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Comment Re:They've turned their backs on Steve (Score 1) 221

I don't see why there should be a relationship between handset repayments and base carrier plans. Surely the carriers can't be so stupid as to value consistent customers over consistent (and consistently funded) service to them? After all, look at Apple. Apple dicks it's users over from time to time, but they keep coming back because of the high level of service.

Comment Re:No, it would not work (Score 1) 594

Doesn't wikipedia work because there is a few people (the elite) who have the power to "lock" a page if the "stupid people" mess it up too much?

Does that mean that politics should be led by an elite, hence being (almost) completely open, transparent, accountable, and allowing for input from the general populace within reason?

Comment Re:Before anyone else says it... (Score 1) 132

If you ever need a deconstruction of Shakespearian plays, you can count on me.

It's OK, I've got this one.

"This play is a play written to appeal to as many people as possible in order to pay Shakespeare's bills and support his family. It was probably written over the course of a few weeks to months and thus we cannot assume that every word in it has the seventeen layers of intrigue and meaning that my professor told me they have. Furthermore, we probably cannot assume Shakespeare really did imbue it with every bizarre thread of subtextual meaning churned out over the intervening 400 years by countless thousands of English scholars and students desperate for a new slant for their book (required by tenure) or thesis (required to make the $100,000 education worthwhile)."

I'm sending this to my old English teacher. This is just the sort of point I was trying to get across to her all year. However, due to my age I fought back with my answer to an exam question involving three separate critics - A. C. Bradley, F. R. Leavis... and some other guy. The question was to write an interview involving all three, so I put them at their ages should they have all lived long enough to be in one room together. Bradley changed his mind and fell asleep (being over a hundred years old and very tired), leaving Leavis to complain that the remaining critic was just a young layman with silly new-age ideas.

On a side-note, English teachers seem to be rather humourless.

Comment Re:Funny... (Score 1) 391

The United States is a large place. In square miles (or km), the vast majority of it is rural... far, far more, as a percentage, than any of Europe today except for a few very small exceptions.

It matters more where the people live - "It is a very urbanized population, with 82% residing in cities and suburbs as of 2008 (the worldwide urban rate is 50.5%). This leaves vast expanses of the country nearly uninhabited." - than where they can live. Just because a lot of USA citizens can live in the safety of the country, doesn't mean they do and get the life experience of that safety.

Comment Re:Aren't there already products like this? (Score 1) 156

After 13 months the on/off switch on my Magic Mouse is deteriorating to the point that I have to remove the battery cover to push the switch far enough to convince the mouse to turn on using a brand new set of batteries.

I went and got a logitech mouse and my gaming aim lag has shrunk by about a hundred miliseconds. It might not have fancy scrolling or anything, but it works with a longer advertised battery life and looks robust enough to last more than a year. I'd rather not lease my pointing equipment but own one that stays with me until the buttons fall off.

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