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• Commented on Exclusive SpaceShipTwo unveiling gallery (Updated!)
  we're distracting ourselves by imagining that reaching the stars is a truly amazing achievement. a truly amazing achievement would be taking the funding for space exploration and using it to help people or the environment in countries that are NEVER...
• Commented on 8-way video card
  Well, I GUESS 8-off-one-card is impressive. However, ATI's current gaming cards can do 6-off-one-card. Yes, gaming spread across all of them: http://www.amd.com/us/products/technologies/eyefinity/Pages/eyefinity.aspx ...and, indeed, if you add additional ATI cards to your system in Crossfire, it will soon be able...
• Commented on Big sale on vinyl Obama Hope Rebel flag
  Your self-governance was based on human slavery, to which you seem willing to turn a blind eye in your effort to romanticize your past. Except, as pointed out up-thread, it wasn't. There were several Union states that KEPT slaves. And...
• Commented on Woman gives birth in pool with dolphin, internet gives birth to meme.
  This seems like a bad plan. It isn't wildly common; but dolphins can be kill-crazed psychopaths when it amuses them. A dolphin could fuck up a baby real good in only a few moments just for giggles, I suspect, and...
• Commented on D&D camp, circa 1982
  I didn't hear of D&D until I was in psych juvie in 1985. There was guys there that played it. They looked exactly like this It was 1983. EVERYONE looked like this....
• Commented on Katie Couric's salary exceeds combined budgets of NPR's top news shows
  Broadcast TV is simply more expensive than broadcast radio. Crews are bigger, equipment is heavier (you don't haul along a set of lights when doing an audio interview). Except we aren't talking about those differences. We are comparing the ENTIRE...
• Commented on Free download: tribute to The Clash's Sandinista!
  Well, I wouldn't call it "FREE", when he's being quite clear it's still an illegal copy you'd "still be stealing" to download....
• Commented on Field guide to the hypomanic personality
  I suppose it goes without saying that hypomaniac personalities have a really hard time fitting in with 'regular corporate jobs'. If you happened to be blessed with wealthy parents, or born into an area with good schools, you can go...
• Commented on Van Halen had good reason to ban brown M&Ms in their concert rider.
  Special contemporary relevance, too, given recent deaths from stage collapses at concerts. Those 'little details' are BIG IMPORTANT DETAILS and a quick, cheap way to see if someone even bothered to look at them seems rather clever....
• Commented on Chief energy economist says oil reserves are drying up more quickly than previously thought
  Technically, he said "fossil fuels," not "oil." I think we can assume that the "800 oil fields" surveyed don't contribute appreciably to coal production. Which is still where most of our power generation comes from. So, indeed, 'go nuclear' is...
• Commented on Juice company rips off Get Your War On
  So...wait...everyone in this thread thinks that GYWO was the first person to take stock clip art and add amusing captions to them? That's...interesting....
• Commented on Burk Uzzle's photos of Woodstock
  Where is genuine, unmarketed community today, especially for the young? It's dead or dying for most places. The internet? No, wait - I'm serious. Get to feel a sense of belonging and numbers, share new ideas, find inspiration and new...
• Commented on The Bing Thing
  #14: "Could we retire the superior/inferior tech meme? It's one's use for tech, not the inherent capability of the tech in question, that determines value, no? If you want to play video games on a computer, then a PC's your...
• Commented on "Here. My Explosion..." a tilt-shift feature film by Reid Gershbein
  Well, it was...interesting enough. Can't say I'm a mega fan of a story just for a story's sake. I mean, what is the meaning here? Why should we care about these individuals being portrayed? What character development or change occurred?...
• Commented on Dear Esther: bizarre, touching Half Life 2 mod
  If you do end up buying HL2, as noted, do so as part of the 'Orange Box'. HL2, as a game - well, it's a shooter, of course, but tells an amusingly engaging (for a shooter) post-apocalyptic kind of tale....
