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  1. Re:Lifers? on Financing College With a Tax On All Graduates · · Score: 1

    You don't live in today's world do you? Have you tried looking for a job? Didn't think so.

    The basic premise is a sound one. In fact is you look at it, it's freakin' cheaper than repaying a loan! 3% of your income. Where the hell can you get that kind of deal. Even at gross and not adjusted, it's cheaper than a loan repayment.

    So look at the big picture and don't be myopic. Conditions would need to need to be worked out - which would be pretty damn easy.

  2. Re:I am reminded of pigs and engineers here on Watch Bill Nye and Ken Ham Clash Over Creationism Live · · Score: 1

    And that's why creationism is not a theory. Creation is not a proven set of hypothesis, which is what a theory. Look it up sometime. You must be able to disprove a hypothesis. As such Creationism is not and thus is not a theory.

  3. Re:It makes me feel better on First Evidence That Google's Quantum Computer May Not Be Quantum After All · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    LMOL...the difference is they're suppose to know. So while you're an idiot, they're not suppose to be taken in by a snake oil salesman. FYI a quantum computer is not a black box.

  4. Re: ouch! on Google Sells Motorola Mobility To Lenovo For $2.91 Billion · · Score: 1

    LMOL...umm no. It was not a hedge. Google's intention was to be like Apple and control the hardware. That especially angered Samsung and other Android OEMs. So they got the patents, which was one part of the purchase but failed on the hardware end, which was the other part of the purchase.

  5. Re:ouch! on Google Sells Motorola Mobility To Lenovo For $2.91 Billion · · Score: 1

    As should you, http://www.businessweek.com/ar... Google reason was patents and to build cell phones. They got the patents but failed miserably at the hardware end. $10 Billion plus for patents is an awful lot of money.

  6. Re:ouch! on Google Sells Motorola Mobility To Lenovo For $2.91 Billion · · Score: 1

    LMOL...everyone said that was a mistake. I guess Google finally listened to Samsung.

  7. Re:The basics... on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Convince an ISP To Bury Cable In Your Neighborhood? · · Score: 1

    Bull shit! So you can bury gas lines and power lines but not cable? Are you an idiot. Of course you can. It's whether or not the cable company want to bother with it. The OP pointed out the infrastructure is there, they just decided not to bother with the rest of the area.

    This is a business decision NOT an engineering problem.

  8. Re:NSA failed to halt subprime lending, though. on NSA Says It Foiled Plot To Destroy US Economy Through Malware · · Score: 1

    Or that the NSA is part of the intelligence community....

  9. Re:NSA failed to halt subprime lending, though. on NSA Says It Foiled Plot To Destroy US Economy Through Malware · · Score: 1

    It was asserted that the WMD argument was an intelligence community failure. The NSA is part of the intelligence community. The CIA made up *one* part of that intelligence report.

  10. Re:NSA failed to halt subprime lending, though. on NSA Says It Foiled Plot To Destroy US Economy Through Malware · · Score: 1

    Nor did Iraq have chemical and biological weapons. So what's your point.

  11. Re:NSA failed to halt subprime lending, though. on NSA Says It Foiled Plot To Destroy US Economy Through Malware · · Score: 1

    Hey Potsy....Iraq did not have WMDs. US weapons inspectors never found them. UN weapons inspectors had *some* issues with access but in no way were has hampered as you stated but **US** weapons inspectors had free range in Iraq after we bombed them back to the stone age. US weapons inspectors later declared Iraq never had them.

    PISS OFF!

  12. Re: Plastic Discs on Disney Pulls a Reverse Santa, Takes Back Christmas Shows From Amazon Customers · · Score: 1

    LMOL yeah physical copies are drying.....check bluray sales. People want physical copies. Streaming is not over taking physical copies anytime soon.

  13. Re:It's still morally reprehensible on Disney Pulls a Reverse Santa, Takes Back Christmas Shows From Amazon Customers · · Score: 1

    Actually he is correct given Amazon said they could re-watch it as often" as they like" making it seem like it's just the same as owner the physical copy.

  14. Re:Programming != Computer science on More Students Learn CS In 3 Days Than Past 100 Years · · Score: 1

    Apparently it does, because these "geniuses" believe it's the same thing.

  15. Re:Wow.. on More Students Learn CS In 3 Days Than Past 100 Years · · Score: 1

    Exactly. The author interchanges Computer Science and Computer Programmer. The two are not the same.

  16. Re:Cause and effect? on The Brains of Men and Women Are 'Wired Differently' · · Score: 1

    You do realize there is no such thing as hard wired and that you cannot use anatomical differences to try to explain behavioural variation between the sexes.

  17. Re:Cause and effect? on The Brains of Men and Women Are 'Wired Differently' · · Score: 1

    Please stop. You really do understand neuroscience so go and read about it before commenting.

  18. Re:Finally a flat playing ground on Supreme Court Declines Case On Making Online Retailers Collect Sales Taxes · · Score: 1

    If you understood the law and the issue you can. Ignorance is not an excuse. The law - which you should know by now - is that unless a business had a physical presence in a particular state, that state cannot collect sales tax. That's federal law. States created a new tax, called use tax, to circumvent the federal law. Use tax is not a sales tax, even though it works like one. However states cannot force retailers to collect use tax. People have to volunteer that information on their state income tax form. It's not enforceable other than by ways of a income tax audit - which is not likely to happen since the states do not have the resources for that.

  19. Re:Shocking news on Supreme Court Declines Case On Making Online Retailers Collect Sales Taxes · · Score: 1

    You paid the recipients states sales tax. Had that happen to me too. You have representation. It's just you ran into tax jurisdictional boundary issues.

  20. Re:Shocking news on Supreme Court Declines Case On Making Online Retailers Collect Sales Taxes · · Score: 1

    Actually no, because the Federal Government has forbade States from collection sales taxes on purchases from retailers that do not have a presence in that State. States had to invent a "use" tax in order to collect sales tax. It's voluntary, however.

    Again the issue is that States cannot collect sales tax on purchases from businesses that do not have a presence in that state.

  21. Re:Shocking news on Supreme Court Declines Case On Making Online Retailers Collect Sales Taxes · · Score: 1

    So does NY doesn't make it so.

  22. Re:Shocking news on Supreme Court Declines Case On Making Online Retailers Collect Sales Taxes · · Score: 1

    Which is over reaching and clearly violates the Nexus principle. Unless Amazon has a presence in that state, no state tax should be collected. States were looking for a loop hole.

  23. Re:Shocking news on Supreme Court Declines Case On Making Online Retailers Collect Sales Taxes · · Score: 1

    No it's not because Amazon must collect taxes on all purchases not just 3rd party purchases. If it was limited to 3rd party purchases that would be fine.

  24. Re:Finally a flat playing ground on Supreme Court Declines Case On Making Online Retailers Collect Sales Taxes · · Score: 1

    LMOL o.k. Potsy. The reason people shop on-line has to do with selection. When you repeatedly walk into a store and they don't have what you are looking for (*ahem* Walmart) - you go online and buy it there. Sales tax does not factor into the purchasing decision.

  25. Shall we do a cost benefit analysis.... on Republican Proposal Puts 'National Interest' Requirement On US Science Agency · · Score: 1

    ...of the Iraq War....then the Republican party can reimburse America for the cost....or how about defense contractors....