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Commented on Camels terrorize Australian outback town
Camels, despoiling the outback? We can't allow non-humans to despoil the outback....
Commented on Placenta fluid massage to treat soccer player's injury
Next stop, placentini!...
Commented on Legal battle over Shepard Fairey Obama poster takes an unexpected turn
@Anonymous "This case is another example of why you should never have dealings with US companies. Where I live, such a poster would be a political statement and therefore exempt from copyright laws. This only proves that there is no...
Commented on Legal battle over Shepard Fairey Obama poster takes an unexpected turn
I don't like Shepard Fairey because he is successful and I'm not, according to my own criteria. Also, because he seems to copy other people to an annoying degree, without attribution. Do you really think he just sort of lost...
Commented on Shepard Fairey shirt for Creative Commons
Mr. Fairey is really just the updated version of those white music producers who stole blues riffs from black musicians way back when and sold them, with white faces, to white audiences. See image, appropriate image, delete tracks. Profit. As...
Commented on The magic of Japanese space-saving products
Shouldn't that toilet girl be in a sailor suit?...
Commented on Cydwoq: handmade shoes designed by an LA architect
C-Doc's nerd-cred is demolished. D&D chaser, stat!...
Commented on Newspaper asks poets and novelists to cover the news for the day
I welcome our new poet overlords?...
Commented on BB Video: BIG YANK, a Weird '70s Jeans Ad (Oddball Film)
Yay Oddball! Xeni's not kidding...I've been in there. If the Ark of the Covenant was a PSA, Top Men would store it at Oddball....
Commented on Oregon Passes Bill "Too Gross to Talk About"
Oregon isn't so culturally liberal. You can't buy liquor in a drive-through or a convenience store. The state constitution outlaws gay marriage. No prostitution and very little gambling. There's a long history of tension between the western libertarians and the...
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Commented on DIY sex machine injury
It's all fun and games until someone saws their... Oh my....
Commented on Man camouflaged as pile of paper at Ikea
With the prevalence of CCTV, I'm guessing we "see" runway-camouflaged runway offerings at next year's Fashion Week....
Commented on Morning tech deals highlights
I have to give big ups to the LaCrosse battery charger which, in combination with a handfull of Eneloop batteries keeps my Xbox controllers from making a mockery of my green preferences....
Commented on Wil Wheaton vs. Authors' Guild vs. Kindle
Ahem, that should read "Tomrigid #39" Self-deprecating commentary, meet epic fail. I'm out. le sigh...
Commented on Wil Wheaton vs. Authors' Guild vs. Kindle
Tomrigid #35, You might know what you're talking about, but you probably do not. You're lucky these people are so bloody polite....
Commented on Wil Wheaton vs. Authors' Guild vs. Kindle
JJasper #35, I don't think TTS is substantially different in the sense that a TV show or a play would be. It's not "based" on the author's work, it is the authors' work, and putting the text into a speech...
Commented on Wil Wheaton vs. Authors' Guild vs. Kindle
"I don't like TTS, it can't compare to an audiobook, so it'll never be an issue." That's the gist of what I'm reading here, and it's irrelevant in the copyright debate. TTS is not a substitute for an audiobook, though...
Commented on Authors´ Guild vs. reality: Kindles and read-aloud
PTROURKE #94, The text to speech in this case has the same mechanical relationship to the text that an Itty Bitty Book Light has... Does the IBBL harm the market for any book, anywhere? Blount's somewhat hysterical point is that...
Commented on Authors´ Guild vs. reality: Kindles and read-aloud
Takuan #86, if one is trying to make a living by writing, what is the better investment of time: writing more, or chasing what you can squeeze for what you have written? In the usual common law framework of copyright,...
Commented on Authors´ Guild vs. reality: Kindles and read-aloud
Cory, If Sony had bundled every Betamax with blank tapes and a copy of TV Guide with all the movies tagged, would Universal have prevailed? Part of the problem here seems to be that the Kindle's business model makes Amazon...
Commented on One More Go: <em>World of Warcraft</em>, home is where the hearth is
You nailed it Margaret! I haven't logged in to WoW in more than a year, but I know that the moment I did I would regain dozens of "friends" and a million pixel-acres of familiar virtual space. To get that...
Commented on UAE plans ban on negative economic reporting
Zuzu #16, In which prison does Kevin P. Phillips live today? Our government lies and we accuse it of doing so. In Dubai, under the aforementioned law, this accusation is illegal. In the US it is not. Do investors prefer...
Commented on UAE plans ban on negative economic reporting
Capitalism? This is nothing to do with capitalism. You can still do business in Dubai, if you can find anyone to take your money. This is further evidence that capitalism doesn't work on its own - it requires a liberal...
Commented on Driving from Brooklyn to Oregon next week; What weird should I espy?
Joel, Congrats on the move (I think). I went from New York to Eugene and barely escaped, a decade later. Good luck! Having driven most every highway between Seattle, Salt Lake City, and San Francisco (as a birder and general...
Commented on Goose doesn't like sweet natured doggy
#4... Geese from America do all of those things too. One has to wonder, given the reticent nature of the dog, the fact that it's a gun-dog breed, and the skill with which this guy handles the goose... Has this...
Commented on Goose doesn't like sweet natured doggy
Canadian goose...so typical....
Commented on Massive rat in China
It's a Muroid Miracle! In other news, Tiny Chinese Man Eaten By Large Rat?...
Commented on Japanese Surgical Mask Culture
In Eugene, Oregon, it's not uncommon to see people wearing surgical masks to filter the allergens, especially in the spring. From April to June it's a hay fever holocaust up in there....

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phisrow commented on Placenta fluid massage to treat soccer player's injury
While it is highly likely that this "therapy" is either entirely unvalidated, or validated in only the shoddiest of manners, as seems to be the custom; it isn't utterly without theoretical biological basis(unlike, say, homeopathy or energy healing). Aside from all the fertility cult ritual bullshit, placentas contain a grab bag of interesting hormones and things. It wouldn't be entirely surprising if the same collection of hormones that helps prepare the pelvis and accompanying connective tissues to have an entire baby shoved through had some effect on joint tissues(There is a rich vein of speculation concerning sex-linked joint stuff generally...
asuffield commented on Placenta fluid massage to treat soccer player's injury
Well, placenta sounds a lot like placebo, so that makes sense to me....
mechko commented on Legal battle over Shepard Fairey Obama poster takes an unexpected turn
This is a very good point. There are two sides to this copyright battle. On the one hand, there are big corporations attempting to hold a monopoly over art, which is despicable. On the other hand, every artist, whether a big corporation or not, is should receive credit (and royalties) where they are due. Any entity should have the right to royalties from profits in two conditions: 1) the resulting work is a substitute in any form for the original 2) if it would be impossible to create a near perfect substitute of the resulting work without the original. The...
Mat H commented on Camels terrorize Australian outback town
Bringing camels to the outback. File under: Seemed like a good idea at the time....
Jerril commented on Camels terrorize Australian outback town
@ skeletoncityrepeater: The secret to why all these invasive mammals are going gangbusters in Australia is because of the word you left out of the description: placental. The local marsupials just can't compete with the placental mammals, just like most of the marsupials in North America and South America were wiped out by the placentals when they arrived there (due to ice ages creating ice bridges and/or continental drift). Outside of a few specialized niches, placental mammals really do have the advantage....

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