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Commented on Canadian border guards want to be sure that foreign journalists don't criticise Vancouver Olympics
So a lot of "me toos" but any idea what we Canadians can do about this?...
Commented on Guards are the worst prison-rapists
"Sexual abuse...also carries the potential to devastate the lives of victims." Written almost like an afterthought. I think good form dictates that one lists the impact on the victim, even if it means stating the obvious. ``A plane carrying 230...
Commented on Obama's "reset button" metaphor: which is more correct, "restart," "reboot," or "reset"?
Hep Cat: Often if a power button is present, but only puts the device in "sleep mode", then you can override the hung device by holding the button in for several seconds, which triggers a lower-level interrupt or something. In...
Commented on Vintage Ram's Head Coffee Table
General Specific: Without ears, it would be creepy, of course....
Commented on Donald Duck: "The Plastics Inventor" (1944)
@Sysiphus: I think An American Tail is somehow anti-communist propaganda, but I haven't gotten around to watching it as an adult to make sure =)...
Commented on David After Dentist (aka Kid on Drugs), the remixes
Did anyone see him scream and think http://thegrandnarrative.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/bat-boy.jpg ?...
Commented on Funding art with "unethical" investments
Pornography money? Wikipedia anyone?...
Commented on This is not William Shakespeare's head
I obviously fail for thinking it had anything to do with the Simpsons....
Commented on Austin teacher threatens to sic cops on Linux group because "No software is free"
The teacher seems to be complaining about two things here. One, the implication that piracy had occurred, and two, the implication that Linux is somehow inferior. If either of these criticisms were a sure thing, why include the other? Why...
Commented on Religion and nanotechnology
People who have faith in something they can't see don't have faith in something they can't see?...
Commented on Why Candyland doesn't suck
Wait, this has nothing to do with the trial of Colonel Sweeto?...
Commented on Turkey-shaped Jell-O® Mold: 2008 Competition
Satan's turkey? Tur*ucken? A new term is required....
Commented on HOWTO turn a banana into a no-spoon baby-meal
Unless you yourself enjoys a little mashed banana in the middle of the day, I suggest bringing the spoon along. Otherwise this would be quite wasteful when you end up throwing out 80% of the sloppy banana because no one...
Commented on Lessig: YouTube takedown shows why fair use isn't enough
I disagree with Biscuit4's opinion, but I will defend his or her right to say it....
Commented on TED Prize for photojournalist James Nachtwey
A better link is here: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/james_nachtwey_s_searing_pictures_of_war.html From here you can watch the high res version or do whatever floats your boat....
Commented on Finnish ISP thinks W3C.org is a child-porn site
#4, a bit of a catch-22, don't you think. If you were in the position of that dumb ass, you'd be doing an awful lot of looking. And you'd die a little inside every time. I'm not sure how the...
Commented on Rare MLK speech on civil disobedience
I accidentally listened to a good bit of the first half before realizing it was from 2002....
Commented on Rooibos tea made with espresso machine
I went through a while where I would "aggressively steep" my Rooibos for 6 hours or so. Since it doesn't become bitter like black tea, you can get wonderful flavours out of it that just don't appear after the usual...
Commented on Houston food banks need your help
#1, #5: Are you implying that Texans were condemning a group of people based on little more than the collective identity of that group? Yeah, maybe those Texans deserve what they get... ...stare into the Abyss and the Abyss stares...
Commented on Jill Greenberg's Photoshopped McCain out-takes
#55 mdh: I'm sorry if I came across that way. I was just advocating for some tolerance towards the intolerable, but I've hijacked this thread enough already....
Commented on Jill Greenberg's Photoshopped McCain out-takes
#28, Antinous: I guess what is considered "contentless shrieking" is a matter of taste, but this is an internet discussion forum, and pretending that it's a budget meeting only leads to madness. I think I explained this fairly well in...
Commented on Jill Greenberg's Photoshopped McCain out-takes
Trigger happy much? The fact that #13's post got censored is disconcerting. I've been reading boingboing more frequently lately and have had the chance of seeing posts before they get disemvoweled. I can see the point of it, but some...
Commented on Naples Mafia selling poison bread, Chinese adding melamine powder to infant formula
The second case sounds more like incompetence than malice......
Commented on Sarah Palin: spammer and digital secrecy scofflaw.
Palin...Stalin... coincidence? I think not! *dons asbestos underpants*...
Commented on Elective surgery to increase height
@ #2: "Saw a segment", eh? Geesh!...
Commented on HOWTO divide a freezer-bag into individual servings before freezing
#6: Ditch the squares and simply divide it into narrow rows. This should be fine for ground meat. Although I'd feel pretty funny defrosting such a meat popsicle....
Commented on Truth about teleportation
@ Tom (27) The argument you make is a bit nitpicky and doesn't address discernability. If you want, consider two scenarios: a) you give me an electron, and I let it hitch a ride on a spaceship to the moon,...
Commented on Truth about teleportation
@ Charlie Lesoine, and others You said: "Yes, but no matter what, they are still two different electrons". I have to emphasize that this thinking is not correct, according to modern understanding of quantum field theory (of nature, in general)....
Commented on Truth about teleportation
As someone with some training in the subject, I would like to add that fundamental particles of the same type are indistinguishable, which is a technical term meaning that swapping two particles has no effect on the system. I would...
Commented on Lazyweb: Bitmap to Vector?
There's a adobe illustrator version over here: http://vektordb.lafkon.net/index.php?id=132 Sadly I can't open AI files so I can't say if it is any good. (found on wikipedia)...

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McMe commented on Canadian border guards want to be sure that foreign journalists don't criticise Vancouver Olympics
I was going to speak about a few experiences with Canaddian guards compared to USA guards but then I realized that we are really fooling ourselves, I mean they are guards. People who have dedcided that "yes I want to do this job that allows me, no makes me suspcious of of people". And I believe it comes as no surprise that they do the bidding of the political will of the time and are not some judicial entity free of the moores of the cutlure....
mdh commented on Canadian border guards want to be sure that foreign journalists don't criticise Vancouver Olympics
For some reason I just do not believe you. Maybe it's the lack of citation. Maybe it's the anonymous comment. Maybe it's that I could find no evidence of what you say on my own. Maybe it's just my bu******t detector....
oneonethreefour commented on Canadian border guards want to be sure that foreign journalists don't criticise Vancouver Olympics
You can't be serious. Your "bull***t detector" is way out of tune, homeboy. Take a look at any media from Vancouver regarding the 2010 olympics, mainstream or not, and you'll find a story about corruption, about intimidation, and about gentrification. Try looking, you'll like it....
OrcOnTheEndOfMyFork commented on Canadian border guards want to be sure that foreign journalists don't criticise Vancouver Olympics
Honestly, I don't know who Canada is anymore. It's certainly not the people I grew up with. Yeah, I know the feeling. I look at the U.S. and see them renditioning middle-eastern looking people to be tortured, running a gulag called Guantanamo, preventing people from flying because their name resembles one on a "no-fly list" which has no oversight, explanation, or appeals process. It's like I don't even know you anymore....
Tzctlp commented on Canadian border guards want to be sure that foreign journalists don't criticise Vancouver Olympics
I was in Vancouver for the Triathlon World Cup last year, and I have to say, I wasn't impressed. They got many basic details about organization wrong (including the corny closing ceremony, that was more like a primary school's end of term festival). It was so bad that one triathlon had to become a duathlon due to bad weather conditions, but the same day in the afternoon the weather was fine and would have allowed the competition, they simply didn't have a plan B in place. Vancouverites were excellent hosts, people there are unusually chatty, but the town was let...

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