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Comment Re:The Free Market has the Technology Now (Score 1) 218

You really don't have a clue. Those bulk of those costs are related to location, location, location (i.e. the real property they sit on), not the physical structure.

Please do continue to present examples which disprove your argument, though. It's highly amusing to watch you argue with yourself.

Comment Re:Their Job (Score 0, Troll) 171

" I guess you don't really know the problem. "

The problem is baby-producers, who instead of being parents, depend on technology to babysit their offspring, and who substitute materiality for human interaction (here, kid, get this game and leave me alone). Well, that and they're too dumb to RTFM before handing over control of their bank account to those kids. That's OK. When they're old and feeble, the kids can practice what they've been taught by buying them a big-button remote, so they can drool alone in front of the TV, and the kids will only have to see them on holidays.

Comment Re:Their Job (Score 0, Troll) 171

The 15 minute behavior has been documented for over 3 years. Additionally, every purchase requires confirmation. As I said, this is a parental failure. If you can't raise kids who can be trusted with a blank check, simply don't give them one. If you don't understand how the purchasing system works, don't use it, and certainly don't authorize your kid to do so.

Comment Re:Their Job (Score 0) 171

A really good example of such potentially inefficient transactions is children, who do not understand how much time and effort it costs to acquire money, are in the throes of video game passion and a screen pops up saying, "Win More, Only $3.99! Buy Now!"

If they can do that, those children have much larger issues than a $4 charge - they have stupid and irresponsible parents, who are not only providing inadequate supervision, but are incompetent at teaching their children life skills.

Those in-app purchases require an account password - that's a parental responsibility. Allowing the kids to know the password is no different than sending them to the toy store with a blank check. Not only are the parents not teaching their children to take responsibility for their actions, the parents themselves aren't being responsible.

Comment Re:Freedom Hater? (Score 1) 171

So, how do they engineer forcing the parents to provide a credit card to the kids? My understanding is that no purchases can be made unless an account password is entered - that's a parental responsibility. They're not preying on gullible kids, they're taking advantage of stupid and irresponsible parents. Such stupidity should be painful.

Comment Re:No matter how common you think it is... (Score 4, Funny) 209

It's a simple matter of getting all hands on deck and thinking outside of the box, so they can add value to a 6 sigma paradigm, architecting it to meet mission critical business needs while driving a best of breed reprocessing, in order to improve the EBITDA and get the boss a big bonus. If we can globally revolutionize synergistic e-commerce while doing so, win-win!

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