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Comment: Re:What types are you referring to ?? (Score 1, Insightful) 721

by bjwest (#39019603) Attached to: Reddit: No More Suggestive Content Featuring Minors

I'd say the person who put it online in a part of a website dedicated to sexualised images of children, and the site which knowingly lets that happen. Cut those two out, and the problem is gone.

The problem is no more gone than if you were to take a cup of water off the counter and pour it down the drain. The water still exists, you've just removed from your sight.

The only thing you've done is removed the images from your view, thereby makeing yourself feel like you've "helped the children" when in fact you've done very little to solve the problem.

Comment: Re:god. (Score 2) 188

by bjwest (#38941767) Attached to: Details Emerge About Spark Linux-Based Tablet

cheap Chinese tablet, with plastic screen and low specs

why that fixation to have hard, heavy metal casings on handheld devices ? isnt it stupid to haul around something heavy ? or, 'shiny' is more important than 'light' for you ?

I think it's more of a durability thing, being hand held and all. I'd rather not have my $300 + toy shatter the first time I drop it.

Comment: Fix some damn bugs already. (Score 1) 165

by bjwest (#38821039) Attached to: KDE 4.8 Released

All these new features are great (when they work), but they need to keep new feature additions to new versions. Minor version updates are supposed to be to fix bugs and improve performance, not add new features complete with new bugs. There are a ton of old bugs, quite a few of which are major issues, that they need to work on before adding in more to the mix.

The KDE developers are as bad as the Ubuntu dev team. They add in a new feature, then move on to the next new feature completely ignoring the cries for help from their users about the bugs they just introduced.

I'm already looking for a distro change, possibly Mint, or even going back to plain old Debian. I'm beginning to think I may need a DE change as well.

Comment: Re:Taxes (Score 1) 413

by bjwest (#38660084) Attached to: Amazon To Collect Indiana Sales Tax In 2014

I don't see a problem either, if I can get the item locally. And by locally, I mean in the city I'm currently residing in, not the next city over (32 miles to the next largest city).

I order from Amazon, the things I can't get in my local stores, and yes, that include Wal-Mart. If my local stores complain about me shopping online, then they had better be offering me the same products.

Comment: Expensive build... (Score 0) 62

by bjwest (#38628934) Attached to: Chance To Snap Up Your Own Observatory

Maybe they should've thought of the future cost and rent increases when they spent (probibly more than £40,000) on that fancy stained glass roof and potery ensctibed wooden panels.

And with (as stated above, I didn't look it up myself) 80 members, that's less than a friggen 5 note per membrer a month. I think they were just looking for an excuse to disband and/or find a new hobby.

Comment: Re:It is not a right itself. (Score 1) 398

by bjwest (#38602382) Attached to: Vint Cerf On Human Rights: Internet Access Isn't On the List

Lets face, it we aren't going to provide everyone with IPads, and computers. The Internet is not a right.

Bull shit! You have the right to travel to the next city over, but that doesn't mean the government has to pay for your transportation. You also have the right to bear arms, but that doesn't mean you get a free weapon. Having a right to something doesn't mean you get it without cost to you.

Comment: Re:why not put BASIC on a phone? (Score 1) 783

by bjwest (#38499020) Attached to: Why Can't We Put a BASIC On the Phone?

Smart phones aren't only phones anymore, they've combined the PDA and cell phone into one unit. They now need applications to do what the users want/need them to do, and a scripting language that's easy for non-programmers to use isn't a bad idea. I'm not sure BASIC is the one I'd choose though, but if there's a market for it, someone will make it.

Come to think of it, they're starting to do that with the car stereo as well.

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