Yup. My kid loves Legos so I got him Lego Universe last year when it came out. He played it for a total of maybe 5 to 10 hours before getting bored with it.

I bought him Minecraft a few months ago and he absolutely loves it. He gets to build structures and use his imagination in a way LU never allowed him to.

Uh, no. Go google "FDIC."

At least with the bank you are insured against the bank's failure.

So it's not surprise to me these guys are unprincipled scum.

Confiscate? WTF? The constitution gives Congress the power to levy taxes.

Image a life without taxes. You'd be schooling your own children, fixing your own potholes, defending your home from intruders, taking out your own stinky garbage to the dump (oh wait, there is no dump).

Life was great in the 1820s, wasn't it?

Boo fucking hoo. Go live in the Sudan, then. I hear the taxes are really low there.

Otherwise, if you want to live in a first-world country, you're going to have to pay for it. Why does everyone expect a free ride?

They are calling it the "JewJew."

They'll have unlimited amounts of moon dust to throw into their crappy dough.

You think?

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You don't necessarily need a loan. It depends on your business. I was able to bootstrap a web development shop that does about $200 to $300K per year in business without a loan. You just need a couple of computers and a decent marketing plan to scare up some early customers to get the ball rolling. Tech is a lot more knowledge intensive than capital intensive so it's a lot easier to get off the ground if you have the time/talent but lack the resources.

to the Republican assholes. They just don't give a fuck. They are power-hungry whores who will do anything to damage the President, including fuck up the global economy.

I think there are maintenance guys are in Ballmer's office right now replacing his office chair and a broken plate glass window.

Capitalism is good at many things, but uplifting workers ain't one of them. The only thing will make apple respond is if it sees a consumer backlash which will pressure the, to allow these workers to form an autonomous union.

Just a couple of weeks ago, I was sitting next to a gentleman, 55 to 60 years old, who was having a great deal of trouble performing what most of us would consider the most basic of functions such as how to add a new city to the iPhone's built-in weather feature. He had just purchased the phone and so I helped him through the process. It was quite an eye-opener for me. He had not even figured out how to appropriately tap on the screen (he was pressing on it as if it were a mechanical button and so his touches never registered). He was constantly misspelling with they keyboard, could not figure out how to correct a mistake. It took him about a dozen efforts and maybe about 3 minutes before he successfully typed in Boston.

I would estimate he would need a one-on-one training of at least a few hours in duration before he could being to use some of the other iPhone's most basic features.

I was just going to say that back in about 2001 someone gave me advice not to learn Perl 5 because a Perl 6 release was imminent.