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Comment Was it really though? (Score 3, Insightful) 74

Foreign investors willingly paid a $25M+ idiot tax into the coffers of Texas. Even though they received a larger payout than they paid in, that payout was generated by the prior rounds of idiot taxpayers and organized gamblers, not from Texas coffers. The odds of any actual Texan buying a jackpot winning lottery ticket is, for all intents and purposes, zero. You're not going to win. Yet, someone willingly pays taxes to your state. Still winning.

Comment Washington has put a $0.08 charge per bag (Score 1) 197

And I still forget my reusable bags in the car. It has led to a mind shift. Where I would have dropped my 3 or 4 items in a bag, I'll just carry them out instead. Not that .08 breaks the budget, but it puts a value on what was once a free item, helping me remember that they're not invisible things that disappear once I'm done with them.

Comment Duh. It starts with a study break massage. (Score 1, Interesting) 90

It's no surprise that many students pair with others in their major, especially in harder disciplines. You ask someone you find attractive if they would like to study for the big test. About two hours into it is the perfect time to trade massages to work out the study kinks. Whether you get back to studying is never guaranteed after that.

Comment Re:Local Backups (Score 2) 150

Local backups are well and good until a fire or some other disaster takes out the data and the backup device. While it's easy to plan to take a backup off-site, it's another matter to get someone to remember to do it unfailingly every day. Finally, lugging external drives around subjects them to physical damage. A cloud provider solves this dilemma.

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