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Commented on Library workers fired for colluding to keep graphic novel from being checked out by 11-year old girl
Ha! I got a lot of "are you checking this out for your children/siblings?" when I started rereading the Black Stallion series in college. Now I want to go find The Boxcar Children and see if it is as awesome...
Commented on Library workers fired for colluding to keep graphic novel from being checked out by 11-year old girl
"And I think the librarian in question was right to believe it shouldn't be read by an 11 year old." But it's not the librarian's job to limit access, it's the parents. Seriously, PARENT'S JOB, NOT THE LIBRARIAN'S....
Commented on Library workers fired for colluding to keep graphic novel from being checked out by 11-year old girl
Was it Night Chills with the mind control rape? I couldn't remember if it was that or Shiver. (Though I think I have both of them somewhere). I got pointed to Stephen King a bunch of times, (and man did...
Commented on Library workers fired for colluding to keep graphic novel from being checked out by 11-year old girl
Regardless of how old she was vs. the...explicitness of the material, that's the parent's job to police, not the librarians. Additionally, if they had been keeping it out of circulation for a year, that's not actually about the 11 year...
Commented on Is There Really A Water Crisis?
"but Great Lakes governors have outlawed that solution." Well, that and part of the great lakes basin is in Canada. Making the legal problems inter-state and inter-national. (Though as a resident of the great lakes basin, I have to say...
Commented on Is Sony legally required to make its games accessible to disabled people?
"No, it couldn't. The car is a luxury that 99.9% of all humans who've ever lived haven't been privy to." Um, this is possibly a very US and suburban development pattern centric but, where do you live that a car...
Commented on Is Sony legally required to make its games accessible to disabled people?
Inertia? I was going to say laziness, but then I realized that signing in took less time and effort then the catcha....
Commented on Heavy illegal downloaders buy more music
*raises hand* I do, actually. I'd say about 35% of the music I've bought in the last couple years has been something I had already for 'free'. If I don't like it enough to pay the dollar for it, or...
Commented on Boing Boing: The World's Greatest Neurozine!
(I'm trying really hard to just comment on things that are making it harder for me to use the website and not to whine just because I don't like the way it looks. Because I don't, but it IS actually...
Commented on Boing Boing: The World's Greatest Neurozine!
Doesn't feel like there was enough attention given to design hierarchy. With all the ATTENTION DANGER! red everywhere, I can't tell what I'm supposed to be looking at. It's hard to focus. Also, the mix and matching of the font...
Commented on Van Arno exhibition “A Change of Skin” at Corey Helford Gallery in LA
Strangely boring and uninspired for mythological inspired soft core p0rn. Plus, the Boone one is extremely sceevy....
Commented on Australian govt memo, 1968: Women become "spinster battle axes;" "men usually mellow"
@19 "Senator Brown said Kora had not disrupted proceedings yesterday, nor had she on previous occasions when she was present in the chamber." Except that she didn't start crying until they took her from her mother....
Commented on Coffin sofa
While it looks very cool (and in purple! ♥), I require furniture that I sit on to be functionally loungable. That looks like it'd be comfortable for about two minutes. Maybe five if I had a sweatshirt on....
Commented on Why No Famous Scientists or Engineers?
Santiago Calatrava Oh his stuff is gorgeous! But I just spent 3 years in an MLA program, otherwise I'd have no idea who he is....
Commented on Student challenges prof, wins right to post source code he wrote for course
I'd like to see some citations for that. You could make an argument that the work that you do for a job that's paying you might belong to your employer. How do you justify the idea that the work that...
Commented on Student challenges prof, wins right to post source code he wrote for course
It really doesn't matter if it's a "good idea" or not to allow this - I own the copyright on anything I create and I can post it online under whatever license I want (MIT, BSD, GPL, etc.). Except most...
Commented on Reviving American chestnuts may mitigate climate change
It'd be nice if someone did a similar patch to the elm trees with regards to the Dutch Elm Disease SUNY ESF is....
Commented on Literal Music Videos: Total Eclipse of the Heart
I'm pretty fond of this Meatloaf one. He just wants his damn necklace back!...
Commented on It's Scutigera Coleoptrata Season!
"A beautiful creature. Just me and Muno then?" I think they're totally awesome. I love the way they move. My unreasonable phobia is anything black and yellow that flies. In a side note, today was the first time I'd ever...
Commented on Obama might ought to get rid of daylight saving time
I'm sorry for misunderstanding. I knew I shouldn't have hit post. I'm terrible at reading tone and delivery without body language. And while I have to disagree that my body not functioning as well for weeks afterward is making a...
