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Commented on Hope is fading
Somehow, people didn't listen to Obama's actual campaign. He promised to re-invest in Afghanistan, reform healthcare, and put in cap and trade. He has attempted them all in one year. All have frozen because people who claim to be dems...
Commented on Library workers fired for colluding to keep graphic novel from being checked out by 11-year old girl
Yes, full Tijuana Bible is reproduced in this book, and the plot is driven by...ok, I love Alan Moore and this series, but it is simply fair to say that the book is all about really weird old-guy turn-ons which...
Commented on What the $*@&#! is the Nephroid of Freeth?
holy christ, you just made the world's first practical use of w/a!...
Commented on Is There Really A Water Crisis?
Was advertised that Howard lost b/c of links to Bush. Not so: firstly, labor, then--water...
Commented on An evening of confusion with Dell customer service
Solution? Return the whole computer, wait two days, order another one. If you have a Dell problem, use their online help forums and trees. DON'T attempt to call them....
Commented on Larry Lessig talks about the values of education and science and the need to bring copyright into harmony with them
Incidentally, I reckon that Lessig's attempt to create media standards which carry clear licences is actually AGAINST the bb ethic. We spend a lot of time talking about insane copyright: would bb readers even support a (not free) licensing standard?...
Commented on Larry Lessig talks about the values of education and science and the need to bring copyright into harmony with them
Started skeptical, now convinced. Reason: Lessig is involved in creating new standards, which I had not known. There MUST BE media standards which come with licences. The people readable/lawyer readable/computer readable junction is absolutely where it's at. Is the effort...
Commented on The real-life "Men Who Stare at Goats" were even weirder
Both the UK http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-rWnQphPdQ and the US http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0C4v6DtAXg experimented with weaponizing LSD. Even on cats! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z47iJsSiOIc...
Commented on Real-time, global marine traffic map
Treasure hunters hate this kind of thing because everybody knows where their find is....
Commented on Fractal weather
get off it. you just put those words into a gibberish generator, didn't you?...
Commented on Fractal weather
"with large structures the size of continents breaking down to feed ever-smaller ones, right down to zephyrs of air no bigger than a fly." do they mean fractal or turbulent? The description seems more like 70-year-old Kolmogorov stuff than a...
Commented on Wee English church rebuilt on 22nd floor of Osaka tower
That sounds awesome! Was there grass? I imagine it with astroturf....
Commented on Wee English church rebuilt on 22nd floor of Osaka tower
Of course there's always the parthenon. I would argue that what the parthenon means changes totally when you put the building inside a bigger building. If the Brits put the parthenon in Hyde Park it'd mean less. There's a wonderful...
Commented on Wee English church rebuilt on 22nd floor of Osaka tower
Well anyway I've always loved finding buildings inside buildings. Two of my favorites are the coop shot tower in melbourne and the Hayden planetarium in NYC. The Luxor in Vegas is another good example. Can anyone else think of notable...
Commented on Wee English church rebuilt on 22nd floor of Osaka tower
ARRRRRGHHHH the nytimes had an article maybe 5 years back about buildings inside of buildings, and I can't find it. Is there another happy mutant who remembers this?...
Commented on Advisor: My husband has a virtual girlfriend
Operant Conditioning plus sex...a more powerful method of brainwashing I couldn't tell you. "Rinko wants you to buy a coke!"...
Commented on Saturday Morning Science Experiment: Pachyderm Dental Care
pfh. Here's a question that goes to the frontier of knowledge in one: How do we get America off the bottom of all industrialized nations in science performance by high school graduates?...
Commented on Building a brain inside a supercomputer
"We have estimated that we may approach real-time simulations of a NCC with 10'000 morphologically complex neurons interconnected with 10x8 synapses on a 8-12'000 processor Blue Gene/L machine. To simulate a human brain with around millions of NCCs will probably...
Commented on Building a brain inside a supercomputer
"It's powered by 2,000 microchips, each acting as a single neuron" Nope, there's no relation between the chip and the neuron and the implication that the computer is behaving physically like a brain (or vice versa) is false. If you...
Commented on Legal battle over Shepard Fairey Obama poster takes an unexpected turn
Fairey learned what zillions of mild law-breakers have learned: the crime doesn't get you, the cover-up does. It's right up there with land wars in Russia. I think all bb readers join me in saying, "Awww....shit." Fairey appeared to be...
Commented on Why Your Idea to Save Journalism Won't Work (a checklist)
@relain etc it's a riff on heinlein: http://www.boingboing.net/2008/09/09/heinleins-fanmail-so.html thus its wonderfulness...
