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• Commented on Clothing designed to fight back against intentionally uncomfortable furniture
  So the city designs a bench to prevent people from sleeping on it, thus keeping it available for its intended use... people sitting on it. So someone comes up with a way to get around that and sleep on it,...
• Commented on USDA reports 406,000 pounds of "cattle heads containing prohibited materials recalled"
  This is not wonderful... yuck!...
• Commented on USDA reports 406,000 pounds of "cattle heads containing prohibited materials recalled"
  This is not wonderful... yuck!...
• Commented on Boing Boing's Moderation Policy (Archived)
  Talk about lack of reading comprehension... I was not trying to make a wild claim... just pointing to those who made the claim that disemvoweling kept her honest by letting people see what was posted. In fact, it doesn't. Others...
• Commented on Military Report: Secretly 'Recruit or Hire Bloggers'
  Personally, I think it's good that the military is looking to the future and examining all of their options. Like it or not, wars are not just fought with weapons. They are also fought with information. Terrorists use the Internet...
• Commented on Boing Boing's Moderation Policy (Archived)
  The fact that Teresa disemvowels does not "keep her honest" as she can still delete posts and, obviously, edit them to say whatever she wants them to say. So there's no accountability in disemvoweling. For the record, I'm not saying...
• Commented on Brilliant cycling awareness safety video
  The roads that I see every day certainly appear to have been designed with cars in mind. The lanes, markings, signals, speed limits, etc... are all pretty much car-centric. I don't think that one person in a car should have...
• Commented on Brilliant cycling awareness safety video
  Given that roads are really designed for cars and used by cars more than bicycles by several orders of magnitude, and that the safety/mass/speed issue is so radically different between the two, yes, I'd ban bicycles from riding on major...
• Commented on Boing Boing's Moderation Policy (Archived)
  Some people might take the hint. I did take the hint... they aren't interested in discussing their moderation policy nor are they open to the possibility that they might be wrong in something. I was told that my "low-brow" comment...
• Commented on Brilliant cycling awareness safety video
  I live in Houston, so I can only speak for this city, but many streets are narrow and bumpy and there is no way for a bicycle to fit between cars and the curb. While it's probably safer for a...
• Commented on Boing Boing's Moderation Policy (Archived)
  I think that the more Liberal side agree with the policy because they are not moderated as often. It's easy to see someone who agrees with you as more polite and someone who disagrees with you as rude or somehow...
• Commented on Brilliant cycling awareness safety video
  This is exactly why I would like to see the laws changed so that bicycles are not allowed on most major streets. Given the weight and speed disparity between cars and bicycles, it just makes no sense to mix bicycles...
• Commented on Boing Boing's Moderation Policy (Archived)
  Personally, I find the moderation to be arbitrary and annoying. Disemvoweling is basically defacing a comment and isn't conducive to civil discourse. If someone posts something and gets disemvoweled, they are likely to be upset rather than curious as to...
• Commented on Fun straws are phallic?
  I wouldn't want my daughter sticking penis-shaped things in her mouth... not that I'd freak out about it. I also don't want her watching movies with violence or complicated social situations that she's too young to understand (an understanding that...
• Commented on Schneier: transparency is not security
  As others mentioned, the transparency he describes in his example isn't really transparent. True transparency would give everyone access to all those databases, access to who is looking them up, the ability to know who is spying on you and...
• Commented on Billboard Liberation Front vs. ATT + NSA
  It's hard to learn what is acceptable when there is no general list and when my comment is "disemvoweled" without any explanation as to why. This is like the teacher who smacks kids who do something wrong without any explanation...