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Commented on Sarah Palin Parking Lot
There is a large white working class in the US that has many legitimate grievances with the system they're find themselves in. They are rightly pissed off. Rightly so. These people are the group that would arguably benefit most from...
Commented on The 100 greatest quotes from The Wire
Yeah, it's pretty close to life like that....
Commented on Labels may be losing money, but artists are making more than ever
> I am not convinced there is much money to be made for the kinds of bands who might attract 40-50 people along to a club These bands or musicians will always exist. They will not stop making music. They're...
Commented on Advisor: Are you an Internet addict?
Wow, I got a 46 on that test, even though I did the more-honest-than-honest thing and ticked every box +1 of what I was going to tick in the first place....
Commented on Slow News: designing reflection and contemplation into the news-cycle
Opinion pieces?...
Commented on China: real-life fashion police crack down on public pajama-wearers
Ladies and gentlemen, thread winner....
Commented on DodgeDot - fun iPhone game
That sounds and looks like Eliss. How do the two compare? http://www.toucheliss.com/...
Commented on Gadget reviews: ZuneHD, Lenovo S12 netbook and Umid's Mbook pocket PC.
You know, I'm certainly no fan of itunes and the Zune HD has some impressive hardware, but I'm going to call bullshit on this right here: "I've never really liked the iTunes interface, and two of my friends have recently...
Commented on 27" iMac rules Apple's new gear
Adam: I hear the antenna placement is different, which is why reception should be better. MIMO has been part of the AE for almost two years, apparently: http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2007/01/09apextreme.html...
Commented on Sf for young readers booklist
Tonke Dragt - Torenhoog en Mijlenbreed (for our Dutch readers. Voted one of the most engaging ya books, according to Wikipedia.)...
Commented on Internet brownouts, pay-per-byte, and other doom-claims of anti-Neutrality "researchers"
*our...
Commented on Internet brownouts, pay-per-byte, and other doom-claims of anti-Neutrality "researchers"
1) propose net inequality fees 2) get shot down with net neutrality laws 3) bill the customer: "Since we must provide a neutral net, are costs are higher; see, we now do not get the fees from the content providers!...
Commented on Ralph Lauren fires photo-chopped model for being too big
Yeah but the French are socialist cowards, remember. Very un-American....
Commented on What's wrong with Search Engine Optimization
The main argument pro SEO seems to be that website owners don't have the time to gain knowledge about how SEO works and how they can influence their page rank by editing their sites, or by building a better site....
Commented on In praise of IBM ThinkPad warranty service
Slightly off-topic: "My local Apple auth'd repair centre was not able to give me a new battery until after they had sent off the dud one to Apple." Resellers will do that, but if you call Apple directly, they can...
Commented on Swedish children demand end to gender stereotypes in Toys R Us catalog
#1: or perhaps it's a statement about the level of education and critical thinking Swedish schools bless their students with. Instead of, you know, intelligent design or something....
Commented on Is Apple's tablet a kindle-killer?
Nate, I'm sorry to disappoint but "consumers" want no such thing. They want what's being sold to them. I understand that you (and I!) want all those things you list, but it's not in the manufacturer's best interest - the...
Commented on HOWTO flout the flavored tobacco ban and make DIY homemade clove cigarettes
@1 This may be unsubstantiated, but I read somewhere (citation needed) that smokers die so young that it offsets the hospitalization costs they will incur. In other words, their addiction keeps them from costing a lot once they get old...
Commented on Would you be happy with metered internet in return for enforced net neutrality?
Airpillo: that was sarcasm. Sorry. Also, the question: Would you be happy with metered internet in return for enforced net neutrality? I didn't know that was a choice we need to take? Right now, we have unlimited access to the...
Commented on Lily Allen's copyright problem
And from the girl's twitter stream: "food is free too, if you walk into a shop and steal it." http://twitter.com/lilyroseallen/status/4029017656 Jesus, not that tired argument again. Cory is right about this, she's just not informed enough to form a decent...
Commented on Lily Allen's copyright problem
According to Allen, this is Matt Bellamy of Muse speaking: Lily My current opinion is that file sharing is now the norm. This cannot be changed without an attack on perceived civil liberties which will never go down well. The...
Commented on Would you be happy with metered internet in return for enforced net neutrality?
Stifle innovation? As opposed to the current situation, where the USA is the clear world leader in broadband internet and cellular networking? I don't know if it's the same over there as it is in Europe, but we get very...
Commented on His Freeman's Voice: <em>Half-Life 2</em>, the beat-box version
What this movie clip needs is less emo music. The mod makes me want to re-install Windows on my machine though. Badly....
Commented on One shot: 3D <em>Tetris</em>
sc_wolf, I had the hardest time at first, and it takes some getting used to. The trick for me was to get up close and watch two similar points. In the above picture, it worked for me with two of...
Commented on Three new App store games worth checking out
Also, links?...
Commented on Boing Boing's September 11, 2001 archives.
Believe it or not, I was playing counterstrike when the towers were hit. Terrorists against police, how fitting. Someone in the comments told us what was going on, I thought he was bullshitting us. I guess the terrorists won that...
Commented on Tweet (#3811846707)
Non sequitur, or the link is wrong....
Commented on Review: Sennheiser's IE8 noise-isolating headphones
Roboton: you're right, science is needed when comparing audio stuff, or we go into voodoo land. I think the point Bugs was trying to make was that in this particular review, words were being used that are less-than-scientific. I realise...
Commented on Snow Leopard ate my data
I guess 90% of commenters above didn't read the part where she was back up and running inside of three hours, no data lost. Sure, not on the new OS, but then again, computers are made to work, not to...
Commented on Free download: tribute to The Clash's Sandinista!
Good grief, I distinctly remember posting that as anonymous, captcha and all. My account must have been hacked!...

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jimt commented on Sarah Palin Parking Lot
Ah. Of course. I'm sure all of you plugged your ears and hummed loudly when a similar film was being kicked around the internet containing interviews of Obama supporters. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm1KOBMg1Y8 Exact same strategy, different political affiliation. But I'm sure you'll all find reasons why the video above is "different". For a group of "intellectuals", I sure don't see a lot of open-mindedness around here....
Kimmo commented on Sarah Palin Parking Lot
Wait a minute, didn't we have a big discussion about authoritarianism and people that cannot or will not think for themselves recently? Well, these people are examples of authoritarian followers.Damn straight. "I dunno what the hell I'm endorsing, but she has a nice smile. And BTW my opinion's worth as much as anyone's." If there was a way to separate and exterminate these mindless drones, that's a genocide I could get behind. ...You might think that's a tad harsh, or that I didn't mean it. Well I happen to believe it's the intellectual contamination by such malfunctioning units that's primarily...
Xopher commented on Sarah Palin Parking Lot
OK, dude, you crazy. You want a policy of killing off social undesirables? What happens to that policy next time the Rethuglicans get in power? You think you'll escape the gas chambers? I don't think I will, so even without any scrap of the humanity which, of course, would utterly prohibit any such plan, I mislike your plan....
crashgrab commented on Sarah Palin Parking Lot
Education, not extermination....
jimt commented on Sarah Palin Parking Lot
Well, I don't believe I ever said I was an intellectual. I mostly agree with your mutual exclusivity rule, which I guess means that BB readers are not open-minded, simply intellectual, which leaves me as the open-minded unintellectual. I just find it amazing that it's the same tactic being used over and over and over again. Both parties contain uneducated people, and if you film enough of them, you'll find some shining examples. Making the common man look like an imbecile is easy, just ask Michael Moore....

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