matterhorn

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by matterhorn 14y ago
No. The article makes several references to "licensing" and "pricing." These are euphemisms for shakedowns. Patent trolls shakedown developers with patents that never should have existed in the first place. Why should a developer have to pa
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by matterhorn 14y ago
But not all of their potential customers are political correctness Nazis.
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by matterhorn 14y ago
Why Profanity in a Headline Demonstrates Immaturity and Lack of Substantive Content
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by matterhorn 14y ago
Road mobile tractor erector launchers would work, but rail-based launchers don't seem to make that much sense.
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by matterhorn 14y ago
As a World Champion Grandmaster Super Kingpin Big Daddy Procrastinator, I have to say...yes, it is indeed laziness.
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by matterhorn 14y ago
Capitalism also means DDT, which kills mosquitoes that are vectors for malaria. However, statist intervention bans DDT and allows mosquito populations to thrive, thus killing large numbers of people in places like Gambia where...wait a minu
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by matterhorn 14y ago
My impression is that EA has some great creative talent, but that the business management function is entrusted to people who have honesty and competence issues. One of the big problems with American business is the focus on academic creden
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by matterhorn 14y ago
"...don't focus on those with big-business credentials who may be accustomed to having a lot of rules to follow." This is EXACTLY the kind of rule that a big business uses. It involves no judgement, no thinking, no consideration of the indi
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by matterhorn 14y ago
Refine: How much will you make? Add fourth: When will you know if this is working?
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by matterhorn 14y ago
"Our" implies "we" which is too many people. I recommend investigating the benefits of singular first person pronouns.
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by matterhorn 14y ago
This was a big fad with air traffic controllers a few years ago.
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by matterhorn 14y ago
Good ole socialist wealth envy class warfare blah blah blah. Wealth is produced. If there were a fixed amount of it, we'd all still be nomadic hunter-gatherers. Therefore, the gain of wealth is NOT a zero sum game. When some CEO (good, bad,
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by matterhorn 14y ago
Interesting that they don't just move somewhere else. In any case, lower your taxes, reduce state and municipal spending, and reduce state regulation of business. A federal repeal of PPACA would also be very helpful. I can't imagine living
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by matterhorn 14y ago
Anything that uses the term "denialists" is just AGW cult propaganda. What climate change there is is a natural process we are unable to significantly speed up or slow down. By the way, has Mann stopped falsely claiming to be a Nobel Prize
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by matterhorn 14y ago
This is why my role model is the Dos Equis guy.
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by matterhorn 14y ago
Wyoming Joins Texas as Second State to Issue Own Currency In Wake of U.S. Dollar Collapse Following Dennis Rodman Visit, Switzerland Declares War on U.S. Bloomberg Bans Bottled Water: Claims It Robs Our "Precious Bodily Fluids" Patent Troll
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by matterhorn 14y ago
The government of the United States is divided into three branches: executive, judicial, and legislative. Federal laws require either the agreement of the legislative and executive branches, or overwhelming support within the legislative br
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by matterhorn 14y ago
Government handouts of taxpayer money only creates dependency. If you wish to give money to the poor, then give YOUR money to the poor. Do not vote to have government give your neighbor's money to the poor. Your neighbor's money does not be
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by matterhorn 14y ago
Raising the minimum wage will increase unemployment. Additionally, having any minimum wage at all increases unemployment. On top of the unemployment problem, a minimum wage is an intrusion into the rights of the individual to voluntarily en
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by matterhorn 14y ago
Wha-huh? Of course not. Neither is 35, 45, 55... I plan to work until I'm at least 80, if I live that long. I was still playing in the Army at 25. Take a look at MIT's Open Course Wear videos for Structure and Interpretation of Computer Pro
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by matterhorn 14y ago
Green energy is a scam. Government-directed economic activity is a scam. Jobs will come and go with cyclical economic activity. Right now, most of the developed world is suffering from the effects of cronyism and socialism, which are econom
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by matterhorn 14y ago
No intelligent person thinks food magically pops onto shelves. It is not necessary to play farmer in order to know where food comes from. Do you know how make your own steel? Neither do I. I'm not worried about it.
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by matterhorn 14y ago
I'm a big fan of David Ricardo's Law of Comparative Advantage, and other economic knowledge.
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by matterhorn 14y ago
I am a big fan of copyright and not a fan of thievery. If rights-holders want to put their work in the public domain, fine. But you have no claim on the IP rights of others.
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by matterhorn 14y ago
Who owns the telecom infrastructure in question? Who built it? Who paid for it? I am very skeptical of anything referred to as "public." What exactly is "public" about it?
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by matterhorn 14y ago
Calm down nothing. He is correct in his complaint.
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by matterhorn 14y ago
So the "billing password" is not the password one would use to pay your bill? How very odd. One wonders why she allegedly called it the billing password, then.
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by matterhorn 14y ago
This is ridiculously broad. It serves as a great example of H.L. Mencken's famous quote, "For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong."
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by matterhorn 14y ago
Certainly, when individuals vote to turn over personal responsibilities to the the government, things will turn out badly in the end. However, the break down of personal responsibilities within families is not the result of economic success