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Comment Re:! surprising (Score 1) 762

Privately owned toll roads.
Private or home schooling.
Highway robbers?

So you mean we couldn't manage without the government?

I mean we even launch space shuttles privately now. What do we need a government for? To tell us we can't drink until we're 21 even though they will ship us off and kill us at 18? To fine us if we don't wear a seat belt even though for nearly 100 years people drove in cars without them just fine. To put us in jail for growing a plant in our own backyard (with a federal minimum sentence of 5 years!). To buy trailers for people who built houses in a flood plane, even when the citizens in the surrounding counties (myself included) offered to have several families stay with them until they could rebuild.

Even well intentioned governments are oppressive and wasteful.

Comment Re:Who'd have thought... (Score 2, Interesting) 194

Why if the UK Post Office goes on strike, and nobody notices, because UPS, FedEx, and other private companies (plus email) fill the gap? It would be ironic if the Government Strike proves that the government-run service is no longer needed.

Hmmmm.

I hope the U.S. Post Office goes on strike next. Who need them? Not me.

Comment Re:The Moon (Score 1) 703

Which is about up there with figuring out how to make 2 + 2 = 4.

Everything currently points to it being flat out impossible. Not improbable, not a a tough problem to figure out (ie, usable fusion generators or something that is just a hard problem), but not physically possible.

Assuming that all insolvable problems will magically become not so given enough time and technology isn't a wise bet.

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Submission + - Get Vista/Works refunded from Dell with 2 emails!

look@thealternative.ch writes: "Although some people asked for Linux pre-installs and Dell seems to listen (Google cache, survey off since Friday), some still think it will be hard to get at least a naked PC. But what about stripping it naked after you bought it? I managed to get Windows Vista (and a bit more) refunded from Dell Germany last week. The process was surprisingly simple:
  1. After delivery, ask Dell Support for refund by email
  2. ???
  3. Refund!!! (aka "Less profit!!!" for other "personas")
For replication, read the full email conversation in the German original or my English translation. For the impatient reader: The refund is EUR 77.54 for Windows Vista Home Basic plus Works8.0 (that is 15% of the total amount I paid). The whole process took 2 emails, 2 more to say thank you and less than 48h. The money is already on my account. Kudos to Dell Customer Care (esp. "Veronika") for being efficient and customer-oriented!"

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