kumbasha

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by kumbasha 12y ago
How can you eliminate competition that does not exist? By definition, what the cable companies are doing now is eliminating competition, because there is none. Any change is an improvement.
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by kumbasha 12y ago
Google is generally capable of thinking long term. The major broadband providers in America are incapable of thinking beyond the next few quarterly statements--otherwise they would not have gotten themselves into this mess.
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by kumbasha 12y ago
You don't just let the Japanese get away with bombing Pearl Harbor, because that sends a message in and of itself.
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by kumbasha 12y ago
Oh, joy-a fully automated caste system.
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by kumbasha 12y ago
Please tell me exactly what the person streaming Netflix is taking away from the little old lady checking Facebook.
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by kumbasha 12y ago
As long as all actions are logged and reviewed by an independent ethics committee (with anonymized data if needed), I like it. It couldn't possibly be worse than the way we do things now.
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by kumbasha 12y ago
Ah, right, we wouldn't want Atlas to Shrug now would we.
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by kumbasha 12y ago
Come on, if Target can predict when a teenager is going to get pregnant, then we can easily keep track of politician's financial lives in however much detail we want. If you want to make a law that says no politician can exceed the med
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by kumbasha 12y ago
Lots of executives around the world make huge profits for their companies and employees, without collecting multimillion dollar salaries for themselves. Since being a millionaire is empirically not required for CEOs, their multimillion doll
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by kumbasha 12y ago
I can't imagine the government needs anything more than HTML 1.0.
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by kumbasha 12y ago
It's true. Once an email hits a certain point where managers get CC'd--that's usually the point where creativity shuts down.
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by kumbasha 12y ago
Not useless, just not deserving of more pay than the engineers. Same goes for the executives.
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by kumbasha 12y ago
Then the samurai should behead the king and redistribute all of the fine luxuries that the samurai earned for the king to his samurai buddies. Then simply find a clerk to do the king's old job.
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by kumbasha 12y ago
On the other hand, without all of the actual programmers you would have no product and no profits at all. Neither group can function without the other, and pay should reflect that rather than the ridiculously unequal spread we just automati
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by kumbasha 12y ago
How can you possibly believe that? The NSA will just go to the private company and subpeona all the data that it's illegal for them to collect. They can and have done this. Citizens need protection from private corporations just as muc
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by kumbasha 12y ago
Blame yourself? No, I'll blame the people who have more than 1/360,000,000th of a unit of political power in the country, i.e. the actual rich people and politicians who actually do these things that we hate. I will take 1/36
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by kumbasha 12y ago
What about the fact that they colluded with Apple and other companies to keep their engineer salaries as low as possible?
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by kumbasha 12y ago
What agenda? Google sucks, NDAs suck, etc?
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by kumbasha 12y ago
After reading that article, I actually came away with a very positive view of the field of parapsychology in general. Of course psychics aren't real, but the Flying Spaghetti Monster can be used to make legitimate points about the stud
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by kumbasha 12y ago
My friend, if you do not consult the mystical Tomes of Economycs on Wikipedia, then the ghostly Vapours will consume you with the aspyct of Mercury.
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by kumbasha 12y ago
Your government maybe. What about North Korea's government?
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by kumbasha 12y ago
0 day exploit kills 300 in a pileup on the freeway...
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by kumbasha 12y ago
This is Step A, where Step Z is one of "save the planet from a world-killing asteroid" or "everyone gets a solid gold toilet" (or "a few people get solid gold toilets larger than the existing moon")
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by kumbasha 12y ago
See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKaI78K_rgA
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by kumbasha 12y ago
Bingo. The mistakes to be learned from are many and well-documented in this scenario.
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by kumbasha 12y ago
I suppose my first question is... Why doesn't this union already exist?
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by kumbasha 12y ago
I don't see why that's so hard to believe at all. The federal government, at least in theory, is accountable to its citizens since the citizens vote for their government. The Board of Directors of Comcast, however, is something th
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by kumbasha 12y ago
Fortunately we already have many decades of detailed legal answers to the latter question.
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by kumbasha 12y ago
If what you say is true, then no one should be upset at the impending Comcast/Time Warner merger.