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Comment Re:$80 is expensive (Score 1) 16

With Comcast, the catch is always - you need to pay attention to the upload speed.

Having said that... They have a small number of modems for which they support faster uploads (my Hitron CODA56 is one of them). Our current plan costs $99/month and gives us 800 down / 150 up, which I can live with. We're in a semi-rural area, so fiber isn't likely to be an option for the foreseeable future.

Comment Re:Dude that wouldn't be a mistake (Score 1) 59

As incompetent as human beings can be you are just not going to convince me that somebody who works in a biohazard level 4 lab is going to do something like that.

I'm generally with you on this, but this part of your argument is bananas. That Wuhan lab has had leaks before, so we know for sure that they are incompetent.

Comment Re:Go Vegan... And Nobody Gets Hurt (Score 1) 59

because a tiger has no other alternative

Nor do we. Some people think we do and malnourish themselves.

doesn't know better and just hunts what it can eat

They also kill each other territorially, and males kill offspring of other males.

as opposed to omnivores like humans bringing on an industrial scale millions of sentient beings into a miserable life under conditions which often amount to torture

OK, object to people who eat factory produced meat, then. That would be consistent with your argument.

can stuff one slice of bacon after another into their drippy mouthes

Yes, our mouths become "drippy" when we eat bacon, because bacon is delicious and makes one's mouth water.

and increase their chance of a happy and satisfied death by cardiovascular "disease"

We're all gonna die, like that crazy congresscreep said, except she was talking about running other people's lives... oh, and so are you.

it is reckless, inefficient, antieconomic

Antieconomic? It produces a lot of economic activity. You don't know what that word means, why are you using it?

unsustainable and irrational

Of course eating meat is not unsustainable, except as practiced. But just wait until you find out that our modern agricultural methods are also unsustainable. Your food is destroying the planet just like our food, and for exactly the same reason, specifically non-regenerative agriculture.

and, yes, fucking disgusting.

Enjoy your soy. Which, by the way, I cannot digest. I can tell when it's been hidden in my food because it makes me sick.

Comment Re:Broadcom (Score 1) 28

Also, corporatism is a planning and management structure for command economies, not something having specifically to do with corporations.

Yeah, it's "the control of a state or organization by large interest groups" ... like corporations. In the USA, corporatism is overwhelmingly a corporate activity, since Citizens United.

Comment Re:Translation... (Score 1) 122

The first rule of being rich is getting other people to spend their money.

There's no question that makes more sense than the alternative, and the house of Saud has the money to spend on maintaining their empire. It doesn't change the fact that Elno can't spend and therefore isn't functionally worth hundreds of billions.

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