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Comment Re:H! (Score 1) 589

Probably, but when Joe McFastypants, multimillion dollar racing team crew captain, who's buying 12-32 $400 dollar tires every race weekend, says he wants nitrogen, you don't tell him it's cheaper to use scrubbed air that has MOST of the water vapor content removed: You put nitrogen in the tires. The difference in price is nonexistent when you look at a racing team's budget. And even if it was, the difference in price would have to be ABSURD for them to use an option that wasn't the absolute best.

Comment Re:H! (Score 3, Informative) 589

Race car tires are filled with Nitrogen instead of compressed air because compressed is rife with water vapor, which expands when it heats up. This changes the pressure inside the tire, which can drastically affect handling characteristics over the course of a race, which is a Bad Thing. Using Nitrogen to fill the tires negates this, it has nothing to do with fire safety.

Comment Re:Duh? (Score 1) 156

>So, I just thought I'd put that question there. It's easy to say "hey, you guys should figure out a way to ...", but doing it is harder than saying it. I'm skeptical that there are any business models that can undercut piracy which don't also involve a large cut in revenues.

Sometimes, people make less money than they used to.

Comment Well then. (Score 1) 648

The entire (100%) reason I use hulu is so that I don't have to pay the cable company for the pleasure of watching heavily fragmented (by ad interruption) TV shows and movies on someone else's schedule. It used to be easier than navigating eztv or tpb and then waiting for something to download, but I guess that's out the window now.

Comment Re:Why is this needed? (Score 2) 199

You think that if there weren't laws stating the limits of what a corporation can require of its employees, this is the worst thing they'd have you do? All of the laws limiting corporate behavior like this are there because they were necessary, just like this one is.

If we applied your thinking more broadly, no one would want to work anywhere. I'm not saying you're wrong on that count... but you know. There's isn't a big corp on the planet that wouldn't start doing this if it became really mainstream.

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