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  1. they are half right........ on Microsoft Really Doesn't Want You To Buy Office 2019 (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    actually neither are worth buying for probably higher than 90% of people.........libreoffice all the way

  2. Alexa??? the ugly daughter of billy joel???

  3. why not Ekaterina or Svetlana??? or Oksana?? they can leverage names that invoke sexy girls but no..........."alice" which invokes https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  4. Re: And a whole one person even cared on Detroit Decides Against Banning Airbnb -- For Now (detroitnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Please learn how to spell embassy

  5. women for sure 100% yes about freedom...yeah dragnea likes that freedom quite a bit (I am not romanian but I love the country )

  6. Re:Kind of hard to take this seriously.. on The Working Dead: Which IT Jobs Are Bound For Extinction? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    what is Enlgish ?

  7. check this list on Ask Slashdot: How To Unblock Email From My Comcast-Hosted Server? · · Score: 1

    http://ipremoval.sms.symantec.... Turns out there is something in addition to the standard lists I was familiar with, these 'nice guys' of brightmail acquired by symantec) are used by hotmail. If you email hotmail, they will send it to symantec on your behalf thats it, they will email you canned answers telling you to do the same things over and over again, they never bother to read the history of the ticket etc as for contacting symantec, not even a canned answer may be you will get a better answer if thats the source of your problems

  8. Re:Would /. please spare us ?? on John McAfee Tells World How He Fooled Cops and Escaped Belize · · Score: 1

    . Publicity whores don't vanish into south America for decades on end. .

    Geography check, Belize is in North America (or Central America if you want to be totally correct)

  9. things here in CR...... on Terrestrial Hermit Crabs Learning Social Tricks · · Score: 1

    have been getting rougher and rougher each year, I am not surprised that even the crabs are having a hard time keeping their assets intact............

  10. Re:No "love" for The Killing Star? on Ask Slashdot: What's the Most Depressing Sci-fi You've Ever Read? · · Score: 1

    I felt even worse when I read the prequel of that one 'flying to valhalla' and now be SURE that the aliens that exterminated us .........were RIGHT. :P

  11. Re:Crap on US–EU Flight Talks Collapse · · Score: 1

    1) I hope you are not the exec of a publicly traded egaming company! 2) Have fun in CR, dont carry your passport with you, make a photocopy of the biographical page and leave the original in the safe of the hotel

  12. Re:Toothless and useless bill on Online Gambling Bill Passed in House · · Score: 1

    Some sites (big volume ones) uses ACH The sites that act as an intermediate between the bank and the site are normally ewallets whose customers are 99% gaming companies, that is the current concern (right here in Costa Rica , right now) about this bill, whether or not the banks will block transfers to ewallets related to gaming (but first they would have to create some sort of ACH coding which does not exist)

  13. Re:PayPal on Online Gambling Bill Passed in House · · Score: 1, Interesting

    funny thing is.........paypal IS a totally legit payment method for online gaming sites in Europe.

  14. Toothless and useless bill on Online Gambling Bill Passed in House · · Score: 1, Interesting

    This bill is going to be totally ineffective, the banks dont even have a coding system for ACH transactions........they were given 270 days to figure out how to do it. Credit cards on the other hand are a marginal funding method to gaming sites and have been for a long time The only real entities affected from this bill will be public egaming companies which do actually have CEOs,CFOs,etc that might be prosecuted as a consequence of this (unfortunately I work in one of such companies) The rest of the industry..............will keep going largely unaffected by this

  15. Re:If this bill passes, online gaming is DEAD on Betting Against Online Gambling · · Score: 0

    so having a website and selling something IS doing business in the US? interest concept this is, I supose that now I must be aware of all existing laws in the WORLD if I want to run a company from a small country in Central America for example? I guess this means that I amazon.com for example is subject to the laws of Costa Rica since they 'DO' business in Costa Rica right? how fun......'now' we are all subject to USA law.......I thought it was going to take a few more years but it appears that they moved a little fast LOL

  16. Re:It will have little effect long term... on Betting Against Online Gambling · · Score: 0

    As someone that works in the gaming industry (offshore) I can tell you that this is incorrect

  17. Re:As a GeekSquad Agent on OfficeMax Drops Mail-in Rebates · · Score: 0

    Perhaps for some people a PSP is a good value but for many its not on their best interest to get one Their claim of "you get a free battery" or "the LCD is problematic" is completely ridiculous, its one thing to hear the sales pitch and a very different one to try to get what was promised On top of that I can only say "no thank you, I don't want one " so many times without losing my cool

  18. Re:A new scam on OfficeMax Drops Mail-in Rebates · · Score: 0

    Favorite version of the rebate scam was when I submitted a rebate for a netgear router a) I look at it in the store, I would have bought it with/without rebate but there was a clearly marked 30 dollars rebate b) I send all the docs following their rules c) I get a postcard telling me that "the UPC you submitted does not qualify for the rebate" how am I suposed to know why UPC's qualify and which ones don't? ughhhhh

  19. SMART DECISION on OfficeMax Drops Mail-in Rebates · · Score: 0, Troll

    next time I buy ANYTHING that normally carries a rebate.......officemax will get MY business time to follow suit bestbuy or circuit city?????? btw also get rid of those idiotic PSP plans!

