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  1. Re:Please describe exactly on Emails Cast Unflattering Light On Internal Politics of Healthcare.gov Rollout · · Score: 1

    Has a hugely higher deductible (we went from $2,500 a year to about $12,000 a year)

    Ours was initially $3000 a year for the family plan, then it went to $3,000 per person!. After the birth of our son 20 months ago, we ended up paying $6,000 in fees. 3k for pregnant wife, 3k and fees for my son's birth. 6k grand was considered a nice down payment for a house / car back in mid to late 1990's. Oh, except it's free if you're a fucking Mexican that's about to drop an anchor baby. They pay ZERO; it's you and I the tax payer that pays for it all, and then much more later on.

  2. Re:So we just gave all this money on SpaceX Launches Supplies to ISS, Including Its First 3D Printer · · Score: 1

    You've obviously never been double-bounced properly. Get it right, and it's off to the moon you go!

  3. Re:No surprise on Study: Chimpanzees Have Evolved To Kill Each Other · · Score: 1

    Congress critters just need a good ol fashioned brawl. Let the fists go flying!

    God, I would love to see a few get a fat lip!

  4. Re:No surprise on Study: Chimpanzees Have Evolved To Kill Each Other · · Score: 1

    Pride is a big one.

  5. Re:No surprise on Study: Chimpanzees Have Evolved To Kill Each Other · · Score: 2

    For males, it's about achieving Alpha dominance and hierarchy. For females it's a little more complicated, but the queen bee syndrome comes to mind.

  6. Re: Wait for it in 3...2...1... on Microsoft Lays Off 2,100, Axes Silicon Valley Research · · Score: 1

    Are they even an American company anymore?! Like IBM, Mocrosoft is practically owned operated out of India!

  7. Re: "MS. . .will get worse before this gets better on Microsoft Lays Off 2,100, Axes Silicon Valley Research · · Score: 1

    -Demotivation phrase-

    Redemption: When you're a day late and a dollar short.

  8. Re:So everything is protected by a 4 digit passcod on Apple Will No Longer Unlock Most iPhones, iPads For Police · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Or, they simply use a $5 wrench.

  9. Re:No good for older iPhones on iOS 8 Review · · Score: 4, Informative

    I have an iPhone 5. When iOS 7 was released, the main features that pulled pep from my phone was the motion visual effect. Turning it off made a huge difference. Can be found under -Settings --> Accessibility --> Reduce Motion (ON). Hopefully the iOS performance hit is mainly video related so as to turn off whatever advance feature chews through cycles. If it's the kernel itself taxing the CPU, yeah, pretty much screwed.

  10. This is healthy on Scotland's Independence Vote Could Shake Up Industry · · Score: 1

    I wish both Scotland and England the best. This separation should be amicable. In fact, hopefully it give both countries strength in competition and to set examples for each other in both how and how not to govern.

    Texas might not be far behind you.

  11. Re:A turd is a turd on What To Expect With Windows 9 · · Score: 1

    Remember; if you can't polish a turd, roll it in glitter.

  12. Re:Bring back windows XP. on What To Expect With Windows 9 · · Score: 1

    And XP is officially EOLed as of April 2014. That means end of vendor support. So when that new accounting program comes rolling alone (Quickbooks), you must have Windows 7 or newer.

  13. Re:This may be the way to escape from Comcast on Comcast Allegedly Asking Customers to Stop Using Tor · · Score: 1

    Back when worked at Time Warner, we never charged for a truck roll that I'm aware of. Not unless you did something stupid like cut the main line to the house with a garden tool, or you request an additional outlet to be installed in the wall.

    While I don' know, I'm pretty sure they're no fee in swapping the box out in person if the TSR agent states it's ok to do based on a technical issue. But for a truck to drive a box and install it to your home, yes, I can understand the delivery and setup charge. Now if a squirrel chewed through an overhead coax line, well that's their problem, not the subscriber's.

  14. Re:So-to-speak legal on Comcast Allegedly Asking Customers to Stop Using Tor · · Score: 1

    Since when does the Executive and Legislative branch give a damn about your constitutional rights?! Half of SCOTUS plays with it like jujitsu; bending and contorting its meaning to service some living-breating "modern times meaning" BS.

