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Comment Re:Rock & A Hard Place (Score 2, Informative) 564

Because minimum wages cause job shortages. If you increase the minimum wage, you will increase unemployment among those affected. It's a choice you have to make. Minimum wages are essentially a form of price control, and you get similar results. You can find this info in any basic economics textbook.

Wrong on all points.

Comment Sky Pirates (Score 1) 197

"the SETI team can now place important limits on the likelihood of finding a sufficiently advanced alien race in the Milky Way. Generating a powerful radio signal requires a lot of energy, so the team point out that they will most likely detect a civilization capable of generating an isotropic signal (i.e. a radio transmission that is emitted in all directions). This would require the civilization to harness the total power output of their host star, making them a Kardashev type II civilization."

Okaayyyy.... but the religionists are full of blind faith and wishful thinking. Ah. Got it. Yup."

So true keep believing in your sky pirates.

Comment Re:keep trying (Score -1, Troll) 197

Yes. The idea that life could evolve in the same way it did here somewhere else in the galaxy with similar conditions is just as looney as believing in a sky wizard who hates homosexuals and loves killing brown people, who believe in another, but different sky wizard who likewise hates homosexuals but loves killing white people, and each sky wizard claims that the other is a false sky wizard, although they both agree that the world is 6,000 years old. Yeah, those two things are both completely the same. You sure delivered a convincing argument there.

Still the same thing, intelligent life outside our planet is about is real as a sky wizard is. But keep telling yourself its not so you can keep believing in some sky pirates.

Comment Re:I figured this would come about (Score 0) 270

What fascist organization do you represent?

When you can't win on the merits of your argument, call your opponents fascists, Nazis, racists, elitists, rich, privileged, etc.

That's the classic ad hominem attack:

"You shouldn't listen to this guy because he's a fascist!"

In addition, if you're over 13, it's a pointless and recognizably played out tactic.

People who argue like that are the people who slow down society and ruin workplaces by consistently opposing any notion of quality control.

U mm okay so you yourself do not deny you're a fascist?

Comment Re:1.6 ghz? (Score 2) 284

Yeah, because clock speeds across cpus and chipsets are a real meaning full comparison. Who cares about stuff memory bandwith and speeds.

AMD are producing the Pentium-4s of this generation, which need about a 25% higher clock speed to be comparable with a similar Intel CPU for single-threaded use. So 1.6GHz is probably going to be soundly dumped on by Intel's low-end i3s unless they can really take advantage of all eight cores (which are presumably four of the Bulldozer-styte cores and not eight full cores).

More FUD. AMD's chips are full cores that just share an FPU/SMID unit, you do not need a FPU unit to have a core. Most CPU's made do not have FPUs to begin with, so nobody doubts those are not CPU's.

And Intels chips only dump on AMD's in canned bentmarks, not real world tasks.

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