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Comment Re:Wikipedia, The Most Important World Site (Score 1) 39

Unless you're planning to print it out (requiring about 300 cubic meters of paper - per month, to keep up with edits), you still need things like electricity, and replacement hardware as it wears about and the infrastructure to keep it all going, which is about as likely to be available after a civilization destroying collapse (which is, by definition, what we're talking about) as the internet.

So good luck with that.

All that aside from the fact that it's largely useless with the internet.

Comment Claustrophobia (Score 1) 45

200 meters (650 feet) is waaay too thin. I get claustrophobia thinking about it. Their images show lots of greenery, looks like a forest or something. But it's all bullshit. You can't have a "forest" environment that is a mere 200 meters wide. I do like the idea of high speed rail and rapid 7 minute transit to places for shopping, hospital, dining, movies, water parks, etc. but a mere 200 meters width? That shit is dystopian.

Comment Re:Political since PROTECT IP in January 2012 (Score 1) 39

Wikipedia officially requires articles to summarize their sources from a neutral point of view.

And NPR brags about how unbiased and factual they are, and little girls all want a pony.

But it isn't hard to find first hand accounts of their overtly political bias, so perhaps, their own claims about themselves are not exactly reliable or credible.

Comment Re:Labor is your most important resource (Score 1, Offtopic) 73

Why would someone pay you based on what they "produce"? That's just dumb. We get paid according to the market value of our work, the highest that someone is willing to pay us because if we didn't take the job they could get someone else for $1 more. If we get paid based on the money our work generates, that would be stupid .. no society would function like taht. It means, if I take a cab to my job, the cab driver should get paid a percentage of my salary .. because their ride enabled me to make $100k or whatever? If a doctor prescribes me an antibiotic that saves my life, I should pay them a percent of my lifetime earnings?

Comment Re:That dog won't bring home Huntsman's Rewards (t (Score 3, Informative) 145

It local independents who are most likely to not be interested in Amex, because their fees are, on average, 1-1.5% higher than Visa/MC's. And merchant fees are always higher for small businesses to begin with.

When your net profit margin is under 5% to begin with (and it almost always is), that 1% can easily be the difference between prosperity and your children having to go to public school, and can easily be the difference between a sustainable business and flipping burgers at your McJob for minimum wage.

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