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• Commented on Cinch Seat: handsome flat-pack portable booster chair
  This makes me think of variations on Playatech furniture, which is specifically designed to lay flat for easy transport to/from burning man. The addition of the seat belt is nice though. http://www.playatech.com/index.php I do agree though the price is a...
• Commented on XKCD++, a loving tribute to XKCD
  XKCD is funny sometimes, but let's not pretend he has some monopoly on drawing jokes with stick figures. We're not honestly arguing about borrowing the idea, are we?...
• Commented on Washington Post disses Flav and Chuck D, then apologizes
  #1: No, it is not limited to that point, since people make fun of conspiracy theorists all the time. However, this correction is just funny. If feels like something I'd expect to see in the onion and not a regular...
• Commented on Web design project from hell immortalized in cautionary webcomic
  As a business owner doing software and with some experience in these sorts of things (both art and difficult clients), I definitely get a laugh out of this. The one that rings the most true for me is where the...
• Commented on Notes from a news-site paywall attempt
  I think there's some interesting points the article makes, but as some have suggested, at least initially, only losing about 20% of your unique visitors for paid ones isn't that bad. However, it also makes the point that total time...
• Commented on A programmer's lament on the Apple App Store
  There's a lot to say on this. First off, Apple has always been like this. I've always told people that they're no better than Microsoft (DRM, vendor lock-in, etc...), but many people tend to bend over and take it with...
• Commented on Y2K ten years later
  There's a big difference between acknowledging that a bug existed and the OMGWTFBBQ! WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE! hysteria that some people experienced. I had relatives gravitating towards the latter despite my attempts to educate them, so I'm a little...
• Commented on Yahoo hires lap-dancers to entertain at its open, inclusive Hack Day event
  "professional sex-workers" The words you're using keeps implying these women were prostitutes, which is a little harsh and more indicative or your opinion of the women than your opinion of Yahoo. It was lame to use them for this type...
• Commented on Dead guy on balcony 4 days, neighbors mistook for "Halloween dummy"
  This is unfortunate, but not really that surprising. I went to a restaurant today and they had an adult-sized fake demon sitting in one of the stalls. I had to do a doubletake, since I didn't really notice him at...
• Commented on New book on conspiracies and Shermer's skeptical take on the topic
  I think the question here isn't whether or not people would talk, it's whether anyone actually listens or believes those people. I disagree with the primary assertion here that it matters. It's not that surprising that people might talk about...
• Commented on Burning Man Responds to EFF over fair use and photo rights attack
  @Malgwyn: So again, how is your comparison of Comiccon that much different from BM? The rules are still there in both places that give them the right to restrict what goes online, if they so choose. BM lets plenty of...
• Commented on Burning Man Responds to EFF over fair use and photo rights attack
  @Malgwyn: You have no idea what you're talking about: http://www.comic-con.org/cci/cci_press.shtml "Any videotaping, filming, or recording of any manner which will be used for commercial purposes (non-news) must first obtain written permission from Comic-Con International. The filming of panels in their...
• Commented on Burning Man Responds to EFF over fair use and photo rights attack
  ASIFA @ 116: Well, to turn your question around, why should the EFF act on anyone's behalf then either? There is no individual currently involved that asked the EFF to go after BM for specific abuses, but the EFF considered...
• Commented on Burning Man Responds to EFF over fair use and photo rights attack
  I think some of you are blowing this out of proportion. Whether or not the BMORG are abusing this power or corrupt (which is debatable) doesn't diminish the contributions of the thousands of people that go each year or the...
• Commented on Burning Man Responds to EFF over fair use and photo rights attack
  I do understand the reasoning behind BM wanting to protect the abuses that have occurred in the past from porn sites and other people using the photos, like the "Boobies of Burning Man" case. I also know the EFF is...
• Commented on EFF criticizes Burning Man for limiting attendees' fair use rights
  After that comment, I noticed one of the related links regarding BM suing over the "Boobies of Burning Man" video, so that answers my #1. Hmm, not sure how I feel about that....
• Commented on EFF criticizes Burning Man for limiting attendees' fair use rights
  I have a few thoughts on this one, and am honestly a little torn: 1) Is there any record of BMO actually enforcing this policy? There are videos and images all over the internet from BM. I'm trying to understand...
• Commented on Humanthesizer: humans painted with conductive ink to trigger sounds
  There is just something wrong about a guy like this putting his hands together in that humble praying motion while standing around doing poppy dance music with sexy girls. I'm not even religious, but he just looks like a douche...
• Commented on Death and Taxes, the 2010 edition
  @The Tim: Just because the constitution suggests we should have a military doesn't mean we need to have a military that spends more money than most other countries combined. I'm giving you some benefit of the doubt that you weren't...
• Commented on Painfully Inane Adwatch: The Twix "Need a Moment" Campaign
  I remember a long time ago either a Frontline documentary or something similar where they talked a little about this sort of thing. The guy was talking about MTV and the stereotypical jackass male characters that seemed to popup so...
• Commented on Boulder park warns that all bags "subject to search"
  The real question worth debating here is why it's even illegal to drink in the park to begin with. That's one of the best places to do it....
• Commented on Fertility interprets regulation as damage and routes around it
  This happens in america also. My wife and I have been dealing with infertility treatments, and one of our doctors was telling us about a specific treatment that was banned in the US currently, but we could just go down...
• Commented on Adam Savage gets $11,000 AT&T bill for a "few hours of web surfing in Canada"
  Text messaging costs have always been a pet peeve of mine, so I'm definitely sympathetic to Savage's complaint. It's ridiculous how much they charge for so little data being transferred. The cost per byte is significantly higher than what they're...
• Commented on Literal Music Videos: Total Eclipse of the Heart
  The guy who did some of the early ones, DustyMcNeato, still has most of the best ones. This one is pretty good though. He's the one that did White Wedding, Take on Me, Under the Bridge, and Head Over Heels....
• Commented on The End of Personal Finance
  Don't hate the players. Hate the game. Recognizing the whole system is an arbitrary game that we created stops making it so surprising when you see certain groups losing....