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Denmark doesn't have any oil, you're probably thinking of Norway.

>> Music is so cheap. All of the original demands 10 years ago have been met. Guess what? piracy is worse than ever. It reminds me why you never negotiate with terrorists. All the …

The problem with this is that all issues regarding taxation/government spending are non-orthogonal, and can't be uncoupled easily (or at all).

"/" is also not a single key on all keyboard configurations. On a swedish keyboard it's shift+7, hardly any easier than ctrl+f.

Why would you use firsthand experiences when the actual statistics are freely available?

The birth rates in the western world are already low enough that populations are decreasing excluding immigration. If your suggestion was implemented, they would literally go extin…

PS3s are only vulnerable with old firmware, and hacked ones can't play new games nor play online.

Sounds more like you treated the symptoms of atypical cystic fibrosis than the symptoms of aging.

So, according to the article, there is: 1) No scientific consensus whether these supplements will make you live longer or not. 2) A web page where Kurzweil sells these supplements.…

Symmetrical downlink and uplink is the really exciting part to me. Imagine being able to transmit GB-sized files point to point in a matter of minutes. There are so many opportunit…

It's pretty obvious that iPhone games designed to be controlled by tilt work well with tilt, it's not at all obvious that other genres of games work well with pure tilt controls. I…

Motion controls and button controls are not mutually exclusive. And buttons are essential for games that require more precise controls, in the same way that a physical keyboard is …

Ravi Mehta is not vaguely surprised that most high-profile basketball "experts" screwed up their Final Four predictions. Overall, of 5.9 million brackets submitted to ESPN.com's To…

If the landlord leaves the master keys unprotected, he most definitely shares some of the blame when the apartments of his building are broken into.

Did you know that Mirror's Edge is built using the current version of Unreal Engine? Tech demos are built to showcase as many features as possible, in a very limited time. In order…

I see no numbers for individual sports. Athletic departments losing money does not mean that the football team is losing money.

They probably have to specify exactly what percentage of income is given out in winnings. Not to protect the lottery company, but to protect lottery buyers.

Tragedy of the commons. It's one of the most fundamental reasons that we have states.

Would we really be saying that for a lawyer who defended the Catholic church in the sex abuse scandal? No, b/c anyone with _any_ integrity would likely walk away from that...or any…

One reason they were excited was Yahoo's revenue growth. So they invested in new Internet startups. The startups then used the money to buy ads on Yahoo to get traffic. Which cause…

It's probably less effective when your audience isn't forced to read your text.

The game is also massive in size, at over 6 gigabytes, so it’s going to take a while to download even on a fast connection. That's pretty small these days.

If we're only concerned about strict legality, EULAs are on very shaky legal ground. For example, EULAs that you don't sign _before_ buying the product have no legal standing at al…