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Comment Re:WTF? (Score 1) 376

We are in a financial crisis, and the government wants to see if there is ice on the moon? There's plenty on this planet. I can make some for you in my freezer and you can save 20 billion dollars.

Except that the government is injecting $78 million (if a subsequent poster is accurate) into the economy by funding this mission. Which would partially go to salaries of rocket builders, launch personnel etc. Which would come back into the economy through consumption of other goods. Governments around the world are clamouring for more stimulus funding to kick-start the global economy.

Now if you don't think the $78 million is going to get the best return on investment or the most efficient use of funds, that's another matter.

Yes I realize its a /. faux-pas to reply to a funny comment seriously, but 90% of all posts are just posters trying to be funny.

Comment Re:escape (Score 2, Informative) 1092

My specification are: 1) a small unobtrusive device I can place on my daughter, 2) an application to pull up on any computer, a map with a dot indicating the real-time position of my child, 3) a handheld device with the equivalent information, 4) [optional] a secure web application/plug-in I can install on my own domain allowing me to track her from anyplace in the world, 5) a means of turning it all off, 6) a Linux based solution of the above.

Wow. Perhaps she was trying to get away from you.

Why not ask the parents of Tori Stafford whether an unobtrusive system could have been useful to them.Google if you want to know the backstory.

I'm not saying that he may not be excessively paranoid, but I also do not think that young children deserve any expectation of privacy which trumps the knowledge of their whereabouts and safety in any number of situations.

Yes, I realize you were trying to be funny.

Comment Re:It's the "we change anything in this contract" (Score 1) 268

That's the line they want you to believe. Explain why cars (foreign and domestic) are charged a fee called 'freight' in Canada and not in the USA (at least to my knowledge).

The cars are shipped virtually no further (>80% of the Cdn population lives within 200km of the border).

Open your eyes. They charge the difference because they can. That's why we have 'Canadian price adjustments' and 'cash incentive', its because in general we don't stand up as consumers and call them on this bullsh!t.

Its possible to save over $20k on a car just by locating a dealer in the US and paying a $200 import fee and some taxes (which you would have to pay anyways). And more people have been doing that lately.

Companies have caught on that consumers are demanding fairness and have begun to omit the US price on greeting cards for example. Its a big circle where the Canadian consumer gets taken.

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