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• Commented on Keeping a bald eagle feather could result in a $100,000 fine and a year in prison
  re: the comparison to ivory. I understand what you are saying, but ivory tusks don't just fall off of elephants all the time while the elephants are still healthy. There is a difference....
• Commented on High School Teacher Recounts "Sexting" Ordeal That Ruined His Career
  While I think prosecuting him in this way was wrong, it was foolish of him to store this data on his computer. This is 2009, and he works in a school. How was he not aware of the illegality of...
• Commented on Thematically composited photos of New Yorkers over time but not space
  As a professional compositor, PAULR, let me inform you that "composite" has been a verb for quite some time. It's even in the dictionary as such. Also, these composites are quite superb....
• Commented on Women's sense of smell evolved to sniff out bad mates
  What Noctis said. If women truly have a more sensitive sense of smell, isn't it more likely related to progesterone, which serves an immediate purpose during pregnancy? This sniffing out of potential mates seems a lot less evolutionarily likely than...
• Commented on David Gibbs against robot love
  Troof, that's the Declaration of Independence, not the Constitution. So you aren't really guaranteed those things, as stated....
• Commented on Replace Hardcovers with a Bunch of Big Signs
  What Wygit said. If hardcovers are such loss machines, then why is Deathly Hallows only available as a hardcover? Surely you are not trying to tell us that Harry Potter is still trying to build an audience? Or that Harry...
• Commented on What happens to junk left behind in foreclosed homes?
  I don't know, MDH.... I still get calls from local charities, asking if I have salable items to donate. They always offer to drive by with a truck. I think the charity shops are doing a lot of business right...
• Commented on Bike with band name sticker shuts down airport
  waltisfrozen: Is that how we should be judging security risks, based on their financial toll? Yes, absolutely. Every risk has to be assessed based on how likely it is to do damage, versus how much damage responding to it will...
• Commented on Bike with band name sticker shuts down airport
  Thank goodness these pipe bombs are labeled and left in plain sight....
• Commented on Rice-filled felt creatures
  Would shredded paper work? Like from a paper shredder. Bugs probably wouldn't like that, and also, recycling....
• Commented on The $4000 handmade rattle
  Alex M - lead and pthalate testing are required for just about anything that is sold to children under 12. But you are right, it really shouldn't be required for stuff like this that couldn't possibly contain lead or pthalates....
• Commented on Make your own Alka Seltzer for a fraction of the cost
  Caipirina: Like Alka Seltzer ... for a bath. Bath bombs They are really popular DIY Christmas gifts lately....
• Commented on Susie Bright: My Little Chat with Playboy Today
  Sekino - It's not the most awesome people, it's the most important, and for whatever reason, Monica was the center of the biggest sexual debate of the 90s. As for Bettie Page, she's right on the border of 55 years,...
• Commented on Women may lose house for sex while she was a high school student 12 years ago
  Are there people in Georgia who actually believe that blowing a kid almost your own age is a crime punishable by 10 years? Or is this just a badly written law?...
• Commented on Video of Big Bird singing at Jim Henson's funeral
  Caroll Spinney visited my school when I was in third grade, and it stands as one of my favorite memories as a child. He is a wonderful entertainer....
• Commented on High school student in Kentucky faces felony charges for writing a zombie story
  Very interesting link salimfadhley, thank you for posting it....
• Commented on RIAA has to pay $107,951 for court costs in failed suit against disabled single mom
  What is curious to me is how the RIAA picks its targets to sue... possibly out of a hat. There are millions of people downloading music who aren't being sued. Why did they single out a disabled single mother? They...
• Commented on Stealing things according to the "If value, then right" theory
  Neener, So what definition are you proposing...? Cpt. Tim, I think it depends on scale and intent, to a certain extent. Cory's own podcasts have a lengthy explanation of what is OK and what is not OK for his work....
• Commented on SWAT team raids mayor, shoots family dog because someone mailed them pot
  Unfortunately, it is standard practice for SWAT teams to shoot dogs. In some cases they can be dangerous, and there is no value placed on the lives, so they can be shot as a precaution. Wasn't the shooting of a...
• Commented on Fake Mickey Mouse statues at the Beijing Olympics
  @ bubbafett: Me too, with the clothing colors, and the muscles. But isn't Mighty Mouse himself sort of a mashup of Mickey and Superman? @ Antinous: Check what Google unearths, heh, http://www.diannetanzergallery.net.au/artist.php?name=Dale%20Cox (not real, obviously)...
• Commented on Worst drinks in America
  Kevin143: Yes. You are the only one. For the record, this link claims Pina Coladas are made with coconut milk -- ah, no. They are made with coconut cream; if they were made with coconut milk, they would be quite...
• Commented on Is driving better than cycling?
  I believe this "persistent rumor" is fueled by Chris Goodall's claim that walking to the grocery store used more energy than driving (or at least that's where I first heard something like it)....
• Commented on Creepy slacks ad from 1970
  @26 'At some point, conservatives started equating "feminist" with being a radical man-hating ball-breaker "feminazi". This is the game they play with language.' The language plays its own role. I think feminism is a somewhat unfortunate name for the movement,...
• Commented on Iron man battles Linux and open source in new comic book
  Teresa @ 27: in Infinite Crisis Madjo @ 14: He's been cast as anti-freedom since Civil War. In fact he's kind of a super villain now, so you could take this as an allegory in favor of Linux. Unless you...
• Commented on America's new subprime shanty-towns
  @44, California has one of the highest foreclosure rates in the country, so it is worse here. However, Los Angeles has the largest homeless populations in the country, it had this large population long before the foreclosure crisis, and tent...
• Commented on Feds plan digital spying on pigs, llamas, terrorcritters.
  spazzm : isn't cost a good enough reason? This will be terrible for small farmers who can't afford such extreme measures....
• Commented on w00t is Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year for 2007
  franko, You would have to have been unconscious not to have heard "whoot, there it is" in the 90s. Saying that w00t can't have come from whoot because gamers aren't clubbers, is like saying d00d can't come from dude because...