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Comment Re:It is summer here, you insensitive clod! (Score 1) 199

My birthday is in August. Feel free to celebrate. Tradition dictates you drink 1 pint of a well made beer with friends*, enjoy a nice meal in a warm kitchen, and do something nice for someone you don't know. Like Give Blood.

*a nice warm friendly pub will do if you are away from good friends and good family**

**i.e. not family that stresses you or abuses your hospitality.

Comment Except (Score 1) 501

their are better (i.e. more powerful) systems for the same or less money for video and animation rendering. I don't really know who this is for. It cost the same or more then professional high grade systems and is less powerful. It it's performance is more then would ever be used by high end games.

No, I'm not a hater I just see any good business case for having one.

Comment Re:Still an idiot (Score 3, Insightful) 243

"The demand is tantamount to the drug lord demanding the feds return the hundred million dollars that could only have come from selling 100 kilos of cocaine many times over."
no, there are many ways to make money. The feds need to prove the money came from selling drugs on the black market.

"He hasn't got any possible legal pretense to justifying having the money"
how do you know? Maybe he made it selling bitcoin high and buying them low.

"No jury in the world is going to buy that this guy made tens of millions of dollars day trading bitcoin without a paper trail."
Unless they have evidence he was doing something illegal, then it shouldn't even be in court.

My post in no way endorses whether or not any crime was committed, only pointing out for a legal prospective you seem to be full of shit.

Comment Re:Time to sell List of CEOs home addresses (Score 1) 168

That must have been a long time ago, or you must have a lot of money. In order to get a good education today, you have to be rich. Not only does a college education cost at least $20,000 a year, but in the U.S. you usually have to live in an expensive neighborhood to go to a good K-12 education.

No, we just live in a civilized country.

She never has to work? Even to make her living expenses? What does she have, a trust fund? She is rich.

Well
    A) Forced, are you forced to work?
    B) She was 12, I was talking about child labor.

Comment Re:Time to sell List of CEOs home addresses (Score 5, Interesting) 168

Sometime around the age of 12 one of my children commented "I wish we were rich."

I stopped the car and turned around, "We are rich." I said

"Both your mother and I both earn enough money to have a house and a car. You are always clothed and fed, you never go to bed hungry and cold. You get to travel, play sports and get a good education. Nobody forces you to work, ever. You don't have to fetch water just to survive, morning noon and night"

"Remember that there are tens of millions of people around the world who have none of these things, and you have them all."

I turned around and continued driving.

Years later my daughter reminded me of the conversation and how it had triggered a kind of awakening.

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