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• Commented on More Than 250,000 People Petition Apple For Better Conditions At iPhone Factory
  Yeah the original article was actually touting the ingenuity of the foreman for getting that done. Unbelievable....
• Commented on More Than 250,000 People Petition Apple For Better Conditions At iPhone Factory
  Yeah, the implication there is that Apple should spend some of it's billions of cash to make the working conditions better. HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!...
• Commented on More Than 250,000 People Petition Apple For Better Conditions At iPhone Factory
  Yeah but the only industry in America that has ever been substantially impacted by employees jumping out of windows is Investment Banking......
• Commented on More Than 250,000 People Petition Apple For Better Conditions At iPhone Factory
  Well, sort of. Foxconn is not state owned, in fact its ownership is in Taiwan, which China considers a rogue break-off. I've got to find them, but I remember reading various articles that the Chinese government is just as pi$$ed...
• Commented on $25 Billion Mortgage Settlement Is Just The First Step Toward Cleaning Up Mortgage Mess
  Yeah, I think that article that HB quoted is a bit inaccurate (it is an OpEd piece, after all). Supposedly only mortgages that were fully carried by the bank and not backed by Fannie and Freddie are eligible. I'm always...
• Commented on Clint Eastwood Denies Political Slant In Chrysler Super Bowl Ad
  Of course the Republicans don't like it. It presents a positive message about America. TThey want to oust Obama at any cost. They can't oust Obama if you feel good about America. Ergo, they hate the commercial....
• Commented on Should Your Driving Record Impact Your Homeowner's Insurance?
  Everyone, from the 17 year old kid who has already been in 2-3 accidents to the 45 year old who hasn't had an accident in 29 years? Auto insurance is about the risk of the driver, as well as the...
• Commented on Woman Sues Wells Fargo For Telling Police She Was Contemplating Suicide
  What happened to Woman Y?...
• Commented on The Art Of Fielding Post-Presentation Questions
  If you get the chance, see Damian Conway's Presentation Aikido. http://www.oscon.com/oscon2011/public/schedule/detail/18584 (He gives the talk at other events besides OSCON...)...
• Commented on Arizona Tries To Shake Amazon Down For $53 Million In Sales Tax
  I don't disagree with you but just FYI both of your examples are non-tax generated payouts... unemployment is state-by-state insurance program that is funded by premiums paid by employers, while you could argue that those premiums are a "tax", in...
• Commented on Facebook Hasn't Even Gone Public And People Are Already Selling Fake Shares
  I'm going to generalize here, because there are millions of exceptions to this, but just like in a market traded stock, privately held stock is valued at what price a buyer and seller agree to. Remember, the stock markets only...
• Commented on New Legislation Would Pad Health Insurance Coffers While Screwing Over Consumers
  But you'll still only get two out of three....
• Commented on Dirty Diaper Grounds Qantas Flight
  Wow. I guess you helped define that snooty. Babies poop, sometimes when you can't do anything about it for a few minutes, but I guess you wouldn't know, I'm sure your poop smelled like flowers and unicorns when you were...
• Commented on New Legislation Would Pad Health Insurance Coffers While Screwing Over Consumers
  Good coverage. Low rates. Policy availability. Pick two....
• Commented on Outback Steakhouse Manager Overreacts To Spilled Beers -- But In A Good Way
  I've always had great service from Outback....
• Commented on Peek Apruptly Shuts Down All Devices To Focus On Software For Actual Smartphones
  This is why I don't sign up for any "lifetime" services. It's almost a guarantee that anyone offering "lifetime" anything will go out of business long before their rivals....
• Commented on When Disaster Strikes, Send Cash, Not Sex Toys
  Is Red Bull inappropriate because it's a high energy drink? It is, ostensibly, a drink in any case... which I heard they were quite short of after the earthquake. Same with chips, so only healthy donations, please? I'm kinda torn...
• Commented on Facebook Officially Files For IPO; World Continues To Turn
  Boy I love (/s) commenters here who like to put words in other commenters, well, comments. Where did I mention anything about valuation? I was responding to gman863's proposal that Facebook stock should tank because they've made changes to the...
• Commented on HQ Notices Raiders Of The Lost Walmart Discovery, Fixes Problem
  Cat is probably hoarding them because, at least in my experience, SD cards don't last more than two or three years and he wants to keep the camera operational....
• Commented on Should Libraries Let People Look At Porn In The Open?
  Whatever. Scratch the sentence. Too busy being a language Nazi to get the point....
• Commented on Facebook Officially Files For IPO; World Continues To Turn
  Unlike most of the .com stocks of the last decade, Facebook made a profit last year - $1 billion, actually, at a 33% margin. Meaning for every $1 they bring in, 33 cents of that is profit. That's a lot...
• Commented on Should Libraries Let People Look At Porn In The Open?
  I did not say that. I'll invite you to review my original statement. Look closely at the words between "This was a published book that" and "contained child porn". I don't need to debate the validity of those standards because...
• Commented on Should Libraries Let People Look At Porn In The Open?
  I don't care about the politics. I was making a point about libraries....
• Commented on Should Libraries Let People Look At Porn In The Open?
  When I was young, I was standing in line behind a guy checking out the book "Show Me". (I'm not going to link to it, you can decide whether you want to google it yourself. ) This was a published...
• Commented on Republicans: Expect Legal Challenges To Richard Cordray's 'Invalid' Appointment As CFPB Head
  I don't believe that they think we'll believe that a congress that can't manage to pass the most simple, non-partisan bills will somehow manage to effectively direct a consumer protection department. They clearly think we're stupid. Perhaps that's reinforced by...
• Commented on Megaupload User Data To Get Two-Week Stay Of Execution
  You're close. Megaupload should be the backup, and unless your original primary storage goes Tango Uniform at the same time, you just back up your original data to a new storage company, and join the thousands of litigants who will...
• Commented on Ripoffs Encountered At The Grocery Store
  Um, isn't ascorbic acid the scientific name for Vitamin C? So it's not like their taking out one thing and putting in another, you've just used two different names for the same thing. Also pasteurization isn't some evil process that...
• Commented on Megaupload User Files -- Even The Non-Pirated Stuff -- Could Be Destroyed
  Actually, this is the cloud... http://xkcd.com/908/...
• Commented on Megaupload User Files -- Even The Non-Pirated Stuff -- Could Be Destroyed
  Fortunately I only use "the cloud" (http://xkcd.com/908/) for backups, so it would take a simultaneous take-down and server crash at my end to lose my data....
• Commented on When The Lights Go Out, You Might Be Stuck Without A Landline
  Hmm. I've always thought that "landline" meant the copper based phone in your house. I've never considered cable a "landline". I definately do not consider VoiP a "landline". So "the lights" don't affect my landline, by my definition....

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