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Comment Re:Shocking news: (Score 1) 387

mod parent up. I am far better at most games (esp. FPS-types) by using a keyboard and mouse. Perhaps this is never because I had a N64, Playstation, or XBox growing up...I had never honed my analog stick skills. ...or perhaps the keyboard/mouse combo is just easier to learn and master.

Comment Re:What do you think happens today? (Score 1) 613

AFAIK, everyone who has a job. we have taxes withheld from our paychecks as well, but we have estimate our expected exemptions... then whenever the tax year comes to a close, we have to finalize these exemptions and such and such. So the tax return is basically a required adjustment

Comment Re:All mine were cheap! (Score 1) 1259

legally, i'm not sure, as IANAL.

financially, that's a really bad idea, as your credit rating will quickly enter the toilet. You raise an interesting question though. From my experience, student loan websites often have a way to change up your payment plan...usually look for a link entitled something like "I'm having difficulties paying back my loan."

Comment Re:Ah, so you are for free immigration? (Score 1) 630

Immigration law isn't supposed to be fair. There are unequal quotas for immigrants from different countries. Why aren't you complaining about the unfairness of that? Why is it you only complain about unfairness when poor brown people walk across the border?

sure, i highlighted the mexicans ("poor brown people," as you put it), but i don't care what your nationality/race/favorite-rock-band is. (you could be canadian, british, chinese, ..) go back and do it again LEGALLY. I'm not saying that the quota-by-country thing is fair. ..if you don't like it, then change the system, don't let others cheat it (by coming over illegally).

Comment Re:Ah, so you are for free immigration? (Score 2, Informative) 630

if they came across legally or were refugees that's fine and dandy. if they ford across the Rio Grande in the middle of the night without going through the proper legal channels, then yeah, i have a problem with that. i live in the States and have a couple friends who got married to "foreigners"... and it was a long, difficult process to get their spouses to become citizens. they endured the process. it's not fair for all of the border jumpers to magically come live in the states or become citizens...they should go through the process as well. they cheat the system.

Comment Re:Addendum (Score 4, Informative) 81

where are you seeing these "rating colors"?

i didn't know either, so i looked it up -- it's the /. firehose quality filter. When you're logged in, you can see the popularity color on the left side of the summary heading. You can also increase/decrease this rating. See screen cap. Also, when browsing the front page of /., you can filter based on the color...see top-right of screenshot. The rating colors are ROYGBIV + Black. Red is the highest (most popular), black is the lowest. submitted articles initially have the color rating of blue.

I had seen the color filtering before on the front page, but never looked into enough to find out. I learned something new. Hope you did too!

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