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    Comment #886593

    The USA has been able to get away with printing dollars because it sold things people wanted (an had to pay for in $) - the article alleges that this is no longer true.

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    Comment #886510

    >done just as nice with a properly named function call. So instead of view = projection * model; you would prefer. view.SetVector(Multiply3x3matrixWith3x1Vector(projection.GetMatri…

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    Comment #886494

    Except that if oil is priced in dollars and you have a dollar printing factory then oil is effectively free to you. If my ISP accepted pictures of my cat rather than insisting on p…

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    Comment #885469

    Most corporate laptops support it, IBM/Leonova do. The problem is how do you know there isn't a master password (for AMI's bios it used to be "AMIBIOS") how do you know their encry…

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    Comment #885380

    http://xkcd.com/538/

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    Comment #885375

    Even easier to get around. Truecrypt uses your passphrase to decrypt the key which is then used to decrypt the disk. With a ID tag it would just match the tag generated number with…

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    Comment #885297

    So if my car is stolen and used in a terrorist bombing I'm also liable?

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    Comment #885280

    Some more examples: John Collins, 57, who runs a software company from a room at his home in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, received letters saying he needed a licence for the …

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    Comment #884514

    Austria is in the EU, would you trust Jörg Haider with your gay rights mailing list?

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    Comment #884489

    They won with musical instrument shops that do have to pay a public performance license in case a customer plays a known tune while testing a new instrument

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    Comment #884402

    A couple of problems: Iceland is small so although it has an image as a cool sensible safe Scandinavian country it wouldn't take many voters to put in a far right/far left presiden…