Submission + - Obat Alami Penyakit Polip Hidung (google.com)
Comment Yes yes we had all these objections before signing (Score 5, Insightful) 163
We were forced to sign this contract. On gun point actually. And then they said that we should take their money or they'll break our knee caps.
You see, we are the victims here.
Larry
Comment Re:Anyone else notice (Score 1) 245
I just dropped $2200 on a new pc specifically to get back into gaming. My old Linux box would have worked fine for most of the "Games for Linux" on Steam.. but no, for what I really wanted to play, I needed slightly more capable hardware and I needed Windows.
That annoyed me.
I was overjoyed when I heard about Steam OS. I thought that finally I'd be able to play the titles I really wanted on Linux. I read all kinds of promises about "major announcements Q1 2014"... and I've heard diddly squat.
That's the problem with SteamOS and the SteamBox. Until the major devs sign on, or some way shows for our favorite titles to get ported over to Linux in a fully playable fashion.. it just ain't happening.
They get Bethesda Softworks to sign on, and I'll go to SteamOS in a *heartbeat*. But they really need to at least... keep the momentum building by talking about how the process goes getting the Triple-A's onboard..
Submission + - Tienda sexshop de España con mas de 4000 productos en stock (placerencasa.com)
Comment Re:Great, now all we need to do... (Score 1) 239
It's a reference to a rather hillarious quote by Rip Torn's character in Dodgeball.
Submission + - Firefox OS (mifirefoxos.com)
Feed Engadget: UberX adds $1 charge to cover getting you home safely (engadget.com)
Comment Re:Not Evolution (Score 2) 115
Time. Billions of years is a long time to try various and sundry things. Although it probably didn't happen this way (likely there were multiple attempts at 'life'), it just takes once....
Life finds a way.
Comment Re:The power of EULAs only goes so far (Score 1) 216
This is the logic behind the binding power of an eula.
...and it expired ages ago. Courts long ago decided that any copying necessary to use a work, such as copying it from its original media into your computer, does not require special permission from the copyright holder.
The only reason we still see EULAs is because, once the industry got into the habit of writing their own laws, it was a hard one to give up. I mean, just imagine if they weren't able to disclaim the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. They'd actually have to make sure their software worked, and if it didn't, they'd be obligated to either fix it or provide a refund. It's much easier to remain profitable when you can just sell people empty promises.
That's why they moved on to the "by using this software you agree" bullshit. It doesn't make any sense, since you can't just tell someone that if they do something then they agree with you. Agreement is when you consider a proposal and come to the conclusion that you find it acceptable. Clicking "agree" does not cause that to happen, but as long as your customers remember clicking that button and they assume it's legally binding, you can get away with all sorts of bullshit.
Submission + - 3M Littmann Classic II Stethoscope (beststethoscopehq.com)
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Submission + - MiniTool Partition Wizard Pro 8.1.1 license giveaway for Good Friday 2014 (partitionwizard.com)
Sign it up on Partition Wizard official site here: http://www.partitionwizard.com... . After you sign it up successfully, you can get the download address and a license code automatically.
This giveaway starts from April 17 to April 21. The subscription should be completed within this period of time if you want a free license code.
Comment Re:Mercedes shouldn't talk. (Score 1) 360
You're an idiot. Continue being a broke asshole. As a guy with a $135,000 Maserati, 5k/year in service would be nice. Guess what, enjoyable cars are expensive. Not everyone is some geek technophile who wants a soulless EV.
You're an idiot and, a rich asshole with no taste to boot. $135k for a Maserati? I think a movie quote here is apropos: you are "a self-indulgent wiener with too much bloody money." Spend your money better, and buy yourself some taste.
Comment Re:How big OS? (Score 1) 256
Submission + - Use these suggestions to save some money on food at Disney World. (livejournal.com)
As the typical part size remains to enhance in America, we discover ourselves leaving an increasing number of on our plate. Use this to your benefit by purchasing children meals for grownups. An easy platter of chicken tenders and french fries is generally more than enough to tide over the typical adult. Obviously numerous of the sit-down restaurants have policies against this, however the food court areas do not. Thus, you can beat the system by targeting these outlets for your primary meal.
Comment Typical BS (Score 1) 163
So, we're seeing the fingers of the horn-hairs pointing at each other for a failure that their brown-nosed underlings caused on both sides. Don't blame the geeks, blame the suits.
Comment Re:NASA Proposes "Water World" Theory For Origin o (Score 2) 115
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Submission + - Child care Parramatta: Best play way for your little ones (tumblr.com)
Comment Re:Not far enough. (Score 1) 140
Comment Re:Myopic viewpoint (Score 1) 360
You missed his point completely. Tesla might not exist at all in 5-7 years.
