced with the value of money in mind. In a country with inflation 10 pesos today will be worth 10-10*.25 or whatever pesos in a year. Don't think they do not take that into account.

  21. Re:I already feel the smell of a GoogleGlass failu on Oculus Rift Hardware Requirements Revealed, Linux and OS X Development Halted · · Score: 1

    The problem is nausea. I still remember Descent on VR glasses in the 1990s. Puke.

  22. Re:Linux and Mac development stopped. on Oculus Rift Hardware Requirements Revealed, Linux and OS X Development Halted · · Score: 2

    Don't worry. The Occulus will most likely end up as a flop anyway.

  23. Re:"Cashless" is meaningless on The Solution To Argentina's Banking Problems Is To Go Cashless · · Score: 1

    No. It's the Greeks are blaming the Germans for pressing the Greek Goverment to bailout Greek PRIVATE Banks which owed money to German Banks.

  24. Re:What I really miss: high quality sprite graphic on The Decline of Pixel Art · · Score: 1

    It takes a lot of time to do it so eventually people just started using 3D rendered models rendered into 2D sprites and shit. The articles goes in this regarding Diablo and I know it happened in several other games as well.

  25. Re:Duelyst on The Decline of Pixel Art · · Score: 1

    The graphics in Duelyst look, to me, like rasterized vector graphics or traced graphics not actual pixel art.