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Commented on Fantastic faux-floor illusions
The bathroom floor would have to be lighted for that to work - but if you were willing to spend some bucks on it, it would be pretty cool....
Commented on Secret copyright treaty leaks. It's bad. Very bad.
With all due respect, only people from large cities could possibly consider this a viable solution....
Commented on Congressional record exposes military officers to identity theft, covers up
Stars and Stripes really does advocate for the military community even when the government screws up. I've been similarly surprised in the past....
Commented on Lost paper trail allows borrower to ignore $460,000 mortgage debt
Now I feel like a sucker for paying cash for my house. Thanks a lot, BB!...
Commented on Sleeping Beauty cosplayers at the aquarium
Good Lord; that's so nice I actually thought it was a painting. I'm still not convinced it's not......
Commented on What if James Dean had lived?
#22, but what if he'd made it to 87? Maybe he was right on the verge of something even bigger!...
Commented on Lightning fast robot hand
Holy SHIT that thing used TWEEZERS!!! I have never been - and I say this with absolute literal intent - so amazed by anything I've seen on the Internet in my life. My jaw literally dropped, and I always thought...
Commented on James D. Griffioen's photos of Detroit, "the disappearing city"
Those vintage houses are lovely. I've bought one in Richmond, Indiana (for $8000! 14 rooms! apartment in the carriage house!) and am doing my best not to let it molder like Detroit. They're built like ... well, I guess I...
Commented on Donny and Marie do Star Wars
Dig it? I freaking remember it!...
Commented on Funny contrafactual animal song for kids
This makes me want to have another kid, just to show them this in a couple of years when they'd really appreciate it. My youngest is 10 now -- he'll like it, but not like a toddler would. Jackie31337 --...
Commented on Noisy neighbors were musical card
AHAHAHHAAHAHAHA! HAHAAHA! That man would be dead in minutes from noisy neighbor overload if he set foot in Puerto Rico....
Commented on Best Government Flak Quote of The Week
Best. BoingBoing thread. Ever....
Commented on London cops mug tourist for his bus-station photos
They used to do this sort of thing at Italian border crossings. Hmm. Come to think of it, they used to come down pretty heavy on photography at the Austria/Hungarian border crossing just east of Vienna, if memory serves. Man,...
Commented on Snoop Dogg's Live Webshow on Ustream
I just watched a guy on TV talking on the phone to somebody explaining that he was on live TV and the other guy on the phone could go watch it. Xeni, this is freaking weird. I think you're right....
Commented on The Dark Side of Dubai
Damn. That's a heck of an article. It says a lot that this is the model our own ruling class aspires to, doesn't it?...
Commented on Long-secret Red Cross Report Says Medical Workers Helped US Torture Terror Suspects
Drip, drip, drip......
Commented on Man detained, threatened and abused by TSA for flying with $4700 in cash
I sold a car in Puerto Rico once and was paid in twenties. Still in the bank wrappers, in case you were wondering whether it was drug money, ha. Yes, $6000 does indeed make a satisfyingly large wad of twenties....
Commented on Carpal Tunnel Syndrome exercises that really work
See, if stretches help best before the pain starts, that's why you need a physicist. You people need to be helped to everything....
Commented on Own an English village
Is Colin Boast one of the two blacksmiths for sale?...
Commented on Fox's Glenn Beck says Obama is building concentration camps for Republicans
Glenn has confused "concentration camp" with "mental health facility" -- he's obviously got his own tickets booked....
Commented on Mental_floss' step-by-step guide to destroying civilization with nanotechnology
Nature did do it, at least once. There's a reason we breathe toxic oxygen, after all....
Commented on Video of shell-less egg one of my chickens laid
You city people. Of course you can mail-order chickens, and bees, and all kinds of useful stuff. Live trees, live animals. Sea monkeys! Although come to think of it, we always just ordered fertile eggs and put them in an...
Commented on Manchester man arrested for alleged sewer-grate photography, held as a terrorist
mrkiscaden @26 - I'll go you one more than that one. In 2005, my daughter and I were watching TV in a European country and they had a little feature where you could SMS to a number and your message...
