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• Commented on Traffic cameras used to harass and limit movement of peaceful protestors
  As an ex-patriate British subject, this and the story of fascist internet regulation are very saddening. It's time for pirate radio again....
• Commented on Al Franken talks an anti-healthcare-reform mob down
  At 5:40 the lady in the teapot teeshirt starts self-soothing rocking. Her wah-wah is going away....
• Commented on TIME on unsustainable farming practices
  Sheesh. If trolling produced food, I'd never be hungry again. Agribusiness - the agricultural production system in the United States and many parts of the world - is a collection of processes for converting OIL into FOOD. In this system,...
• Commented on French cops use racial profiling for stop and search
  This is an improvement for the French Police: on October 17, 1961, in Paris, they used "racial profiling" to round up 11,000 Arabs to detain most of them for a week at various stadia. They shot some to death (only...
• Commented on British cops deliver Catch 22 to photographers: you're not allowed to know which areas you're not allowed to photograph
  Takuan @ 41: Banksy street signs! Circular, white background, red boundary, iconic SLR in black with a diagonal red slash. "Photographers will be prosecuted - Video surveillance in progress." "CAUTION: EXCESSIVE LOOKING IS A CRIME."...
• Commented on British cops deliver Catch 22 to photographers: you're not allowed to know which areas you're not allowed to photograph
  @Timmothy Hutton: I see that my earlier comment was ambiguous. I was born in Camden Town and lived there for thirty years. I know about the size of the city. it's the strategic and symbolic irrelevance of so much of...
• Commented on British cops deliver Catch 22 to photographers: you're not allowed to know which areas you're not allowed to photograph
  Occam says: there is no list. It's a question of "discretion" - in other words, they just make it up as they go along. I mean - the entire City of London is a "sensitive" area? Bonkers....
• Commented on Obama Reverses Promise to Release Detainee Torture Photos
  I'm not going to argue whether the photographs should be published or not. rindan @7: Admit that in the past you have acted like a bastard, say you are sorry, and then try and not hand over any more PR...
• Commented on London cops catch and search a potential terrorist every three minutes
  The stop-and-search laws known as the "Suss laws" which contributed to the Brixton and Toxteth riots of 1980-81 were repealed following Lord Scarman's inquiry, because they contributed to the tension between the police and the communities they were really meant...
• Commented on London cops reach new heights of anti-terror poster stupidity
  The Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, was interviewed on BBC Newshour today (http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/p002frx8 - starting around 34m30s). Early in the interview, she says: ...We have a program of work to prevent people turning to violent extremism and supporting terrorism in the...
• Commented on Parent of gamer asks his son to honor the Geneva Conventions
  Cory@2, Zuzu@53: My first thought was that PShafer was Dr. Bill Frist, moonlighting. He is rightly famous for his remote diagnosis of Terri Schiavo....
• Commented on UK to introduce "photograph a cop, 10 years in jail" law
  I bet they don't have laws like this in Calitomia. And I read that Arnerica is still the land of the tree....
• Commented on Power adapter "Designed by Apple in Calitomia"
  Do they still sing "Arnerica the Beaufitul" in Calitomia?...
• Commented on Power adapter "Designed by Apple in Calitomia"
  I would love to move to Calitomia and get a good job designing knock-off products......
• Commented on Barack Obama, Gitmo, and the Casio Watch
  Thebes @3, Stumo @8: there are copies of what is said to be a final draft of the EO, that says that all the detainees' cases will be reviewed by a panel of members of the cabinet, and they'll be...
• Commented on All Whole Earth publications online
  2wheels @ 8: I read DR's trip as a teen, soon after reading Catcher in the Rye. I had no idea this was how it took form. What's the story of Krassner's Tongue Fu, though? As I flip through looking...
• Commented on Obama Selects Nobel Prize Winning Nerd for Energy Chief
  This is a very encouraging choice. 1. He will not last, because what he says we must do and how we need to do it will be unpalatable. 2. I'm sorry we can't see the slides. 3. If you click...
• Commented on 1958 TV show on Global Warming
  Produced by Frank Capra? Damn! where's the rest of the show?...
• Commented on Metal plates send messages to airport x-ray screeners
  I like "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?"...
• Commented on Caligula for President: Better American Living Through Tyranny
  Every time I see 'ad nauseum', I feel a little nausea. It's not a vomit museum, it's 'ad nauseam', or until you want to hurl from dizziness....
• Commented on Oral history of the Whole Earth Catalog
  The first time I went to San Francisco, in the mid-90's, the Whole Earth Store was a mandatory stop. There were stacks of Levi's jeans and lots of electronics. I expected wood stoves and dome components; instead of hippy, yippie...
• Commented on Against Ben Stein's wishes, lizards rapidly evolve after introduction to island
  The changes the biologists report are similar in kind to the changes Dawkins had software for in The Blind Watchmaker. It is evolution....
• Commented on Against Ben Stein's wishes, lizards rapidly evolve after introduction to island
  The changes the biologists report are similar in kind to the changes Dawkins had software for in The Blind Watchmaker. It is evolution....
• Commented on Photo of honor system at bookstore in Ojai, CA
  The newspaper kiosk at the north end of the town hall in Orford, Suffolk also uses an honor system, and has done for many years....
• Commented on Anti-ecstasy/meth antibodies
  @8: Yay for Puritanical, Calvinist beliefs. That's a little too much enthusiasm, jso - settle down, settle down....
• Commented on Meraki free mesh WiFi network spreading across San Francisco
  @14, followup: The furore over Meraki's repricing and other tactics - which include forcing firmware updates on users which prevent users with existing licenses from hacking the hardware in ways which are allowed under their licenses - has surfaced on...
• Commented on Amsterdam currency exchangers won't take US dollars
  There is a real upside to devaluing the currency: it devalues the national debts. All those creditors overseas count what they lent us as assets, and in their eyes the assets are becoming worth less. At the same time, what...
• Commented on Ultra-minimalist political flyer, Los Angeles
  I drove around Pasadena for several months with a sheet of letter-size paper in the rear window of my car. It said: WORSE THAN NIXON Some gave me thumbs up, and others the shaft - yes: like the press once...
• Commented on Nevar Fergit! 1-31-07.
  I don't get it. What does this have to do with haircuts?...
• Commented on MPAA admits to lying about college downloading
  It took much longer for tobacco's attorneys to fess up. Why would the MPAA do this now? TFA says "the U.S. motion picture industry lost $6.1 billion to piracy worldwide, with most of the losses overseas", which suggests they'd like...