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Commented on Transborder Immigrant Tool helps Mexicans cross over safely
Er, sorry Izzzzzy but I was referencing hassan-i-sabbah. Sorry I wasn't more clear (BB needs better comment threading). "Seems to be a lot of frightened yanquis on this post. ooh! little brown men are coming to steal your shiny things!"...
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There's a poem hiding in what you just wrote. Please to be elaboratings?...
Commented on Photos of a furless bear
Since Gabrielm #3 didn't use the ENTIRE children's rhyme, I shall do so now: Fuzzy Wuzzy was a Bear. Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair! So Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't very Fuzzy, Wuzzy? wokka wokkaaaa!...
Commented on Skiing robot
It makes me so happy that so many other people thought, "Wallace and Gromit!" just like me. Hooray for Nick Park!...
Commented on How badly designed reputation systems create in-game mafias
This sounds very similar to what I imagine goes on in the suburbs. Zoning regulations = negative karma?...
Commented on Executive compensation vs. the world
How many CEOs do we have commenting here? Well, I just incorporated, so count me as one. All I really want to say is this: if you make it to the point where you're a CEO, you deserve a larger...
Commented on How to saber a bottle of champagne
Also @20 Lucifer per the other comments here, if you do it the "right" way it just chips the top and takes the cork off (no shards necessary)....
Commented on How to saber a bottle of champagne
#10 Guillaume - You're not implying you're from France, right? I have a hard time believing a Frenchman would misspell Champagne as "Champain." I asked my (French) wife about this, and while she agrees with you that you wouldn't...
Commented on Visualizing up to ten dimensions
I stopped watching about 1/4 through. Smells of west-coast vegan crystal growers, it does!...
Commented on Mission Control: ambient music and NASA audio
Wow! TOTALLY COOL. Thanks for this, listening now and it's a real concentration booster....
Commented on Latvia says no more British bachelor parties
Bloody foreigners, staying over there, ruinin' our stag parties!...
Commented on Fresh Greens: You don't need helicopters to kill wolves
Ah yes, the Malthusian argument. How much more despicably class-conscious can you get? -- Seems to me the idea of not having kids/having fewer kids for the purposes of helping the environment is a bit shortsighted. Change happens in America,...
Commented on Living in a massive high-rise with no neighbors
#12 posted by tp1024 There was a thing on This American Life not too long ago about these empty condo units, except it was set on the north side of Chicago. The cool thing is, I hear that either in...
Commented on Senator's campaign website suffers search-engine death penalty for embedding invisible homophobic slur against opponent
I couldn't find a "You got pwnd by the Internet" image, so this will have to do: http://myspace-281.vo.llnwd.net/00834/18/20/834380281_l.png I hope more people can learn the lesson that SEO is the new Snake Oil....
Commented on Let Go, Let Brown
#12 @Micah WHAT? How dare you desecrate the sacred Phish (going to see them in August! EXCITED EXCITED EXCITED!). Redshirt77, may I recommend an '03 Saint Estephe to accompany your troll?...
Commented on Let Go, Let Brown
As a Christian this is one of those things that makes me feel pretty bad for whoever buys this sort of crap, but I can understand why. The target audience is "Average America" who've been indoctrinated into the mindset that...
Commented on Reset: How This Crisis Can Restore Our Values and Renew America
Wow, Amen. Gonna see if this is at the public library right now....
Commented on 1972 ad promotes radiation
You see, children, everything gives off some form of radiation. The birds in the air, the fish in the sea, why, even the flowers in your back garden! And ESPECIALLY television. Sometimes this radiation can even be very healthy for...
Commented on Tom Hanks trash can
T.Hanks for this, I really needed it. What a day....
Commented on Artist takes $190,000 out of bank because they won't give him a mortgage
@Ito Holy crap! I just googled Quatloo and found out it was really used on DS9. I just pulled the word out of my ass, and it turns out to be a "real" thing? Holy subconsciousness, Batman....
Commented on Artist takes $190,000 out of bank because they won't give him a mortgage
@Ito "Are you trying to trivialize quatloos, or deride people who live in space stations?" A little from column A, a little from column B....
Commented on Artist takes $190,000 out of bank because they won't give him a mortgage
@Yatima Thank you, I appreciate it. I find that everything works out much better when people just shut up and do what I say. And if you do REALLY well, you get an employment offer for one of the many...
Commented on Artist takes $190,000 out of bank because they won't give him a mortgage
US and A...
