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• Commented on Toronto Star copyeditor edits memo announcing the elimination of copyeditor jobs
  As a former* journalist, I learnt one thing: once you've written the piece, it's no longer yours — let the editor alter it as they see fit. It's less painful that way. *not a future career journalism students, sorry....
• Commented on Anti-vaccine fear versus science
  1. Stupid people don't vaccinate themselves, or their children. 2. Stupid people are more likely to die. 3. Human race evolves and becomes more intelligent, as intelligence is a an evolutionary advantage(for a change). I don't see the problem....
• Commented on Report: Woman paralyzed by E. coli-tainted hamburger
  ...and this is why we cook our meat. (Not that the producer shouldn't be liable)...
• Commented on In future America, car stops you.
  Yet another reason not to buy a merc....
• Commented on Cars! Pairing Mercedes with iPhone
  How fantastic. The day is coming that mercedes will invent a bluetooth interface that sends reminders to occasionally keep your eyes on the road. You know, to minimize the amount of children squashed by people who have important phone calls...
• Commented on Tweet (#4463974099)
  I find linux fanboys far more annoying....
• Commented on 3D movies are doomed to gimmickhood
  The whole point of film is that it is immersive: you forget that you are watching. With 3D things stick out of the screen, which make you realize you're watching a film. The whole experience becomes more detached. Ie: 3D...
• Commented on Bulletproof glass demonstration
  I couldn't watch this without tattooing misogyny on my fake breasts....
• Commented on Surveillance video of insurgents in Afghanistan accidentally blowing themselves up while planting a bomb
  A video of two people dying. How wonderful. Unicorns plz. k thx bye....
• Commented on Vegemite's stupid and clueless linking policy
  I think when sites use this, it is meant to discourage hot-linking and embedding of content. But I'm not sure it's possible to describe this in a legal sense....
• Commented on Lawyers for TV überdouche Glenn Beck go after satirical website, saying the url itself is defamatory
  Has he denied that he murdered and raped a girl yet?...
• Commented on Dirty Tats: shocker, but lowbrow game marketing is lowbrow
  @87: No. I'm arguing that it cuts both ways....
• Commented on UK: Treatment of (gay) genius mathematician Alan Turing "appalling"
  About time. Maybe I'm naive, but this didn't read like an entirely empty apology....
• Commented on Dirty Tats: shocker, but lowbrow game marketing is lowbrow
  *percieved as demeaning...
• Commented on Dirty Tats: shocker, but lowbrow game marketing is lowbrow
  What I find more demeaning is beauty magazines... How many women have committed suicide because of porn? How many because of a silly game ad aimed at pubescent boys? How many because they aren't a 'perfect' size? If you think...
• Commented on Dirty Tats: shocker, but lowbrow game marketing is lowbrow
  I have a question: Are dildos(sp?) a form of misandry?...
• Commented on Dirty Tats: shocker, but lowbrow game marketing is lowbrow
  Two statements: 1)Men think about sex every five seconds. 2)Women think about getting married every five seconds. Almost everyone will find the first statement less offensive. Some will even claim it's true. Which is sad, you'd think we had advanced...
• Commented on Dirty Tats: shocker, but lowbrow game marketing is lowbrow
  Using breasts to sell a game is misogynist. However, assuming that men will buy a game because of breasts isn't sexist? Double standards old school feminism. Isn't it about time that we get past this idea that it's men who...
• Commented on BBG's Live-Tweeting the Apple Event today
  Apparently Norah Jones is rock and roll. I think that says it all doesn't it?...
• Commented on Depression as a pro-survival adaptation that solves hard problems
  Depressed women are highly advantageous for the procreation of the species....
• Commented on Snow Leopard ate my data
  HAving a mac breeds complacency. Thanks for the welcome reminder to backup more....
• Commented on Snow Leopard Review Round-Up
  tight?...
• Commented on Snow Leopard Review Round-Up
  You know, an OS is a lot like making love to a beautiful woman. It's what you put inside that matters....
• Commented on Snow Leopard Review Round-Up
  Monolingual gets rid of the ppc stuff, and saves the space for 0$. I like that they didn't add extra glitter. It's like car companies who add chrome and ugly styling to a new model, so that people know they've...
• Commented on Hazard
  Wouldn't have been easier to put a different plug on? Also, if that's a US plug, the voltage is also different....
• Commented on Verizon doesn't see a problem with bilking customers on pointless info messages
  Let's get this straight... in the US: 1)You have to pay to listen to your received message 2)You don't get to decide what callers hear 3)You also have to pay to *receive* texts You're getting ripped off. I pay 10...
• Commented on Adobe: Once you license software in France, you can only use it in French
  Pirate it....
• Commented on Are red-headed people more sensitive to pain?
  When I go to the dentist I mostly do without anesthesia. It doesn't make that much of a difference, and for me it's not that bad even when pulling wisdom teeth or root-canal jobs. I had a dentist who didn't...
• Commented on Tweet (#3201116303)
  1)You don't have to use itunes. There are similar programmes which also support other file formats (flac, ogg...) 2)You don't have to buy an iphone. There are equally good / better phones out there. 3)Same as 2 4)same as 2...
• Commented on Famous Joy Division LP Cover Visualized
  Brilliant....