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Comment "Luck" might always be a fancy word for ignorance (Score 1) 180

What is this "luck" that causes things to happen when they aren't caused by observable mechanisms? Has anybody ever observed luck In Action? What is the hard evidence of Luck? Saying things are caused by "luck" just glosses over ignorance. Even the outcome of a coin flip, the quintessential "random" event, could be absolutely pre-determined if you know everything about the moment of the flip.

Comment Get glass to focus on screen viewing only. (Score 1) 464

Besides coding I play keyboard, and need to have good peripheral vision at arm's length. So just buy glasses designed to focus at that distance. Make sure to tell the optometrist that you need an RX specifically for the distance your interested in. He can also give you a long-distance RX, and since you have glasses dedicated to monitor viewing your long-distance glasses could either be bifocals or they could be only for distance, which would also give you good peripheral vision at distance.

Comment Corporate Greed Kills another Institution (Score 1) 400

WTF do they expect? Once upon a time movies were 6 bucks. Popcorn and a drink maybe another 6 bucks. And you could sit and chat with your friends before the show, and then watch about 10 minutes of previews, tops. Then tickets went $10, and $15 for a drink and popcorn. then they started cramming commercials down your throat before the movie, and previews that run over 20 minutes?? The cinema has died from the same old idiotic rapaciousness that sent people to steal music off Napster when CDs went to $18 and 3/4 of their songs sucked.

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