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Comment Re:Cheap (Score 1) 341

First hit on Amazon for search: "Core i3 desktop"

http://www.amazon.com/M11AA-US...

$479 for a computer running Windows 7 Pro

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$9,117,900.00
Pounds to Dollars conversion
https://www.google.com/search?...

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The UK government is only willing to spend as much as 18,235 new personal computers cost. The cost of replacing those 800,000 XP-running computers is 43x higher than this budget, so sure, it saves them a lot of money up front, but they're still stuck with a bunch of shitty XP boxes. Someone should fire their CEO and CFO for making such a terribly short-sighted decision.

Comment Re:Two approaches to improving things (Score 1) 362

Gentrification in Chicago made the crappy neighborhoods of Bucktown and Wicker Park more liveable in the 90's, and helped improve real estate values for Ukrainian Village in the 2000's. More tax revenues from real estate = better funding for schools, fire & police departments. What's not to like about gentrification? Poor people have to move? So fucking what. Shitty neighborhoods are now better places to live. Cabrini Green is now gone, but in place Chicago has a new high school that's very highly-ranked (Walter Payton High). I'm ok with that trade-off.

Comment CITIES NEED TO GENTRIFY! (Score 1) 362

Forking idiots in SF don't understand that if a city allows crappy neighborhoods to sit without investment, they're dooming their children to shitty schools and poor emergency response from fire and police departments. It is through gentrification that cities rebuild and thus rebuild their tax base. San Francisco is a very expensive city in which to live. What they should be doing from the government's side is accepting donations from successful businesses to fund more affordable housing -- that helps businesses AND city revenues as well as the citizens whom they both serve.

Comment Re:First blacks, (Score 1) 917

religions have changed over time. i no longer have to sacrifice a goat on a mountain to show praise for god. if so-called-Christians can't accept Gays as being normal human beings, they need to ignore the old testament and reread the new testament with feeling. There are ZERO reports of Christ saying anything about gays; but he sure liked to hang out with prostitutes.

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