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  1. Re:Only 15 comments and this trash is +4? on Free Broadband For NYC Public Housing? · · Score: 1

    Contracts are only valid if the parties involved agree to it.

    So "opt-out" is illegal and immoral?

    You can't live a life of luxury and at the same time cry "poor me".

    So you think the people on welfare are living a "life of luxury"?

  2. Re:Not a good week... on Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo Crashes · · Score: 1

    Since "space flight" is a solved question, solved in the '70s, how is a 1996 event make "heroes" and 2014 doesn't?

  3. Re:Because that is what people in public housing n on Free Broadband For NYC Public Housing? · · Score: 1

    And for "US" you mean your little corner of Los Angeles only, and for Europe, you mean the riots you know nothing about, other than what you think you read in the news about race riots that weren't related to government housing.

  4. Re:I'm not sure what bothers me more, on Ask Slashdot: Where Do You Stand on Daylight Saving Time? · · Score: 1

    So the problem is that your school doesn't provide before-school care? Mine does. Maybe you should work on fixing the problem that needs fixing, rather than complaining about things that are essentially impossible.

  5. Re:I hate these "get out the vote campaigns on Boo! The House Majority PAC Is Watching You · · Score: 1

    I'm the person you are responding to. I can't "infer" anything. I can only imply. You can only infer. Now that we've covered you are an idiot, why are you assering that rights are tied to your value of the person? Poor people should vote on taxes. Given that the vast majority of the welfare goes to the rich, I think it is they who should lose their rights first (though nobody should lose them your order is off).

  6. Re:Because that is what people in public housing n on Free Broadband For NYC Public Housing? · · Score: 1

    They do have those problems. Notice the rather frequent riots in Paris as well as growing ethic problems throughout europe.Ah, so the riots in Paris are caused by public housing. Got it.

    I also note that Singapore has large scale public housing, and had two riots in 40 years, both "race based". Or are you going to claim that agrees with your unstated hypothesis, since you are hinting racism at every turn ("ethic problems" and such), while denying race is an issue.

    I'm sorry if I'm being brief with you. But ignorance offends me.

    I get it. You are offended by yourself, so you move on to the next post as soon as possible.

    So little twits like you that don't pay attention actually don't know about it. Which is really quite sad.

    So because your little square of the world has a race problem (that's apparently not race-based), you generalize that to the rest of the world, and demand people prove you wrong, but are offended if people point out your race-based problem is race-based. Got it. As much as anyone can get it.

  7. Re:I'm not sure what bothers me more, on Ask Slashdot: Where Do You Stand on Daylight Saving Time? · · Score: 1

    Sure, but if your complaint is "parents won't like it" first, I'd demand that you find a parent that did like it. If there are none today happy with the school time, the "they won't like it" would be irrelevant.

  8. Re:Bullshit. on China To Merge High-Speed Train Makers To Cut Competition · · Score: 1

    What country is that? Regardless, "my country" is top of the list for least corrupt countries. It may not be "corruption free" but then, nowhere is.

  9. Re:Because that is what people in public housing n on Free Broadband For NYC Public Housing? · · Score: 1

    I'm suggesting that you simply scale back the subsidized housing.

    Why do so many other countries have more subsidized housing than the US without the problems you mention?

    You don't know me. You don't know what I believe. You don't know what I know.

    Then tell us. Instead, you play rhetorical games to attack others and claim you said nothing and implied nothing. If you are posting nothing, why bother?

    You made this rather stupid insinuation that I was shipping black people off to work on slave plantations.

    For someone whining so much about what others presume about you, can you point to where I used the word "Black" or "plantations" or "slave"? Oh, I never did? You just assumed you knew what I believed, what I know, and did exactly what you complain about in others. You made stupid assumptions about others.

    All you did was project your own inherent racism onto me.

    I projected nothing.

    These are not children or cattle we're talking about here.

    So it's ok to treat children like cattle? I'm not sure what you are saying here, but I can't know what you believe, so tell us.

  10. Re:Bullshit on Free Broadband For NYC Public Housing? · · Score: 1

    Dude, are you aright? Not all worked up over a simple conversation?

    Ah yes. When proven wrong, turn it into an ad hominem. Would you like to ask me questions about my childhood next? Or just stick to your wrong statements. Oh, that's right. You want to distract from your wrong comments and hope your personal attacks distract the reader from your wrongness.

    For point 1, i notice you have done what you termed "changing the goalposts" and said you will lay cable at the same price/customer when i simply asked if laying 2000 miles costs the same as 200.

    Nowhere do you recover costs based on laying the cable. You recover costs based on people using it. So your question is useless and unrepresentative of a useful question.

    In some parts of the the US/Canada you find a lot of small "towns" which are at least 100 miles from the nearest city. Does the fact that the town is small and the distances are great not account for the cost to wire up such a small place in the first place?

    Nope. Because almost all small towns are on roads. And almost all those roads connect bigger towns. It's hard to find a small town that doesn't have "free" fiber running through it. They just need to spend a trivial amount to tap into it.

