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Comment Re:Hey Obama (Score 3, Insightful) 297

Troll.

You understand the complaint is that they BOUGHT the congress, so they could have the tax code changed so they could legally shift their share of tax responsibility to others? So, while yes you are technically correct, you, and they, are so morally bankrupt I can't understand how you can live with yourself.

Comment Re:Less choice? (Score 3, Insightful) 286

This is called collusion... exactly the opposite of competitive business practices.

It is impossible that two entities can have so exactly the same input costs, maintenance costs, future investment costs, defined profit margins, and internal (in)efficiencies that they end up with exactly the same offerings at exactly the same price. Either one of them is at rock bottom, and the other is making artificially high profits, or they both are making artificially high profits.

Neither competitor really wants to put the other out of business and face the scrutiny of monopoly. As long as they collude to keep both in business, then they can each point at the other as "the bad guy".

Oh, and by the way, since we're colluding anyways, why settle for one just scraping by... we might as well make certain were both VERY comfortable, as long as we can keep real competition locked out.

Comment Re:If you regulate properly, we'll stop our busine (Score 5, Insightful) 286

Oh, I think 99% of everyone would agree that it is way past time, but where are you going to find a Federal DA willing to indict, who wouldn't also be immediately fired? Well, in reality, in today's day and age, he'd be framed for child porn or proved to be an islamo-mole and buried in gitmo.

Comment Re:An article that suggests a counter-effect.... (Score 2) 784

From TFA: "The basic problem is that much of the West Antarctic ice sheet sits below sea level in a kind of bowl-shaped depression the earth. As Dr. Mercer outlined in 1978, once the part of the ice sheet sitting on the rim of the bowl melts and the ice retreats into deeper water, it becomes unstable and highly vulnerable to further melting."

So, if the ice is currently sitting in a bowl BELOW sea level, and water uses more volume as ice than as a liquid, when the ice melts, it will fill less of the bowl than it did before. Making a not too farfetched assumption, at some point the ice melt will open a channel from the open sea into the bowl below sea level, which will then fill with sea water. Since water uses more volume as ice than as a liquid, the amount of liquid held in the bowl, should be more than the amount of ice it previously had, before melting.

Seems to me that the net result of this should be lower global sea level...

Comment Re:Arms race (Score 4, Interesting) 180

Well, you make his point eloquently.

The holocaust was conducted clearly by an advanced state, signatory to many treaties and international obligations and "laws", none of which served to make any difference whatsoever, when that state decided they didn't care what the rest of the world thought.

But why stop there? Rwanda, Stalin's purges, China's Cultural Revolution, Kashmir, Iraq-Iran, until the U.S. got actively involved, all the U.S. wars against brown people, etc., etc., etc. When has international law, regulations, or even opinion, ever changed the conduct of an aggressor nation when they decided to go to war? The reason nukes haven't been used since Nagasaki is only because everyone who has them is afraid if they used them in aggression, it would trigger a much higher escalation, and has nothing to do with any treaties, laws, or world opinions.

Comment Re:That's annoying! (Score 1) 427

Exactly!

/csb Once when I was running late to an exam, someone pulled into a spot at college right in front of me, that I had been trying to get around to as the previous parker was pulling out. I offered the person who had just taken the spot $20 if they would pull out and let me take it so I could get to my exam on time. They took the $20, I got the spot, and got to the test on time.

I could so see using this app at my old university.

Comment Re:Stocks? (Score 4, Insightful) 404

Um...those don't have "intrinsic value" either. That's not to say that they aren't valuable or necessary, but you'll find the value of ice in January in Siberia is very much different than the value of the same ice in Arizona in June. So while each of the things you list may have values at a certain times and places, it is still entirely "subjective" value.

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