Commented on Obama might ought to get rid of daylight saving time
? I was basically just adding a anecdote about hating the switching and then I got pissed off because someone told they know what my body does better then I. I'm not nearly as invested in my position about DST...
Commented on Obama might ought to get rid of daylight saving time
Also, I live in Syracuse and Buffalo, so it's not like I don't understand the huge changes in the amount of daylight (it was twilight yesterday at 430 when I was shoveling)....
Commented on Obama might ought to get rid of daylight saving time
"- it does not throw your body clock out." I'm at a loss to explain how you would know this. Cuz, you know, it's my body. If my sleeping and alertness patterns are screwed up after every clock change, well,...
Commented on Obama might ought to get rid of daylight saving time
It screws up my body's rhythms for WEEKS. I would love to not have to mess with clocks anymore. (I don't particlularly care when the daylight is, I just need it to not make a sudden change. It always comes...
Commented on Whimsical statue too close to police memorial, says Syracuse police dept.
Contextually, Syracuse Stage is about 500 feet up the street and I think there's an art gallery around there too. The area is not just about the memorial. Though I have to agree, it'd be more respectful to locate it...
Commented on Whimsical statue too close to police memorial, says Syracuse police dept.
Wow. Maybe I should start reading the local paper. I drive by that everyday and had no idea there was some issues with it. http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=754%20e%20genesee%20syracuse&um=1&ie=UTF-8&resnum=1&sa=N&tab=wl As for the park comments, it's basically a glorified traffic meridian on E Genesee. Also,...
Commented on Modular multi-compartment fridge for student houses
@34 Excellent point! The last place I was at would have shorted if it had more then three in the kitchen. Or you turned on a light (it was old, slummy and wired oddly). If they all individually have to...
Commented on Modular multi-compartment fridge for student houses
I've never had problems with food disappearing. (Seriously, we have to mark the food we want people to help us eat, maybe I've just been really lucky?) What I've a had problems with is space. And the amount of space...
Commented on Douglas Rushkoff on the RNC
"What they love is the community of free individuals a community of victims and their supposed advocates whose only modus operandi is to suck at the government teat and use the image of compassion to gain power over others." The...
Commented on Stanford Prison Experiment researcher's new study about everyday heroism
Remember that if we "help" Zimbardo by giving our time freely, we are devaluing the market for paid survey taking, depriving undergraduates from a reliable source of beer (or textbook) money. My solidarity with undergraduates and the up-and-coming researcher leads...

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jessi_face commented on Library workers fired for colluding to keep graphic novel from being checked out by 11-year old girl
Good question. Yes, of course we can, and often do! What's the point of guiding someone to a bad reading experience? "Oh, You don't like gore? Perhaps Creepers is not for you. Lets find something more to your liking."...
Gilbert Wham commented on Library workers fired for colluding to keep graphic novel from being checked out by 11-year old girl
I've had problems as a child with trying to check out 'Adult' books (Dune, to be precise). However, there were books in the kid's section that were up there with Hubert Selby sex & violence-wise, they just had juvenile-looking covers....
PyotrZ commented on Library workers fired for colluding to keep graphic novel from being checked out by 11-year old girl
As a Lexingtonian, I feel I must point out a factual error: Lexington is not in Jessamine County. Lexington is Fayette County, and it is a bona fide city boasting a not-entirely-lame research university. Jessamine County is to the south and far more rural. The Lexington library system did have its own recent scandal, however: the former head of the library district was run out of town due to improper use of library funds. Good riddance, as by all accounts she was a harridan who abused her employees....
Grimel commented on Is There Really A Water Crisis?
Finally a voice of reason. How can there be a water shortage? On a global basis the net amount of water stays the same unless it is somehow disappearing into space. The story is the same with food, as he mentions. It's a very convenient way to feel good to pretend that one is environmentally conscious by spending money on 'organics', etc., but completely unnecessary. It's the same story as your mother telling you to eat everything on your plate because there are starving kids in other countries. True, but what does cleaning your plate do to help that. The...
ab3a commented on Is There Really A Water Crisis?
/* Disclaimer: I work for a water utility */ Fact 1: Nobody CONSUMES water. They rent it. Fact 2: Water is heavy. It takes significant energy to move it uphill, or even down a relatively level pipe. Fact 3: There are very few pollutants that we can't remove from water, given enough energy. What we're talking about is management of resources, maximizing energy efficiency, and building and maintaining infrastructure. All of these require effective management and good governmental oversight. What is lacking most of all is the political vision and motivation to recognize the problem and improve everyone's lives. Think...

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