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• Commented on What MP3 player should I buy?
  Cory has been riding a rather tiresome anti-Apple hobbyhorse for several years, now. Really, he should build his own mp3 player and software ecosystem, which I'm sure we would all rush to buy. I can hear my pathetic 80 gig...
• Commented on What actual Mayans are saying about 2012
  What comprises a "Western" idea? Certainly not geography in that case. Last I looked, Central America, land of the Mayans, was firmly ensconced in the Western Hemisphere. Of course that is just an imperialist western imposition in its own right....
• Commented on Apple 1984 ad, updated for 2009
  It's not just the 25 years that have passed. This parody/update is just lame. It has no power or promise as the original did. And still did a year or two ago when I last saw it. As a brander,...
• Commented on We don't pay for "content," we pay for "form"
  I have to disagree with lectroid and raster in regards to Cage's 4'33. Perhaps downloading a video (or even a "performance"with a still shot of the pianist)might be more pertinent, but you the listener are still bringing many of the...
• Commented on The Jet-Propelled Couch: true story of a physicist who thought he was a science fiction hero on another planet
  A more interesting speculation regarding Smith/Linebarger is that he wasn't writing fiction, per se. In actuality he was a political exile banished from the very far future (having offended the Lords of The Instrumentality) and wrote history forward from our...
• Commented on All publicly funded content should be in the public domain.
  Au Contraire. This shouldn't be the least bit a contrary position. And two years seems quite reasonable to me. Good luck....
• Commented on Lawyers for TV überdouche Glenn Beck go after satirical website, saying the url itself is defamatory
  @#3: The wingnuts, including Beck, do it all the time. All the time. Quite often without the figleaf of "some say."...
• Commented on Daredevil LA tagger "Buket" of YouTube fame gets nearly 4 years in jail.
  Tagging isn't graffiti, much less aerosol art. I'd love to see more of these asocial shits spend some time in jail, although 4 years might (only might) be a bit much....
• Commented on Pigeons are faster than DSL
  Of course security would still be an issue. In this case you would have to worry about hawkers instead of hackers....
• Commented on Neil Gaiman's library
  Total drool factor, of course. My favorite parts are the paperback (mostly SF)shelves. I recognize, because I have or have had many of the editions and titles,lots of stuff. I have to disagree with the comment at #44. Nothing shows...
• Commented on Happy 40th birthday, Internet
  @13:Go back and read it again. The 40th anniversary of the initial protocols that made fidonet possible. Sure it precedes the WWW, which has become, for all practical purposes for most people, synonymous with the Internet, but it wasn't possible...
• Commented on Happy 40th birthday, Internet
  I think that all of the posters here should acknowledge that the Internet is BAD, and stop using it. After all, we know that anything the government has/had a hand in is wrong (a meme ever more widespread thanks in...
• Commented on Dutch government tries to stop 13-year-old girl from sailing around world solo
  Podkayne of Holland. Oh boy. Sarcasm intended and directed at the overwhelmingly dreary number of cheerleaders in this thread....
• Commented on Barney Frank pwns crazy lady at "town hall" meeting, effectively invoking Godwin's law.
  @#4: With you as far as Barney and Howard. Not Rahm, though. Just because he can swear alot and stick a knife in someone while smiling doesn't mean he's worth shit in this debate. And he isn't, near as I...
• Commented on Stephenson's Orth-speak Hugo acceptance speech
  I, for one, am deliriously happy that taste and sanity prevailed in this case. I would have been pleased if Little Brother won and appalled at the Stephenson. He has always needed an editor and will never have one. The...
• Commented on Ray Bradbury's 89th birthday party in Glendale, CA, Aug 22
  @#28 Antinous: There is cranky and there is cranky. I consider myself cranky and, frankly, quite a few regular contributors to BB come across as cranky on occasion. Perhaps prematurely senile would be preferable? Several SF luminaries,with to my mind...
• Commented on Ray Bradbury's 89th birthday party in Glendale, CA, Aug 22
  @#21: Thanks for links. It is clear that over the decades he turned into a bigger ass than I had thought. The 30 years was to err on the generous side. 40+ is probably more accurate. So, by all means,...
• Commented on Ray Bradbury's 89th birthday party in Glendale, CA, Aug 22
  It is certainly true that a number of SF authors Bradbury's age and older (PJ Farmer, for one)stayed engaged and relevant much longer. I'm not aware of anything Bradbury's done in the last 30 years that is of any significance....
• Commented on Coincidence?
  Ludicrous. If you're getting chills, best seek medical attention for an underlying problem....
• Commented on Karl Schroeder on "rewilding" -- openness, government, and autonomous nature as an economic actor
  Karl Schroeder is one of my very favorites in recent years. I hadn't realized that he was such a hostile dude, though. Perhaps you meant inimitable?...
• Commented on Reset: How This Crisis Can Restore Our Values and Renew America
  @#13:Living proof that accompanying boom and bust cycles is an increase in loony theories and, cue the drums, since 1913 attacks on the Federal Reserve. Apparently your access to history doesn't begin any earlier than that. Save your allowance and...
• Commented on Flashback to 1968: Rolling Stone attacks the counterculture
  Comments 7, 8 & 10 nail it pretty well. The '68 election was the first I was eligible for and the only one I've ever missed, being a counterculture dropout (well, draft dodger) in the mountains of New Mexico when...
• Commented on Graphic novel adaptation of Richard Stark's Parker The Hunter
  @10. "Point Blank" is the good one. Superb all around....
• Commented on Little Brother wins the Prometheus Award for libertarian science fiction
  @17 Scott Bieser. I'm a little curious about the idea that someone can be "libertarian" on only some issues. Seems there is some picking and choosing and ignoring going on here. Nutbastard's handle pretty well sums up his spirited rejoinder....
• Commented on Little Brother wins the Prometheus Award for libertarian science fiction
  Congratulations!Hope the Hugo goes well. Not to rain on the parade (and bring your own damn umbrella, no room under mine) but Iain Banks is most definitely not a libertarian. His fellow Scots, Ken Macleod, might qualify as a libertarian/Trotskyite...
• Commented on Life During Wartime video from Stop Making Sense
  I saw Stop Making Sense when it was first run. It's been awhile, but I don't recall that I was a TH fan when I went (probably for Demme), but I sure was when I walked out. And that album...
• Commented on PETA pushes to halt Seattle fish mongers from tossing fish
  I yield to none in my disdain for PETA, but the comments so far are nearly as depressing as the organization. PETA is actually right about the unacceptability of the fish tossing but for the wrong reasons. I live in...
• Commented on Manga collector faces 15 years in jail because some of his comics included sexual images of children
  It is also entirely possible that he was barely or not at all aware of the images in some of his collection. If he is that much a fanatic collector he's probably acquiring stuff just to have it, without actually...
• Commented on School newspaper archives go online, embarrassing student writing and shenanigans become permanent record
  "...Usenet's archives online, the material we thought we'd written in a no-archive medium..." Hmm. Why does that strike me as rather contradictory? As for Cory's contention that this represents an unexpected transformation from an older technological presentation format, I find...
• Commented on Woman kills elephant with bow & arrow
  I feel so much safer now....