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• Commented on Inexplicably expensive iPhone accessory (video stabilizer)
  Zacuto has a lot of fanboys, I have no doubt they will sell some of these. I am surprised, though, that its ONLY 300 dollars, I guess the price point is designed to meet the expectations of amateurs. There are...
• Commented on Spectator throws out public safety, embraces sensationalism and AIDS denialism
  More disturbing to me than the HIV / AIDS link denial is the implication that this makes about Free Speech. The idea that presenting an extreme view is undemocratic has popped up recently, generally in support of electronic censorship. This...
• Commented on WTF is "Dairy Drink?"
  It is to milk what "juice drink" is to juice. Avoid it, prolly full of gmo garbage. Or else drink it and grow fat and ill and complain about your thyroid or whatever else your FDA approved HMO accepted quasi-quack...
• Commented on Voting machine source-code leak shows election-rigging subroutines?
  Love all the vote-theft apologists... Yes, go back to sleep, its all a "conspiracy theory" and at least "our man" in in the Whitehouse now so its cool....
• Commented on Infographic: Left vs Right
  What a LOAD of it! If you mix elephant and donkey dung its still a load of crap. WHY WHY WHY can we have 137 different kinds of TOOTHPASTE and only TWO kinds of politicians??? Its a fallacy and this...
• Commented on CIA branch invests in tech firm that monitors blogs, Twitter, social media
  War is Peace! Freedom is Slavery! Ignorance is Strength! Obama is Change!...
• Commented on Treehugger profiles off-gridders Abe and Josie about their desert homestead
  Early adopters? I know people who've lived off-grid with solar electric for over 20 years. My wife and I have since 2002, and have had off-grid internet through one means or another for most of that time. Both my wife...
• Commented on Student kills burglary suspect with Samurai sword
  The student ought to be given a medal, not a trial. Burglar forfeited his "rights" the moment he committed a felony. All this coddle the ickle little criminals is bs. Egads, the felon rushed a man with a freaking sword!...
• Commented on Obama gets mixed grade on privacy issues in EPIC report
  Privacy in America is dead. Heck, for the most part this once great nation itself is dead. The last president called our constitution "a God damned piece of paper" and the current one seems to think no better of it,...
• Commented on 9/11/2009
  Oh gods, the jumpers, I haven't thought of that in years... I remember, most, the confusion and panic. Explosions reported left and right and the panic those caused that there would be further attacks. Odd that no one talks about...
• Commented on Nuclear transport trucks in US look surprisingly like regular old trucks
  I've known about this for years from a trucker I spoke with at some length about hazmat shipping. He wouldn't ship hazmat anymore, it was too stressful he had said. But he had a lot of old time trucker friends...
• Commented on Dick Cheney, proud torturer.
  Wow, if they admitted the DRILL and MOCK EXECUTION then WTF is blacked out??? DID they crush KLM's kids testicles in front of him??? Its known that the USA had his kids in custody. Did they RAPE people? Perhaps they...
• Commented on Lawless Surveillance, Warrantless Rationales (a critique of Obama continuation of Bush policies)
  "God forbid we should ever be twenty years without without such a rebellion" - Thomas Jefferson Now we've been far longer, and look where its gotten us. Can't say much more or else the Department of Precrime might indefinitely detain...
• Commented on Interview with Zack Lynch about The Neuro Revolution
  Add to this the benefit, for certain Wall Street firm(s) in the past, that humans can't even packet sniff the data on trades before they are made! Now its all about the software "predicting" what the market will do in...
• Commented on Sprint executive killed when boulder drops on his car.
  I see falling rock signs all the time driving in canyons and the mountains. I see rocks on the road sides all the time in such places. I've swerved to avoid rocks in the road dozens of times. I've heard...
• Commented on University prof wants to put drinking on the curriculum
  In my mind The State has no moral power to control what an adult may or not put into their body, unless doing so somehow harms another. An 18 year old can be sued. An 18 year old can marry....
• Commented on Sketches of the Drug Czars in Vanity Fair
  Czar is a title of nobility, very much like Emperor. Obviously these "Drug Czars" aren't emperors, but still, it was a title of nobility. Now its being bestowed upon agents of the Executive Branch who act more like the Commissars...
• Commented on Old Ad for Fake Guns
  I see a lot of use for them, as others have mentioned they could be used for training and also for theater. Similar fake guns, some with blow back action that doesn't really look real, are often used in indy...
• Commented on Holy Vending Machine
  Is there a Money Changing machine located conveniently to these?...
• Commented on Senator Jeff Sessions, hypocritical racist moonbat
  There are plenty of good reasons to distrust Sotomayor without bring race into the discussion. Sh ws (hs snc clmd t qt) mmbr f th Blzn Grv, knd f fml cntr prt t th Bhmn Grv. Ths grps r llgd...
• Commented on Backwoods Home Magazine: "Imagine Martha Stewart as a gun-toting Libertarian"
  FWIW- The paramilitary pig killing is not something Backwoods Home advocates. That cartoon is specifically in relation to a new FEDERAL LAW mandating small farmers register their animals, their animal's treatment, and even apply in advance for permission to transport...
• Commented on Visualization of US consumer spending
  I really HATE how we've become "consumers". We used to be Citizens. We used to MAKE stuff ourselves. Now we are just marketable (or not) demographics ripe to buy more shit from the man....
• Commented on Elderly retired boxing champ beats six kinds of crap out of drunken burglar neighbour
  WOW!~ I am rather surprised the UK judge didn't let the ickle little thief go and throw the dangerous boxer in jail. That's normally the way home defense cases go in Britain now. Of course, around where I live, the...
• Commented on Man who walked into Burning Man fire loses lawsuit
  Its a shame we have so many crooked lawyers in this country, otherwise this suit would never have happened. I hope the moron has to pay the defendants legal expenses....
• Commented on Canadian gov't: you have no expectation of privacy on the Internet
  And yet, if you see a COP doing something you don't like, IN PUBLIC, and you video tape them... in some nation's you are now a "terrorist" and in most others you are "suspected of terrorism". If you have done...
• Commented on Abstinence doesn't work for IT or for teens
  Its crazy to think that an internet capable computer will never be put online. If the data on the device is too sensitive to risk putting the computer online, then it should have not commonly available networking interface, tcp/ip protocol...
• Commented on Myths about Canadian healthcare
  This article lists an absurdity! After tax income in NEITHER nation is 80-some percent. In actuality, once ALL taxes (sales tax, property tax, state and local taxes, phone tax, gas tax, social security, mandatory licensing fees, etc) are figured the...
• Commented on Infographic: all US one-time expenditures vs the bailout
  1- About loans. These represent money injected into the US economy which was created mostly "out of thin air". That is why this is so scary, this is new money that did not exist before and DWARFS many major spending...
• Commented on Iran Elections Crisis: Online Reading List
  Thank you for this list, it seems somewhat more well rounded than previous posts on the Iranian election fiasco. Its very nice to see what I consider some quality links to reporting "on the ground" in Iran. However, that said,...
• Commented on Twitter reschedules maintenance to avoid clobbering Iranian dissidents
  Antinous Pardon me for not checking every damn link on a page that made a very sane sounding claim about the twitters coming "out of Iran" Do YOU check every link on every page that YOU link to? Your implication...