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Comment Saw this one a mile off (Score 2) 538

Once the fluid pool of global investment money was throttled back from the slimy mortgage market, they were bound to look at student loans. Everyone can get them, they are not dischargable in bankruptcy, they are increasing every year, the interest rate is way higher than the mortgage rate. This will be the next source of a financial meltdown.

Comment Slashdot, vous êtes en violation (Score 1) 506

"Au Canada, la province de Québec a sa Loi sur les langues officielles de 1974 (aka projet de loi 22) qui fait du français la seule langue officielle. Elle a notoirement été utilisé pour forcer les propriétaires d'entreprises à modifier la signalisation de donner pré-eminance français sur les autres langues. maintenant, la police de la langue du Québec semblent être d'étendre leur portée à Facebook Eva Cooper possède Delilah dans le Parc -.. une boutique à Chelsea, Québec, près de la frontière Québec / Ontario Elle a reçu une lettre du bureau de la langue en lui disant de tout traduire affiché sur la page Facebook de son magasin en français ".

Jésus H. Christ, l'homme. Si la Sûreté du Québec nous bien pour ce que nous pourrions ne pas être en mesure de payer la conversion de bêta!

Comment Re:Wow (Score 1) 888

The author does not know that in the Star Trek canon timeline that society collapsed with the Eugenic Wars and WWIII before evolving into the idyllic place he is referencing?

Comment Re:They'll stop him (Score 1) 412

It's their show and they have a perfect right to do that. Reminds me of the PGA Senior Tour, which decided to go to the "Champions" format when they realized that folks were tuning in to see Jack Nicklaus and Tom Watson, and nobody cared if Dennis McConklin D.D.S., a fitness buff actually improved his game to the point into his early '60s to the point where he could compete against the old tour pros.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...

Comment Price of the service is not the point (Score 1) 298

I read an article some time ago that argued Amazon Prime should be free or nominal. I agree. Trying to make money off the membership fee is short-sighted. When I want something online I go immediately to Amazon, because they probably have it and it might be in the Prime program. If they keep raising the Prime fee, I might be at some point tempted to include some other service or services in my initial search, and when that happens Amazon will have lost the mindshare monopoly they own right now in my house and millions of others. The money they stand to lose to other sites is way more than the piddling membership fee.

Comment Re:So a good match... (Score 2) 354

And don't rule out older designs, the military used to train pilots in new planes by pitting them against experienced pilots in F4s and other older jets, and routinely the older jets would get kills against the new ones.

True. In the '80s, in combat games against Vietnam era pilots flying older planes like the Phantom, hot young pilots in brand new planes were getting their asses kicked. This led to the founding of the Top Gun program - the brass realized that sophisticated missiles were not enough. Pilots still needed lots of air combat experience.

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