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Comment Actual net worth doesn't matter (Score 1) 199

I entered all the same information twice; one claiming all my online accounts had $0 in them and another claiming I had $99,999,999 (the largest number you can input). Both said I was worth $32. I then went back and said I didn't have an online brokerage account or an online 401k. This caused them to calculate my worth at $12. I then tried saying I had no online accounts; not even an email. That said I was worth $0. I then said I only had an email. That raised my value to $0.10.

So, regardless of how much money you say you have this calculator is entirely dependent on what type of accounts you have online.
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10 Worst Evolutionary Designs 232

JamJam writes "Besides my beer gut, which I'm sure has some purpose, Wired is running a story on the 10 Worst Evolutionary Designs. Ranging from baby giraffes being dropped 5-foot during birth to Goliath bird-eating spiders that practically explode when they fall from trees."

Comment Re:Why stop there? (Score 1) 155

Yes...I considered "music" rather than "songs" so it'd match the syllables but it didn't fit grammatically towards the end. For instance "Millions of music" doesn't make sense. Plus I butchered a few other lines so I decided to overlook the major flaw of the rhythm not being correct. That's probably why I'm an engineer rather than a musician :).

Comment Re:Why stop there? (Score 5, Funny) 155

[Chorus:]
Movin' to bittorrent, gonna steal a lot of songs
Movin' to bittorrent, Gonna steal me a lot of songs
Movin' to bittorrent, gonna steal a lot of songs
Movin' to bittorrent, gonna steal a lot of songs
(Wow)

Songs come from a torrent,
they were put there by a pirate
In a country overseas
If I had my little way,
I'd steal songs every day
So many songs to be played

[Chorus]

Take a little app where the tunes all exist
Heard a rotten song and was pissed
And dreamed about you, RIAA,
I used my encryption down inside
Make a little room my songs to hide
Pirate's bounty in my PC or Laptop or a Phone

Millions of songs, songs for me
Millions of songs, songs for free
Millions of songs, songs for me
Millions of songs, songs for free
Millions of songs, songs for me
Millions of songs, songs for free
Millions of songs, songs for me
Millions of songs, songs for free

Comment Mail in rebates (Score 2, Insightful) 589

How about rather than delaying the switch to digital broadcasts we do the switch on time and if you don't have a converter box already, and didn't get a coupon yet, just make the people who procrastinated send in a mail in rebate rather than receiving a coupon. Perhaps that's an oversimplification but I'd rather the government spend a few extra dollars processing rebates than have the digital broadcast deadline extended yet again.

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