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• Commented on Jacques Vallee: Waterboarding's curious corollaries
  I suspect that there is a dark recess in the human soul where some truly enjoy meting out measured doses of suffering to others. The "war on terror" gave them a chance to act on those impulses. (Or, more likely,...
• Commented on The decline of civilization symbolized in a modern light socket
  Or just disconnect it from the wall (MANDATORY!) and don a pair of leather work gloves over a spread-out old newspaper....
• Commented on Apple patents anti-user attention-complianceware
  @ kc_cramer: The contempt here issues from the fanboys. Anyone who does not own the latest iWhatever and ceaselessly evangelize its infinite superiority over anything and everything else in the same market-space is derided as neanderthal, dated, ignorant, unstylish, and...
• Commented on Sound-copying technology and countermeasures, 1890-1978
  Your argument is the same as that of those who defended communism on the purely theoretical basis that since "pure, true communism" had never been tried it could not be called a failure. Guess what? Communism failed. DRM is just...
• Commented on Apple patents anti-user attention-complianceware
  I do not have or want any Apple products, other than a slightly outdated version of Quicktime needed for some editing and player functionality. Never went for their "shiny thing" design style, don't see that changing. And the cultishness that...
• Commented on The Eyewriter
  Having lost a college friend to ALS some years ago, I am happy to see this as one small development in making the lives of patients better....
• Commented on Sean Hannity plans to blame liberals for his mis-use of video
  IOKIYAR....
• Commented on Goldwag: I Was A Teenaged Straussian
  "con·spir·a·cy n., An agreement to perform together an illegal, wrongful, or subversive act. Is that how anyone else remembers the Bush administration?" I'd suggest substituting "and" for "or" to make the definition fit just a bit better....
• Commented on Rupert Murdoch vows to take all of Newscorp's websites out of Google, abolish fair use, tear heads off of adorable baby animals
  Murdoch needs Google far more than Google needs Murdoch, and Google knows this quite well. Does sorry old Rupert?...
• Commented on Fort Hood Shooter bought "cop killer" at "Guns Galore"
  The shooter was in fact a member of the military. Facts are occasionally inconvenient, are they not?...
• Commented on My son, the nude model
  I too felt an enormous sense of liberation after having done it - but it was from having had the gumption to step up and do it at all in the first place. First time was a challenge, after, not...
• Commented on Climate Change Now
  Because it falls where it's not necessarily easily captured or transported. In many cases, where it's not needed or wanted....
• Commented on My son, the nude model
  Having done it, I can attest to it not being a simple, easy thing. Not only do you have to hold a pose, you have to hold a pose that "works" for those drawing/painting you....
• Commented on Bank-robbers' demand notes
  Their standard is wrong. Successful ought to mean "got money and was not apprehended" - not simply "got money"....
• Commented on How the DC snipers hacked an ex-police car to make a killing machine
  When cars are outlawed only outlaws will have cars? (OK, got that out of my system.) I'm not about to commit random acts of violence, mostly because I know right from wrong. And I'm "normal" - in the true, statistical...
• Commented on A Tokyo photographer offers tips on taking pro shots with an iPhone 3GS
  Many years ago, when I was but a young photo major, I took what remains my all-time favorite of all the thousands on thousands of photos I've made over decades: A lovely young lady, classmate and friend - and willing...
• Commented on 86-year-old WWII vet on gay marriage: "What do you think I fought for in Omaha Beach?"
  From a straight guy with two gay family members, thank you, sir....
• Commented on Some Christians mad at R. Crumb
  Good. He's doing it right, then....
• Commented on Sabotage on the Large Hadron Collider?
  Look, I've got a case of the damn things sitting in my storage locker right now and I've been trying to get rid of them for a month. Anybody interested in a good deal on bulk Higgs Bosons? (They're the...
• Commented on Air conditioner disguised as cartoony TV
  Didn't get the green quite right, though, or else the photo's out of white balance....
• Commented on Parish leader denies marriage license to interracial couple
  What a contemptible racist slimeball Bardwell is....
• Commented on Big sale on vinyl Obama Hope Rebel flag
  The Stars and Bars really ought to be seen as the American equivalent to the swastika at this point. What's to be proud of in taking up arms against your countrymen in order to be able to own other human...
• Commented on Rich guy dislikes poor people, wants local kids to "lose sleep" over plan to shut library
  @ Allnewtoday: I can't speak for the "plagerism" you reference, though excerpting and linking to an online article is most definitely not plagiarism. You can't accuse anyone of it until you can spell it correctly. Just as you can't claim...
• Commented on HD TV and the placebo effect
  PAL is of a higher spatial resolution than NTSC, while being of a lower temporal resolution. (625 scan lines vs. 525, 25 fps vs. 30 - really 29.97 in order to get the color subcarrier in.)...
• Commented on Stop Making Sense turns 25
  Having seen both the film (in theatrical) and the tour on which it was based, this is almost enough to get me to buy a Blu-Ray player. Yes, it was that good....
• Commented on Franken passes law denying fed contracts to companies that support rape of employees
  Anyone care to speculate on what Franken's repellent predecessor, Norman (Quimby) Coleman, would have done?...
• Commented on Rich guy dislikes poor people, wants local kids to "lose sleep" over plan to shut library
  He's also too dim to realize that a future populated by the uninformed, while it may temporarily allow him to feel superior, will really be no future at all. Of course, not having kids (we can at least be thankful...
• Commented on HD TV and the placebo effect
  @ Tim - I always heard SECAM as System Essentially Contrary to American Method....
• Commented on HD TV and the placebo effect
  Show most people a component NTSC or PAL (R-Y, Y, B-Y - not RGB, which is another signal altogether) picture on a top-quality studio monitor, and they will think they are seeing high def. Encoding to composite (for transmission -...
• Commented on Tramaine de Senna: Double Dub
  It's not rock and roll, but I like it......