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• Commented on Bulletproof glass demonstration
  how come nobody mentioned william tell?...
• Commented on Mitch Horowitz on Freemasons
  also, why is providence an eye in a triangle? and why do so many people call it the eye of horus? well i know the answers, and it's because their symbol system involves egyptian stuff... probably something born out of...
• Commented on Mitch Horowitz on Freemasons
  organised religion is still organised religion. dogma disguised as wisdom. and then people wonder how it winds up starting wars. i mean, let's face it, there is zero substantial evidence for anything any religion preaches that is supernatural. as an...
• Commented on Firefighters told to cool it on the energy drinks
  the fireman went into diabetic shock??? that has nearly zero to do with caffeine, as far as i know it has only mild if any influence on sugar metabolism. 4 cans of redbull, 250ml ones, is equal to like 100g...
• Commented on Smash-and-grab robbers clean out Apple store in 31 seconds
  #34: supermarket sweep - that phrase is used in the samples in the snog song 'shop' ARE YOU READY TO SHOP!...
• Commented on Smash-and-grab robbers clean out Apple store in 31 seconds
  The comment about a game show reminds me of samples used in a Snog song called 'Shop' probably from the very same one. I would think it would be a pretty big chunk off the price being that all those...
• Commented on Music downloading penalties are harsher than arson, theft, or starting a dogfighting ring
  • Burn someone's house while playing The Doors: Another $375,000. does this mean if you play the doors it is a bigger crime!!!!1?...
• Commented on Slate's Dear Prudence: "Should I score pot for my diabetic sister-in-law?"
  the number of medical uses for cannabis is increasing all the time. many drug schedules have sections divided by addictive potential, medical use and the lack thereof. for a drug that is on the 'no medical uses' segment in many...
• Commented on Artist takes $190,000 out of bank because they won't give him a mortgage
  what a man! i hold accounts with westpac and i'm not nearly as valuable as him but i would like to think that they are going to stand by their marketing spiel about caring about the community....
• Commented on Jeff Bezos's Kindle apology: please tell us what the Kindle can do
  i agree with flink. a thin, but durable, high resolution matte finished monochrome display with a simple interface to load ebooks from an sd card is what i want. the kindle doesn't sound like that to me. a proper device...
• Commented on US military blows up piles of poppy seeds to win the “hearts of minds” of Afghan citizens
  how about the us government legalises possession of opium and morphine and heroin for us citizens, and buying the poppy production from afghanistan to produce material to be properly processed and purified for a replacement to the methadone/whatever else programs...
• Commented on PowerPoint considered militarily harmful
  I personally hate lectures. Powerpoint is not the problem, it's lectures, in which Powerpoint and all it's various ancestors and siblings are used. This is probably because I read about one standard deviation faster than the average (I didn't train...
• Commented on Twitter's security breach: a reminder to choose and use web passwords wisely.
  there is a recent bruce schneier article about passwords. here's my thoughts about this issue: 1. brute force guessing of passwords that are not dictionary words is virtually impossible somewhere between 6 and 8 characters long (assuming alphanumeric that's 8^36...
• Commented on Javanese batikers say thanks but no thanks to copyright
  in my moments of (unfortunately, usually drug induced) creative productivity i have always felt as though i was merely the conduit for the work to manifest, like the art was itself some kind of organism, perhaps a virus, that needed...
• Commented on Justice Department to review wireless carriers for anti-competitive practices
  I can't believe how long wireless phone/network providers have been getting away with outrageous overcharging and provider lockin. I hope the DOJ does decide that they will be forced to unlock their phones and charge prices that bring their profit...
• Commented on Bulletproof "tactical" corset
  now if only they'd let girls into special forces hehe... girls in the military do wear those vest things, having one made to show their shape is kinda cool... really mainly this is fetish/cybergoth type clothes tho. i like it...
• Commented on Hostage Hallucinations: Visual Imagery Experienced by Victims of Torture, Rape... and UFOs.
  I thought I should point out that the english word for describing these kinds of experiences is 'traumatic' for those who know german would know this is from the word for dream 'traum'. I personally suffered trauma during my childhood...
• Commented on London Times on the Honda Insight: "Biblically terrible"
  i'm very surprised to see it not mentioned... but transmissions all have a degree of power loss related to friction and elasticity of the transmission system, there is a CVT system for bicycles called nuvinci and the main complaint about...
• Commented on WoWPod: a self-contained hut for WoW players
  awesome! i can imagine a themed internet cafe booth designed upon these lines. the thing about all the derision people lay on WoW all comes down primarily to the fact it's so popular and addictive. in fact it's so popular...
• Commented on Leather fetish pilot mask
  that mask is teh sex. i love that style with the big round bug-eyes, there's a military gas mask which is similar and it likewise puts me into fits of 'i vaaaaant' :)...
• Commented on Time-Warner bandwidth caps cancelled after threats of protests
  i don't understand why they don't just offer linespeeds which intrinsically cap max downloads at probably at best 75% of theoretical for most users. there are very few uncapped services here in australia and one i had for a while...
• Commented on What you should be afraid of instead of terrorists
  fear of terrorism is not about fear for yourself but fear for your relatives and people of your country. a lot of the anti war on terror people focus on the personal fear irrationality. terrorism is not really special either,...
• Commented on "Marx was Right!"
  marx was right about a lot of stuff but i don't think you could say he was right in his final conclusion. the same analysis in the context of ubiquitous digital networking technology yields an entirely different result. we are...
• Commented on Electrolyzed water, aka <em>el liquido milagroso</em>
  i call bu*****t on this. ok, sure, you can make hydrochloric acid solution (dilute) and sodium hydroxide (dilute) with an electrolytic osmotic cell. but hypochlorous acid, you need O- which means that the whole diagram is missing an ozone generator...
• Commented on Gallery of medical marijuana
  I'm all for being realistic about the risks associated with drug use but it's absolute sensationalist nonsense to say that weed does any more than many of the other stressors that can manifest psychiatric conditions. The problem is basically that...
• Commented on Dr. Housing Bubble Interview
  I've been very keenly following events and relating it to the historical context of these events. My view is that usury, this mortgage business, as a means of regulating money supply to keep pace with the overall level of economic...
• Commented on LumiTops: glowing disco-wear a candle to guido moths
  why did they model them with mannequins?...
• Commented on Australian educational authority forcing kids into invasive database
  there is a reason why only bad things happen in australia. this place started out as a gigantic big jail island. everyone except the authorities pretty much had the right to slaughter, imprison and enslave anyone they decided to. i...
• Commented on Building the perfect electric cigarette
  it'd certainly be an interesting device for delivering drugs in general... imagine one shaped like a joint that delivers pure THC vapour with all the looks of a joint without the smell and irritating inconsistent burn. lol...
• Commented on A couple of weeks with the Radius Atomic Bass earbuds (Verdict: Simple, competent)
  i had some panasonics in the same price range they lasted me about 6 months but i sweat like a pig so that probably was why they got ruined. i'm not sure whether iphones have bluetooth a2dp on them but...