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Comment Re: I can't imagine something like that in the U.S (Score 1) 162

And nimbys

Anytime the NYC subway wants to shut down part of the system for maintenance, everyone complains and runs to their local political boss

Same in Long Island for the lirr. They are building a second track in a large part of the system and people who drive don't want the extra trains because it will make them wait longer at crossings

Comment Re:Can an "atheist company" refuse too? (Score 1) 1330

because the catholic church is 2000 years old and the one that the hobby lobby owners go to is at least 100 and technically a split off the catholic church

any case using this one as a precedent the test will be if your religion has history going back hundreds or thousands of years and your business has less than half a dozen shareholders and the stock isn't publicly traded

Comment Re:Are customer able to evaulate that objectively? (Score 0) 254

this is done by celebs and models. your platonic female friend or booty call probably won't influence you to buy anything because of her facebook posts
  i like my kindle app and this one person i know she loves the Nook along with another of my facebook friends. and there is no way you can get me to buy the nook over an ipad mini

Comment maybe because people are different? (Score 1) 254

i know single people who are always going out to bars
single people hacking away on tech
married no kids who are always chilling out somewhere
and lots of other kinds of people

why would i want to buy everything they buy? even then you can have a group of a dozen girls and some will have expensive and snobby crap, others wal mart crap, others the hipster overpriced crap, etc

Comment Re:He doesn't understand net nutrality. (Score 1) 270

and like every networking company that speed is on the ISP's network, not the entire internet like some retarts like to claim now. and even then it's all shared bandwidth with others in your networking segment. always has been.

the reason netflix is fast here in NYC is because cablevision has an open connect appliance and netflix has their own presence in downtown manhattan in the same building as every ISP and networking provider in the area. when i stream netflix here it comes from 10 miles away. if you want to live way out in the sticks, don't expect everyone to serve you

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