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• Commented on Gun owners are the happiest people in the US
  I don't want to own a gun. They're dangerous and I don't want one of the damn things around a house. However, I think that we've got to expect political instability ahead, and I want to be able to defend...
• Commented on Brit MP calls for photographers' rights
  I think George Lucas hit on something when he said we are at a loss because we don't own the right to our own image. Photographers should not magically have the right to take pictures of whatever they want, or...
• Commented on Ted Turner: global warming could lead to cannibalism
  Pigs are intelligent, thoughtful animals, and often nicer and smarter than most human individuals. Bacon is tasty. Apparently, human meat tastes very much like pig meat. We have barely glimpsed the culinary possibilities of cannibalism....
• Commented on Difference between feeling secure and being secure
  If the terrorists want to blow something up in the USA, they're going to be able to do it. We're an open society. That means you can buy the ingredients necessary to build a car bomb at Wal-Mart, Pep Boys...
• Commented on Declassified memo authorized US to torture "enemy combatants"
  This might be an irrelevant question, but what are the policies of other superpowers (China, Russia, India, EU) toward torture? Is there a web site that lists these somewhere, and who watches the watchers?...
• Commented on Reviewing the real world as if it were a MMO -- sheer genius
  The term "sheer genius" is overused here....
• Commented on Giant, hippie-hating, cannibalistic squids attack SF Bay Area
  They look really cool. I wouldn't pick one up, but they're graceful and beautiful in the water....
• Commented on Scott Sigler's INFECTED -- free download, inexplicably limited
  Here's the thing with net-savvy writers. People who hide behind cutsie little log-in names and slam our hard work after reading three paragraphs used to be able to revel in their anonymity and self-anointed expertise. Well now the writers can...
• Commented on Scott Sigler's INFECTED -- free download, inexplicably limited
  Did anyone else notice the excerpt is overblown trash? It was a collection of cliches that read like something out of a high school lit mag written by the guy in the Iron Maiden tshirt who always played D&D....
• Commented on Man creates vigilante robot to battle drug dealers
  The most recent NCVS data (Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2003) indicate that men commit 79% of assaults and robberies. Arrest data show a nearly identical pattern, with men comprising 77% of those arrested for assault and robbery (FBI, 2003). http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2294/is_11-12_52/ai_n15395183...
• Commented on Why hardware ebook readers are a dead end (for now, anyway)
  We need device convergence here. A laptop, a cell phone, a watch, a camera, and an ebook reader? How about an Asus Eee with a webcam and an eInk display instead. The experience of quietly sitting reading a book is...
• Commented on HOWTO Earn an artist's living in the 21st century: 1000 True Fans
  If you aspire to such grandeur as eating five portions of fresh fruits and vegetables every day or paying health insurance premiums, you'd better make close to $100K. Ain't that the truth. It seems to be getting worse, too. $20...
• Commented on Payday Loan scumbags prey on the elderly, illiterate, poor
  What good things come from payday loan companies? If there are none, why do we allow them to exist?...
• Commented on California judge shuts down wikileaks
  It seems an extreme response to yank the site, instead of forcing it to remove specific documents. Or am I a clueless ingenue without a nose for modern life here?...
• Commented on Objectivism in Bioshock
  "No Gods or Kings, only Man." And humankind is doing such a great job......
• Commented on U.S. will try to shoot down spy satellite gone bad
  I don't buy it. This is either a "signal" to China or Russia to back off, or there was something on that sattellite we're not supposed to know about. Whether that's super-secret optics that can measure penis length from space,...
• Commented on Warren Ellis: Freak Angels
  You know, this comes from the genre of postmodern stories that all try to be clever, but cannot hide the fact that they're the same product. No new ideas. A slightly new combination of steampunk, cyberpunk, post-apocalyptic, and the characters...
• Commented on Cop roughs up teenage skateboarder on video
  20 years ago, I was that kid. This isn't easy to say but... I think the cop should have been more respectful. I think skateboarders need love because most of us kids, then or now, come from families in various...
• Commented on Video of man firing 18 rounds from a pistol in 3 seconds
  "If you are capable of putting away your gun for a few days, why don't you? " I think the point of having guns is as a deterrent. People around here keep their hunting guns locked away all season, but...
• Commented on Who cut the cheese? I mean the transoceanic 'net cables?
  Deep sea suicide bombers?...
• Commented on Bill to ban restaurants serving obese people
  Borrowing a page from Jonathan Swift, maybe we should just eat the fat people. Problem solved....
• Commented on Bill to ban restaurants serving obese people
  Freedom means the ability to eat yourself to death if you want to. It also means the rest of us shouldn't be obligated to pay for your medical care or burial. Something about this law grosses me out, and I'm...
• Commented on U2 manager blames silicon valley's "hippy values" for making him less rich
  He needs another $10m to expand the house and move the guest quarters another 2 miles from the master bath....
• Commented on Leaked UK gov't doc reveals plan to "coerce" Brits into national ID register -- MIRROR THIS FILE!
  A mirror: http://technical-writing.dionysius.com/resources/NIS_Options_Analysis_Outcome.pdf It's the documents you don't see that hurt you worst....
• Commented on Why I'm Not at CES
  Less consumable junk, less landfill....
• Commented on "Bacon: The Candy of Meats" embroidery
  If you've ever socialize with a pig, you may never eat bacon again. They're intelligent, expressive animals....
• Commented on What would it be like to be the last person on Earth?
  New url for earth abides: http://www.amazon.com/Earth-Abides-George-R-Stewart/dp/0345487133/...
• Commented on Adobe Creative Suite fails "catastrophically" thanks to DRM
  I find DRM insulting because it always wastes my time, uncompensated, for something that rarely works and never deters pirates. That's not to say I'm against Intellectual Property. I proudly support it. I don't support the parasitic industries that rise...
• Commented on ApplyYourself: in order to send a letter of reference to a university admissions committee, you have to sign our crazy EULA
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald's_Restaurants A helpful link. Numerous people burn themselves similarly with hot liquids in the home, and have no one to sue for it. http://www.kidshealth.org/parent/firstaid_safe/emergencies/burns.html If you're looking for good guys and bad guys in this world, I suggest dealing instead...
• Commented on Benazir Bhutto assassinated
  I think Jeff makes an interesting point, one I'm not sure how I feel about. Those are the delicious ones. Personally, I'm all for isolationism. As far as I can tell, 99% of the world are crazy, stupid and/or really...