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Comment Re:Delete Buses for Discounted Group Carshares (Score 2) 35

Spoken as an American who has never seen good public transit.

When I worked n Europe for a few months I took a train and a bus to get to work. The system was amazingly efficient and convenient, never felt the need for a car. Always on time, never had to wait too long. Of course the system was heavily subsidized (just like the roads in America, but funny that I never hear them complain about that), but that is how you run a transit system that works to move people, and that people actually WANT to use.

But I'm not holding my breath waiting for that to happen in America. One proposal, and you will be drowned out by the screams of "But it's socialism!".

Comment Re:subsidy misnomer (Score 1) 117

> The last I checked, no cash was being given away to oil companies.

I am guessing you don't check often or you check in the wrong places (like Faux News).

Energy subsidies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_subsidies#Allocation_of_subsidies_in_the_United_States

As Oil Industry Fights a Tax, It Reaps Subsidies
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/04/business/04bptax.html?pagewanted=all

These subsidies have been the subject of frequent battles in the lame US Congress.

Either way please read up on this crap and go crawl back under your rock.

Submission + - Illuminating window-less houses with a plastic bottle

DancesWithWolves writes: The BBC reports on Alfredo Moser who came up with a way of illuminating his house during the day without electricity — using nothing more than plastic bottles filled with water and a tiny bit of bleach. In the last two years his idea has spread throughout the world. It is expected to be in one million homes by early next year.'

Comment Hypocrites (Score 1) 151

Name one thing that other governments do that the US government hasn't already done. There is nothing. Torture? Check Indefinite detention of innocent people? Check Spying on own citizens? Check Lavish support and benefits for corporations at the expense of ordinary people? Check Americans need to get off their hypocritical high horse of "freedom", "liberty", "justice" and all that crap. They are no better than any of the dictatorships out there.

Comment How will this even solve the problem? (Score 1) 363

> The bill prohibits employers from demanding user names and passwords from employees and job applicants.

Now all an employer has to do is "suggest" that you "voluntarily" give up your Facebook password, but that your refusal will not have any impact on their hiring decision. And by a strange coincidence, no one who refuses will get hired.

Business as usual in the Land of Unfettered Capitalism

Comment At least our troops are cool... (Score 2) 192

Air Conditioning the Military Costs More Than NASA's entire Budget: http://gizmodo.com/5813257/air-conditioning-our-military-costs-more-than-nasas-entire-budget
That says a lot about this country and where it's headed. It has no problem cooling troops in a war that has no purpose and no end, even when "we are broke!". But funding anything that might be remotely useful? Forget it!

Comment Re:The real question is... (Score 1) 454

I don't know which shop the OP bought his NAS from, but....

Take a look at the reviews posted on compusa.com and circuitcity.com (both seem to be run by the same company now). I don't trust them anymore. It's hard to find a product with less then 4 stars. Often the same products are reviewed less favorably on sites like Newegg.

Comment Re:Paper bills = accountability (Score 1) 285

You could save the online bills to your computer. Many of them are available as PDFs. But, yes, it requires a certain discipline on your part rather than just having them show up in the mail.

I also agree with other posters that companies don't generally do this to go "green", but to make a buck. That is why T-Mobile's plan sounds more offensive.

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