Charlie Lesoine

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• Commented on Stupid DRM, abusive EULAs, hopeless ecommerce: why I'm not even going to try to sell my short story collection audiobook downloads
  Believe me, if I was an author or in my case a musician who could financially afford to uphold those type of principles and refuse to do business with retailers who won't agree to my terms I would. But I'm...
• Commented on Stupid DRM, abusive EULAs, hopeless ecommerce: why I'm not even going to try to sell my short story collection audiobook downloads
  Yes, a better taste in his mouth, less readers and less income. And some meaningless moral superiority for upholding "ethical principles" about stuff that is really not that important on the grand scheme of things. Just doesn't seem worth it...
• Commented on Stupid DRM, abusive EULAs, hopeless ecommerce: why I'm not even going to try to sell my short story collection audiobook downloads
  Stupid DRMs abusive EULA still should not be a deal breaker for an author to not use a site like audible or itunes to sell their stuff. I believe in fighting for what is right and I don't like to...
• Commented on Shoes made out of bread
  Loafers....
• Commented on What to do if you smell a terrorist
  In soviet America, big brother is YOU!...
• Commented on HOWTO remember to retrieve food after a playdate
  When I was a kid, my parents would drop me off at friends houses...They wouldnt wait there while I played. Is that what parents do these days? Wait around at their childrens friends house?...
• Commented on Here come the airport rectal exams!
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4YrnmZQ5so...
• Commented on Katie Couric's salary exceeds combined budgets of NPR's top news shows
  @#11 CliffStoll TV News correspondents were reporting from Iraq using camcorders, ibooks and imovie in 2004. TV news does not need to cost that much....
• Commented on What if James Dean had lived?
  Or like a commercial showing the Beatles playing some sort of guitar hero game. Oh wait....
• Commented on What's the deal with all the collapsing water pipes in LA? Engineers: "We don't know."
  These incidents are clearly caused by the subterranean race of shape-shifting lizard people. Come one people, Occam's razor....
• Commented on Gorgeous McIntosh home theater
  The main reason I see this type of spending as crazy is, a pair of $100,000 speakers do not sound 100 times better than a a pair of $1000 speakers. They might sound twice as good, but that's pushing it....
• Commented on Gorgeous McIntosh home theater
  This stuff is seriously a rip off. You wont find any professional recording studios using Mclntosh monitors to mix on. Why? because this equiptment reproduces sounds to make them pleasing, not accurately. The funny thing is this guy could have...
• Commented on Meth dealers laundered drug money with comic books
  Yep. That's how you do it....
• Commented on Things that have always been true for the class of 2013
  @ #5 HDTVs have been on the market since at least 1998...
• Commented on est reincarnated
  Anything that's true doesnt need to be yelled at you for you to "get it"....
• Commented on Coital "model" machine used in condom study
  Blunt puncture = Not enough lube...
• Commented on est reincarnated
  My mom paid for me and my girlfriend to do this a few years back. It's nothing more than a money cult where they trick you into giving them your money. It preys on people who are unhappy with their...
• Commented on Astonish Yourself: 101 Experiments in the Philosophy of Everyday Life
  Is that Sand? Eeeeeee....
• Commented on Let Go, Let Brown
  WEEN>PHISH...
• Commented on Katamari Damacy wedding!
  My parents got married on a Carousel in golden gate park, dressed as clowns with clown noses. They are divorced now....
• Commented on Let Go, Let Brown
  God is brown!...
• Commented on Woman takes revenge on tow truck driver
  It's true though. FWD is far superior to RWD....
• Commented on Rupert Murdoch reporters in the UK illegally hacked thousands of peoples' data
  ugh...I work for that guy......
• Commented on United Breaks Guitars, the complaint anthem
  Was it in a flight case?...
• Commented on Radiohead manager to launch new record label
  Radiohead is still the best band in the world. At least they were in 2007....
• Commented on Time-lapse of 1990 LA mall
  @mellowknees the 1980s ended in 1992. Just as the 1990's ended on Sept 11 2001....
• Commented on Pez Candy Inc sues Museum of Pez Memorabilia for copyright infringement
  How dare you encourage the public to buy collect our products!...
• Commented on The first MP3 player (1998)
  Only 69 dollars? That doesn't sound right. It was probably $690...
• Commented on More on YouTube phenom Justin, aka "Tsimfuckis" aka "Chick3n Little"
  How is this noteworthy other than the fact that this person is different looking? How are we not just gawking at a freak? There are thousands of people on YT doing the same thing who don't have some heartbreaking medical...
• Commented on Chicago Tribune creates papercraft tribute to lying politico
  I could see a whole series of these....