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Comment Re:Perspective (Score 1) 958

When it is thousands and thousands of kilometers to get out of your own country in every direction if you don't can't the USA as a destination it is a bit more difficult to travel to many countries.

I live in Australia, you insensitive clod. I can drive for 25,000km on one highway without leaving the country. Apart from a few pacific islands, New Zealand is the only country within 6 hours flight of me (Melbourne).

And yet, most of my friends have travelled to several other countries. In the time it takes to drive 2000km, you can fly pretty much anywhere it the world.

Comment Re:If a used bookstore can sell used books... (Score 1) 664

(Maybe I shouldn't be too loud about this but I'm sure the Post Office would love to get money from stamp collectors buying and selling their stamps. Or the Treasure Department and coins...)

They already do. Stamp collectors buy stamps and never use them for postage - but they still pay the full price. Same with coins - they are bought from the Treasury.

Comment Re:Very true (Score 1) 386

Mining machinery, oil platform systems, medical devices, robotics repair...any of those would offer opportunities to travel to exotic places and make a lot of money.

At least if you work in mining, the exotic places you get sent are likely to be places you wouldn't really want to live otherwise, for example outback Australia or Siberia.

Comment Re:emacs, emacs, emacs... (Score 1) 1131

If you're just editing text, I suppose vi is just fine.

And so we come to the crux of the debate. The poll does ask about text editors, so I think it's reasonable to rate them on their text editing ability.

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