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• Commented on G20 police uses arrested student as trophy in group photo
  Disgusting, inhuman, undemocratic - the mantra of the police of today. Every single cop in that clip deserves to be fired immediately....
• Commented on Android developers pledge to make open equivalents to Google's proprietary apps
  #5: Say what? Read it again: "Cyanogen, an Android dev, made much-loved Android OSes that bundled in Google's default apps, like Google Maps, and Google says that this violates their copyrights and has ordered him to stop. They're probably right...
• Commented on Jenna Bush, NBC <s>White House</s> correspondent -- the American Meritocracy
  my #41 was a reply to Cicada's #39...
• Commented on Jenna Bush, NBC <s>White House</s> correspondent -- the American Meritocracy
  All you describe are facts about how things are in the world. That is not unfair per se. Unfairness is when people can act do remedy the situation but opt not to. Anyway, regardless of what your reasoning in contradictory...
• Commented on Jenna Bush, NBC <s>White House</s> correspondent -- the American Meritocracy
  @cicada: Right on man! Look at all those fools throughout history, whining that "slavery is unjust" and "withholding women the possibility to vote is unfair" and "child labor should be abolished" and on and on. Why did they not just...
• Commented on Jenna Bush, NBC <s>White House</s> correspondent -- the American Meritocracy
  @cicada: what this at root "is about" is justice and fairness. We live in a world of great economic inequalities. Can that be justified? One attempt is merit based inequality. Then that needs to be fleshed out. One way is...
• Commented on Jenna Bush, NBC <s>White House</s> correspondent -- the American Meritocracy
  The appeal to "meritocracy" is in 99% of the cases pure BS to preserve the unfair and unjust status quo. All other things equal, if someone puts in more effort or has a more dangerous profession then that merits higher...
• Commented on Russian Roulette, balloon style
  This seems a tad dangerous. Can a ballon really stop the bullet?...
• Commented on Pirate Bay judge had conflict of interest: mistrial?
  This is a tricky case. The judge is a member of "Svenska Föreningen För Upphovsrätt" which literally translates to "Swedish Society for Copyright". They present themselves as a debate forum for scholars and people in the legal field. But critics...
• Commented on Many Restaurants Remain Oblivious to Mobile Web
  True true! Any restaurant opting for a website should do the following: 1. scan your takeaway pamphlet and put it as image (or convert it to text) on a static html page. All on one page, no menus. If you...
• Commented on Archive of home recordings accidentally released to Napster
  So now that you've slept then maybe you can consider some of the excellent arguments against your website above? Since you welcome the conversation (#17). The only defence you've tried to give was, as far as I can tell, that...
• Commented on Archive of home recordings accidentally released to Napster
  Ed G is right. This is morally wrong. Naivete IS a defence. Some people have unintentionally put themselves in a position where their privacy is vulnerable. As a fellow human you either help them by informing them of that vulnerability...
• Commented on Ghost pigeon photos
  See also Flickr group "Bird Imprints on Glass" http://www.flickr.com/groups/552462@N20/pool/page3/ There was an awesome (to look at, not to be the creator of) owl imprint here in Sweden recently: http://www.vk.se/Article.jsp?article=223439...
• Commented on Zappers: tools that let restaurateurs adjust the totals on their tills to cheat on taxes
  This is why I always pay with my credit card in restaurants etc. Then it is much harder for the restaurant to get away with fraud - there's always a correct money trail. An unexpected tactic against this kind of...
• Commented on HOWTO Make a Viking spoon
  I am an viking and I approve of this message! #7 Djärv is a computerized typo, not a real word. djärv is the word. But djärv.com is not even the right website. The correct site selling the tool in question...