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Comment Re:Excellent news for Unesco (Score 1) 735

US waste of money in the financial system created the crisis which now pushes the European to borrow money from the PRC, how long do you think it will take till you have to pay the interests ?

Wait, what? You mean that the US snuck in and forced all those european banks to forget to properly evaluate risk?

Comment Astrology (Score 2) 412

How can I make astrology buffs see the error of their ways? Barring that, what is the best way short of setting them on fire, to prevent them from entering an astronomy conversation?

Comment Re:You free speech defenders (Score 1) 411

Saul Rubinek did a great scene on Starfate SG1, Season 7 Episode 18 "Heroes Part 2".

These people are risking their lives for us? I want to SEE what they are going through. Even if they don't want us to. And I want other people to see it. What do you think they are doing there? Protecting and defending secrecy? That's the world of Mao and the world of Stallin. The world of secret police, secret trials, secret deaths.

You force the press into the cold and all you'll get is lies and innuendo, and nothing, nothing is worse for a free society than a press that is in service to the military and the politicians. Nothing!

Comment Re:Net Neutrality?!? (Score 1) 538

You're being purposefully obtuse. It's more like a woman wants to drive to a restaurant to have some pie and ice cream. AT&T is saying you can drive on our to street to our restaurant for all the pie you could want, but if you want to drive down our street and get on the interstate to go to the next exit where Netflix is selling pie AND ice cream because they have a different flavor of pie we don't have and we just don't do ice cream, well, you only get X amount of trips, then we're changing you extra.

Comment Re:Jordan (Score 1) 279

The author does in fact owe his or her readers to a certain extent.

100% disagreement on this. Being a fan does not give you one ounce of rights towards the author (or any other artist). You pay and get the book; this is the complete transaction. Everything beyond this is voluntary service from the author. CU, Martin

But, you are obligated to TELL ANYBODY that will sit still for three seconds, that "No, you should start reading his books. He's never going to finish." A good author gets a little bit more than his cut of that complete transaction, he also gets recommendations to other to read or not read his work. I stopped recommending Jordan when it was clear he had no ending to his series.

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