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Comment Following Recent News (Score 1) 116

After what has been revealed recently, anyone who thinks they are an ally of the USA needs to worry more about the NSA and other criminal organisations than Pakistan. At least they do not tell everyone that they have the divinely given duty to rule over the world. They may think it but, if so, are smart enough not to tell everyone about Pakistani Exceptionalism.

Comment Re:Would you walk into a Best Buy etc (Score 1) 312

I am sure plenty of other people have told you but here it is anyway...

If you goto a shop and put something into your bag, the shop is unable to sell it. You have deprived someone from selling that object. Getting a replacement will cost something - either them, their insurers or the customers. Even if you would have never bought it, you have cost them.

If you copy a file, CD/DVD or .ISO, the original item still exists. They can still sell it to all the people who want it. If you would never have bought it they have not lost a penny. They will still be able to sell just as many copies to just as many people for the same overhead. They may even sell more because someone might hear that you think it is a really good game and decide to buy it for themselves.

Most people have a limited amount of disposable cash and buy as much as they think they can afford to. What they download after that causes no marginal loss whatsoever.

That aside, the only use I have made of BT was to download Linux .ISOs and similar nerdy things.

Comment It's an illusion (Score 1) 569

There is an illusion that it costs more for you than the rest of us. It is caused by very artificial exchange rates. These rates also make you think that you are more highly paid in comparison to us.

For example, 1 UK pound exchanges for about $1.60 but you cannot buy as much with $1.60 as I can with a pound. A more realistic exchange rate is from $2 to as much as $2.50 to the Pound.

If you compare your prices and your wages using this, you get a different view about comparisons.

Comment Re:I am inventing (Score 1) 167

I haven't worked it all through yet but I wanted to stick to SI units of possible.

There will, of course be some people from what is currently the USA in it. They of course will be using units such as pounds, feet etc. Nobody else will have a real idea what they are talking about without a calculator or something - just like now.

There are some pretty accurate clocks on satellites right now. More of the same I suppose.

Comment Re:And how is this any different... (Score 5, Insightful) 406

Why would a centre right president have a gang of socialists?

There are very few socialists in the USA. The politics are so distorted that some people assume that "liberal" means left wing. It doesn't. It means politically right in the middle.

If right in the middle is way to your left, where does that mean you are?

The Almighty Buck

A Look at the Koch Brothers Dark-Money Network 406

An anonymous reader writes "The California attorney general and the state's top election watchdog named the 'Koch brothers network' of donors and dark-money nonprofits as the true source of $15 million in secret donations made last year to influence two bitterly fought ballot propositions in California. State officials unmasked the Kochs' network as part of a settlement deal that ends a nearly year-long investigation into the source of the secret donations that flowed in California last fall."

Comment I am inventing (Score 1) 167

I am trying to invent a time system for a book I am writing..

As some of the story is set in space habitats. they are not stuck with the length of the day on Earth. I am making the day 1,000,000 seconds long and they have a day off every 5th day but the week is 10 days long. This would be 10E7 seconds

My mind has been working in this time zone for some time so I have added it to my total.

Comment Re:Not in London (Score 1) 947

Ah, rookie mistake. Everyone forgets that traffic drives on the left once you cross the Channel.

It drives on the left everywhere that has not been culturally recalibrated by the French.

Comment Re:only? (Score 1) 947

On the other hand, the pollution from the car you drove for 20 years amounts to how much exactly?

Practically nothing.

Probably less than the additional pollution you've caused by cycling along with a queue of a dozen cars running inefficiently in low gears stuck behind as they wait to try to pass you.

So the answer then is that all the slow driving cars are replaced by bicycles. Everyone carries on at the same speed, even less pollution and everyone gets a good bit of cardiovascular...

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