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Comment Re:Wouldn't it be wonderful, (Score 1) 507

if there were no tax heavens anywhere in the world and businesses just paid what they owed like the rest of us. Sure the prices will go up but if this happened from the get go, it wouldn't be an issue. I'm annoyed with companies avoiding paying tax but then using the government system to seek protections or create laws for their benefit.

Except this isn't about companies not paying their taxes, it's about them not collecting taxes that you should pay.

Comment Re:Poor Title (Score 1) 829

The Chinese can't "call in our notes" because for one, they are holding Treasury bills, not IOUs, and second, even if they could the US could just print new money to pay them off. Sure it would wreck our economy, but it would simultaneously wipe out their foreign reserves as well - the economic situation with China now is a lot like the mutual assured destruction nuclear standoff we had with the Soviets.

Comment Re:If I wanted to see ads... (Score 1) 615

What I don't understand is how this helps the website much. I'm not going to click the ad no matter what, so it really doesn't matter whether I see them or not. Unless blocking by ad-block somehow reduces the page view counts for the website - how is ad-block hurting them? They get paid by the click, right, or by some formula based on page-views (I assume, I don't run a website). In either case, me viewing the page with ads but not clicking them, or me viewing the page without ads via ad-block, makes no difference to the website.

Comment Re:I prefer Hulu (Score 1) 267

TV shows available pretty much whenever I want. I watch a 1 minute commercial (or switch to another browser tab for 1 minute), and then I get the entire episode streamed. Just as convenient as torrents.

Unless you want to watch something from last season, which Hulu won't have. I guess that's to drive you to buy the DVD, but really, who's going to get a DVD box set just so they can re-watch an episode of "The Office" the thought was funny?

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