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Comment Re:Beanie baby coupons (Score 1, Insightful) 64

Vast amount of electricity and specialized fossil fuels are used to cut down millions of trees, ship them thousands of miles to lumber mills all over the world, turned into paper, printed into "dollars" which are also shipped all over the world he prize for which is dollar coupons in exchange for labor. The coupons are then traded with other businesses that collect the dollar coupons in exchange for beanie-babies and other commodities. That sounds like a really stupid system too.

Comment Unnecessarily Reinventing the Wheel (Score 1) 58

Submarines already have towed floating antenna arrays which are capable of communicating with satellites which can then relay messages to planes all over the globe. They also have towed sonar arrays, towed optics arrays to communicate digitally with light.

Looks like some of these MIT boys n' girls should have joined the Navy before inventing solutions to things which don't have a problem.

Comment Read the whole article (Score 5, Informative) 288

It's sincerely a sad story.

The discs had labels nearly identical to the discs provided by Dell for its computers and had the Windows and Dell logos. "If I had just written 'Eric's Restore Disc' on there, it would have been fine," Lundgren said.

A copy of a Windows disc is clearly not illegal. It is the license which Microsoft sells and which end-users or manufacturers pay for. They ruined this mans life over a trademark logo.

Comment Brilliant Branding of "SWA" (Score 1) 60

SWA delivery driver attempts delivery with signature required but nobody is home and leaves sticker on the door
Ethnic man calls in to SWA

Customer Server: "How can I help you?"
Ethnic Man: "Who can I make a complaint to?"
Customer Service: "What seems to be the problem sir?"
Ethnic Man: "One of your delivery drivers left a fucking SWA stickah on mah door!"

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