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• Commented on Are Muslim Women Oppressed? Ask One
  @ GRIKDOG The headscarf is a matter of personal choice -- not OUR personal choice, but HER personal choice. (broken record, barely spoken, mumbling, exhausted) except where required by law, and enforced under threat of prison or violence, as part...
• Commented on Are Muslim Women Oppressed? Ask One
  Can the next post be about how the Jizya is totally justified and okay and kind of cool? Wikipedia it!...
• Commented on Are Muslim Women Oppressed? Ask One
  I would also like to say that I am as likely to slap the Cosmo out of a woman's hands as I am to behave with hostility toward a woman wearing any kind of hijaab. Which is to say not...
• Commented on Are Muslim Women Oppressed? Ask One
  @ XENI I think we're all just going to have to agree to disagree on this one. I'm not going to think that the politically and culturally enforced on threat of violence norm of burqas is cool no matter how...
• Commented on The American Burqini, and modesty throughout the ages.
  @ Secret_Life_of_Plants Well said, sir. I count myself among the radicals. Though I should also say that I have irrational problems with authority that stem from daddy issues, so I can't really be trusted....
• Commented on The American Burqini, and modesty throughout the ages.
  Did they turn off comments on the latest "Burqas are totally cool" post? Yay! For the record, I think that if women want to walk around under refrigerator boxes with periscopes coming out the top, I'm totally cool with that....
• Commented on Are Muslim Women Oppressed? Ask One
  I know we've got some hardliners here who would disagree with me, but I think the general consensus is not "all muslim women are oppressed everywhere" but "muslim women women are oppressed in many middle eastern countries, and the coverings...
• Commented on The American Burqini, and modesty throughout the ages.
  It's been said a 1,000 times already, but I have to raise my voice in agreement: My problem is not the design of the burqini or anyone's choice to wear one. The problem is that the burqini, for many, is...
• Commented on Liberal hunting permit
  See, yeah, that's indicative of the differences between liberals and conservatives. We joke that they are silly, they joke that we should all be destroyed....
• Commented on Warner Music to Warner Music: You are pirates!
  Hello! I suggested this story initially, and after a little bit more research discovered the reason the videos are all down. WMG was in negotiations for some kind of profit sharing for their content on Youtube when negotiations broke down...
• Commented on Urban garden below sidewalk grates
  This is the home of a lovely couple, Simon & Anna, and Simon's video production company, Katina. (http://www.katinaproductions.com/) I do a lot of work for Katina. Anyway, the little subterranean area is accessible through a basement window. They get compliments...
• Commented on Sarah Connor Chronicles (Terminator) ARG: BBtv special edition.
  Anyone who wants a good look at the text overlay that flashes before the break can find a still here: http://www.thatsplenty.com/images/textoverlay.jpg...
• Commented on Sony kills DRM stores -- your DRM music will only last until your next upgrade
  C'mon, thingamadad. That's like blaming the users who bought Sony CDs for installing rootkits on their machines. When the major record labels (finally) started selling music online, it all had DRM, which was never openly discussed, and it took a...
• Commented on Sony kills DRM stores -- your DRM music will only last until your next upgrade
  Well, frankly, it's not the same thing at all. Now, if every car on the market was a gas-guzzler but it was impossible to find out any car's MPG (or the MPG was buried somewhere in the five-page buyer's contract,...
• Commented on Sony kills DRM stores -- your DRM music will only last until your next upgrade
  I'm going to have to disagree with you, Thingamadad. The customers never made DRM possible, the customers never asked for it, never directly or via market forces informed the record companies that they were ready to buy crippled content. In...
• Commented on HOWTO Make a magic fireball (flaming oily rag) -- UPDATED
  Please fix the update. I am also a video professional and can confirm that whatever the wisdom of this trick might be, the video is not a trick of compositing and anyone who thinks it is doesn't know what they're...
• Commented on Fake news from the RIAA
  I smell a fake. I've seen sever Advertorials, plus I work in video production. This was a zero budget crapfest with an amateur editor and a mediocre camera. While it wouldn't surprise me in the least to discover that the...