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Comment Re: Sigh (Score -1) 341

It was a tax. The Republicans that rule us ruined the President's health care bill by turning it into a tax that feeds the wealthy owners of insurance companies. That is why it is a tax because it is a tax. Anyone that calls a tax by any other name is a liar. Of course Republicans refuse to call a tax a tax because that is the way of their kind. Too bad they forced the ACA down our throats.

Comment Re:GM DID do that.... (Score -1) 194

Ducati has the same bricking policy. If you lose your keys, they intentionally destroy your bike. For mine, they wanted $4,500 to make a new key after mine broke. My bike was only worth about $6k so I had to sell it to a junk yard. Ducati destroys your instrument panel, the ECU, and a secondary controller. They hate their customers with a passion and look for any way to destroy our property. The sad thing is that my three other friends that have had their Ducatis totaled by Ducati have all bought replacements. As long as people keep rewarding Ducati for destroying our property, Ducati will keep doing it.

Comment Re:A telescope is a bad gift for a novice. (Score 0) 187

I think you're mistaken. You might be seeing a blur around a bright object like an airplane. I have friends that have very expensive telescopes that have never seen anything other than the moon through them, and even that can take hours of trying. Just brushing your face against the eyepiece will ruin it and take a lot of time to get it repositioned. It takes a lot of luck and hours of time to see anything through a telescope.

Comment Re:Please, don't tell them ... (Score -1) 421

> pulling a fire alarm

But he didn't. So you have no defense for the thugs in blue so you just start spouting garbage. Typical CONservative garbage. This site is dead because you people have taken it over and ruined it. I miss when this was a technical site rather than a platform for people like Aighearach to preach his message of racism.

Comment No wonder Seattle is so dumb (Score -1) 175

With half of my friends still on dial-up and with my 576 kbps connection at home that is the fastest available on my block, there's no wonder this is such a CONservative place. Even our socialist city-level candidates are so conservative they opposed raising the minimum wage. The conservatives also flexed their power here when they drove the minimum wage increase all of the way down to $15/hour. That is not a living wage here so they are dooming families to failure.

Comment Re:Power Grab (Score -1) 276

Finland isn't aiming to make private vehicle ownership illegal.

Correct, and that is why this entire plan is shit. Instead of going door to door to confiscate cars, they're pandering to them. It's the same reason the US is being destroyed by the car culture. The Republicans do not understand logic so they don't understand why we must not allow car ownership. Taking cars is the only way we'll ever start building reasonable cities.

Comment He should have included Internet access... (Score -1) 214

in his study. I live in Capitol Hill, and many of my friends are still stuck with dial-up due to the age of the phone wiring and very few COs in the area (thus long distances to the CO) so DSL is slow at best or usually not even available. The best access available on my block is 576 kbps DSL from CenturyLink. Comcast, despite having the government-granted monopoly here, doesn't offer service to much of the neighborhood.

Comment Re:But How Fast in Reality (Score 0) 93

It's easier in San Fran than it is in Seattle! Here we have the "director's rules" that basically state that everyone in the area has to agree to allow an upgrade or the city will not allow it. Notice I said "has to agree" and not doesn't "disagree." You have to get people to agree. If a house or apartment is empty or you can't find the resident, it counts as a no vote. With all of the foreclosures and normal churn in rental properties, it's just about impossible to meet the minimum even with every person voting yes. Because of that, my building was blocked from getting Comcast TV and Internet, because one of the apartments was empty and without that vote we didn't have a high enough percentage voting yes for Comcast to be allowed to add a pedestal in front of our building. Literally, ever person has to vote yes or none of us get Internet access.

Thus, we're stuck with DSL that is typically less than 0.5 Mbps for most residents. The guys on the top floor can't even get that. They're stuck with dial-up. Seattle is a third-world shithole when it comes to Internet access.

Comment Re: THANK GOD for "automatic updates" (Score 1, Informative) 179

Selecting "Download updates but let me choose whether to install them" instead of the default "Install updates automatically (recommended)" doesn't always work. We have about forty Window servers, and around half of them will crash nearly weekly from Microsoft shoving patches down our throats. We've tried everything we can think of and everything Microsoft suggested, but these Microsoft servers still crash for updates. It doesn't always work, and fixing it isn't as simple as you so flippantly suggest.

Comment Re:Real Solution (Score -1) 158

Twenty-five? Bullshit. There's only one and the Democrats are trying to close it. They have no pot to sell since there are no growers allowed in Seattle. Legalization has greatly increased demand from Mexican cartels. Legalization is flooding them with money because of the 100+% taxes.. And now the Democrats are fighting for even high prices for legal weed which will even more greatly increase the amount of money that will flood the cartels. Legalization only helps the drug dealers.

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