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Comment All I have to say is... (Score 1) 365

...This is what you'll get This is what you'll get This is what you'll get When you mess with us Karma Police! You can't create a monopoly on something, pretend it's rare by creating scarcity due to owning 80% of the world's whatever it is, and expect no one to ever find a way around your bullshit. The fact is that Diamonds are not that rare; in fact Sapphires and Rubies are much rarer than Diamonds. The De beers duped everyone into thinking that diamonds are rare, and then fed the diamond fever with advertising and Hollywood fanned the fire with movies like "Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend" So, Fuck the De Beers and Hollywood! If you want to get someone a nice really rare gemstone get them a sapphire or ruby, and don't believe the diamond hype!

Comment Re:I can tell you... (Score 1) 204

To all of the people replying negatively to this post, and degrading the AC above: you should be ashamed of yourselves. Sometimes good people get into bad situations beyond their control. 1.5 years ago my fiance lost her job, and it took her a year to find another job that paid even close to her previous salary. While she was unemployed I spent the majority of our savings, upwards of 30k, keeping us afloat as we tend to live right within our means as most people do (If you pretend you don't you are lying to yourself). Right now we are still trying to dig out of the hole created by her unemployment which was caused by her employer being sold to a new owner whom had his own staff to bring on. If we were to incur a couple unforeseen circumstances as the AC above described we would be in the same type of situation. One doesn't always have to be an idiot to get into this type of situation.

Comment The answer is no because... (Score 1) 158

......it's not the device that is causing the exploding, or the OS. I work in the wireless industry, and the problem is that Samsung is the only CTIA certified OEM that is allowed to test their own batteries. So obviously they tested their batteries, either found or didn't find the problem, and then if they did find it ignored it. Either way the method of battery testing is the problem, and you would have to ban Samsung from testing their own batteries to insure that something like this doesn't happen again.

Comment Re:Where do I line up? (Score 1) 178

Me too. When my PC automatically upgraded to Windows 10 it made my PC useless for quite some time. First my video-card burned up due to the NVidia card driver issue, and then once I replaced my video-card my power-supply gave out a few days later. I'm still having video issues, and I'm probably going to call MS and have them roll me back to windows 7.

Comment The numbers would be... (Score 1) 125

...even better if they included Google Play Music numbers. A lot of my friends subscribe to the Google Play Music Family plans which gives unlimited music to the subscriber and 4 family members. The problem that has been pointed out by other posters is that many people are not purchasing music anymore they are just leasing it from one of the four or five streaming services. The music industry is effectively being held up by a crutch that is "Unlimited Music Streaming" and it isn't going to get better since the Millennials love to get stuff as fast as possible. They are the instant gratification generation. I have to admit that I subscribe to Google Play Music, but I did it because all my CDs were stolen when my storage locker was broke into right after I graduated college. I decided not to repurchase most of the CDs and have been streaming ever since. I have slowly purchased some of my go to bands CDs again, but my collection will probably never reach the 1500 some odd CDs that I used to own.

Comment The reality is... (Score 2) 153

...that this is due to the limited storage capacity of said devices. Now if the device manufacturers would stop making phones that don't include microSD slots, and then allow all applications to be stored on said SD cards then people might download and install more apps. As the state of devices currently sits I only install the apps that I absolutely use, and the only games I have on my device consists of a Super Nintendo emulator.

Comment Re:So what? (Score 1, Interesting) 273

This is very true! Zuckerberg had nothing to do with the removal of the photograph. It is some millennial, with a man-bun and a beard, looking at pictures and determining from some PDF Facebook policy manual whether or not a picture needs to be deleted. Said millennial probably didn't realize that this was one of the most historically significant pictures ever taken. He/She probably doesn't even know enough about history to be aware of said picture. It's not some fascist plot by overlord Zuckerberg to suppress freedom of speech. It's just a simple mistake made by someone who thinks they are following child pornography rules. God help us when the millennials are in charge of something more important than Facebook's photograph posting policy!

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