You missed my point completely. I think Tesla will be alive and flourishing in 5-7 years.
Comment Re:Don't over-credit King George III (Score 1) 20
That's not hyperbolic nonsense, sir: that's history.
The hyperbolic nonsense lies in the amount of Konservative Kool-Aid (TM) that one has to drink in order to believe that President Lawnchair is some sort of absolute tyrant who needs to be overthrown violently. Similarly the very notion that there is an amendment in the constitution - written in code, no less - that is there specifically for the purpose of violently overthrowing the government is ridiculous. What the true meaning of the second amendment is, we may never agree on, but there is no good argument for the creators of the American Experiment being interested in inserting a way for citizens to violently discard democracy on a whim without needing to be willing to accept some responsibility for their choices and actions.
Comment Re:Research news now hitting senationalism (Score 1) 218
"would be virtually impossible at sea."
Ah, use of those famous last words I see......
It's unsinkable I tell you!
Submission + - Tech Billionaires and the Separate-But-Equal Revival
Comment Re:Inaccurate llabel for the round-the-world car (Score 1) 360
Ford never made Mustangs like Carrol Shelby. But his cars were both Shelby's and Mustang's (Shelby Mustang to be exact).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
I read the original article, the vehicle had a Mercedes frame, engine and tranny. And a former Mercedes designer made it. Pretty easy to badge as they did.
Keep in mind that Fiero kit cars were still Fieros, much to their owner's chagrin.... I encountered one, slowest Ferrari I've even seen (and it suffered from crappy body alignment, nothing says kit car like that and/or horrible performance).
As for the vehicle, the MPG rating (dividing fuel range in miles by gas tank gallons comes to 16.1 MPG) isn't very good which is surprising given the HP/torque numbers (177hp, 244lb-ft).
Comment Re:Rock From Outer Space (Score 1) 218
So what about Tsunamis? What if a giant rock or snowball from outerspace hits it at upwards of 17000 miles per hour?
I believe the tsunamis are why it's to be placed several miles off shore in 100 m of water, or more. At least that's what the summary said. As for the others, A giant rock colliding in the ocean, with or without the reactor, is going to be a pretty big problem. That's how we got the gulf of Mexico along with a possible planetary extinction event. You might as well be worried about the devil himself opening up a giant hole in the ground and swallowing the entire city you live in and bringing forth the apocalypse.
Comment Re:judge was clearly incompetent (Score 1) 128
The theory was that we wanted humans, not robots. Both have advantages and disadvantages. If you want to use humans, you have to use members of Homo Sapiens as they are. That means that judges will go easier on people who aren't deliberately annoying them. You want judges to be unaffected by such, use robots.
Submission + - Careers In Advertising (goarticles.com)
Comment Re:Myopic viewpoint (Score 1) 360
Yeah, but I just wanted to specifically point out the brands he mentioned.
Journal Journal: Freedom To Your Dreams
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Comment Re:Way to lose an easy case... (Score 1) 128
If somebody who didn't do anything bad is suspected of breaking the law, that somebody will have to be investigated, and is well advised to defend himself or herself. Since you're trying to establish good or bad here rather than legal or illegal, you need to do a lot of investigation and consideration, and get the facts nailed down to make a good decision. That's going to occupy the defendant for some time.
Submission + - Movers Moving On (yourmovingservice.com)
Comment Re:Great, now all we need to do... (Score 1) 239
Comment Re:Too poor (Score 3, Insightful) 341
That's exactly why we have Social Security - it forces people to put aside money so that, no matter what, they have something by retirement.
Or looked at another way, it prevents people from putting aside money that they could use to earn interest and multiply their money and not have to be dependent upon government money. Instead, it rewards them with a fraction of what they put in when they retire.
If government mandated that you take a certain portion of your income and invested it for your retirement, that would be awesome, but that is not what it does at all.
Submission + - Uncovering No-hassle Internet Marketing Products (newindianexpress.com)
Comment Re:Too poor - welfare (Score -1, Troll) 341
I plan to go on welfare when I retire, I paid for everyone else who didn't want to work, now its time for them to pay me.
So why not do it now? Because you're a full of shit self absorbed asshole?
Exactly, this is exactly what Obama wants, for everyone to become dependent on the government.
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Comment Re:Barnacles, etc.? (Score 1) 218
See, that's the genius of it! The radiation kills the sea life before it can attach...
Or turns it into a giant rampaging lizard that destroys Tokyo.
Comment Re:Economics is the problem (Score 2) 218
Exactly how dirty and expensive is it? The French have been doing it for how long now?
