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• Commented on Rich guy dislikes poor people, wants local kids to "lose sleep" over plan to shut library
  Surprising to read lots of negative comments about 'poor people' here on BB. Are you seriously trying to propose the old tired adage that because people are poor they are more prone to criminal conduct than to people who are...
• Commented on Abstinence doesn't work for IT or for teens
  Did you guys read the actual article? To sum up: even in sensitive jobs, computers may have a need to be connected to the Internet, and even those computers that don't need to be may accidently be connected to the...
• Commented on Nine-year-old plays Ozzy
  Re: "CBGB"/"CBGBC" Excellent info...thanks to all for your insights! Based on that data, I have to agree: someone took the "CBGB" logo and reworked it into a cycling logo. Can't wait to ask my brother if it was him (the...
• Commented on Nine-year-old plays Ozzy
  Awesome. Simply awesome. Odd question: does anyone recognize the logo on the boy's shirt? My brother sent me a cycling jersey/jacket with the same "CBGBC" logo on the back, but with slightly different text underneath. I have no idea if...
• Commented on Joel Spolsky on the perfect electronics store
  Maybe I'm just blind, but I didn't see a link to the actual article here. So, in case you're looking for it too: Why Circuit City Failed, and Why B&H Thrives...
• Commented on Face Transplant Recipient Speaks Out
  don't judge them, because you never know what happened to them ...and pulled out her driver's license to show the child what she used to look like And what about someone who has a similar disfigurement, but who has always...
• Commented on Boing Boing's Moderation Policy (Archived)
  I am trying to submit a comment to a blog post. When I click "Preview" or "Submit", an error page is returned, with the following text: Publish error in template 'Comment Preview': Error in tag: error in module Comment Detail:...
• Commented on AIG Ripoff Gets More Maddening
  Who's worse? Not a close call at all. The politicians are. AIG is guilty only of being greedy. That's a fairly common human flaw, and even more pronounced in large, impersonal corporations. But the politicians? They are guilty of being...
• Commented on Directly downwind faster than the wind - part 3
  I encourage everyone to glance at this site on airplanes: http://www.livescience.com/technology/060828_how_planes_fly.html The point is that the drag on the wing of a plane (or propellor) typically is much less than the amount of lift it can provide.Not relevant. You are...
• Commented on Directly downwind faster than the wind - part 3
  You're absolutely right that propellers have no intrinsic magic. We simply use a propeller because it's what's needed to propel our cart directly downwind faster than the wind.Those two statements contradict each other. If there's no intrinsic magic in the...
• Commented on Directly downwind faster than the wind - part 3
  Here's the thing: there's nothing magical about a propeller in how it converts energy into thrust. It is not any different from a driven wheel in contact with the ground, other than that it accelerates air to create an opposite...
• Commented on Directly downwind faster than the wind - part 3
  Okay...what about a helicopter? In autorotation the "wind" reversal does not cause the blades to turn the opposite direction.Granted, this is completely irrelevant to the proposed vehicle, because they aren't suggesting the wind ever drives the propeller. But, a helicopter...
• Commented on Directly downwind faster than the wind - part 3
  Note that everyone knows that perpetual motion machines can't exist, even those who propose them. Those that propose them always include some justification for why their perpetual motion machines aren't (e.g. "we're extracting the energy from the relative motion between...
• Commented on Directly downwind faster than the wind - part 3
  The questions all assume that the wind turns the propeller, which turns the wheels, which pushes the cart forwards. In fact, the wind pushes on a large object, which accelerates it, which turns its wheels, which turns the propeller, which...
• Commented on Downwind faster than the wind, part 2
  The forces acting on the cart are: 1) Gravity 2) A reaction to gravity perpendicular to the treadmill 3) The contact points of the wheels are stationary with respect to the treadmill, so the the friction acts on the cart...
• Commented on Downwind faster than the wind, part 2
  From the original creator's PDF: By ten mph the lift of the propeller is 552 grams and the force to turn the wheels at that speed is 402 gramsIn other words, it's a perpetual motion machine. It creates more energy...
• Commented on Boing Boing's Moderation Policy (Archived)
  That doesn't make any sense. I was expressing my own observation of the facts, not "parroting a meme"....
• Commented on Boing Boing's Moderation Policy (Archived)
  (I've been directed here by others who claim that this is the appropriate place to discuss moderation issues. So, here I am). It seems to me that Antinous has a hair-trigger, overly primed to take offense where none exists. I've...
• Commented on Bush snubbed at G20 Summit
  Please take it to the moderation thread. "Moderation thread"? Never heard of it. But, if there's a more appropriate place to have the discussion, no one from Boing Boing has mentioned it to me, and Antinous seems perfectly happy to...
• Commented on Bush snubbed at G20 Summit
  Harvey - when you malign the hosts or the other guests, you get dsmvwld. It's not rocket surgery. Which hosts? CNN hosts? In my post, that's the only "host" I "maligned", even assuming you can call a factual observation "maligning"....
• Commented on Bush snubbed at G20 Summit
  Let's see: i hate bush Dumber than YouTube Bush is the weird pale kid who lives with his grandmother, eats liverwurst sandwiches for lunch every day, and that no one pays any attention to at all an alcoholic, middle aged...
• Commented on Bush snubbed at G20 Summit
  h, gv m brk. Just as much as the next guy, I think Bush has been an awful President and I'm always eager to see the latest, best, most entertaining criticism of him. Bt ths? Ths s grt xmpl f...
• Commented on Driver of damaged car pretends nothing is wrong
  The cameraman did exactly the right thing, though, by filming it and uploading it to YouTube "Exactly"? I'm not convinced. Or are you being sarcastic? A person continuing to drive after having had a collision severe enough to cause damage...
• Commented on Conservatives irked by "ostentatiously exotic" pronunciation of Pakistan
  m-w.com lists both "nuclear" and "nucular" as correct pronunciations of "nuclear". Even that source goes on to point out that the alternate pronunciation is widely viewed as incorrect. And as has been pointed out already, other more reputable sources do...
• Commented on Conservatives irked by "ostentatiously exotic" pronunciation of Pakistan
  Uh, okay. So I wonder what these same "conservatives" think about the way that Bush and Palin pronounce the word "nuclear". At least Obama and Petraeus have all the right letters in the right place. The only "story" here is...
• Commented on Computer-Generated Sarah Palin Interview
  I am betting they are Markov text chains. Well, since the web site says they are -- from http://interviewpalin.com/about , "The Markov chain generated answers are surprising [sic] close to her actual answers" -- it's not like that's a hard...
• Commented on Speaking of Zizek
  And, of course, a nod towards evenhandedness is always a good thing. There's a misconception that "evenhandedness" means "equal time". The fact is, if one side of a debate is responsible for a greater share of misinformation or problematic statements...
• Commented on Tritium zipper pulls
  Technically, it's not the tritium that glows, but rather phosphors excited by the electrons emitted by the tritium. Wikipedia is mixed on claims of safety. The tritium articles says it's beta radiation is not harmful externally, but the beta particle...
• Commented on Bill O'Reilly on Sarah Palin email hack
  Because it's a conversation, not a soapbox. If your comments are sufficiently scintillating, readers will follow your links. They will? How can they? They can't follow a link they don't see. I don't get it. If you have a logical...
• Commented on Bill O'Reilly on Sarah Palin email hack
  Please don't link to the same thing more than once. Maybe there's a better place to ask the question, but if so it's not obvious to me. So... Why not? I understand why you'd not want spamming of comments with...