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Comment Re:$30 (Score 1) 515

Whereas in other areas of the world, more or less, it gets built faster and without quite as much largesse.

Look up Stuttgart 21, just a new train station. It took 15 years from planning to start of work. Costs have mushroomed. And it has had a major effect on city and state governments.

But, yeah, totalitarian governments, from Bismarck to China, generally can build train networks faster. Is that what you want?

maybe if we had a faster train we wouldn't need the totalitarian government to complete it on time O:o)

Comment mathematical industrial complex (Score 1) 180

In defense of the calculator - it has an included screen, dedicated custom keyboard, custom slim case, battery life measured in months if not years, etc.

In non-defense of the calculator - most of its cost is not in the above, but in its certification for use in [school / university / industry] - even if not for itself, then its sibling product which is.. and when that product costs $NN, you can't very well start selling this one for $N without people cluing in.

down with the calculators of defense! it's time we end the mathematical industrial complex! they've been selling children-- children! overpriced calculators running on gameboy processors for 20 years! why can't the children just have a happy childhood? why do we have to repackage the gameboy into a torture device?

Comment Re:They learned nothing. (Score 1) 369

"The company says they now plan to license more outside brands, and bring back “My K-Cup” reusable filters."

They learned nothing. They will continue to DRM the coffee maker just license More pods.I hope the pod makers flip them off as they should.They don't need Keurig,Keurig needs them.

why don't we get the EPA to class-action them for all the waste produced with the DRM? They were shutting out the biodegradable Costco k-cups.

Comment Re:Yep, they were... (Score 1) 369

It's very well understood that DVDs can't be copied. This is considered reasonable. While the restriction on coffee grounds considered unreasonable.

But I'd propose an alternative: Keurig 2.0 is going nowhere mostly because the only real advantage it has is the ability to brew pots of coffee. A lot of people simply aren't interested in doing that, much less willing to pay more/give up more countertop space for the privilege.

movies are not a product of the earth and are not something that was here before someone came along and harvested the movie. additionally, I cannot grow my own movies and naturally have the same product.

Keurig has every right to place DRM checking into the brewers. And we have every right to get rid of it

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