  20. Re:Don't send the wrong message on Alleged British Hacker Fears Guantanamo · · Score: 1

    FTA="Much of the hearing was taken up with argument over whether Mr McKinnon would be subject to Military Order Number One - a legal procedure which enables the president to specify that suspects can be detained indefinitely. " Military Order Number One..........sounds a hell of a lot like "Execute order 66" or.............something straight from Section 31 of the Federation

  21. Re:Look before you leap on Costa Rica May Criminalize VoIP · · Score: 1

    They are not geographers obviously but they each got their education based on texts prepared by such Btw you are getting closer to the correct definition of North America ""if there is a North American continent, Costa Rica is in it". ok ? :) " :P

  22. Re:Look before you leap on Costa Rica May Criminalize VoIP · · Score: 1

    " Just like (continentally), Central America is just a narrowing of North America as you go south and east." and since it is ONE landmass then we have ONE continent America, this discussion can go on forever so I will post for the last time and let you have the last word, just wanted to point out that (just like everything else) you get a certain "curricula" in your school at some place and time and I get a different one in my school in a different place and time Apparently the Europeans get a different version of this too and that adds to the confussion when people from all over the world talk about this 20 years ago I could not have imagined that in the States Central America is simply listed as part of North America and on top of that, America is SPLIT into two different continents This is all SUBJECTIVE and also full of politics Cheers Just tried the link again, here is some of the text "Topic: How many continents are there? Comment: Following the Near/Middle East discussion, I thought I'd ask how many continents are considered to exist in German. In the US, you learn there are 7: Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America (though people often refer to Eurasia as one continent). A Spanish friend of mine once told me that there were 6, though I don't remember the distinction she made. Comments? Roy Tue Apr 2 21:54:10 2002 Comment: There are 5 continents considered to exist: Europe, Asia, America, Africa, Australia Michael (Germany) Tue Apr 2 22:01:16 2002 Comment: From my school days I kind of remember 5 continents: Africa, America, Asia, Australia, Europe. Only remember regarding Antarctica as a continent later. Our teacher sure didn't teach us North and South America as different continents. Stefan Tue Apr 2 22:03:33 2002 Comment: In school (Austria, 1980s) I learned that there are seven. Perhaps the differences depend on the time you learn it rather than the place where you learn it? (I rememeber my father always talking of five continents: the Americas were considered as one continent, and Antarctica was not considered at all.) stefan Wed Apr 3 00:22:07 2002 Comment: Here in (middle) Germany we learned there are five continents: Eurasia (=Europe+Asia), North-America, South-America, Africa and Australia (nowadays the latter is replaced by Oceania) Andreas Wed Apr 3 10:05:05 2002 Comment: I'm quoting Britannica: ''continent, one of the larger continuous masses of land, namely, Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia, listed in order of size. (Europe and Asia are sometimes considered a single continent, Eurasia.)'' So, according to Britannica (ed.1999), there are either five or seven continents - depending on whether you class Europe and Asia as one or two continents. "

  23. Re:Look before you leap on Costa Rica May Criminalize VoIP · · Score: 1

    "The continent was already mapped and defined before there was a United States! " I FULLY agree example HERE http://www.goldenbks.co.uk/maps/M4.jpg Central America AND West Indies If you want to find maps that say "Central America" you will have to limit your image google search to top level domains in Europe or Latin America, obviously you guys get a different story in your geography classes Try for example .uk .es or .cr or any other top level domain that is either European or Latin American

  24. Re:Look before you leap on Costa Rica May Criminalize VoIP · · Score: 1

    The first link I gave you works fine here, perhaps the new "North" American bandwidth that I got today is working better "they probably don't care or have misperceptions of what continent they are in." or perhaps the United States is making North America bigger

  25. Re:Look before you leap on Costa Rica May Criminalize VoIP · · Score: 1

    Did you read the forum where they all have different stories (one claiming that the grandfather always spoke of 5, that they see America as one and in America they talk about Eurasia?) I for one never heard of Eurosia, perhaps that's how they teach it now. In a few million years though I will agree with you, Central America will no longer exist hehe