ahhhh, once again all the vulgar libertarians that equate private property with life come out to play....

My monitor cable comes out every time I even try to move the thing 6 inches on my desk. There is actually a middle ground of weirdness where it is more likely to be real, specifically because if it wasn't all those things would have been taken care of.

Too sloppy or too perfect = fake

A few strange anomolies = real

Presence of extra filmers doesn't mean anything. A house burnt down a few blocks over last week and there were fully 10+ gawkers there filming with cell phone cams

My daily calorie intake has probably been 40-50% dumpstered and/or taken from people's half-eaten plates at restaurants for over a year now. Never been healthier.

After working in posh restaurant kitchens for the better part of a decade, I can assure you that you should be more worried about the germs that enter your food back there, than any minuscule amount of saliva left on the edge of a half-eaten piece of french toast.

#5) I agree about losing a sense of self, but some of us think that is a positive thing. Prolonged meditation retreats often last far more than a few days and sometimes include little or no interaction with other people.

yes i'm sure it is just a tragic coincidence that Native Americans have one of the lowest life expectancies in the world, poverty/unemployment rates approaching 80-100% on many reservations, teenage suicide rates 1.5-2 times the national average, infant mortality rates 3x higher than the national average, disproportionately high incarceration rates, etc. Musta just all chosen to live that way.

Amazing what systematic genocide will do.

While I think it is probably an open question whether the site owners are actually neo-nazis or simply pandering to a broad subculture that includes significant white supremacist tendencies in order to make a buck, I must say that I'm with Hounskull on this one. One does not coincidentally decide to offer shirt designs with German WWII tanks, nooses/lynchings, iconography that has been appropriated by the Aryan subculture, and images of Hitler without having a target audience in mind, regardless if all the symbols have other interpretations, or even more dominant interpretations.

Tell me again why I'm supposed to care about a battle between script kiddies and annoying celebrities that believe in weird alien conspiracies?

The critique of the entire concept of ownership has always been an important part of graffiti. Also, thanks to landowner for further providing anecdotal evidence that the richer you get, the more boring/intolerant you become.

Believe mother. Toast in bathtub bad.

I love the fact that Panera's filter keeps me from reading about poker, but I can still play poker on full tilt and pokerstars just fine.

Well, you can't compost in the planter surely, but you can compost cat poop/litter (and yes, meat as well) as long as you keep the pile hot enough and give it enough time.

we should have a kinder and gentler dictator of the empire in just in time to quash concern over the government's expanding reach....

here you go - The Yellow Album, Gary Kilber's all Kaossilator album -

http://www.reverbnation.com/136984?

Yankadian: it's an unshakable belief of most capitalists that money is simply a way of facilitating trade and storing value. However, there are lots of non-heterodox economists who have written about Why Money Changes Everything.

lots focus more or less on the ability to easily accumulate/hoard...

let the ebay sales commence

WTF people? The "ease of subverting Audible's DRM" is not an argument to keep it, it's another argument for its uselessness.

I had an Audible subscription for 2 years. Then I switched computers, my ipod broke, and in general I didn't want to go through the hassles of conversion, so now I torrent all my audiobooks for free.

Another example of DRM decreasing revenue, rather than "protecting" it.

#25: Don't worry, your sense of time will go out the window before your sense of self, though a decent salvia hit will pretty effortlessly shred both of them.

in all my years of sometimes careful and sometimes reckless psychedelic explorations, my two most intense and life-changing trips (outside of my very first one which happened to be on good acid) were trips on salvia and dxm (that's cough syrup to you normals). Neither one is for the faint of heart used in high dosages, and both were much more highly disorienting than even high-dose LSD trips.

Ditto all the comments about media attention - the war on drugs thrives off of misinformation, sensationalism, and fear - though the one good thing about the exposure is that hopefully aspiring psychonauts will also be led to the wealth of very very good information across the net on sacred substances and their possible uses, benefits, and harms.

There would also be a grey area for "abridged versions" of books - For example, something like Cliff Notes clearly don't substitute (contrary to what you thought in high school English class), but a more judiciously abridged version of a book might.

It was like $50NL for cripe's sake. I'm sure there wasn't any complaint from the card rooms. There's an English only at the tables rule in pretty much any cardroom in the US (the only place where I like an English-only rule actually), if you complain to the boss, they will enforce it.

As an aside, they just legalized poker in Quebec. I wonder if there will be english-only tables, french-only tables and english/french mixed tables.

LOL at #22This was not a home-poker game. There were multiple tables in multple rooms that occur in multiple places several times a month. This is pretty darn close to organized crime.

NOT MULTIPLE TABLES IN MULTIPLE ROOMS! organized, perhaps. crime? please. double-lulz at the fact that the tourney they busted was a FREEROLL. I hear that at the local bowling alley, people play in leagues on MULTIPLE LANES at the same time and the winners get TROPHEYS AND CASH (oh and sometimes people are drinking alcohol while throwing around a dangerous and heavy object).

LOL @ people defending violent police tactics for breaking up the consentual playing of a game by adults, regardless of how many people were there, what the stakes were, or whether the organizers were raking the pots or not. Who the eff cares? Why is this worthy of not only being broken up, but being broken up in an overtly trauma-inducing way.

Srsly, is there anything that the state could crackdown on that would cause you to fight back?

It's people like you that allowed the fundies to insert the no internet gambling clause into a bill about terrorism thus depriving me of a hobby (okay not really a hobby, a second job, and not really depriving i still play online every day) because their crazy book may or may not say something about a card game.

my, how quickly we went from "why is this even a boingboing post, there's no way ford will actually block this" to "you know, they've got a good point..."

i hate cars even more than i hate copyright, so...

plausible deniability ftw.....You can bet the government will fight this tooth and nail if only for the "national security" implications --

(though the ruling could be got around the same way that refusing to submit to a breathalizer currently is - that is making substantial penalties above and beyond contempt charges for refusing to provide an encryption key when ordered to)

wasn't one of the demands in the original PGP wars something like local officials would have the master keys that could be used upon court order?

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I wonder why his computer files were being looked through in the first place (also the original article mentions an "animation depicting child/adult porn" could be a lot of but what about the children bluster over a cartoon)

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could you remember your key while being waterboarded?

ugh, storage space and bandwidth have become cheap. We should be moving to flac files, not taking all the dynamics out of the mix for mp3s.

it's okay, losing it is terribly underrated

insert obligatory "ron paul wouldn't pull you over to give you a gift card" post here