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Comment Re:Reasons for either (Score 1) 354

I can at least confirm that for Taiwan, but not if you wanted police, that would be 110. 119 was only for fire and ambulance. 112 would get you a phone repair line and 117 would give you the time. I also remember dialing 166 and listening to the weather in Chinese for fun.

Reference:
http://eng.taiwan.net.tw/pda/m1.aspx?sNo=0002068

Comment Re:What is happening to Slashdot's submit process (Score 2) 312

No, it's more like if the South was still separated from the North and somebody from Florida built a factory in New York with their headquarters still in Florida. Is that a US company or a Confederate company? What if the North still claimed rule over the South but actually had not effect on the South other than keeping them out of any international organization and pointing missiles at them. Now imagine the South still has their own currency, health care system, President and Congress, hold elections and have vastly more human rights (I know, the human rights is probably swapped in this scenario). Oh but the North says there is only one America, so they bully the rest of the world into not officially recognizing the South as its own sovereign country.

Comment Re:I read "Paperweight" instead of "Paperwhite" (Score 1) 307

I thought it was going to be an article critical of the new Kindle, and had to read the article before realizing I had misread the title. I wonder what genius at Amazon thought that Paperwhite is a good word? It's awkward to say and is so similar to paperweight that people will confuse it all the time.

Comment Re:Keep censoring and let the rest of the world go (Score 1) 459

...and it *is* special treatment because they aren't proposing one called .hetero are they?

Dude, your post is so many kinds of awesome I had to pay my respects...

Yeah, there's no .hetero domain, you're exactly right. That's like saying, "well, I don't like the USA's Black History Month because there's no White History Month", when White History Month is EVERY FRIGGIN' MONTH OF THE YEAR!

Reminds me of a meme I saw once. Asking why there is woman's study and no men's study, the reply was there is, it's called History.

Comment Re:Missing the point? (Score 2) 164

... cell phones with "notes" functions that allow them to take down quick reminders...

I actually have found this to be the thing that is lacking on my Android phone. Of all the default applications that are available, not a single notepad. I've tried many different ones from the market, but they all have their quirks and I can't seem to find something that is just easy to drop in a line of text, automatically save, and later allow me to easily transfer it to my computer.

Comment Re:Charity Navigator (Score 1) 570

The third category -- and this is what I'm talking about here -- are the unskilled welfare queens. They are almost always minorities and other immigrants who need a way to citizenship to pay for their 5 kids they had while working for McDonald's. Let's not kid ourselves here - most of these are not heroes. They signed up because they dug themselves into that hole, and they still get better(taxpayer-funded) healthcare than many civilians. Sterilization of those should be mandatory upon enlistment.

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It seems like a futile effort to sterilize them after already having 5 kids.

Comment Re:you can track your laptops (Score 1) 514

I'd assume there may be some ID theft criminals out there. With what people post on social media knowing it's a public forum just think of what data they could get from a laptop. There's also the always logged in websites possibly that they can get into, and depending on if the laptop is in sleep/hibernation the website might not even boot them to the log in screen.

Comment Re:I'm more interested... (Score 1) 260

And Vermont is very proud of its maple syrup.

Also a recent development. Of course American maple syrup is nowhere near as good as Quebec maple syrup, but that's just my biased Montreal snob-side coming out. Good for you, any cartel (and the Quebec maple syrup industry certainly is a cartel that has been gouging the price for years) deserves a little competition overseas.

I'm not sure where you think Vermont is, but the last I checked from Quebec to Vermont there are no seas, maybe a lake or two, but certainly no bodies of water large enough to constitute calling it a sea.

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