Bodhipaksa

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Commented on Google puts a stop to tooth-whitening, belly-flattening scumbags
There are ads on the internet? I've been using Adblock so long I'd forgotten....
Commented on Is There Really A Water Crisis?
"Everyone in the world has access to water. Everyone. If you didn't, you'd be dead by now." Same with food. Everyone in the world has access to food otherwise they'd be dead. Of course some of them are in fact...
Commented on Watch What You Say About Welsh
My mother was criticizing Scottish Gaelic for having to borrow words like "television." I pointed out that "television" is half Greek and half Latin and therefore is itself borrowed. So what's the *English* word for television, I asked her. Or...
Commented on Al Franken talks an anti-healthcare-reform mob down
Those Minnesotan mobs are just so darned nice!...
Commented on Cloud computing skepticism
One advantage of loud storage is that if my house burns down, taking my computers and backup hard drive with it, I'll have my writing and business accounts safely stored off site. I work at home and don't like having...
Commented on Video: from Australopithecus to Homo sapiens in 5 minutes
@Blaven: you took the words right out of my mouth. I'd suggest turning the sound off, switching tabs for a couple of minutes, and then once the video's fully loaded go back and scroll through it in three seconds. It...
Commented on Scientists mostly don't know what a "theory" is, but should they?
I can't help thinking that the writer of the article protests too much. He doesn't present any evidence that Williams has a simplistic notion of the definitions of terms such as theory, fact, etc. And sure, there are problems defining...
Commented on Krazy Krax 1954 gag looks like a broken TV screen
I remember a more home-spun version of this from a comic-book in my youth, which involved drawing fake cracks on a mirror with the sharp edge of a thin sliver of soap. To my callow eye it was mightily convincing,...
Commented on New Yorker Film Festival: The 5 Scariest Movies Ever?
That's a puzzling list. Mine would have to include: The Shining The Innocents Alien Psycho Silence of the Lambs...
Commented on Sink in a drawer
Kinda reminds me of the sinks they had in Firefly, although they were more industrial and pivoted out....
Commented on The Bush Years poster features a dapper Jack Abramoff
I don't think Jack Abramoff was wearing his hat to work in that picture. Wasn't that him leaving his trial?...
Commented on Weight Watchers is an RPG
Karma: life as a role-playing game....
Commented on GRL's James Powderly detained in Beijing for planning pro-Tibet "L.A.S.E.R. Stencil" art protest
@56 Are Tibetans treated differently? Yes. Many Tibetan women have been forcibly sterilized -- "Genocide lite" if you will. Plus there are the 1.2 million Tibetans who have been murdered or starved to death. But if I understand your point...
Commented on GRL's James Powderly detained in Beijing for planning pro-Tibet "L.A.S.E.R. Stencil" art protest
@49 Good attempt at trolling, Glamajamma. Yes, genocide, torture, cultural colonization -- that sounds just like "world politics lite" and not at all "real issues."...
Commented on GRL's James Powderly detained in Beijing for planning pro-Tibet "L.A.S.E.R. Stencil" art protest
@50 The Dalai Lama and the Tibet government in exile want democracy for Tibet, not a "religious dictatorship." As for the Chinese people supporting their government -- it's kind of hard to say how much they support it, isn't it,...
Commented on Ray Bradbury's futuristic prune commercial
Makes me want to see Isaac Asimov advertising baked beans and Arthur C. Clark touting cigars. And maybe Heinlein doing toothpaste....
Commented on Man jumps on eggs without breaking them
Oh gawd. I just remembered the bastard spawn of "Nationwide", which was "That's Life" -- a show hosted by Esther Rantzen, featuring dogs saying "sausages" (you had to be there), oddly-shaped vegetables, strange "odes" (by someone called Pam), songs by...
Commented on Robot with a biological brain
Sounds very similar to something I read back in 2000: http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s138960.htm -- Kevin Warwick gets a mention there as well. It gave me the willies at the time, especially since there was an almost-concurrent story about a robot that got...
Commented on Man jumps on eggs without breaking them
@Franko: I agree about daytime TV, but this was early evening broadcasting from the BBC -- a show called Nationwide. I remember watching this particular segment with a keen sense of embarrassment as the guy repeatedly failed to quite make...

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Grimel commented on Is There Really A Water Crisis?
Finally a voice of reason. How can there be a water shortage? On a global basis the net amount of water stays the same unless it is somehow disappearing into space. The story is the same with food, as he mentions. It's a very convenient way to feel good to pretend that one is environmentally conscious by spending money on 'organics', etc., but completely unnecessary. It's the same story as your mother telling you to eat everything on your plate because there are starving kids in other countries. True, but what does cleaning your plate do to help that. The...
Sef commented on Google puts a stop to tooth-whitening, belly-flattening scumbags
So are these "belly flattening scumbag" scam adds the exact same ones that I see on right hand side of the boingboing webpage?...
ab3a commented on Is There Really A Water Crisis?
/* Disclaimer: I work for a water utility */ Fact 1: Nobody CONSUMES water. They rent it. Fact 2: Water is heavy. It takes significant energy to move it uphill, or even down a relatively level pipe. Fact 3: There are very few pollutants that we can't remove from water, given enough energy. What we're talking about is management of resources, maximizing energy efficiency, and building and maintaining infrastructure. All of these require effective management and good governmental oversight. What is lacking most of all is the political vision and motivation to recognize the problem and improve everyone's lives. Think...
userw014 commented on Google puts a stop to tooth-whitening, belly-flattening scumbags
This could be a big win for Google. By banning certain classes of advertisers, it's implicitly raising the perceived quality of the rest and encourages advertising houses to avoid the scummier stuff. Of course, if the quality of it's advertising space goes up, it can charge more too. But Google is going to have to be be careful to avoid gathering up too many advertisers in the ban, lest it create a market for Yahoo and Microsoft/Bing as a search engine. Another big risk to Google is the risk of additional political pressure from the left and right (and weird)...
cratermoon commented on Is There Really A Water Crisis?
As many others have already pointed out, this guy's position is bunk -- motivated by politics and profit. Ask the people in Owens Valley, California, if there's a water crisis. Or the farmers in Mexico along mouth of Colorado river -- which rarely has water in it any more and when it does its so burdened with agricultural runoff that it can't be used to water crops....

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