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Comment Re:Product design mentality (Score 1) 587

the concept of "more features == better"

... is there to press you into buying the most expensive instance to get all features that you need, besides a lot of gimmicks you'll never use. At least, this is my experience, especially with cars, but also with hifi-equipment as well as a variety of household appliances, among others.

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Comment Re:Eat me, Euroskeptics! (Score 4, Informative) 214

The EU isn't that big.

Wikipedia: "With a combined population of over 500 million inhabitants, or 7.3% of the world population, the EU, in 2011, generated the largest nominal world gross domestic product (GDP) of 17.6 trillion US dollars, representing approximately 20% of the global GDP when measured in terms of purchasing power parity."

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Comment Re:Eat me, Euroskeptics! (Score 4, Informative) 214

European Convention on Human Rights

Just for some thoughts, quote: "The Convention prohibits in particular: torture and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, slavery and forced labour, death penalty, arbitrary and unlawful detention, and discrimination in the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms set out in the Convention."

(to be found at http://www.echr.coe.int/ECHR/EN/Header/The+Court/Introduction/Information+documents/ )

How is that in the US of A?

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Comment Re:Perhaps we're the first (Score 1) 197

reality is only 14.7 billion years old

Perhaps.

Quote: "Instead, plasma cosmology assumes that, because we now see an evolving, changing universe, the universe has always existed and always evolved, and will exist and evolve for an infinite time to come." ( http://www.bigbangneverhappened.org/p13.htm ; )

That is, we believe (have faith in) the correctness of the most popular current set of theories, though we probably know nothing.

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Comment Re:Interesting idea (Score 1) 141

I've done both, but I'm not a great programmer yet.

Almost same with me (without the silver attachment). But I am sure it helped me to improve in my days (made it to a LISP machine). What was missing was endless exercises with proper guidance by a master of the field.

But I could also say that I never was a programmer in the first place.

Besides, I am suspicious regards people claiming to be *great* anyway.

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