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• Commented on Salvation Army and other charities require proof of immigration status before needy kids can have toys -- UPDATED!
  "So those who disagree with the Salvation Army are really saying that American children should not get help." logic fail. its actually the desire for ALL children to get help, firt come first served. Only then they bump into the...
• Commented on Lawmakers read script written by biotech/drug giant's lobbyists
  I'm with Mac and MythicalMe. No real way to change it without revolution. if you make a rule in one direction the corperate bastages take advantage, make the rule in the opposite direction and they'll still find a way to...
• Commented on CNN ends a web news experiment
  Oh and don't forget the ads. tv is a 'free' medium that is paid for by advertisers. Web ads don't make them any where near as much, but then again with tv viewers in decline and 500 channels to pick...
• Commented on URL shorteners suck less, thanks to the Internet Archive and 301Works
  at least cookies are spying by the person with whom you visited (mostly). once again it's all about involving a 3rd party aside from that.. Cory said he loves cookies, wait.. wut? lol...
• Commented on URL shorteners suck less, thanks to the Internet Archive and 301Works
  what you say does not change the fact its like me passing a note to a friend of yours to give to you.. where as I can confirm everything works if I just handed the damn note to you. and...
• Commented on Vans with R. Crumb artwork
  I have always loved that piece of his.. its the closest I've ever seen of a cartoon fuzzy animal representation of me and my wife from when we first started dating in 1990 aaaah good times. made a nice poster...
• Commented on HOWTO kill wiretaps when making a phone call
  too bad it seems inconsistent. its a shame it is a sledge hammer instead of a scalpel. every bit helps though so good to know this.....
• Commented on Large Hadron Collider: Now This Is Just Getting Ridiculous
  I have heard of too many major power grid outages here in north america being from racoons or other wildlife deciding to sit/chew/fart on a wire. (the rest of the outages came from neglect of course) anyone ever thought of...
• Commented on More on secret copyright treaty: your kids could go to jail for noncommercial music sharing
  I agree with the few here who think it will get a whole lot worse before drastic measures are taken by us who are oppressed by the big corporate interests. I for one, will be expecting secret meetings like the...
• Commented on BBC wants to put DRM on the TV Brits are forced to pay for
  @42 posted by Anon Nick Reynolds (I am the executive editor of the BBC Internet blog) thanks for pointing that post out, I would also refer to this other post, http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2009/10/freeview_hd_copy_protection_a.html With those however, I fail to see the commenter's...
• Commented on Vietnamese junkbot builder
  I do not know the level of functionality of those 'robots' but they are quite nice, and also reminds me of what my friend Monsterzero makes. he made.. http://mzbd.blogspot.com/2008/12/cyber-baby-toy-art.html and.. http://mzbd.blogspot.com/2008/12/sweet-revenge-more-toy-art.html then helped his little girl make this.. http://mzbd.blogspot.com/2009/03/haleys-school-project.html...
• Commented on The Boing Boing / Insane Clown Posse / Juggalo Singularity
  I never see swearing on boing boing anywhere near as much as when the boingers come out to pour a pot of flaming oil all over the ICP thang. and also of interest is the amazing amount of people who...
• Commented on Snapshot: A series of tubes.
  I like how you have to squint through the bright lights to catch a glimpse of the bags in the window, All the while, knowing that it will be the bag you saw on a fashion TV special just the...
• Commented on @BBVBOX: recent guest-tweeted web video picks (boingboingvideo.com)
  of the anti Obama peoples and the Juggalos. The Juggalo video was meant to make them look bad, I suppose.. But at least if I had some facts to back me up, a juggalo would take my word for it...
• Commented on Scratch-built miniature arcade game replica
  hm the guy I orignaly tried to reply to is gone (??) so now it looks like I'm over critiqueing the new #1. hmm. I guess the guy disappeared for name dropping xboxes and ps3? wieeerd....
• Commented on All publicly funded content should be in the public domain.
  as for us canadians getting screwed, we have a long history of it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0m8L_UlpIhM&feature=channel...
• Commented on All publicly funded content should be in the public domain.
  Cantube.ca --> http://www.youtube.com/user/CBCtv...
• Commented on All publicly funded content should be in the public domain.
  I for one, am a socialist so debating this in our current political system is pointless. I am sorry that under the current system one has the right to do whatever they want with their own property as long as...
• Commented on All publicly funded content should be in the public domain.
  with the new world of producing things on demand, there is no reason to say "if it hasn't been on the market in the last year, it should be free" the web site would stay up and if you want...
• Commented on Scratch-built miniature arcade game replica
  strangely enough there is a big love for older games, so even though you are not interested I am sure there are many drooling over this. either 'cause of nostalgia or 'cause it is the old thing from before they...
• Commented on All publicly funded content should be in the public domain.
  My wife has been yelling at the TV and the intarwebs everytime she sees mention of an old beloved production out of canada that has faded into obscurity even though thousands of fans are trading bad vhs taped rips of...
• Commented on Child-safety software sells your kids' IM conversations to market-research companies
  having recently found a computer left out for the trash (turns out all good but the power supply!), and also being totally in love with digital archeology, I read all the text I could find on it. I prefer to...
• Commented on Gary McKinnon: Wanted, Dead or Alive (Guest opinion/Oxblood Ruffin)
  @63 MDH after I posted I suddenly had a duh I get it. thanx for being crystal clear though :) I do get the fact you aren't endorsing it. me? I just talk a big game due to frustration with...
• Commented on Gary McKinnon: Wanted, Dead or Alive (Guest opinion/Oxblood Ruffin)
  @58 Moriarty the sentence I reffered to at face value implied nothing was done other than the entry, while yours implied both looking AND doing (I.E the copying). It is true however that it would seem 99% of Westerners have...
• Commented on Gary McKinnon: Wanted, Dead or Alive (Guest opinion/Oxblood Ruffin)
  @53 Onigorom people trade freedom from other's force of will, for the benefits of collectives. Such as paved roads and running water. its a balance when done right...
• Commented on Gary McKinnon: Wanted, Dead or Alive (Guest opinion/Oxblood Ruffin)
  @Madmolecule "If they don't prosecute, that will set a precedent that it's OK to hack into government computers as long as you don't hurt anything while you're in there." your sentence breaks down into "it will let people know its...
• Commented on Gary McKinnon: Wanted, Dead or Alive (Guest opinion/Oxblood Ruffin)
  Laws shouldn't be written so vague that they are then applied tangential things without consideration of severity. pretending to shoot someone with a toy gun should not be prosecuted as severely as actualy shooting someone with a real gun. and...
• Commented on Gary McKinnon: Wanted, Dead or Alive (Guest opinion/Oxblood Ruffin)
  I had dissed boing2 for being mean on the organic bread post but just to prove I am a total jerk my self lemme post this link explaining the azzburgers.. http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Aspie once again life is a gradiant not black and...
• Commented on Crazy organic bread-slicer sign for crazy organic bread eaters
  @113 davedorr9 "There is such a thing as too much data*, since we only have limited attentional time and need to prioritize." avoidance of information overload has gotten glen beck, christianity, and mob rule a lot of followers. Its too...
• Commented on Crazy organic bread-slicer sign for crazy organic bread eaters
  uhm ok lemme get this straight. a sign is put up so data can be conveyed. those who care can act accordingly those who don't care can ignore it. no such thing as too much data. and when did cross...