Commented on Design for futuristic synthetic biology "herbicide sprayer"
Once again, Cronenberg got there first: Anders: They're quite beautiful. What are they? Mantle: They're gynaecological instruments...for working on mutant women. Anders: Mutant women? That's a great theme for a show. Mantle: No, it's not for a show. It's not...
Commented on Report: Woman paralyzed by E. coli-tainted hamburger
Solutions: * Go to a real butcher. * Buy whole cuts of meat and have the butcher grind it for you. * Or, buy meat ground on-site. * Don't get spaced out on organic foods claims or sausage fears: bacteria...
Commented on Cydwoq: handmade shoes designed by an LA architect
@25 jaan "it's a genuine shame..." Hold up a tick there. Yes, the guy who makes these is named Rafi and yes, he sells dozens of pairs to Real Housewives of LA. Nevertheless, the DOES seem to care about them...
Commented on Cydwoq: handmade shoes designed by an LA architect
"Audacious yet composed, this shoe embodies the qualities of our President in its attempt to reconcile two dividing folds of leather." Hooooooly christ are these things pretentious. Shoes that say 'california douchebag' the moment you enter the room. Still, if...
Commented on POGO For A Happy Monday
Yesh bb helped break this guy some time ago: http://www.boingboing.net/2008/05/21/alice-a-song-and-vid.html Glad to see him back, tho....
Commented on The American Burqini, and modesty throughout the ages.
@14: The fact that we can have a (mostly) adult conversation about social norms is one of the reasons I love this place. Without a doubt, bb has one of the most sophisticated audiences on the internet. Used to be...
Commented on 500 Pound Planet: the final chapter
Fer me the integration of stolen conversations was the highlight, not the more contrived bits. Did the animation lose some tightness in later chapters? I loved the spaghetti hair!...
Commented on Raising money to air an anti-special-interest ad with Lessig and Olbermann
im yer huckleberry http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21Rf0URZfLQ...
Commented on Raising money to air an anti-special-interest ad with Lessig and Olbermann
Hot off the presses: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0909/27459.html One thing I've learned through this is that political coverage is, genuinely, much better online than in print media. The Arkansas-Democrat Gazette has yet to run anything on this topic. Yesterday's news, indeed....

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zyodei commented on Hope is fading
There is one reason the American people elected Obama over McCain that towers above all the rest: To end the wars. The mass of Americans, the swing voters who decide elections, cast a vote AGAINST everything that Bush represented. In the true will of the people, there is NOT a strong mandate for these massive social programs that are being proposed. He has an overwhelming mandate to end the wars and reverse constitutional violations and crony capitalism. NONE OF THESE are being delivered at all. I find these posts linking the Politifact "truth-o-meter" to be amazingly myopic. It's not a...
zyodei commented on Hope is fading
Yeah, it is too bad. Really, really too bad. But the problem isn't with wealth itself - money is a neutral energy, capable of accomplishing great good or great evil. Many filthy rich people have done great good for the world. The problem comes when the rich choose to capture the coercive power of government for their own ends. The power of avaricious money amplified through the power of a powerful government has the potential to cause more damage than any other force in the world. That's why I support the shrinking and defanging of government at every opportunity -...
teapot commented on Hope is fading
Zyodei - we mostly agree on this issue, it's just we are arguing slightly different points and something got lost in translation: Capitalism, in the sense that it made America great, is simply economic freedom within a framework of honest laws. You seem to think I was having a go at capitalism, which is not true. Any economic system is likely to have expoitable loopholes - and the people who can, usually do end up greedily exploiting them. My tirade about Capitalism was more about user Navigator's blind and all-too-simple rhetoric. Furthermore I think you hit the nail on the...
lhughes commented on Hope is fading
He's a fraud. If you 30 or younger be afraid. You've either signed up for (or you are a victim) of a generation of low wages, unemployment, underemployment, spiraling health care costs, social security costs, property taxes (in blue states) and a crushing federal deficit. If you're not worried then you're probably a looter and on the public dole. Otherwise, do something to change this....
deckard68 commented on Hope is fading
"To end the wars." I believed, like many others, that when Obama-the-candidate said he was for the war in Afghanistan and against the war in Iraq, that he was just saying that about Afghanistan only to win some Republican votes. I thought he was saying it with a wink, and that once in office, he'd say that he was actually for ending both the wars. So he did not fool me, but I fooled myself. My only remaining hope is that the only reason he's continuing to fund the war in Afghanistan is because he's afraid that if he stops...

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