Comment The article failed to mention (Score 5, Funny) 724
A threatening note was tied to a chair and flung through a window at Apple headquarters.
Comment Re:Flash memory prices (Score 1) 442
Apple pays about 42 bucks per 64gb chip. I'm sure MS isn't getting as good of a deal, yet at least... I'm assuming the markup isn't some insane amount for what most people would think is a premium feature.
Comment Since this is in India (Score 1) 409
since this is in india, they probably mean "muslims"
Comment Re:Ready Go (Score 2) 63
I agree with you 100%.
Comment I'll need to stock up (Score 5, Funny) 383
I am a baker and normal dragées just don't work the same.
Comment We have a winner (Score 0) 1576
Winner tonight: Federal Reserve reckless money printing.
Comment Re:Wonderful (Score 2) 301
At least when a business does it, I know they're doing it for profit. But when the government gets together with bankers on a private island then passes the law on Christmas Eve, you just get a little uneasy that it may be for some other reason.
Comment Wonderful (Score 5, Funny) 301
They're both in the business of creating money out of thin air, so of course they'd see a problem with it.
Comment Re:No shit (Score 4, Insightful) 112
Religious leaders are just another dictator. Religion is only another tool to accomplish the same thing as the politics that teach and exploit strong feelings of strong nationalism/culturalism. The real tool of abuse in all cases is psychology and the sociopaths work their magic on a person from the first day of his/her life..
not quite. religion is voluntary. that's the problem with the political sphere: if dictators ruled by voluntary consent of the people, they wouldn't be dictators, would they?
Comment Re:So far Biden is doing really well (Score 0) 698
On Thursday, the Morning Joe panel focused its attention on whether there’s the potential for a conflict of interest given tonight’s vice presidential debate moderator, ABC News’ Martha Raddatz, counted Barack Obama — then a Harvard law student — among the guests at her 1991 wedding.
Comment Something is missng (Score 2) 698
where is federal reserve/monitory policy question?
Comment Re:Is the Blockade Catastrophic? (Score 1) 5
The economic and oil supply aspects of the story are something I couldn't care at all about. It's the BS war that no one wants that's about to erupt.
Submission + - British naval power massing in the Gulf as Israel prepares an Iran strike (telegraph.co.uk) 5
skipkent writes: Battleships, aircraft carriers, minesweepers and submarines from 25 nations are converging on the strategically important Strait of Hormuz in an unprecedented show of force as Israel and Iran move towards the brink of war.
Western leaders are convinced that Iran will retaliate to any attack by attempting to mine or blockade the shipping lane through which passes around 18 million barrels of oil every day, approximately 35 per cent of the worlds petroleum traded by sea.
A blockade would have a catastrophic effect on the fragile economies of Britain, Europe the United States and Japan, all of which rely heavily on oil and gas supplies from the Gulf.
Western leaders are convinced that Iran will retaliate to any attack by attempting to mine or blockade the shipping lane through which passes around 18 million barrels of oil every day, approximately 35 per cent of the worlds petroleum traded by sea.
A blockade would have a catastrophic effect on the fragile economies of Britain, Europe the United States and Japan, all of which rely heavily on oil and gas supplies from the Gulf.
Comment I got what I came for (Score 2) 204
"Wang needed a smaller, cheaper floppy disk."
Comment Re:Definitely Unfinished (Score 2) 109
From that example, the character was actually named "Guy" and he was dead.... But yes, from the other screenshots it seems that the translation is a bit rough... From what I'm getting one lady translated it for the trade show, so it wasn't the polished final results.
