You're either a kid who wouldn't know, or an old fucker yourself. Which is it?

But fart-sniffing is what Slashdot is all about!

Fire up the jewish space lasers, me hearties, we're fixing AGW!

Most of the libertarians grew up and learned to care about others.

Taking credit for something doesn't mean you did it.

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Hypocrisy also don't make science false.

Not being serious about combating climate change doesn't make science not real.

That's OK if your dog has no resale value. But dog theft is significant and increasing. When I lived in Marysville, the methed-up neighbors tried to steal a housemate's dog.

You thought an AC was going to get a serious response despite most AC comments being trolling? YMBNH.

The hardware isn't the problem, it's the way the software is hobbled. Can't install arbitary software on your device, can't use the browser rendering engine of your choice on your device, don't have control over Caller ID blocking on your device if the carrier says no, can't install a decent keyboard on your device... Because Apple thinks it's their device even post-sale.

The hardware is good, inadequate battery designed to sell more batteries and/or devices aside, but everything about owning it stinks.

Is it? The CPUC doesn't seem able to regulate PGE in any reasonable manner or to any useful degree.

The "houses" they were selling for $1 were mostly teardowns. When a house sits empty in a city with high unemployment it gets squatted in, the copper gets ripped out of the walls, it gets used for a cookhouse (as in meth, not chili) and toxic chemicals dumped on the floor and in the soil beneath, and so on. In the worst but plausible case you've got to pay tens of thousands to have it torn down, and then pay tens of thousands again to have a new structure built, after paying tens of thousands in permits. The mortgage problem is that you cannot get a mortgage on such a shithole/project, the bank simply just won't write you one.

Is 10% or less of the staff which would have once been required "a lot"?
Is less than 10% of the unemployed "a lot"?

Which do you have, Audi, BMW, or Mercedes? People with those brands are used to $10,000 bills from their mechanics.

That's a third of the difference. Another is that there used to be competition. And the last one is that nobody gives a shit about whether a company continues to be viable any more, as long as they can profit by pumping and dumping.