That's why their waste containment facility FOR THEIR WHOLE COUNTRY is a small room with a vaulted floor.
As for "competing with solar and wind".
You're right, they're not going to be competitive.
You know why?
BECAUSE THERE'S NO COMPETITION!
Again, you CANNOT (and I will repeat for emphasis) CANNOT use solar OR wind power as your baseline power source. They aren't dependable sources. Anyone telling you they are is selling natural gas or some sort of petroleum product.
Nuclear IS a dependable, steady source that infrastructure engineers can PLAN for.
And the only reason nuclear has any sort of price comparison to solar or wind to begin with is the fact that, under the guidance of enviro-nuts, they've basically tarriffed the entire process, from proposition through decomission into the stratosphere. Require the kinds of multi-billion dollar investments (see bribes) for wind or solar plants that are now required for nuclear and watch the price of those options skyrocket too.
Journal Journal: 2013 Home Sales in the Westfalls Village subdivision – Frisco, Texas
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Comment Re:is this seriously (Score 1) 304
I'm not a russophobe, and I didn't say "oh god, RUSSIANS!". What I said is that I was familiar with a historical example of one country occupying another and holding a plebiscite and winning by an unexpectedly large margin. You're not going to change that by going "oh, wow, RUSSIANS!".
Some of us are actually absurd enough to study history.
Comment Re:how many of these people don't want to retire? (Score 1) 341
Feed Google News Sci Tech: Scientists Find an 'Earth Twin,' or Perhaps a Cousin - New York Times (google.com)
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Feed Google News Sci Tech: Microsoft Said To Lower 'Custom Support' Costs for Windows XP - Redmondmag.com (google.com)
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Comment Re:Myopic viewpoint (Score 1) 360
You missed his point completely. Tesla might not exist at all in 5-7 years. You won't be able to buy a new one, and if you got one used it could be very difficult or expensive to get replacement parts as they wear out.
Mercedes, on the other had, will almost certainly exist in some form, even if it gets bought out or merges with another car company. You will continue to be able to get replacement parts at reasonable prices (or at all).
Perhaps Tesla will become huge. There's no way to know. But right now, for most consumers the safer bet is to buy something else.
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Feed Techdirt: Court Rules MoveOn.org Can Use LA Slogan To Criticize Bobby Jindal (google.com)
Last month, Tim Cushing wrote about how the Lt. Gov. of Louisiana, Jay Dardenne, had sued Moveon.org over a billboard that used the state's trademarked "Pick your passion!" slogan. The suit was filled with so much technicality-probing nonsense, one wondered how a judge would be able to look through it without needing a couple of long naps. Chief among the claims was that folks seeing the billboard might somehow think the Lt. Governor was responsible for criticizing the Governor, Bobby Jindal, despite the fact the billboard wasn't meant for commercial purposes, criticized the same government Dardenne is a part of, and clearly denotes the responsible party as Moveon.org. It seemed like a pretty clear attempt to stifle criticism over the technicality of a frivolous trademark claim. More egregious, Dardenne wanted the billboard removed while the case was litigated.
Fortunately, while we hear so many stories like this that end up with courts being overprotective of any intellectual property claim, the court has sided with free speech and ruled the billboard will stay up while the trademark claim makes its way through the court.
U.S. Judge Shelly D. Dick, who is over seeing the case, said in an April 7 ruling that forcing the group to take down the sign while the trademark infringement issue is being litigated would deny MoveOn.org its right to free political speech. Dick said while the State of Louisianas tourism trademark is a legally protectable mark, the burden of proving trademark infringement is on the state which would have to present more compelling information that the infringement was occurring especially because the billboard was merely expressing a point of view.It's an interesting distinction in the ruling, since to disagree would put Dardenne in the uncomfortable position of suggesting his own constituents aren't as intelligent as Judge Dick thinks. In any case, the ruling goes on to note that its the actual citizens of Louisiana that would get to claim ownership of the trademarked slogan, rather than any individual members of the state's government who were the billboard's actual targets, and that no irreparable harm had been proven.
The State argues that viewers of the billboard will be confused into thinking that the Lieutenant Governor, as the alleged owner of the service mark, is being critical of the Governor. In this Courts view, the Lieutenant Governor underestimates the intelligence and reasonableness of people viewing the billboard, Dicks ruling states.
So the billboard stays up and the justice system proves it thinks more of the citizens of Louisiana than some in the state's own government. Meanwhile, a small single billboard continues to find its way into the media spotlight, where it likely never would have found any purchase if the attempt to take it down hadn't been made. Well done all around, Lt. Governor!
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Comment Re:deepwater horizon didn't happen? (Score 1) 218
Of course it happened, which is why BP will be chosen to head up this project.