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Comment Re:"free" (Score 1) 162

Why is the average person an idiot (I assume you're referring to players who buy cosmetics in the game).

Are they any worse than a person that pays $50-$100 for a game outright? Sure they don't have to, but it increases their enjoyment of the game and/or supports the company which will likely result in game improvements, or a future version.

Comment Re:If you don't like your job (Score 1) 153

There's nothing saying he didn't like his job. In a company of any decent size, there's bound to be people, that offered the right incentives, would share company secrets with a competitor. Sometimes it's an act of revenge for perceived wrong doing, other times it's simply that the incentive is enough to overcome morals.

Comment Re:A bigger box (Score 1) 386

APU(2) with pfsense is fantastic. Mine runs on a memory card, only down time was before I had it on a UPS. Handlers my 150/150 internet connection and probably 30+ devices at very load load. Click "update" now and then (or cron it) to keep it updated.

Add in pfBlockerNG for some basic blocking of ads/malicious sites as well.

Comment Re:Running a business has overhead (Score 1) 750

I absolutely agree there are times when paying someone to do a job has other, non-monetary benefits, ranging from freeing up personal time, quality of the work, ability/knowledge to do the work, etc. These can all be very good reasons to pay someone to do something for you.

Comment Re:Running a business has overhead (Score 2) 750

This is a really bad way to view things.

I've had people tell me the same thing about why they pay for certain services. Say I make $50/hour. I can paint my own room or pay someone $15/hour to do it. (we'll assume supplies are a fixed price either way, so the only difference is the hourly rate). Let's say it takes 4 hours. Some would say that paying someone $60 to do the job make sense, because in that time I could earn $200, putting me $140 ahead. But that's not necessarily the case. For me to earn that $200, I actually have to be working, not painting my room. So paying someone to do it actually puts me $60 behind.

Same thing for anyone. If he's sitting at the table reading the paper while the coffee brews, he's not reducing his earnings. If he's paying someone to do it for him, he's still not earning anything, and he's paying out of pocket more than it would cost him to do it himself.

Comment Re:if "a bike" has a motor (Score 1) 304

There's only one bike maker (at least major one) that measures engine size in cubic inches, and it's not Honda.

1215cc Triumph... Tiger I'm guessing? I'm a fan of Triumph ever since I had 96 Daytona 900. It wasn't running great when I bought it, but a repair manual, a couple hundred in parts, and it was an amazingly fun bike to ride. Currently on a Wee-Strom, but some day I plan to go back to Triumph. The street triples look fantastic, but I want something that at least looks like luggage isn't a complete afterthought.

Comment Re:Well... (Score 2) 449

Just because it has the chip and pin portion doesn't mean it has to have the contactless part as well. My debit and credit card for years (in Canada) were chip and pin, but not contactless. I just recently got cards that are contactless. Given that the maximum transaction size is $50 and it's a one time thing, I'm not really that worried about it, especially when it comes to my credit card where I have $0 liability.

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