  11. Re:Actually no... on Disney Patents a Piracy Free Search Engine · · Score: 4, Interesting

    To be more precise, when people go searching for things, they want to make sure they're getting unbiased results.

    People don't care about "unbiased". They care about "useful". Getting results of all DRM movies would be very un-useful to some. The "pirated" copies work on phones, PCs, consoles, and just about everything. The DRM versions are more restricted. The utility of the result is more important than "bias".

  12. Re:Actually no... on Disney Patents a Piracy Free Search Engine · · Score: 1

    It would be a great source, if they let you sort based on cost. "Oh, the cheapest way to view "The Avengers" is $7.99 for a "rental"? I'll just steal it for $0. Cheaper, easier, and faster."

    When they try to compete with "free", then they'll have figured it out. Maybe they should be a filter on "DRM" to filter out DRM from search results.

  13. Re:I'm not sure what bothers me more, on Ask Slashdot: Where Do You Stand on Daylight Saving Time? · · Score: 1

    Let's see... Businesses change their hours twice a year, more or less at the times we now change the clocks... Or we change the clocks...

    The business can do it if they want. What I expect in reality, is that business would adopt a slightly early time, year round.

  14. Re:Bullshit on Free Broadband For NYC Public Housing? · · Score: 1

    Is it reasonable to assume the cost of laying cables thousands of miles is the same as hundreds? If so, can i hire you to lay cables 2,000 miles for the same price you would lay one 200 miles?

    Sure, I'll lay cables for 2000 miles at the same price per customer as 200 miles. It's never the absolutes, but the number per subs.

    If you don't know that, you don't know anything about the finances of ISPs. If you do know that, you are lying to prove a points. Either way, there's nothing that can be done to educate you, just those that might read your posts or moderate it.

  15. Re:Only 15 comments and this trash is +4? on Free Broadband For NYC Public Housing? · · Score: 1

    You can help their season by bringing in better players to help the team out. You help the players by giving them more play time (or better practice time).

    The discussion about the poor will always come down to some arrogant prick asserting his opinion as fact. Because sometimes what's best for the team is worst for the player. And some people have the opinion that the team's record is better than the player's personal growth, or vice versa (for both points)

  16. Re:I'm not sure what bothers me more, on Ask Slashdot: Where Do You Stand on Daylight Saving Time? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, one had "core hours" regardless of where you worked. Something like 10 to 3, you had to "be available" regardless of where you were (working from home or the office was equivalent).

    It's nice working in IT. More flexibility. But I've seen it work with finance and other departments as well.

  17. Re:I'm not sure what bothers me more, on Ask Slashdot: Where Do You Stand on Daylight Saving Time? · · Score: 1

    So then hours at retail will move. Problem solved.

  18. Re:Because that is what people in public housing n on Free Broadband For NYC Public Housing? · · Score: 1

    So you'd ship them to the south to work in the fields? What would you do with them?

  19. Re:Bullshit on Free Broadband For NYC Public Housing? · · Score: 1

    When this is proved wrong, where will you move the goalposts next?

  20. Re:Bullshit on Free Broadband For NYC Public Housing? · · Score: 1

    Of course, I pay $70/month for my broadband, I guess that makes me a chump.

    Yes, you could just go to the library to use it. By your definition, that makes you a chump.

  21. Re:Not enough on Free Broadband For NYC Public Housing? · · Score: 1

    Is this why there are relatively few areas in the US where people with money send their kids to public schools? Is it likely that these people prefer an inferior education for their kids and are willing to shell out a lot of money for that while still paying taxes for superior educational services they have chosen not to use

    The public schools are cheaper and more efficient. Private schools are about twice the cost of the public schools, and don't buy much better education, but buy elitism, which is more important than education. Education can be bought with tutors. Elitism can't be bought so easily.

  22. Re:Not enough on Free Broadband For NYC Public Housing? · · Score: 1

    "Free" means the person using it didn't pay for it. And they get a free "car", but it's called a "bus". Free stuff allow them to live in squalor until they can climb their way out. Even better when we erect walls to help keep them in their position, then blame them for being poor.

  23. Re:Only 15 comments and this trash is +4? on Free Broadband For NYC Public Housing? · · Score: 1

    Why not round up everyone poorer than you and shoot them. They are obviously not worth keeping.

  24. Re:A tax by any other name... on Free Broadband For NYC Public Housing? · · Score: 1

    Obama phones were started by Ronald Reagan. And it's not a tax. A tax is a fee. Hiding it in a company's operating cost makes it quite clearly not a tax. It's not like the taxes to pay for wars long since passed, which was explicit and separate (and outlasted many conservative presidents).

  25. Re:yeah that will help... on Free Broadband For NYC Public Housing? · · Score: 1

    I have, and I don't see what you claim to have seen. They are not insane. They try to get jobs, and are denied. Insanity is doing the same thing repeatedly, expecting a different result.