• Commented on Krassner: Stewart was right the first time
  As noted, the case for the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is not NEARLY as clear cut as some would like. - As mentioned above. Even after BOTH atomic bombs, AND the Soviet Union declaring war...military leaders STILL attempted...
• Commented on Auto-Tune the news - everything sounds better
  Biden in the #1 vid and Couric in the #2 vid are MIND-blowingly well done. Their style of speech adapts very well to this, and makes it quite ROFLcake. A lot of the others were rather so-so, but those two...
• Commented on Michael Kontopoulos' sculptures that almost tip themselves over
  Repost or not, this is a remarkable composition. I'm not usually a fan of modern/abstract uhhh...sculptures? Art? But this piece is quite compelling....
• Commented on Nine year old's survey project excluded from school because he learned some people don't think of themselves as male or female
  #11. Umm. Yeah. Yeah, there is. Just because you don't LIKE something, doesn't mean it's not true. There are those who don't get off on being human, either, and prefer various anthropomorphic animals (or whatnot) instead. Guess what? Ur still...
• Commented on Shuffle Deep the Gathering Gloom
  #1 "Have you tried the Arkham Horror? Great beer and pretzels gaming." This is sarcasm, no? Or are you instead just a foaming-at-the-mouth-crazy-person? I cannot tell. ?Maybe reading one too many of those unfathomably ancient unspeakable tomes? I mean, Holy...
• Commented on Bankers can't possibly afford NYC on a mere $500K/year
  People are still surprised that a capitalist economy leads to such wasteful over-indulgence in the 'elite' clas? Really? And if this is the society you WANT...why are you arguing about $10,000 dresses and multiple-$8,000 vacations, and $125,000 drivers? Granted, it's...
• Commented on TED2009: Make Love not Porn
  #44 "The whole, "you're already shaving your legs and underarms!" argument is especially silly, as not all of us do that either. " Indeed, I left that as an unstated assumption, as my blurbs were already going far too long....
• Commented on TED2009: Make Love not Porn
  #30 "I hate porn videos with unshaven(?sic?) women. it looks like CHILDREN. it's disturbing." I assume you mean 'shaven women', here. ANYWAY, this is what I was trying to point out above. Guess what? When females hit puberty, it's not...
• Commented on TED2009: Make Love not Porn
  #25 "No. We want you to like yourself the way you are." Especially those hairy armpits and legs. And don't you dare think about any makeup! Au natural, all the way! ROWR! And while we are on the topic, deodorant?...
• Commented on TED2009: Make Love not Porn
  #14 "Who's going to make a site for girls who watch porno?" I believe the corollary for a site would be: "Date a real guy instead of a romance novel/soap opera character." With such pointers as... Romance Novel World: Your...
• Commented on TED2009: Make Love not Porn
  You know, this conversation I've had before (RE: the specific comment noted in the BB posting). And a solid and logical explanation from the ladies WOULD be welcome. - You shave your legs, because hairy legs are 'gross' - You...
• Commented on Masked man sticks up convenience store with a Klingon sword
  Some of the user comments in that link are COMEDY GOLD: "I think 7-Eleven should require all clerks to keep Tribbles behind the counter, in case of future attempts." "The economy is so bad, even the Star Trek geeks are...
• Commented on Kevin Kelly: Access is better than ownership
  "I would also argue that we've lost sight of history here. The whole ownership model as a cultural norm is a pretty recent development. Ask your parents (or grandparents for you younger folk) about "ownership" of movies, music, books --...
• Commented on Kevin Kelly: Access is better than ownership
  The point of the 'old classics of marginal mass interest' is also a good one. I dig Netflix and Hulu, but sometimes I don't WANT to see something new that I haven't seen before. There is a lot to be...
• Commented on Kevin Kelly: Access is better than ownership
  I'm surprised a contributor on THIS site thinks this is a good idea at all? What happens when we no longer have books, newspapers, movies, etc to record information, and all have 'easy, instant access' to an online catalog of...