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• Commented on Missing: Phil Agre, internet scholar
  Vidya, sounds like he's a missing person, so any info that helps people identify him is probably fair game. Someone in the legal arena will surely weigh in. But obviously most important is that the info helps. People now know...
• Commented on Hope is fading
  "To end the wars." I believed, like many others, that when Obama-the-candidate said he was for the war in Afghanistan and against the war in Iraq, that he was just saying that about Afghanistan only to win some Republican votes....
• Commented on Murdoch-Microsoft deal in the works
  "and also, nothing from *The Simpsons, *X-Men*, *Avatar*," Actually, the nature of film is to be written about widely. How often does ANYONE consult the official sites of a film? Granted, I do to grab wallpapers, but, for reading about...
• Commented on Murdoch-Microsoft deal in the works
  Another reason to switch to Mac. Seriously -- if Microsoft computers come with IE, which will use Bing to find all the right-wing news from Murdoch, then that's reason enough for some people to say the hell with Microsoft....
• Commented on Koalas may go extinct in 30 years
  "do you advocate...allowing our populations to die off to levels sustainable by subsistence farming?" We should just be encouraging families to only have one child, two at the most. Status quo, or reduction. We cannot afford to keep expanding, or...
• Commented on Koalas may go extinct in 30 years
  When flappers were dancing in their speakeasys the human population was only 2 billion. When Kennedy was president, the Earth held 3 billion. Today, we are 7 billion. The Koalas haven't a chance at evolving into bipedal, sophisticated people. They'd...
• Commented on Secret Diary of a Specialist in Developmental Neurotoxicology and Cancer Epidemiology
  Maybe the science angle would have made the tv series more interesting. The fictionalized character's life was so boring!...
• Commented on Hallowe'en is safe, your kids are safe, the only scary thing is the warnings
  The police chief in Boulder, CO seemingly had a paranoid breakdown -- he closed 6 public parking garages, had a SWAT team on standby, police on overtime, and plans to close the highway, accompanied by announcements for the public to...
• Commented on Do chimps grieve?
  Although the first mention of "anthropomorphise" was in jest, that's the word usually trotted out whenever one who believes that man is different than other mammals wants to set mankind apart from the rest. Some people actually believe that other...
• Commented on BMW drives on top of other cars in parking lot (video)
  @Anonymous - No, that means brakes are swifter....
• Commented on LEDs: Throwing Some Light on the Hype
  I've bought a few LED bulbs, but their use is limited to hallway and foyer lights because the green-yellow color is too unpleasant for actual living spaces. I also use them on a couple outdoor fixtures that are meant to...
• Commented on Photos of remote birds killed by our trash
  So *that's* why the curbside recycling programs don't allow bottle caps to be recycled -- they're saving them for the birds....
• Commented on Arizona Republic quotes psychics as experts on the future
  Scientists are known for many things, but morals and ethics is certainly not one of them. So although I respect their efforts to stop organized religion, I would not want a world in which scientists accumulate power to guide policy....
• Commented on Arizona Republic quotes psychics as experts on the future
  Yes. But please, don't make a claim about paranoia when I'm only stating factual information about what CSICOP's media outreach efforts include. Here's the New York Times article that most people who know about their group have read, to give...
• Commented on Arizona Republic quotes psychics as experts on the future
  The sort of outrage over this innocuous human interest story is characteristic of the former CSICOP group (now renamed the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry), and sure enough, the amazing Randi is there in the comments. They spend up to 2...
• Commented on IT Crowd comes back for a fourth season!
  Well the BBC could make a few bucks by releasing season 2 of Peep Show in the US. Season 1 was great, and it is the only season on DVD in the US. (I know, I could just pirate the...
• Commented on IT Crowd comes back for a fourth season!
  "I hate it when the brits make good shows, because they torture us by only doing six episodes at a time!" I know! They're so freaking lazy! And sometimes they can't even get actors to commit to even those few...
• Commented on G20 protesters blasted by sonic cannon
  "Should we assume they wear ear plugs?" It's designed to be so loud that it rattles your ribcage and bones -- plugging your ears might prevent damage but you're still going to suffer when it hits you. Looks like these...
• Commented on G20 protesters blasted by sonic cannon
  This is why we need real-life X-Men to develop -- so that they can flick their fingers or whatnot and make these weapons fail, mysteriously and completely....
• Commented on 1.7 sextillion dollar suit filed against B of A
  He took their counter offer of an octogenarian without realizing it was a trick....
• Commented on 1.7 sextillion dollar suit filed against B of A
  Maybe he'd like to buy a vowel?...
• Commented on Death row Inmates' last words
  Just after having read those, I realized that in my mind's ear I'd used a black voice as I read each of those statements. This could be an interesting psychological study - to show people these and then ask them...
• Commented on Gadgets used in Garrido property investigation: "ground-penetrating radar," magnetometers
  The live girl they found must be pretty messed up to not be able to simply tell the police if he had other victims....
• Commented on "Insane killer" who was treated to a day at a county fair escapes
  If he's still lurking around the fairgrounds, send in KISS....
• Commented on 1917 Beekman Street Subway collapse
  "Are there some ghost in that pic at top or some kind weird effect from the camera?" Long exposure - a few seconds long. Some people walked away during the exposure....
• Commented on Student kills burglary suspect with Samurai sword
  The situation is terrible for the students who live there, who likely must now move to protect themselves from revenge. The swordsman will probably have to move out of the state entirely, or at a minimum become anonymous until he...
• Commented on Surveillance video of insurgents in Afghanistan accidentally blowing themselves up while planting a bomb
  "why are Canadians dying in Afghanistan today?" Because Afghanistan is the world's leading supplier of rocks. Without securing Afghanistan, garden supply stores would not have any rocks to sell. It would be absolute chaos! Rocks don't just grow on trees...
• Commented on Conservative California legislator gives pornographic account of his multiple affairs (including a lobbyist) into open mic
  @46 - Exactly! This wasn't an affair, it was bribery. The companies that were pimping the escort -- or "contracting with the lobbyist" -- were violating laws....
• Commented on Baby chicks ground up alive: animal rights video goes viral
  This is terrible but I now have a craving for an Egg McMuffin while watching The Matrix....
• Commented on Baby chicks ground up alive: animal rights video goes viral
  If this company makes eggs, why are there all these newly born chickens around? I thought the eggs that we eat are unfertilized (since the laying hens are kept without roosters). So where are all these chicks coming from? And...