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• Commented on Storm-sewer dwellers of Las Vegas
  In a way, I don't understand. I take it for granted that this is a furnished space in a storm water drain. From the photo, they seem pretty 'normal' (ie not off their faces, highly scarey, not mentally unsound etc...
• Commented on Ikea is owned by a "charitable foundation," pays only 3.5% tax
  I love comments like "So much goodness does not come from capitalists, ever." from #22. A few bullet points (to synthesise what would normally be a long rave) • I am interested in the context and meaning behind the term "capitalists"....
• Commented on HOWTO defeat the Klan with humor and bravery
  #6 "Why is he being interviewed by a British gentleman?" Ahhem. That's Andrew Denton, on Australian television (I live in Sydney). He's an Anglo-Aussie ... Well, can't accuse you of rac-ism, just nationalitism (whatever that means)....too funny....
• Commented on Burning Man Responds to EFF over fair use and photo rights attack
  I enjoy this sort of (quasi) legal tussle over something dear to peoples hearts (and my own). I envisage some solutions: - start/join those already pursuing BM to change their EULA. Being a non-democratically organised and administered event, I assume...
• Commented on Artist takes $190,000 out of bank because they won't give him a mortgage
  Oooo juicy comments. Marvellous these BB posters. ... This reminds me of when I was travelling in the UK, and had opened a Barclays account (in 1990). I was leaving after 5 months, and found out that closing the account...
• Commented on Baltimore transit wants to use microphones to record all conversations on trains and buses
  Well, this is certainly one way to bringing LOADS of people back onto public transport. Yep, this is how you do it ... btw it does sound draconian, and something the Stasi were certainly thinking up ... but then again,...
• Commented on Mia Farrow nine days into three week hunger strike for Darfur
  It all depends on your context of doing something. I've blockaded logging mills, uranium mines, loggers and government department officials in my time. I wasn't front line, but more back doing support. But there at the forests and mining sites...
• Commented on Artists buying cheap houses in Detroit
  Maybe not so kneejerk....the artists are BUYING the houses. If I wasn't in Australia, I'd be over there to buy a whole load of them, and rent them at a low cost to artists. But hey, most artists don't seem...
• Commented on Free Range Kids, blog for raising kids without being freaked out about safety all the time
  "Where are the parents of these kids, and why don't they know that their children are on my property smoking pot after school?" Nice and ordered sentiments made manifest, but hey, where's your kids freedom to kiss someone of the...
• Commented on Free Range Kids, blog for raising kids without being freaked out about safety all the time
  As kids we played real cowboys and Indians on real horses > OMG! Didn't you have your liability insurance before you approached it. Dangerous animal alert! and shot each other with .22 air guns. > Please don't tell me you're...
• Commented on Kids can't "go out and play" anymore
  #75 - "I don't give a crap about statistics, its my duty to protect her." I don't even know where to end with responding to a comment like that, but I can say 'thank you for leaving your critical thinking...
• Commented on Charts: 3
  I'll second that. Lots of Aussies on this one... Many Australians believe that the interior is 'empty'. Standard way of thinking of a country that hasn't changed from the first whites reaction in 1788, going "this is weird, lets change...