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Commented on Unscientific poll on The Pirate Bay sentence -- UPDATED
wait... how does this "suggest pretty abject failure on that score"? i'm a little unclear....
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Commented on Pizza joint gives staff t-shirts with the text of 1-star Yelp reviews
@16 SHOSEPH: as a native san franciscan and -ahem- pizza blogger, i'm not of the same mentality towards SF 'za. there are loads of good places, all with a different style than New York, but excellent on their own. i'm...
Commented on Chocolate Beer
for me, rogue's chocolate stout tops young's and most others. there are a few special, seasonal, or otherwise expensive chocolate beers out there, some of which are quite tasty, but if you are looking for a good standard entry, rogue's...
Commented on Video: Daily Show's John Oliver looks at Jeff Han's multitouch screen
agreed! the bugle is wonderful and this clip made me all sorts of happy....
Commented on John Oliver On Apocalypse Literature
#3: agreed. and the bugle (his podcast with a. zaltzman) ain't bad either....
Commented on Is God of War a swipe of 2002 screenplay? Let's look at the complaint in depth.
anyone else think that the image of the character resembles, somewhat startlingly, the familiar face of Ben Kingsley?...
Commented on 11-in-1 Multi-Game Dining Room Table
@#4: i know! that was exactly what i was thinking, but sadly this one does not have an air-hockey option......
Commented on Video: Another thing you can do with a Fun Float
ouch....
Commented on Gawker reports on "monster" washed ashore
ahh!...
Commented on Youth Radio: Condomless sex is new "engagement ring"?
i remember hearing this segment on NPR about a week-back. it pissed me off. sure, i can understand the impulse on some level. it's about trust, love, bla bla bla. he even says to only have unprotected sex after both...
Commented on Craigslist: The Stuff of Nightmares (half a terabyte of foot porn edition)
@ #5: Green House Brand... yuch. ewwwwwyech. no disrespect. -cough- -ahem- -uuhhh-....
Commented on Haunting photo-essay about photographer's relationship to his elderly father
that really is quite wonderful. so calm, collected. thanks for posting....
Commented on Shredmaster Jr. pursues welfare Guitar Hero demographic
@3 LSK: i know! intolerable....
Commented on Woman struck by lightning while shooting video
oh god why?! why?!...
Commented on Bugs have creepy faces
wilford brimley?!...
Commented on Remote Buddy sweeps away need for universal remote.
and isn't remote three, in this photo, a universal remote? seems to defeat the whole purpose......
Commented on Cost of hops crops hits tops: Won't someone please think of the beer?
this has also hit us home-brewers quite hard... but it is still the most cost-effective method of stocking up on good beer....
Commented on Ghost luxury hotels, half-built and rotting in the desert
i am reminded of ozymandias... I met a traveller from an antique land Who said:- Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert ... Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,...
Commented on Building Stonehenge by hand, with gravity and sticks
that made me very happy....
Commented on Is Fred and Sharon's movie production business real or performance art?
well, considering that you have to pay to see more of their videos on the website, my vote is for fake. it's too perfectly bad. anyone try calling them?...
Commented on Starbucks' formula has changed, let us count the (three) ways.
@12, pedmands: when you say properly steaming milk, does that mean starbucks is going to try to cut in on latte art now?...
Commented on Reg Barber custom espresso tamper
and by "but"... i mean... uh... i didn't mean to write "but"......
Commented on Reg Barber custom espresso tamper
but RB tampers are so pretty! make sure you get your double tamp of 20-30 lbs first, then light tap on the side, and then 40-50 lbs out of curiosity, what grinder are you using? good luck with the 'spro!...
Commented on Wind turbine self destructs (video)
i meant to write "can see"...
Commented on Wind turbine self destructs (video)
you an see a closer video at the following link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u14tBwO5QVQ&feature=related looks like one of the blades cut the tower in half!...
Commented on Monochrom's Marxist sock puppets
thanks foucault!...
Commented on Honda's Power of Dreams
i wonder... will the cryptids be tagged in the environment section?...
Commented on Ruhlman Defends the Percolator
you know, recently i've been very impressed by a simple drip cone set up, as long as you follow a few guidelines: 1. boil twice as much water as you plan on using 2. after the water is boiling, pour...

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gd23 commented on Unscientific poll on The Pirate Bay sentence -- UPDATED
Is the verdict and its accompanying sentence justified? 8.2% Yes, it's a reassuring victory for the protection of copyright 91.8% No, it only protects the wallets of big entertainment corporations...
Jack commented on Unscientific poll on The Pirate Bay sentence -- UPDATED
#117 POSTED BY LILOMAR He couldn't get it any other way because of big-media region-encoding idiocy, downloading was his only option if he wanted to watch it. (Well, that or breaking the region-encoding, which is also illegal per-DMCA.) Fair enough. But the time/energy spent to buy a Region 2 DVD set, ripping it, and re-burning so it's region free or buying a region free DVD player is still less than the months spent downloading. In the case of region restrictions, I think more people on the street understand how crazy that is than painfully abstract concepts of how the RIAA/MPAA...
IWood commented on Unscientific poll on The Pirate Bay sentence -- UPDATED
#122 posted by Jack: Fair enough. But the time/energy spent to buy a Region 2 DVD set, ripping it, and re-burning so it's region free or buying a region free DVD player is still less than the months spent downloading. Do you actually use BitTorrent? The "time/energy spent" downloading consisted of 1) Downloading the .torrent (4 seconds) 2) Hitting the "Play" button in Azureus (.01 seconds) 3) Using my laptop us usual to do whatever it was I was doing anyway Azureus ran in the background, and grabbed pieces as they became available, which took awhile. But it was less...
Jack commented on Unscientific poll on The Pirate Bay sentence -- UPDATED
@#124 POSTED BY IWOOD: I'm actually familiar with the technology, but don't like running apps like that in the background while my system does other things. I need to limit the amount of apps running not to save processes but to make sure that if I am debugging code I don't have the x-factor of another piece of software getting in the way. But that said, if there were a legal source of downloads, would you pay the £70? Or perhaps less? To just simply get it and don't worry about anything else?...
toyg commented on Unscientific poll on The Pirate Bay sentence -- UPDATED
If the download was DRM-free and in a decent format, yeah, we'd all be buying like crazy. Check how the music biz was doing during the first few Napster years. Problem is, such a product will not be developed by going after the likes of TPB. If anything, outlawing filesharing is actually reducing the market for entertainment products, as their most natural customers are needlessly antagonized. You say: Arguments that copying doesn't hurt anyone is delusional. You can go as far back as the 1980s and the collapse of Synapse Software (an Atari computer game developer) to see how damaging...

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