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Comment Re:Mmmmmmm (Score 1) 324

MtG colors don't refer to good and evil. There are good and there are evil creatures and purposes in all the colors of the wheel.

White is about life and protection, Black is about the usefulness of draining life and the death that follows, Red is about chaos and destruction, Green is about nature and reclamation, and Blue is about being an asshole to everybody you know.

Having freedom means accepting that others won't necessarily hold the same views and values.

People can have different views, sure, but I don't have to respect those views and values. If somebody's going to spout off racist epithets, they have to deal with the consequences of their words and actions.

And yeah, there's no place for racism. Anywhere. That's not saying people won't hold those views, it's saying that it's unacceptable to do so. I'm not going to accept racism and neither should you.

Saying we need to accept it is defending racism, and that's not a good look, friend.

Comment Re:Belkin? That Belkin? (Score 0) 73

Belkin sells braided core cables which, in my experience, are far less reliable than solid core cables for ethernet purposes. No idea what studies have found, but I've had enough bad experiences with braided core ethernet cables over the last 15 years (and I'm talking use in the hundreds of thousands, I used to set up and run large events) to avoid them entirely.

Comment I'm not MBA, but... (Score 4, Insightful) 237

Isn't it wise to have 6 months expenses saved up in case of emergency?

I mean, that's what the government tells us lowly individuals in case our income goes away. Stands to reason business should operate in a similar manner.

They spent a lot of years working and making money, did they look ahead and save up? I don't think I should have to pay for their lack of financial planning. /sarcasm

Comment Re:The pricing is not helping (Score 5, Insightful) 103

It's simple marketing, really. AT&T is treating their employees just like they treat their customers: not listening to them. Apple is likely to enact some corporate NIMBY-ism and tell AT&T to deal with it the eyesore of a protest.

The protesters get publicity. A protest of the iPhone launch will get a LOT more press than protesting outside of some random AT&T store. Even if Apple does nothing, the story still reached a greater audience this way and we're now aware of the situation.

The protest hasn't even happened yet and this strategy is paying dividends. Looks like a 100% win so far.

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove.
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wand'ring bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not
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Cool. Haven't seen any of those in five or seven years. I suppose that means I have to go by the front page, though...

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