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Comment Knee-Jerk reaction. (Score 1) 25

Our county is huge, why don't we require huge buffer zones around an airport? Most of the dead were on the ground. Yes I realize it probably took decades for all those warehouses and neighborhoods to develop around the airport and it would now be hard to relocate - air travel is very safe right up until it isn't.

Comment Re:Apple always had (Score 1) 42

That's why it has become more popular. Computers used to only be used by, erm, a slightly smarter segment of people. Now it's a necessity for everyone and the interface reflects that.

Anyway back to the bashing:
-Do their mice have two buttons yet?

Comment So.. You can still exit through the exit.. (Score 1) 160

Many stores have had entrance only doors for a loooooong time. So now with a receipt you can use the enter door and annoy other people trying to enter.

Ok, great.

People not following the standard enter and exit doors always bugged me, and lately there seems to be a lot of people that have no respect for common social etiquette like this little simple thing. For instance it's right there over the two doors at walmart 'Enter' and 'Exit', yet people seem fine nearly walking into you by going the wrong way through both doors.

Comment Re:!free, good riddance (Score 1) 88

We don't have to pay anyone to file if we are intelligent enough to follow the pamphlet that tells normal tax filers where to put the numbers. If you are old school and still mail in the return is costs you a stamp.

The problem is that it is overly complicated for anyone but a simple income earner. And as most people point out, the government already knows most of the numbers to the point they could fill out a preliminary form that would work most people.

Comment Re:!free, good riddance (Score 1) 88

existing free filing services, at no cost to the taxpayer

Do you honestly think these filing service companies are letting you file 'for free' on their own dime? No, they are paid by the government so that your filing looks free, but it was paid for by those same taxes. Much better to keep the expenses in house with direct.file and let all these tax preparation companies go bankrupt.

Comment Re:Go on, follow The Dumb a bit longer (Score 2) 225

You say that like it's a bad thing. Think of the environmental impact of this shutdown. One cross country jet uses enough fuel to heat over 100 homes for an entire winter. Air travel is convenient, ok - but it is also a colossal waste of finite resources.

maybe I don't have to hear planes going overhead every minute - and no I am not near a major airport but somehow over the decades this became a major route; often one plane is only a mile after another on the same path.

-yes I yell at clouds, because there are planes in them.

Comment Re:the point (Score 1) 46

And that album will still be around long after the phone either broke or the cloud crashed. Any actual important memory photos will be lost or buried in so much noise they will never be found again.

I suspect in 30 years many families will notice huge gaps in their family albums. Memories lost to the digital world.

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