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Comment Re:You Get The News That You Pay For (Score 1) 181

being entirely advertising based means that it trends towards sensationalism in order to keep viewers watching (and the ad dollars flowing in).

What a cop out. There's plenty of ad revenue to be had with *just* quality reporting. It's not my fault they sell out their integrity for a few more pennies.

Comment Re:The real reason for RT? (Score 1) 293

As if.

Intel management can see the writing on the wall for themselves. They went from way ahead of the nearest competition straight into scramble mode almost overnight thanks to mobile growth and ARM's perfect positioning for it. If anything, Microsoft's blunders are giving Intel a big headache because they need Windows more than any other platform to sell mobile Intel chips (once they've been developed). Intel is and has been desperately trying to come up with an x86 chip that can compete with ARM.

Comment Re:Science isn't critical thinking... (Score 1) 710

I may not be able to come up with an overwhelming argument from your prospective, but neither can you prove there is no creator to my satisfaction.

A good science text book wouldn't mention *anything* about a creator, much less try to disprove it. What you're proposing is to inject the option that there might be a creator because some of what the textbook teaches conflicts with your holy book. This is insanity.

Comment Re:Sony hasn't given up on it yet (Score 1) 161

As I was pointing out to some folks thinking of buying a console there really is NO upsides to the consoles over the PC this gen

When has there ever been? The draw for consoles is, as I'm sure you're aware, the couch aspect and easily connecting with friends. The steambox is meant to solve these problems for PC gamers at the same cost (or less hopefully) as having a gaming PC *and* and a console. Buy once - play anywhere. Keep in mind that you'll still need that gaming rig to stream from as long as developers continue ignoring linux. It's also worth noting that because of this, the steambox is currently useless to people who only play on consoles.

Comment Re:After you win Monopoly, you play Risk. (Score 1) 1216

A strange thing happens when you win the money game though. Your money doesn't circulate, so it's no longer worth as much as money.

I'm not sure how you got modded to +5 with this (maybe the bitcoin cheer leading), but taking money out of circulation increases its value and adding money to the pool (inflation) decreases its value. Maybe what you meant was that the FED will have more incentive to print?

Comment Re:The ratio should be the metric, not the means. (Score 1) 1216

A 100% income tax rate just won't work, even if you include capital gains. This is because you only really *need* to report as income what *you spend* in a given year. Rich people don't spend nearly what they take in. For some it's almost literally impossible. These people would just find a way to grow their money as part of separate entities that are only indirectly controlled by them. In the event they want to *spend* it, they'd just have this remote entity transfer the money to some other remote entity.

Comment Re:I for one welcome my Google overlords, (Score 1) 160

The discrepancy is that you view these gadgets as surveillance machines, whereas we view them as useful gadgets with the power to survey. There's nothing wrong with that (as you imply) as long as we're able to keep the surveillance in check (which you can with Android).

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