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• Commented on Venezuela bans violent video games: a first-person guest essay
  I should like to remind people that the drive to ban violent video games (and before that: comic books) to free our youth of peril also exists in freedom-loving non-socialist countries like the US of A. None less that Hillary...
• Commented on Yahoo hires lap-dancers to entertain at its open, inclusive Hack Day event
  @GaryGibson: Now *that's* an interesting input to the discussion: Actual experience and knowledge. Please follow up to this of you can :-)...
• Commented on Yahoo hires lap-dancers to entertain at its open, inclusive Hack Day event
  While I agree that Yahoo's dispositions are not too appropriate for this kind of event, I think we should go easy on the moral outrage here. Yahoo! "hire sex workers"? Come on - sex workers are people and need to...
• Commented on Freakonomics Sequel Gets Climate Change Wrong
  C02 levels have risen from 275 ppm around 1800 to about 275 ppm in 2000 Hrmmpf, good ole tyoe. Should have been 375 in 2000, of course....
• Commented on Freakonomics Sequel Gets Climate Change Wrong
  Another thing: C02 levels have risen from 275 ppm around 1800 to about 275 ppm in 2000. This increase is rather dramatic and believed to be mainly man-made. It IS accompanied by a dramatic increase in temperature, as would be...
• Commented on Freakonomics Sequel Gets Climate Change Wrong
  kiloseven: "Atmospheric CO2 by no means matches temperature" Doesn't it, now? This figure shows temparature fluctuations (lower graph) and CO2 content (upper graph) for the last 600 years based on samples taken by drilling in Greenland's inland ice: http://www.modspil.dk/images/adobe-readerscreensnapz009.jpg I'd...
• Commented on Freakonomics Sequel Gets Climate Change Wrong
  If you don't understand why increasing levels of CO2 can be a problem when considering global warming but need to rely on the say-so of a scientist to decide whether CO2 is a "bad guy" or not, then you shouldn't...
• Commented on Esoteric classics: a list of books
  Hrmmph, the first link came off rather badly. Here's the link to A.E.'s poems @ Bartleby: http://bartleby.com/253/...
• Commented on Esoteric classics: a list of books
  Talking about A.E., you can read his beautiful Candle of Vision , and you can find most of his best poems at Bartleby. And here's a number of his paintings: http://www.modspil.dk/billeder/celtic_light.html Also interesting is W. B. Yeats' The Celtic Twilight,...
• Commented on Esoteric classics: a list of books
  As for insights into the "occult" or supernatural or the "world behind the world", or however you want to phrase it, a lot of the ostensibly "occult" writings are gibberish. For real touching insights I'd suggest Irish poet A.E., also...
• Commented on American woman marries auto-rickshaw driver
  Nice. I think maybe somebody's been seeing too much Salaam-e-Ishq. But at the end of the day, more power to them! Hope they get a happy marriage. And if not, pyaar kiya to darna kyaa, to ......
• Commented on Are Muslim Women Oppressed? Ask One
  I'm surprised and somewhat saddened by the amount of Muslim-bashing provoked by the mere (trivial) mention of hijabs and modest bathing suits. I'm also encouraged by all the more enlightened posts, but would all the bashers please get a grip:...
• Commented on Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Burqini
  It's predictable and sad that this burqini post should turn into prejudiced hijab-bashing. The veil and/or modest dress is very definitely actively chosen by millions of Muslim women, and many regard it as a highly personal choice which is not...
• Commented on Gary McKinnon: Wanted, Dead or Alive (Guest opinion/Oxblood Ruffin)
  Rob Beschizza: He may actually be going to federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison for the rest of his life, if he's convicted as charged: Mr. McKinnon was charged in the United States with seven counts of computer fraud at ten years per...
• Commented on Twitpocalypse: "Open Source Twitter" proposed as antidote to Twitter's DDOS vulnerability
  The centralism of Web 2.0 is a problem and always will be a problem. The dominance of Google, Twitter, Flickr etc make them a single point of failure, and - as we have seen in China, *and* in Western countries...
• Commented on Skype's future unknown as intellectual property battle between founders and eBay continues.
  Yet another example why all infrastructure should be based on open standards and free software. Proprietary protocols like Skype is soooo 1990....
• Commented on Free: a great book, but it's missing the truly free
  #3 Halloween Jack, Anderson owned up to the unattributed material, and his explanation is plausible. I think that's an unfortunate mistake, a real screwup, which he *has* owned up to, and which I'd let pass in the "shit happens when...
• Commented on Free: a great book, but it's missing the truly free
  There is also the whole Free as in Freedom question - meaning, a lot of free information, as in Flickr or Wikipedia, is actually free in the sense "free to do with it what you want, in a world where...
• Commented on Britain's loony rules for artist visas embarrass festival organizers
  You may not, but it is a problem for poor and working class citizens, especially minorities ... Seriously guys, referring to #72 and #41: If you want protection from wages-dumping from foreign unskilled labour then what you need to do...
• Commented on Rushkoff: "Google's War On The PC"
  So how does this work out from a software freedom perspective? If my computer is just a dummy for the real stuff going on in web apps, then who gets all the control? In other words, (l)user are shafted and...
• Commented on Massive bank fraud in massively multiplayer game EVE
  Hmm ... but the balance on the virtual bank's account is just a record in a database. Why doesn't the game's provider just change it back to the value it had before the money was embezzled, and problem solved? It's...
• Commented on UK keeps mandatory ID cards for foreigners
  @BUGS &c, #4 and #5: Yes - alas, civil liberties doesn't seem to be too much of a political case in the UK right now. It should be in the foreground: - NO ID cards, with or without RFID -...
• Commented on New Pirate Parties spring up all over Europe
  There's also one in Denmark: http://www.piratpartiet.dk/ Not a member myself, though I might consider it - I'm rather sceptical of single-issue parties, though, might be better to join the one you agree with most on filesharing/IP/free software related stuff and...
• Commented on Supreme Court declares strip search of 13-year-old student unconstitutional
  Ibuprofen? Hardly a mind-altering drug - its main effect apart from alleviating some sort of pain is giving you a belly-ache. Completely ridiculous - I'd think even more so, since here in Denmark it's over-the-counter; but it's not an "abusable"...
• Commented on Why "new novelists" are all old
  Teapunk, if the publisher are to make a serious effort to decide whether they want a book or not (read it, think it over, visualize a place for the book in the market, start an editing process with the writer,...
• Commented on Jury reports that Steon's Orbo does not produce free energy
  Steorn: 0 - first law of thermodynamics: 1...
• Commented on Amazon releases some Kindle source-code
  Hrrmpf - double-speak. and it should be "their ways"....
• Commented on Amazon releases some Kindle source-code
  Hubert Figuiere, you may be right. An Internet-wide boycot of Amazon to make them shove DRM? I'd sign up. If the "techies" lead the way in such a boycot, I'm sure Amazon will promptly change their way. Hubert Figuiere, you...
• Commented on Amazon releases some Kindle source-code
  I have a question to add: 4. Why use a proprietary format? E-books are not exactly rocket science. So why not use an open standard? If none exists to meet their requirements, they could help developing one - but...
• Commented on Little Brother, the play, on in Chicago until July 18
  Congratulations!...