Andrew W

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• Commented on Cellphone contracts getting even better!
  Ken Englehart, a senior VP at Rogers, wrote in the Financial Post that Canada's ridiculously bad and expensive wireless is actually a world-leader. http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/11/11/canada-is-a-wireless-leader.aspx I know it's the FP, and I know that's part of the National Post which is...
• Commented on Abusive "coal-thugs" try to break up anti-mountaintop-removal festival
  #10, I don't really see how that's an excuse. Nor do I understand why we have to preserve these jobs regardless of how destructive they are, or how outdated they are. I think that everyone has the right to employment,...
• Commented on In praise of Kitchen Aid's customer service -- UPDATED
  Thanks, Cory. We got our mixer from the Bay down at Queen and Yonge, but there was apparently just a batch of 'em that had problems. We lucked out. :) They did eventually sort the problem out. I would buy...
• Commented on In praise of Kitchen Aid's customer service -- UPDATED
  I'm glad you guys had great customer service from them. We didn't. A batch of their mixers went out with a miscast addon attachment bit. It was a problem Kitchenaid knew about, but it still took six months of phone...
• Commented on British cops stop and hassle thousands to "balance racial statistics"
  Ah, I wonder if this was why they were doing random stop and searches (random being a selection of white males 20-35) at Vauxhall last week?...
• Commented on Devilish Devenish-Phibbs bench-plaques around London
  Hoax or not, that's up there with my favourite bench, which is on the south side of St Andrew's square, Edinburgh, which is dedicated to a woman who "Loved to Sit"...
• Commented on Jesse Ventura on The View
  Don't demonize people just because they disagree with you, it's a very ugly habit. I don't think that's what's happening here at all. We are demonising people who think torture is okay with the right amount of semantic wiggling. Those...
• Commented on RNC chairman says that gay marriage is bad for economy
  An aside: I thought Republicans were the small government party that wanted to just step aside and let everyone do their thing. How is it small government to try and stick your nose into everyone's bedrooms and registrar?...
• Commented on Carb overload: Bread Bowl Pasta
  Someone in some terribly ad agency must have been a fan of Tim Horton's Chili, which "Tastes so good you'll eat the bowl!"...
• Commented on London cops mug tourist for his bus-station photos
  "So while criticisms of the UK police and government are totally justified, try to avoid offending people, and make sure you do your research." I'm confused, your comment sounded like you were going to disagree with me, but then you...
• Commented on London cops mug tourist for his bus-station photos
  Sorry, that was "changing planes in the US". I don't want to give the impression that I'm some America-hater, or that I'm okay with what's going on here (or back in Canada, either) but these comments, and the lack of...
• Commented on London cops mug tourist for his bus-station photos
  In response to the person who asked what people who live in the UK think of the police: I must say that in general I find police on the beat here quite pleasant. One even helped us get out of...
• Commented on What you should be afraid of instead of terrorists
  Some of the arguments against this article are just bizarre. I thought the author's point was pretty simple: you are very afraid, and being horribly inconvenienced by, something that has an even smaller statistical likelihood of happening to you than...
• Commented on Long-secret Red Cross Report Says Medical Workers Helped US Torture Terror Suspects
  "Facilitating such practices, which the Red Cross described as torture..." Can we please stop using such soft, passive waffle language around torture? That phrase should have been written "Facilitating torture was a violation of medical ethics". I thought once the...
• Commented on London cops reach new heights of anti-terror poster stupidity
  "We'll give you a good talking too" ... that's from the new policing pledge they're on about. I'll believe it when I see it. I can't get the police to come around about a kid who drives his scooter at...
• Commented on Audioclips of Bill O'Reilly reading his bad porno novel
  "You mean they didn't revoke his GOP membership card for doing this?" You kidding? They're all doing it, and not a one of them seems to know anything about healthy sexual relationships....
• Commented on Get Your War On, the omnibus edition
  Can't do it. Can't let this one slide. "He was right to strengthen the military" By plunging them into two different wars, overextending their stays, not giving them the right equipment, underfunding them, employing torture so the people who captured...
• Commented on Pizza joint gives staff t-shirts with the text of 1-star Yelp reviews
  @TW15 seems to be a London thing. There's an Indian place on Lavender Hill I walk past that proudly boasts of their 3/6 star rating. No, that's not a typo. I meant to say six....
• Commented on Police seek man's stolen medicinal weed
  I am glad to see MDs are finally prescribing medicinal marijuana for the terrible condition of being in Chatham....
• Commented on Everyone should buy a Skype phone, and Ipevo looks to make a good one
  I've found having the Skype client on my Nokia E71 to be extremely handy. Its great to not be tethered to the computer. (If only they'd use the forward-facing video camera in the darn thing.) But around my place I...
• Commented on Henchman's Helper -- page filled with webcams
  "... [I]nfrared satellite image of North America" where North America equals mostly just America....
• Commented on Man arrested for shouting complaints about "Arab types" on Turkish Airlines flight
  #9 - I sense you are trying to make a point, but it eludes me. Care to clarify?...
• Commented on Caterpillar D9R armored bulldozer
  Yeah, you tell 'em Downpressor! Stupid liberals, always not wanting civilians to get killed. Buncha dicks. Its not like thy're people WE know. They're not even from our COUNTRY!...
• Commented on Should employers discriminate against World of Warcraft players?
  Big time agree with #83. I'm a WoW player. Really casual, as in days go past when I don't sign in. I'm in a guild, but just so I can stay in touch with my friends overseas in said guild....
• Commented on A Message To Boing Boing Readers From the Auto Industry
  Give me a Neon SRT or something that is stupidly loud and breaks but gets my heart going. Give me a Z06, it might break but who cares? I wanna drive it, I wanna get in that thing and I...
• Commented on Autumn leaves stuck in fresh tarmac
  Park Lane looks like that, too. I love it. But I notice its only the bus lanes. I wonder if it is as a result of lower traffic, or something to do with the difference in the surface? I'm learning...
• Commented on If Nobody Got Told
  @47: explain to me what compassion they can be shown? Explain to me how executing the murderer would show compassion. I simply do not see the link between capital punishment and compassion for *anyone*, victims included....
• Commented on Apple to Mac owners: throw away your monitor if Hollywood says so
  What all you guys saying "move to linux" are missing is that these requirements are part of a process that leads to all software or hardware that can copy things or display things needing to be blessed by some governmental...
• Commented on Merrill Lynch Needs a Dressing Down
  When someone I knew worked at ML as an admin in M&A, there was this 25-year-old dbag. He would always have these "meetings" with his frat brother who worked at a bank they had close ties to. No work was...
• Commented on The US Presidential Election: Open Thread
  You know, I think I really want go negative. Please, disemvowel me should you feel the need. I've been putting up with so much crap from righties calling the countries I've lived in effeminate and third-world, and all the other...