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• Commented on Lego waterboarding
  How is waterboarding torture? It doesn't do any permanent damage to you, does it? It might scare the bejeesus out of you but then so did the Exorcist the first time I saw it....
• Commented on Swedish Pirate Party membership surges after Pirate Bay verdict
  Somehow I doubt the establishment in Sweden is terribly worried about the organizing abilities of a bunch of stoners who sit around thinking of ways they can rip off artists....
• Commented on Newspapers are dumb to blame Google for their problems
  I've seen some of the numbers. For the same amount of "news", newspapers make about 15% online as they make with print. It's not even close. If I ran a newspaper, I'd consider greatly scaling back my website. I'd also...
• Commented on Rainbow Bread ('80s footage of radio ad singer doing multiple takes)
  Well we've officially reached the "long tail" of funny things currently on the internet. Because this is neither that interesting nor funny....
• Commented on Web Software Seller Won't Take No for an Answer
  Could it be something with the cache or web browser? I've had similar experience with my own site when a new release of a browser came out. I'd put a product in the shopping cart, then remove it, then when...
• Commented on Sacramento to make its tent-city permanent?
  Have any of you people claiming Sacramento is going to start looking like Mumbai or a "favela" ever been to one? I lived in a Manila slum for a year and these slums have hundreds of thousands of people not...
• Commented on Paying for News: A Mega-Merger Thought Experiment
  Citizen journalism may be the future for mass quantity of news but certainly not for quality of news. We'll always need experts in their fields to analyze and explain big ideas to those of us that aren't expert in those...
• Commented on Police chase "ramshackle" motorcycle going 142 mph
  Plus he was driving on the wrong side of the road!!!...
• Commented on Xeni on the road in West Africa: Ritually Stolen Penises and Vaginas - Not a Joke Here.
  This explains Madonna's looks lately. She's spent a lot of time in Malawi....
• Commented on Bad Times Spur Entrepreneurship, But There's a Catch
  Funny but the most heavily socialized medicine countries (France, Sweden) are about the worst for entrepreneurs because it's so difficult to get license, permits, bank accounts, etc. Once a societ gets used to relying on government for every little thing,...
• Commented on Warner Music attacks babies
  Please people. The lawyers aren't going after babies, mothers, or puppies. They're going after YouTube and Google. YouTube is attempting to monetize tens of thousands of homemade videos that use copyrighted music as background music. The rights holders are making...
• Commented on Terrific special effects reel by 12-year-old
  Not impressed. You could do half these things with iMovie 3....
• Commented on Birthday surprise: office filled with balloons dangling personal testimonials
  Now we know why the economy's tanking. Now get back to work....
• Commented on Doctors force patients to sign gag orders forbidding online reviews
  The problem is that we're seeing more and more popular sites where anonymous reviewers can write anything about a doctor, a hair stylist, a restaurant, or a product and not have to show any accountability. So you can't blame someone...
• Commented on Two angry camels in a car
  Is this in Dearborn?...
• Commented on Parent of gamer asks his son to honor the Geneva Conventions
  I didn't sign the stinkin' Geneva Convention so I don't play by Geneva Convention rules. Besides, the most fun thing in Call of Duty is to slash the Jerry's throats and leave them writhing on the ground bleeding to death....
• Commented on Xeni op-ed on Authors Guild lawsuit against Google Print
  The "blogger" says: But Internet history proves the opposite is true. Any product that is more easily found online can be more easily sold. I say: While it's true that it can be more "easily sold" that doesn't mean that...
• Commented on US pressured Canada to join copyright complaint against China
  Good. If you've ever worked in any business in which design was a factor, you know that most (not all) Chinese manufacturers - including mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore - love nothing more than to rip off your...
• Commented on Taken down from YouTube? EFF wants to help
  I'm confused. Is YouTube no longer a private company able to do what it wants?...
• Commented on Rob Cockerham writes article critical of Cash4Gold, gets offered cash to kill story
  This is just smart and sound business strategy on Cash4Gold's part. Enough to prosecute? Please. No laws were broken here. The only thing the guy should've done is not left an email trail. He should've just asked to speak to...
• Commented on Comprehensive excoriation of ebook stupidity
  I have to say that it's getting kind of old for "bloggers" to look down their noses at any company that hasn't yet figured out how to make money by giving away content that currently brings them revenue. Believe it...
• Commented on Witchdoctors defy ban on selling albino parts
  I'm guessing then the Johnny Winter and Yellowman Rock & Reggae Tour will definitely take the long way around Tanzania....
• Commented on Australian family caged, detained, starved and deported by US customs
  I don't understand this devowelling "punishment". All it does is pique my curiosity to wonder what someone said. Then my eyes are crossed from trying to read it. Why don't you just establish clear rules of what people can and...
• Commented on Monty Python's free web video increased DVD sales by 23,000 percent
  Too many variables at play here. There have also been a lot of TV commercials lately for this boxed set. Heck, there was a whole hour long special on PBS less than a week ago. I'm sure that had something...
• Commented on Bush official: we tortured Gitmo detainee
  Canadians torture too. After all it was one of your very own, Mike Myers, that was responsible for the 2 hours of torture I endured watching "The Love Guru". And your chief interrogator Celine Dion has tortured me numerous times...
• Commented on Joel Stein: "Nut allergies -- a Yuppie invention"
  My family owns a mail order company that specialize in outdoor products. In the last 10 years, our sales of bee allergy kits has fallen 25%. Typically children with bee allergies react stronger than adults so children need to carry...
• Commented on Father punishes son with public humiliation
  The problem for this kid now is that his "public humiliation" is now on Boing Boing and for the rest of his life his name - when entered in search engines for college, job applications, potential dates, etc. etc. -...
• Commented on US Congresspeople Told Martial Law Would Be Imposed if Bailout Bill Didn't Pass
  I'm glad I got my Wilderness Survival merit badge 20 years ago in the Boy Scouts. Now if I only hadn't moved to New York City....
• Commented on Lessig: YouTube takedown shows why fair use isn't enough
  I disagree completely. As a musician, I've spent months writing and rewriting a song according to my standards. For someone to take my song and then use it as a backing track to some homemade video is wrong. Particularly if...
• Commented on Roman siege engine for sale
  I was actually touring around Scotland and happened to drive by this thing while it was being tested. It was pretty cool. What I remember most is the sound of all the creaking timber when this sucker was launched. If...