Commented on Secrets of orange juice
Holy schemoley, now I know why the juice I make here at home is good and the boxed stuff isn't. I just never thought that Tropicana would be lying to me. (I really wish I could say that the above...
Commented on Unusual phone offered on eBay
I ... uh ... well, that is -- I see no reason to believe it's a hermaphrodite. I think this is a scam....
Commented on Researchers develop handy phrasebook for people who travel in time to the Stone Age
Also, Troofseeker #21, primates can talk fine. It's just that as soon as the pesky things get the power of symbolic representation of complex concepts, they explode out of their niche and cause a planetary ecological catastrophe in a mere...
Commented on Researchers develop handy phrasebook for people who travel in time to the Stone Age
I like the wacky assumption inherent in the quoted article's phrase, "Using a new supercomputer by IBM," as though hardware came equipped with everything you need to analyze historical languages. Presumably you clear your throat and say, "Computer, please analyze...
Commented on Unusual plush bank for sale at Walgreens in Puerto Rico
That's the Walgreens in Isla Verde, I'll betcha. They have everything there. We got all our Christmas lights there this year. I bought my favorite panama hat there. MDH @48 - Puerto Rico is part of the United States, but...
Commented on Christian Bale takes David to the Dentist (video mashup)
I'm disappointed in the level of disappointment expressed in Vetlemakt's comment. I really think the expression of disapproval in BoingBoing's comment section lately has been slipping, and it just doesn't feel like the wonderful disappointment we used to get back...
Commented on No-fly list: $100 million a year pissed away
Takuan @6 - no, that $100 megabuck figure is actually total cost, including an estimate of the cost to the consumer of false positives, fighting false positives, flight diversions, and so on. Actual personnel expense estimates range from $7.5 million/year...

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AndreiMincov commented on Secret copyright treaty leaks. It's bad. Very bad.
Adoption of ACTA would actually be the most important step in the development of the Internet. The danger of collapse of the copyright and IPR system as we know it is much greater than any potential "benefit" to the society that global piracy provides. There is no other efficient way to curtail piracy on the Internet but with cooperation of ISPs. I hope the signatory countries go further and provide that after the expiration of a grace period, countries that will NOT become party to ACTA, would be disconnected from the global Internet. Technically, it is much easier task than...
Antinous / Moderator commented on Secret copyright treaty leaks. It's bad. Very bad.
I hope the signatory countries go further and provide that after the expiration of a grace period, countries that will NOT become party to ACTA, would be disconnected from the global Internet. I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure....
Laurel L. Russwurm commented on Secret copyright treaty leaks. It's bad. Very bad.
The internet could be the mechanism to make for real democracy, possibly even the first step toward the unified world dreamed of in early science fiction. Instead the powerful old guard tries to legislate a giant step backward so they can confine technology in a box they control. If these powers of darkness win, the world we wake up in one day won't be George Orwell's bleak but elegant 1984, but rather the sad buffoonery of "Idiocracy" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/) Sadly it looks like governments are bending over backwards to do the bidding of powerful corporations, essentially turning themselves into a collection...
forfreedom commented on Secret copyright treaty leaks. It's bad. Very bad.
This would be the death of the internet as we know it. I feel like these are things that you would see in one of those futuristic movies where the government has way too much power. These ideas, although not concrete, are perfect examples of the ridiculous evolution of copyright laws that we have seen in the last decade and continue to see. We are obviously in a digital age. Instead of spending so much time attacking the digital pirates, industries need to find a way to creatively adapt instead of bullying individuals with legal scare tactics. They are wasting...
biggdogg commented on Extract silver from ore, win $10,000,000
sounds kinda sketchy tell me how to do and we will give you ten mil?? check is in the mail right?? seems to me you have ten mil to give away certainly you have the money to purchase crushing equipment right? we have the key to unlock the silver for real but we need to know what kind of crushing unit you are using access to chemicals also concerns on crushing silica we are willing to travel all expenses paid ?...

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