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Comment Re:What ? (Score 1) 786

I'm sure health care is the only difference between those countries. It couldn't be that governments offered better subsidies to make a plant in a country, or that a cheaper Canadian dollar makes it more favorable to pay people in cad and export to US, or a variety of other factors. Health care must be why they chose Canada.

Comment Re:Low Quality (Score 1) 96

I shouldn't answer an AC troll but, you really are fine with the government in power using one of it's departments to make life hard for it's opponents while giving passes to it's supporters? You do realize that democrats will not be forever in power, and if it is fine now well I imagine it will be fine for a republican government to look into the tax exempt status of media matters and moveon and planned parenthood, right?

Comment Re:ah the anti-NSF crowd again (Score 1) 307

And at the same time Switzerland has almost no gun laws, a massive amount of guns (even fully automatic rifles) and one of the lowest rates of crime in the world. Maybe, just maybe regulating guns has nothing to do with it.
"regulate handling guns at least as much as you regulate driving cars"
If you think guns are not at least as regulated as cars, then I suggest you stop watching msnbc.

Comment Re:SOPA vs PIPA (Score 1) 495

The same bill has to pass through both house and senate. So even if the senate passes the bill (PIPA), the house would have to vote on the same version. If they can't agree, then they can either make a session together to vote on a version (not sure what the requirement is for a bill to pass in a conference session) or the bill dies. http://www.usconstitution.net/consttop_law.html Check conference section.

Comment Re:Citation needed (Score 1) 504

Samsung also will be paid the feed-in rate of 13.5 cents a kilowatt hour for the wind power it produces and 44.3 cents for its solar power. Electricity bills are climbing in Ontario, because these generous contracts with green power producers are well above the market price of 3.31 cents for electricity.

Notice the 41.0 cents they are getting for solar above market prices, guaranteed. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ontario-samsung-in-7-billion-deal-for-green-energy/article1439002/

Games

Have I Lost My Gaming Mojo? 418

danabnormal writes "Increasingly I'm being frustrated in my attempts to find a game I want to play. In an effort to catch up, I've been using my bog standard Dell laptop to dig out treasures I have missed, such as American McGee's Alice, Grim Fandango and Syberia. I don't often get the time to play games, so I like to have the opportunity to dip in and out of a title without feeling like I'm losing something by not playing it for periods of time. But when I find a title I like, I make the time. Heavy Rain is the last game that gripped me, that truly engaged me and made me want to complete it in a single sitting. I'm tired of the GTA formulas, bored of CoDs and don't have the reaction time to think on my feet for AOE III. Is it about time I tossed in the controller and resigned myself to the fact that the games I want only come out once in a blue moon? Or have I just not found that one great title that will open me up to a brand new genre? Lords of Ultima is going OK at the moment — is there anything of that ilk I've missed? What are your thoughts? Do you stick to a particular genre? Are you finding it harder, as you get more mature, to find something you want to play?"

Comment Re:Blizzard's Attitude (Score 1) 138

They do not ban an entire account from all their games. I.e. they do not ban you from playing WoW if you cheat in SC2. They ban that battle.net account from playing SC2. And for the hundredth freaking time - they banned him/her for using a cheat while playing multiplayer, not singleplayer. Whether it was a custom game or ladder is irrelevant.

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