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• Commented on Plaices of Death
  @45: > I just want to point out for the record that this is NOT less humane than the way much of our supermarket food is killed. Agreed. I'm a carnivore, but only buy meat that was raised and slaughtered...
• Commented on Plaices of Death
  @JulianR > I refuse to click the play button. I've read about this video, and I don't want to see the poor fish suffer. This is more than just animal cruelty, it's completely and utterly evil. Well said....
• Commented on Plaices of Death
  I saw this a few days ago and am still trying to get the horrible site of an animal being tortured out of my mind. For the record, I'm not a vegetarian. I even own a hunting license. ...but where's...
• Commented on Business Reply Mail pamphlet encourages office workers to revolt
  re @2 > My high school Ethics teacher used to keep postage-paid, business-reply envelopes/offers and swap their contents around, appropriately themed. As a small business owner who has a Bus Reply permit, and who pays the postage on each package...
• Commented on Church converted into magnificent bookstore
  @23 wrote: > I'm a tad disappointed that some folks are so mean-spirited and closed-minded as to stereotype churches as inherently worthless, though. Spiritual pursuits are worthy, too. Well said. It's great that books have such a great house to...
• Commented on Zombies vs Villagers chess set
  @3: So how come the bases of all the "good" pieces show crosses? There are paths to goodness other than Christianity. History shows that some of them are better at it. Because Werewolves, Vampires, Frankenstein's Monster, etc., are European folklore,...
• Commented on Punks need socks in Indiana
  @2 wrote: > tube socks $1.99 at Wal-Mart. (Free if you use the five finger discount.) Or 20 minutes of labor of you work at minimum wage. Cry me no tears, and defend me no theft when we're talking about...
• Commented on Lessig: YouTube takedown shows why fair use isn't enough
  I've given Boing Boing and some of the Boing Boingers a lot of static recently over (a) the heavy pro-Obama / anti-Palin bias here; (b) what I perceive as politically based disemvowelling of comments. But fair is fair. I have...
• Commented on Riding Out the Credit Crisis
  @10 posted by Uland , September 30, 2008 8:00 AM > Barney Frank oversaw the policy initiatives to encourage subprime lending to those who couldn't otherwise afford a home. Unless we are talking about people who are living on the...
• Commented on Riding Out the Credit Crisis
  @4 posted by rushkoff , September 30, 2008 7:37 AM > You mean you want the figures proving the rich got richer and poor got poorer in the US over the past ten years? Depending on how you want to...
• Commented on Riding Out the Credit Crisis
  The Republicans pushed for an expansion of lending to the poor? You've got your facts wrong. The Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) and follow on bills were championed primarily by Democrats in Congress, and Republican hesitance to join in was portrayed...
• Commented on Cardboard duvet set
  @3: LOL!...
• Commented on Speaking of Zizek
  > @2 I find this interview to be a wonderful thing! I think that links to political material can be dandy, and I even like links to political material I disagree with. I just think that it's best if it's...
• Commented on Speaking of Zizek
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• Commented on Photos of a very messy house
  Ugh. This person is clearly seriously mentally ill - I don't think that this is any more appropriate fodder for public ridicule than, say, a picture of someone with hideous burns all over their body....
• Commented on Android
  > The World Bank, for example, forces nations borrowing its money to "open" their markets to foreign investment. This means they have to let multi-national corporations build plants I find it amusing that the left used to be the part...
• Commented on Rooibos tea made with espresso machine
  Just 30 seconds agao I made coffee using an infusion tea filter - karmic balance!...
• Commented on BBtv: Star Simpson's first interview on the Boston airport LED sweatshirt scare.
  @31 posted by Anonymous > Clearly her lawyer chickened out and told her to take the deal. As a lawyer in the NYCity area, I would have loved to have taken this case. Just thinking about meeting the press on...
• Commented on BBtv: Star Simpson's first interview on the Boston airport LED sweatshirt scare.
  @5 posted by Yupa > The trouble is, when the definition of what is "normal" are constantly changing due to our extreme reactions to fear of attack, it's hard to live your life. What drama! Look, wearing a circuit board...
• Commented on The Ellsberg Paradox
  @2 posted by JArmstron: > Nor do I know whether all twenty marbles are blue or green or candy-striped. Well said. Based on the environments we evolved in, the left urn makes a hell of a lot more sense. Would...
• Commented on British LibDem party wants to stop hedge-funds from shorting banks
  @28: > TJIC @3, your impassioned defense of short-selling as a vital part of a healthy free stock market would have been much improved by some recognition of the particular ways -- mentioned in the post to which your were...
• Commented on British LibDem party wants to stop hedge-funds from shorting banks
  @6: >> @TJIC #3: >> Obama is the number two recipient of Fanny Mae / Freddie Mac payola, by the way > Could we possibly get a source for that factoid, please? Thanks in advance. http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2008/07/top-senate-recipients-of-fanni.html Primary sources: Federal Election...
• Commented on British LibDem party wants to stop hedge-funds from shorting banks
  @5: > Simplest option is to strictly enforce a limit on the ratio of debt to assets any bank can operate with. It wouldn't prevent banks going tits up, but it would limit the damage by triggering any problem to...
• Commented on British LibDem party wants to stop hedge-funds from shorting banks
  @2 : > "Instruments". I've been hearing this word constantly in the context of how fucked-up our economies have become. I'd never heard anyone talking about "financial instruments" until the whole real estate thing began to crumble That just means...
• Commented on British LibDem party wants to stop hedge-funds from shorting banks
  First off, lightly regulated hedge funds have weathered the crisis pretty well, whereas heavily regulated banks have done comparatively poorly, because (a) a lot of the regulations pressed the banks into doing stupid things - like loaning to borrowers with...
• Commented on Palin's Yahoo email account hacked, contents posted to Wikileaks
  @32 > the invasion of privacy argument is completely, 100% irrelevant.mrs. palin decided to consolidate her personal dealings and the dealings she did on the taxpayer dime. I'm stil lwaiting for evidence of that; repeated assertions != evidence. > it...
• Commented on Palin's Yahoo email account hacked, contents posted to Wikileaks
  @26: > She has evaded every legal attempt at disclosure, even deleting archived government documents stored under questionably legal means on another Yahoo! account. Evidence for that, please? > To hell with her "right to privacy". So since Hillary Clinton...
• Commented on Palin's Yahoo email account hacked, contents posted to Wikileaks
  @18: > Unfortunately, for the citizens of the US, this incident truly shows how abysmally ignorant this person is. She is rationally ignorant - for the most part, I can get away without knowing the proper gapping of the sparkplugs...
• Commented on Palin's Yahoo email account hacked, contents posted to Wikileaks
  I'm surprised and impressed to see everyone here defending Palin's right to privacy, even if they don't agree with her politics. Oh, wait......
• Commented on Funny doctored science fair photos
  The fact that googling on the subject line of your post brings up the original site as the top hit in about 1.3 nanoseconds undercuts the effectiveness of the approach, sadly......