Commented on Artist takes $190,000 out of bank because they won't give him a mortgage
General credit union question - how does this stuff work? Can anybody point me to a good primer on the differences (and risks, please!) of using a credit union versus a bank? We're looking to maybe buy a place next...
Commented on Artist takes $190,000 out of bank because they won't give him a mortgage
#36 @ bbonyx "Pay no attention to the goblins who can't appreciate the morsels of comedy you dropped in with your currency conversions. I particularly enjoyed that bit of whimsy... but as I learned in the comments on Lisa's BBG...
Commented on Artist takes $190,000 out of bank because they won't give him a mortgage
#32 @Ito Kagehisa "Cory, I think you should have posted the currency equivalences in quatloos and zuleks! Pay no attention to the naysayers." What does that do for this guy's story, other than make it seem trivial, and deride New...
Commented on Homemade AT-AT loft bed
That last still w/ mini-Vader going through the "Escape Hatch" was quite teh awesome....
Commented on Artist takes $190,000 out of bank because they won't give him a mortgage
Cory, I don't mean to sound like a jerk or anything, but why have you started using bizarre currency equivalents? I have nothing against the gold market, or the Republic of Samoa, but considering that (more than likely) an overwhelming...
Commented on NES controller business-card case
#5 @Cory well, personally I trade in-kind, so that's goats, chickens, etc. €20 trades to roughly a brace of coneys. I have had trouble getting the Cable company to accept my payments. I have suspicions that they're vegetarians, so I'm...
Commented on Cat burglar falls off three-storey building across from my bedroom window
Dunno how it is in the UK, but in the US it's SOP for Police to arrive and secure the scene before an ambulance and rescue can arrive. Keeps 'em safe, just in case. Also, true story: A guy I...

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strangefriend commented on Transborder Immigrant Tool helps Mexicans cross over safely
The reason most mojados are here is that NAFTA let US Agribusinesses flood Mexico with real cheap corn. The campesinos couldn't compete, & so went north to survive. So groups like the Minute Men & US Border Watch should be picketing the offices of Archer Midland & Cargill. Though, if you have noticed, undocumented immigration has dropped since the Lesser Depression started. Lots of immigrant jobs were in the construction industry, & the markets have collapsed. Many immigrants have gone home. Arrests for border crossings have dropped. Two more points. What is it with the posters who fantasize about a...
Antinous / Moderator commented on Transborder Immigrant Tool helps Mexicans cross over safely
[CITATION NEEDED] The lack of a co-ordinated US strategy to combat the flow of illegal weapons into Mexico has fuelled drug violence there, a US government watchdog says. The Government Accountability Office (GAO), in a report published on Thursday, says key US agencies have failed to work together. Authorities in Mexico, which has seen a jump in drug-related murders, have long urged the US to tackle arms-smuggling. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8106816.stm...
teapot commented on Transborder Immigrant Tool helps Mexicans cross over safely
Actually, weapons streaming from the US into Mexico are arming the drug lords. The US is responsible for the crime wave in Mexico, not the other way around. #71 - you fool. Do your own research. Mexico's government specifically bans the sale of many types of guns (primarily high-powered weapons and anything automatic). These types of guns are freely availble in the US. It is common knowledge that Mexican cartels go to gun shows and buy HUNDREDS/THOUSANDS of firearms that are banned in Mexico. Drugs enter the US via Mexico, guns & money go out. If you don't know the...
kevinsky commented on Transborder Immigrant Tool helps Mexicans cross over safely
"Assuming all illegal mexican immigrants are peace-loving feel good people who only want to work is as bad as assuming they are all here to cause trouble." ==== "Actually, weapons streaming from the US into Mexico are arming the drug lords. The US is responsible for the crime wave in Mexico, not the other way around." The presence of US weaponry certainly doesn't help, but it's probably not the root cause We have American guns sneaking north into Canada too; smuggled American guns are used in something like 80% of Toronto's gun crimes, if I remember the figure thrown around...
dainel commented on Transborder Immigrant Tool helps Mexicans cross over safely
The real problem is Americans do not have ID for their own citizens. The solution is to chip everyone in the country, and then install millions of readers at every road junction throughout the country. You could not walk 10 paces before being identified as not possessing a valid chip. Illegal immigrants would not have those chips. Legal immigrants will have chips, which will allow them to only travel between their registered residence and workplace. The moment the step outside the approved corridors, the INS will swoop in and arrest them. First offense, a fine. Third offense, gets you booted...

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