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Commented on Olympic Committee Member to Chicago bid team: US Customs is "harrowing experience"
You mean the USA wanted to have a World championship where they actually invited other countries? Airport security does next to nothing to keep people safe anyways. It's just to make people FEEL safer, and they don't even do a...
Commented on Reading Kafka improves learning?
I thought it said "reading kaptchas". Doh....
Commented on Barney Frank pwns crazy lady at "town hall" meeting, effectively invoking Godwin's law.
The President has made the following assurances: (1) 40+ million Americans who have no health insurance will now be fully covered. (2) Those who are currently covered by Medicare or commercial insurance will have no diminution of the care...
Commented on Barney Frank pwns crazy lady at "town hall" meeting, effectively invoking Godwin's law.
Can we get this guy to talk to Jenny McCarthy, homeopaths and all other nutballs out there?...
Commented on Video: Rushkoff on Colbert
... and they wonder why we Canadians get blamed for pirating. We won't let you watch it for free because you guys are all pirates. Makes sense to me....
Commented on Hmm. Maybe that wasn't such a good idea after all.
Mixed martial arts is nothing more than bar fights without the beer bottles. It's Jerry Springer on steroids. Let's watch white idiots beat the crap out of each other....
Commented on Truth about myths about myths about file sharing in Canada
Another issue I have as a digital consumer in Canada is that it's nearly impossible to find legal ways to view or purchase digital content. Most online streaming sites(Hulu, ABC, NBC, CBS, Comedy Central etc) are US only. I know...
Commented on British cops stop and hassle thousands to "balance racial statistics"
Nowhere did I say that whites don't commit terrorist acts. The police should be able to interrogate the most probable suspects regardless of race, or how many people of that category they have questioned in the past....
Commented on British cops stop and hassle thousands to "balance racial statistics"
This is what happens when people cry racial profiling every time a minority is arrested. I don't blame the police here at all, it's not their fault, it's the fault of the system that will criticize them if they do...
Commented on Apple bans EFF RSS feed display-app from iPhone store
New slogan for Microsoft: "Think for yourself." My God people, how far does the Jobs empire have to go before the iCultists stop drinking the Koolaid?...
Commented on Canadian cinema fined $10,000 for privacy invasion over bag-search
Got our bags searched at a Toronto Bluejays game today, including my laptop. "Please just turn it on, so we know it's not a bomb." Asked security. "And if it WAS a bomb, would you know how to diffuse it?"...
Commented on Videos of super high speed spore release mechanisms
See how fast Spore is without DRM?...
Commented on On Darwin's birthday, 4 in 10 believe in evolution
Doesn't this prove the theory? Or at least that we haven't finished evolving yet?...
Commented on Photo of strange airborn animal?
One of the Olson twins?...
Commented on Hardest-to-understand EULA *ever* when you install WoW on GNU/Linux
It's obviously the ascii-art version of WOW....
Commented on Soviet bunker as theme park
Looks like Fallout 3 Larping to me....
Commented on Xeni at Web 2.0 Wed 11/4 in SF: Future of Online Video Panel
Also, I would like the nationalization of online video to be addressed. 90% of online video I wish to buy and/or stream is US only. The www in a URL stands for WORLD WIDE web, not US only web. As...
Commented on The US Presidential Election: Open Thread
Until all Americans are treated equal, there's very little to celebrate. As a Canadian, I congratulate you on electing your first visible minority, something we have yet to do. Hopefully it won't take as long to give homosexuals equal rights....
Commented on Oldest toy in Britain
Damn, it just got recalled. Too much lead paint....
Commented on People over 55 dream in black and white?
Does that mean my kids dream in HD?...
Commented on New online magazine edited by R.U. Sirius
Darn, I thought you mean Yahoo Serious. (And sorry for the three people who get that bad 80s reference)....
Commented on BBtv: Robert Plant and Allison Krauss interview (music)
I hope it's better than the Siouxsie Sioux and Morrissey duet. It was described by Q magazine as "like chocolate covered chicken, both tasty individually, but together...."....
Commented on The Faith Tones: "Jesus Use Me" LP cover
Check out the graphic in the comments for your proof #2. http://j-walkblog.com/index.php/weblog/comments/the_faith_tones/...
Commented on John Hodgman in BBtv's SPAMasterpiece Theater.
For some bizarre reason, this reminds me of The Librarian from Hilarious House of Frightenstein. Ok, I need to up my medications, I know....
Commented on Palin believes dinosaurs and men once coexisted
Maybe she asked McCain. He's a dinosaur....
Commented on Microsoft’s “I’m a PC” Ads - made on a Mac
How credible can the information from the "Cult of Mac" web site be?...
Commented on Microsoft's "I'm a PC" ad
If you knew Deepak Chopra's philosophy (he's the "pretentious egghead), then I thought his comments were great. I think the ads are on the mark, dispelling the myths that Windows users are all business nerds. Despite what the iCult users...
Commented on Grapes with a EULA
Just how do seedless grapes reproduce? Are they humping somewhere we don't know about?...
Commented on Fourth grader suspended for using broken pencil sharpener
Common sense is not common any more. I can't bring a bottle of water to a Bluejays game here in Toronto because it could be used "as a dangerous weapon" (even though they SELL bottled water), but I can go...
Commented on Stand Up To Cancer: Podcast Version
I actually was a cancer researcher in the past, having my degree in Molecular Genetics and working in hematology oncology research for 5 years. Even though I got my wife the best doctors in Canada (having worked with them), and...

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adamnvillani commented on Olympic Committee Member to Chicago bid team: US Customs is "harrowing experience"
How many of the 18 voters for Chicago were members of the US delegation? None of them. As long as your country is still in the running, you don't vote. So in the first round, there were no voters from the USA, Brazil, Spain, or Japan. Furthermore, out of 106 IOC members, only two are from the USA....
bananastar commented on Olympic Committee Member to Chicago bid team: US Customs is "harrowing experience"
I extend my sympathies to non-US citizens and people who are FWB (Flying while Brown, or with a suspicious name like, gasp, Ahmad.). I did quite a bit of traveling for business in the 90s, so I have a fair amount of experience in dealing with undertrained and underendowed (not that kind) TSA officials. However, as we all seem to agree upon, things have gotten MUCH worse. The last time I flew in from Paris (deGaulle), my connection was through Dulles. Now, it's not just that at least 300 people were shuttled into one room to wait for customs (2.5...
CastanhasDoPara commented on Olympic Committee Member to Chicago bid team: US Customs is "harrowing experience"
I'm a little late to this thread but... Having traveled extensively I can say that customs in most places can be a little harrowing. While the experience varies in the US based on where you enter/depart. Chicago (for citizens) is not that bad, and Miami just sucks in general. When returning from Nicaragua I was asked all sorts of ridiculous questions. When I started a long winded synopsis about supporting social justice and researching the hellish effects of US intervention in a sovereign nation the agent actually stopped me saying "okay okay, shut up kid and just get out of...
Tzctlp commented on Olympic Committee Member to Chicago bid team: US Customs is "harrowing experience"
"The first-round vote totals showed Madrid with 28, Rio 26, Tokyo 22, and Chicago 18. " So what you are saying is that 75% of people not wanting you is not that bad? When did they stop teaching arithmetic in the US?...
Rich Keller commented on People over 55 dream in black and white?
Sometimes I'll dream in third person and my dreams are always in color. I had a third person dream like that last night. The new thing for me is dreams heavily influenced by Second Life. I've had dreams with people flying around in the background like avatars and with having to wait for objects to rez. I need to spend more time outside, apparently....

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