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Comment Re:Oh my! I'm going to rush out and get me three! (Score 1) 109

And you can get second hand Polycom conference room phones for dirt cheap too if you're on a tight budget. I don't see how/why anyone would authorize an expenditure for this very costly Microsoft product that offers nothing particularly new.

Because, to certain minds, look >> function and look + cost >> function even more

Comment Re: uhh maybe they're pricing their goods lower? (Score 1) 335

Just using clues like the names of the sellers and what other items they tended to sell, participants correctly guessed the gender of 56%, declared 35% unguessable, and got less than 9% wrong. So gender can come through if buyers are paying attention.

Ok, read up on what you pointed out. 56% of the time is hardly enough to say "oh yeah they can definitely tell"

Comment Re: What should happen but won't (Score 4, Insightful) 1105

The real question i see nobody addressing is this. Why are all liberals so insistent on appointing a new justice before obama is gone?

Obama has almost a full year until the end of his term. If he were to agree to the argument in delaying his appointment, he'd be agreeing in deferring all major decisions until next year and would set himself up as an early "lame duck" president for a full year.

The argument might make sense if the vacancy had opened up after the election, but to agree to the Republican's demand now he'd be agreeing that he's lost the authority to make major presidential appointments and decisions for the whole year.

I'm pretty sure that's the political reason. Judicially, though, it's unheard of for the Supreme Court to go so long understaffed. It'd be setting all the wrong historical precedents. Fully two thirds of the US government would be weakened.

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