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Comment: Re:And... (Score 1) 618

Steve jobs himself said, "When we were an agrarian nation, all cars were trucks because that's what you needed on the farms." Cars became more popular as cities rose, and things like power steering and automatic transmission became popular.

Great analogy even if the history within it is completely ficticious.

Comment: Re:I agree (Score 0) 564

by freezin fat guy (#43594829) Attached to: BlackBerry CEO: Tablet Market Is Dying

The major issue is that tablets are great content consumption devices for watching video or reading but piss poor content creation devices.

I think the real issue is that we are even discussing an opinion that stems from such someone whose existence has become completely irrelevant to the civilized world.

a Canadian

Comment: Re:That title has quite a spin on it. (Score 2) 170

by freezin fat guy (#43524363) Attached to: RCMP Says Terror Plot Against Canadian Trains Thwarted

The title fails to mention the fact that it was the Muslim community, up here, that turned the two guys in. Had nothing to do with the FBI. A few men, in the Mosque that they went to, heard about the plan and reported it to the RCMP.

Also not the first time the Canadian Muslim community has played a central role in preventing terror.

Comment: Re:Mod Parent Up! (Score 1) 92

by freezin fat guy (#42936241) Attached to: KDE's Aaron Seigo Bashes Ubuntu Phone

The latest Gnome/Unity fiascos has put me completely off desktop Linux.

Quite the opposite here.

Indeed at first it did shake my confidence but it also made me look at the DE alternatives, which turn out to be many. There are even forks of Gnome 2, possible only because of open source. That flexibility has given me greater confidence.

Comment: Re:Or the reverse (Score 1) 899

by freezin fat guy (#42647019) Attached to: New York Pistol Permit Owner List Leaked

Yes, but the important thing to the type of people who make these lists is that someone with a gun was victimized.

The fact that the weapons went from being owned by law-adiding citizens to being owned by violent criminals who are orders of magnitude more likely to kill someone, is completely irrelevant to them. The people who make these lists are more than happy to be accomplices to the robberies and murders their actions have facilitated. That just raises up anger against normal gun owners all the more, which again justifies making responsible people targets of crime.

Look, I think the NRA badly oversteps it mandate by fighting absolutely any form of regulation, when it should go back to concentrating on responsible gun ownership, but crime and violence are not so simple to stamp out.

The fact is that compliant gun owners are a much more conveniant target than criminals. If you can't solve the issue you can at least take your pound of flesh.

Comment: Re:Tax avoidance (Score 1) 592

by freezin fat guy (#42421853) Attached to: Facebook Paid 0.3% Taxes On $1.34 Billion Profits

For if we don't pay taxes you better be prepared to pay Vinny down the street a bit of money to make sure that you don't get mugged, robbed, or killed.

Hey, at least Vinny is a true patriot.

Let's be honest, the majority of Republican voters cheer for billionaires who skip taxes, from their trailers, in red states that accept money from blue states.

You have to love the success story of a party that convinces people to fight for the right to push their own families to the back of the bus in order to patriotically benefit the rich.

No matter where I go, the place is always called "here".

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