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• Commented on Much loved photo supply store B&H sued for job discrimination against women
  No, guavajellyfish, that is not what I meant....
• Commented on Much loved photo supply store B&H sued for job discrimination against women
  I second the commenter who recommends Adorama (incidentally, also a Jewish business, thus closed on Saturdays). They've got great prices and they're very very helpful. As to whether this is ok of B&H to do, I'm torn. On the one...
• Commented on Hit the Bitch
  eZee, not everyone is prepared to hurt other people. Even in self-defense. How many of us are really trained to defend themselves against someone with a knife? In a way that won't seriously injure either person? It's not like my...
• Commented on Transborder Immigrant Tool helps Mexicans cross over safely
  If it were easier to enter America legally, people wouldn't risk death crossing the desert to do it. I'm foreign, I've been through the tourist visa process, it's ridiculous and demeaning. Did you know this hard-to-obtain visa is not a...
• Commented on To the anonymous gay teen who asked for help in a Boing Boing comment thread
  "And technically speaking, if evolution (sorry Christians)" No need to apologise, many Christians believe in evolution too (at least us Catholics do, I can't speak for the rest). I didn't see much Christian-bashing in this thread either, and I was...
• Commented on To the anonymous gay teen who asked for help in a Boing Boing comment thread
  "What is UP with people thinking you need to do all this crazy shit before you're 18?" You don't need to do crazy shit but the thing is most teenage kids want to party! And they need to learn about...
• Commented on To the anonymous gay teen who asked for help in a Boing Boing comment thread
  To clarify, what I mean when I say 18 is too late to start is that it's too late to START. There is no need to have boyfriends or gilfriends much earlier on, but at least the kid should feel...
• Commented on To the anonymous gay teen who asked for help in a Boing Boing comment thread
  "Thanks, but I had my first boyfriend at 19. I'm doing OK." Well, I had my first 'encounter', for better word, at 17. And I'm not doing OK. I was never forbidden to do it earlier but I was discouraged...
• Commented on To the anonymous gay teen who asked for help in a Boing Boing comment thread
  "Yeah, but girls get these restrictions all the time *because we're girls.*" Now that's an exaggeration, I think, I've met very few girls who were forbidden to have boyfriends or leave the house until age 18, and if so that...
• Commented on To the anonymous gay teen who asked for help in a Boing Boing comment thread
  This isn't about letting the kid have sex...of course he shouldn't, at 13! But his post implies that his parents only imposed the restrictions upon finding out he was gay. I guess if they were just as strict before, it's...
• Commented on To the anonymous gay teen who asked for help in a Boing Boing comment thread
  Dear Anonymous, Hang in there. Try not to end up hating your parents- they've been dealt a very difficult thing to understand. Maybe they will never understand, but hopefully they will learn to accept and respect it. Christianity is about...
• Commented on Danish anti-piracy group gives up
  Hey, I thought pointing out that it was a quote was useful, since Cory was already catching crap for a mistake that wasn't his...(but he should have used (sic), I agree). As to the article itself, I'm on the fence...
• Commented on Vampire/otherkin/energy worker Meetup in San Francisco
  It's not about winning or losing sides, for me at least. I would like to give all beliefs equal respect, but unfortunately that is not possible. Even if we assume all beliefs that have not been proven beyond doubt...
• Commented on Vampire/otherkin/energy worker Meetup in San Francisco
  Oh, I don't care. If they are happy believing it, good for them. I just avoid people like that because I have a hard time responding respectfully to their beliefs when they seem so close to delusions. And just because...
• Commented on What MP3 player should I buy?
  Ipods are DRM-free except you can't take what you put on the ipod back to your hard drive...not officially, anyway. A truly DRM-free device would support two-way traffic. I can't recommend anything in particular but I would say, be careful...
• Commented on Vampire/otherkin/energy worker Meetup in San Francisco
  People who actually believe they're Elves etc. Not pretend- believe. Big difference here. I am not skeptical enough to discount the possibility of the existence of vampires and other supernatural creatures, but the annoying thing about Otherkin is that for...
• Commented on Danish anti-piracy group gives up
  Cory is a writer, but that was a quote from someone called Christian, so not his fault....
• Commented on Google Wave as an RPG environment
  Yes!!! That is the main reason I'm excited about Wave. GoogleDocs revolutionised the RP process for my friends and me. We don't roll dice, we just write the story together. The simultaneous editing in GDocs put an end to accidental...
• Commented on Council bans parents from play areas
  Bcsizemo, I meant to say that whether they have a phone or not, it's much easier for a kid in trouble to contact a grown-up they trust today than it would have been when I was younger. :) Good point...
• Commented on Awesome gamer-geek lesbian wedding
  I think that will come, but in time, when gay marriage will become legal in more places and people who never thought past marriage meaning man+woman will no longer find it an incredibly odd thing that gay people can and...
• Commented on Council bans parents from play areas
  Uh, yes, sure, except what kind of abuse-prone parent brings their kid to a playground to do the crime? I wonder what 'in today's climate means'. Are there more pedophiles and kidnappers around these days, or are we just more...
• Commented on Awesome gamer-geek lesbian wedding
  Hmm, but you know, when you use the word 'lesbian' in a headline like this, it can have a very positive effect. Since homosexuality and especially non-hetero weddings are still not entirely out of the taboo category, boldly attaching the...
• Commented on Awesome gamer-geek lesbian wedding
  I find it valid information that it's a lesbian wedding, that way I know I'm looking at a photo of two brides, and not a bunch of bridesmaids, for example. It's good journalism to give relevant details....
• Commented on How to memorialize friends who have passed away on Facebook
  Wait, so it's not the next of kin's decision? Anyone can do it? That's really stupid....
• Commented on Father kidnaps daughter's killer
  Does this count as citizen's arrest?...
• Commented on Futuristic workspace looks like a dinosaur egg
  Creepy and worrying. I doubt I'm the only one suffering from 'never sit with your back to the door' paranoia, and this is even worse as it obscures your view completely. You actually have to get up every time you...
• Commented on Nokia sues Apple over iPhone
  "The illustration is clearly part-iphone, part-n96. If you couldn't tell it was a deliberate composite of the two ("this photo has been photoshopped!!!!!") then perhaps it makes a stronger point than I expected!" Or perhaps phones produced by different companies...
• Commented on Kfetch
  Pfffft if these are racist, how about those comments in the Sikh turban post? I get the same feeling as Jayel Aheram up there. What's wrong with letting kids dress up as other cultures? Without context given by the person...
• Commented on Comic strip explains World Wars in five minutes
  American propaganda? As someone who routinely has to remind my US acquaintances that it was not Uncle Sam but the Soviets who chased the Germans out of my country, I felt that comic put it pretty fairly. The only suggestion...
• Commented on Comic strip explains World Wars in five minutes
  What the heck is that comment about Mark's surname supposed to mean?? O_o Hilarious strip, though of course it simplifies things, but I think it was meant for fun, not as a substitute for history books. Personally I find even...