lotsofmangos
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Comment · 11 years ago
Comment · 11 years ago
It works for Singapore - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEWater
Comment · 11 years ago
They exported and funded their errant knights using those trillions. The main reason the Saudi government has been left alone by the more extreme elements in Saudi Arabia is that they are the main conduit for creating petrodollars, so if they were disrupted, the money hose might stop.
Comment · 11 years ago
And now we are somehow enslaved to re-invading Iraq for a fourth time when it falls again.
Is about the seventh or eighth invasion of Iraq in the past 100 years for the UK. It seems that we have been in Iraq more often than not.
Comment · 11 years ago
I was talking to a cab driver in Bristol about that and it is apparently because drivers were getting robbed by people strangling them with the seatbelt.
Comment · 11 years ago
If you find yourself telling a plumber which specific way a toilet should be fixed, you are either an employer, or should take some engineer pills.
Comment · 11 years ago
Austerity politics is bonkers. When there is a recession, the state is the entity that can still borrow and lend at reasonable rates. The money will still be borrowed, but with the state pulling back, it is borrowed at rates that would make a loan-shark blush.
Comment · 11 years ago
Your environment restricts your available choices and these things are tied back on themselves, so behaviour creates an environment that then influences behaviour. Looking for ultimate causes in current behaviours for social systems that have developed over evolutionary timescales is pretty pointless.
Comment · 11 years ago
Makes it easier to roll.
Comment · 11 years ago
They are the only serious company in the home computing space that realised design and ergonomics was more important than processor frequency. Which is interesting given there are many industries, like audio equipment, where there have been many design-led companies, but it seems to be a rarity in computing.
Comment · 11 years ago
Exactly my point. Dropbox shoudn't even exist as a business model.
edit - not crapping on dropbox particularly. Lots of things should be basic functionality by this point, sharing files being one of them. If stuff was more like plan9, for instance, things like skype wouldn't exist either.
Comment · 11 years ago
It is depressing. Networks are broken to the point where we have services resold back to us to provide the basic functionality that should be inherent in the protocol.
Comment · 11 years ago
I thought markets were designed for unhinging numbers from reality. Surely that's what leverage is all about.
Or they have the thing where high contrast makes the letters jiggle and therefore difficult to read. I get that when tired.
Maximum contrast does not make for good general usability, even if you happen to like it.