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Comment Re:So (Score 1) 1105

Here's the problem with this. You can make your public transport system as green, affordable and practical as you want. However, outside of major urban areas, it's still far more convenient for me to go get in my car and go where I want, when I want. Not to mention the psychological effect of being in control of where I'm going.

Comment Define "suffered from the outage" (Score 4, Insightful) 189

Let's be honest. This is an outage of an entertainment network. I don't think anyone can really claim they suffered due to it not being available. If anything they may have gained by the fact that they did something else.

Now, if you want to argue that people are suffering due to the information loss, I'll go with that one. But not from the outage itself.

Comment Re:Nothing but respect... (Score 2) 349

From the IAEA (http://www.iaea.org/press/):

CLARIFICATION
Contrary to several news reports, the IAEA to date has NOT received any notification from the Japanese authorities of people sickened by radiation contamination.

In the report of 17 March 01:15 UTC, the cases described were of people who were reported to have had radioactive contamination detected on them when they were monitored.

Comment Upstream pipes? (Score 1) 249

Aaaaand, what's the pipe they have to the rest of the world? I don't care if I've got 1Gb to my provider. The rest of the internet isn't going to make that experience any better than 1Mb... In many cases I find that 1Mb isn't any better than 56Kb.. There are just too many factors to make this a non-issue. Fix the upstream and maybe I'll get excited about the link to my house.

Comment Useless icons (Score 1) 384

Desktop icons are useless. I have a lot of them, but they're all hidden. I simply use it as a convenient place to build a toolbar from. Why would I want to close the 97 windows I have open just to get to the desktop icons?

Comment Re:A good idea (Score 1) 527

With all due respect, what makes you worthy of deciding what a "normal" relationship is and who should be able to give advice about it?

As far as I can tell, this person seems to have their head screwed on fairly well. They've managed to deal with life and what it brings. What have you had to deal with?

I'm in perfect agreement about the humor bit. I'll never forget the report after my house burned down. "They were surprisingly upbeat."

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