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• Commented on Oil running out faster than the International Energy Agency admits, says whistleblower
  Larkin, trains run on electricity; they're part of the power grid, which should be running on water, wind, nuclear and wood/coal. On long term, gasoline prices would encourage building metros and trams in cities and new railways between towns. Electric...
• Commented on XKCD's eye-watering Geocities tribute
  The sad thing is, GeoCities pages on average looked better than MySpace-pages ever did....
• Commented on European Internet sinking fast under 3-strikes proposals
  Copypasted from Slashdot; The article [about 3 strikes] clearly states: restrictions may only be taken in exceptional circumstances and imposed if they are necessary, appopriate and proportionate within a democratic society. Copyright violations by no means are a danger to...
• Commented on The magic of Japanese space-saving products
  Lisa, thank you for keeping the metric system. It was fun to understand for once how tall the objects in the pictures are! I'd hope that Boing Boing would too that more, in general. None the less, now that I'm...
• Commented on How to avoid ads in Gmail (or not)
  Over the years, I have heard stories about [NSA/other government agency] checking emails against word list. I really want to send all my emails with words "9/11 suicide murder death". Seems like a good way to get your bank account...
• Commented on European roaming charges now set by law -- and still high
  >3 posted by Cory Doctorow, July 1, 2009 1:06 AM >Eurozone != EU You are right, Cory, but take into account that euros are the most common legal tender in the European Union (325 million out of the 500 million...
• Commented on Shockingly violent coffee commercials starring Muppets
  Compared to Warner Brothers-cartoons, these are tame. And doesn't puppets being violent have a tradition of hundreds of years, what with Punch and Judy?...
• Commented on Shanty houses of Manila
  What strikes me most in these pictures is how the huts are sad and worth pitying as they are made from plastic and other discarded material. If they had used wood and leaves (like people are wont to do according...
• Commented on "Marx was Right!"
  #44 POSTED BY TERIYAKI >>I'd really like to see how swedish socialism would fare in an alternative reality where they had [...] with all the foreign invasions, colonialism, natural factors etc. Welcome to Finland. Pretty similar but they put more...
• Commented on Apple sez jailbreaking iPhones is illegal and should be banned
  @Rezpect; non-broken phone (or ipod touch) can only access App Store, which will only have applications that Apple stamps "good". With jailbroken phone, you can install programs from third-party providers without Apple's say-so. You can also run programs on the...
• Commented on Fossils found of 42-foot-long snake
  The snake is, incidentally, 13 metres long, as this rather essential information had been left out of the story....
• Commented on Chart of marijuana-related ballot initiatives for 2008: big wins
  If I may suggest; as BB has a high international readership, could we hope that SI units could be used in brackets to clarify things? Without googling, I have no idea how much one ounce is. Admittedly, doesn't mean much...