    1rst amendment? You wacko! Don't have such thoughts.

  15. Re:So-to-speak legal on Comcast Allegedly Asking Customers to Stop Using Tor · · Score: 1

    Sure, agreed. But there is a major difference. Once is screwing you over on how you would like to use the connection you paid for. The other does it for political reasons, and at the behest of their corporate masters.

    Democracy?? Please, we have a plutocracy now. One poison is worst than the other.

  16. Re:So-to-speak legal on Comcast Allegedly Asking Customers to Stop Using Tor · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I'll cut right to the chase. You allow the government to take over the ISP business, it will be regulated like in China. I'm very serious about that statement. Give it another 10 years-ish to boil that frog, but yes, that severe.

  17. Re:So-to-speak legal on Comcast Allegedly Asking Customers to Stop Using Tor · · Score: 1

    FCC bitch!

  18. Re:So-to-speak legal on Comcast Allegedly Asking Customers to Stop Using Tor · · Score: 0, Troll

    Into the frying pan, into the fire. You really want the Internet to be a "utility". Oh, that sounds all nice until Big Government starts regulating all sorts of shit. The first to go will be anonymous activity under the guise of "homeland security". In reality, to stifle political free speech and may *you* fear pissing off the opposition.

    Be damn careful what you wish for. Be DAMN CAREFUL!!!!

  19. Re:This may be the way to escape from Comcast on Comcast Allegedly Asking Customers to Stop Using Tor · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm sure they'll come up with some BS term. Something like "Active services suspension" Yeah, that's it!

    "Sir, we've placed a hold on your active account. You're still a valuable customer, and will be billed as such, but your connection has been disconnected" We will re-enable the connection when you agree and signed a form stating you will stop using Tor. Good day"

    Brilliant. I make for such an evil villain!

  20. Re:It's not your phone on Apple Outrages Users By Automatically Installing U2's Album On Their Devices · · Score: -1

    I'm no fan of Apple but this is a storm in a molehill.

    Agreed, but then again you probably don't fall in two the two groups that either find this offensive, or unfair.

    1. The progressive liberals types that typically purchase Apple products over Android.
    2. The entire music industry.

    Both groups are very vocal, hence why it's "news". Now I could give a flying fuck about #1, in fact, they can suffer while I snort my morning coffee in laughter :). But I really feel for #2. This blatant favoritism on display when the music industry is ostensibly forced into the DLC paradigm. FYI I'm not a fan or a foe of U2.

  21. Re:Good episode of Frontline on US Scientists Predict Long Battle Against Ebola · · Score: 1

    So I finished watching it. I had no idea is was that contagious just from exposure to the skin alone. If this thing becomes airborne, half the human population could be wiped out! Society collapse's from lost industrial specialization, and civil war / revolutions breakout all over the globe.

  22. Nature on Liquid Sponges Extract Hydrogen From Water · · Score: 0

    Call me a cynic, but wouldn't nature of done this long ago as a primary source of energy for oceanic life? Take Hydrogen and combine with oxygen. Lots-o-energy with a simple path of ingestion. It's like, inhaling food!

  23. Re:Renew this! on If Tesla Can Run Its Gigafactory On 100% Renewables, Why Can't Others? · · Score: 1

    Tesla recycles its batteries.

  24. Re:Look in the mirror on If Tesla Can Run Its Gigafactory On 100% Renewables, Why Can't Others? · · Score: 1

    made by a Chinese worker getting $1 an hour using 100s of toxic, cancerous materials, all processed by coal power.

    That's part of it. The other part is the Chinese themselves. We can't change how their government regulates safety. It's also not a democracy, so don't expect the Chinese to have much say-so. For change to occur at the policy level, that would require a Chinese uprising with their government either acknowledging the problem and implementing reform, or face a revolution.

    A global economy is two-way street.

  25. Re:Not just Reno on If Tesla Can Run Its Gigafactory On 100% Renewables, Why Can't Others? · · Score: 2

    We are all the Druuge!

    "Anyone who threatens the group's profit margin due to illness, debt, or old age is thrown into the furnaces."

    "Their ships consume crew to fuel the engines"