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  1. Re:Anyone else have trouble parsing the title on Cash-Poor Sharp Mortgages Display Factories · · Score: 1

    Yep. I initially parsed it like Cash-Poor (adj) Sharp (adj) Mortgages (plural noun) Display (verb) Factories (plural noun) and was thoroughly confused. English is not my mother tongue though.

  2. Re:Rather than moderate... on The ThinkPad Goes Ultrabook — ThinkPad X1 Carbon Tested · · Score: 1

    Regarding "must": http://speakspeak.com/resources/english-grammar-rules/modal-verbs/must-have-to

    Yes, it's just my opinion, and I'm definitely no system designer, just a consumer. So I welcome your correction.

    As for my signature, it's not about economics but about ethics.

  3. Re:Protruding lid edge on The ThinkPad Goes Ultrabook — ThinkPad X1 Carbon Tested · · Score: 1

    It seems to me that this must increase stress on the lid-to-base joint leading to earlier failures.

  4. Protruding lid edge on The ThinkPad Goes Ultrabook — ThinkPad X1 Carbon Tested · · Score: 2

    It looks like this laptop rests on the protruding lid edge when the lid is open instead of lying flat on the base. Not sure I like that design.

  5. Re:Good on Ecuador To Grant Assange Political Asylum · · Score: 1

    1) Ignoring the current regimes that claim to be Islamic (adherent Islamic government died at the end of WWI and was replaced with UK/US backed tinpot puppet regimes like the Saudis), in the history of Islamic governments that actually adhered to the rules, there have been less than 10 recorded cases of authorities actually carrying out hand-chopping. That's less than 10 in 1,300 years of dilligently recorded history.

    "No True Scotsman"

  6. Re:"So much for the American Dream" on Legitimate eBook Lending Community Closed After Copyright Complaints · · Score: 1

    But see, they're writers, not readers!

  7. Re:Typos in the patronimic names of both persons on US Charges Russian With Launching 2008 Amazon DoS Attack · · Score: 1

    Now add to that a typo of mine. Patronymic, not "patronimic".

  8. Typos in the patronimic names of both persons on US Charges Russian With Launching 2008 Amazon DoS Attack · · Score: 1

    Should be Olegovich and Viktorovich.

  9. Re:Hutin? on Russian Wikipedia Shutters In Protest of Internet Blacklist Plans · · Score: 4, Informative

    No, it's a simple syllable transposition "Putin - (k)hui" (Russian for "Putin is a dick") -> "(K)Hutin - pui".

  10. Multitrack audio and MIDI for Android? on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean Review · · Score: 1

    What is the current situation with multitrack audio and MIDI recording for Android? Is it feasible? What about latency problems? Share your experience.

  11. Re:Who cares? on Microsoft Phasing Out Office Starter Edition · · Score: 1

    It's strictly non-commercial use, no?

  12. Copyright infringement considerations on Young Listeners Opt For Streaming Over Owning · · Score: 1

    When you don't have all those files on your HD, you avoid getting caught for copyright infringement in certain scenarios. Where I live, you are much more likely to get caught for posessing infringing files on your PC than for streaming them from somewhere (in fact, I haven't heard about any cases of the latter).

  13. Re:Only problem is ... on Thunderbolt On Windows: Hardware and Performance Explored · · Score: 1

    Cool, I will consider it.

  14. Re:Only problem is ... on Thunderbolt On Windows: Hardware and Performance Explored · · Score: 1

    Wait, your Sony laptop runs 12-15 hours on a charge with every peripheral connected wirelessly? Which model would that be?

  15. Re:A triumph! on Russian Superjet 100 Crashes During Demo Flight, Killing All Aboard · · Score: 1

    "Russia, a land free of job killing market strangling regulation"

    You clearly have no clue about Russia.

  16. Re:A related question on KOffice Descendent Calligra Office and Creativity Suite Hits Release · · Score: 1

    The best non-free one is Softmaker Office. Multi-platform support, low price, almost perfect compatibility and good old menu-based UI. What you don't get with it is macro recorder - you have to write macros yourself in a VBA-like language called BasicMaker. And BasicMaker is Windows-only.

  17. There's none, I'm afraid.

  18. Depends on the kind of the economic theory. I guess you're, as usual in such cases, imputing to me some assumptions about perfect blah-blah-blah which I never made.

  19. You now have an opportunity to show how great at chess you are.

  20. The number of sellers on a market at a specific moment of time is irrelevant. There may even be only one seller, and that is not a problem, as long as this seller does not prevent others from competing by coercion. Any non-coercive "monopoly" or "oligopoly" stays as long as the consumers allow it by voting with their wallets. Any so-called "anti-competitive" economic measures taken by a seller necessarily bring some direct or indirect benefit to a certain group of consumers (though maybe not always on the same market), and if the potential newcomers cannot offer something better, that's their problem.

  21. Without the possibility of big bucks buying regulations (the blame for which lies mostly on the design of the government), the "tilt" you mention is not a problem since it is basically of the same nature as say the "tilt" in favor of strong and handsome men on the "sex market". You should not automatically be entitled for a specific warranty period, but should be informed of it, and the businesses should have the opportunity to also compete on this factor. As far as misinformation goes, that should be taken care of by reputation mechanisms.

  22. That does NOT exist.

    In a meaningless sense - akin to "there is no society without theft" - free market indeed doesn't exist. However, this doesn't mean that we shouldn't make the existing market more free than it is now (or combat theft, by the analogy used here).

  23. Re:democracy in action on European Parliament Blocks Copyright Reform With 113% Voter Turnout · · Score: 4, Informative

    Recently, the Swiss successfully voted on not increasing the number of vacation days and not regulating book prices.

  24. Re:Rushing?! For What?! on Math Textbooks a Textbook Example of Bad Textbooks · · Score: 1

    But then I think most people intend to profit from their education - if what courts agree with that notion? I admit I'm completely ignorant as to the actual legal meaning of "nonprofit educational purposes".

  25. grow a pair and us them

    Us them, or they will them us!