MeFi comment:
"I think gamers should feel lucky that they patronize the only mass entertainment medium that is able to charge $60 per product. That may sound like a bug, not a feature, but the book, film and TV (excluding HBO) industries all face much more..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Smart Dalek, KokuRyu
8 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I loved the fact that on the night of the IN/NC primaries, the network momentarily eschewed fancy graphics in favor of Tim Russert explaining the math with a marker and whiteboard.
That's been his schtick for ever since election night in 2000. It..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by davidmsc
Last month
MeTa comment:
"I love DaShiv too. It's ruined my chances of parole, but nobody blocks my sun during exercise hour, fuck the warden's rules." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by ryanrs, sperose, theredpen
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Interestingly, several posters in this thread may be skirting dangerously close to endorsing Tony Blair's vision of liberal interventionism.
I've started working on MeFi posts about the situation in Zimbabwe several times over the past three..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Belle O'Cosity, jb
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Relatedly, it's important to note that this is just the Vatican astronomer responding to an interviewer's questions. This person has no authority whatsoever to speak for the RCC.
Not in a doctrinal sense, but the Vatican astronomer has long been..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by signalnine, DevilsAdvocate
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Mugabe's criticisms of sanctions are incoherent. The U.S. sanctions are basically personal financial and travel restrictions against a small number of specific government higher ups and the businesses they directly control. I'm not sure about the..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by 1adam12, Artw, n_s_1
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I feel bad for Yahoo. They've got some great engineers doing some great work- their YUI javascript library is seriously high quality (and has led the field of Javascript toolkits in several areas), their engineers have been at the forefront of..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by damn dirty ape, treepour
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Becker's argument strikes me a textbook example of the libertarian tendency to ignore all the data contradicting their position, on the assumption that no one has implemented real libertarianism yet. His first objection- that preventing people from..." [
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favorited 9 times, recently by nicepersonality, axon, R_Nebblesworth, bpt, AceRock, aeschenkarnos, Falconetti, tachikaze, dyoneo
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"It sounds like this might be relevant to any kind of research in which people are asked the same question more than once, and inconsistent answers are thrown out- a standard technique in opinion polling, I believe...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by roll truck roll
3 months ago
MeTa comment:
"In re: Stynxo...
these democrats or "independents" like to believe that they have the critical thinking skills to see the world objectively and to make a valid and progressive judgement of how the US really is. And these individuals sip..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by mattbucher
4 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Don't forget the MetaFilter redesign contest. If you visited the site before, you'd hardly recognize it." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by chrismear
4 months ago
MeFi post:
Free Congress
favorited 14 times, recently by drill_here_fore_seismics, moonlet, rkent, jeffburdges, longdaysjourney, ifthe21stcentury, plexi, l33tpolicywonk, spaceman_spiff, mazatec, ethel, revgeorge, jlweber, estherbester
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"That's the problem with lossy compression." [
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favorited 41 times, recently by pyrex, flibbertigibbet, tehloki, petsounds, blueberry, tarheelcoxn, blackturtleneck, rcade, Songdog, scrump, JHarris, blind.wombat, cellphone, harold, authenticgeek, space2k, pandaharma, rocketman, jayden, kimota, activitystory, pinespree, slactoid, fredoliveira, delmoi, senor biggles, sidereal, runkelfinker, imperium, Pope Guilty, Optimus Chyme, anildash, claudius, Malor, SteelyDuran, zixyer, damn dirty ape, psmith, stavrogin, gimonca, Firas
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"He also helped the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador lie to congress about the infamous story about babies being removed from incubators before the first Gulf War. Lying before congress to goad the country into war for a foreign power's benefit..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by blueberry
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"This app is fun, but definitely isn't a substitute for reading about the issues and their positions. Three examples:
I took the statement "An additional carbon tax on fuel will effectively reduce pollution" literally, since as far as I..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nax
5 months ago
Ask comment:
"What program is reading the XML? If your XML parser supports XInclude, you can put your common elements in their own file, and then xinclude them from the real document, like so:
toaster.xml
realdoc.xml
This won't allow you to override..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by jouke
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Another, even more depressing way to think about this claim: pick a random bacteria from the jar, before the maximum population was hit. When, in the history of that bacterial society, was it most likely to have been alive? Answer: right before..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by nasreddin, gum
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"A big part of the problem is that the studios permit the theaters to take little to none of the box office revenue (I think the studios basically take all of the opening weekend gross, and the percentage then decreases each week). This makes the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by rottytooth
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I just finished The Golden Compass two nights ago and yeah, it kicked ass. Hopefully, the media will try to set up a grudge match between these films and Narnia, because these stories will kick C.S. Lewis's ass. The four Pevensie kids get their..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by grabbingsand, unregistered_animagus, JHarris
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Are we doing actual predictions? I'll stick my neck out. First the easy stuff
No one will attack Iran
The number of U.S. troops in Iraq will never go lower than 120,000
Clinton wins the Democratic nomination, Romney wins the GOP nomination,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nasreddin
7 months ago
MeTa comment:
"That "close your account" button has turned out to be a bad idea.
I'm not sure what the point of it is. Is it supposed to be a clever way of ridding the site of melodramatic people? Lots of websites provide a way for users to delete..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by yerfatma
8 months ago
MeTa comment:
"If I understand this correctly, I really don't like it. In a general sense, email is a universally accepted standard for electronic messaging, and there's a huge array of tools out there to help people deal with it efficiently. Specifically:
Users..." [
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favorited 8 times, recently by desjardins, mediareport, jack_mo, misozaki, Ethereal Bligh, By The Grace of God, blasdelf, Rock Steady
9 months ago
MeFi comment:
"This is why Pope JP II's decision to remove the role of the Promotor Fidei (Devil's advocate) from the canonization process was dumb. Before 1983, canonization was an adversarial process, with basically one lawyer ("God's advocate")..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Falconetti, Abiezer, the Real Dan
9 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I expect the large majority of new Windows desktop apps to be XP compatible well into the next decade, including games. Which ultimately is good news- restricting the functionality of desktop apps will hopefully make web apps more attractive in..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by tehloki, hal9k, BaxterG4
10 months ago
Ask comment:
"I think it's hard to come up with a more evil sounding name than Kaiser Permanente." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by tristeza
10 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Part of the reason that the first and 3rd films were so much better than the second, I think, was their use of Judeo-christian mythology. The simple fact that those traditions are still a big part of modern life made those films seem more serious..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by Mick, brundlefly, low_horrible_immoral, greycap, solid-one-love
10 months ago
MeFi comment:
"The White House will continue rattling its saber, and leaking threatening stories like these to gullible journalists. But they won't attack. Gates is reportedly smart enough to have argued for closing Guantanamo, and he's been non-commital about..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by ageispolis, Baby_Balrog
10 months ago
MeFi comment:
"There have been two related stories I've thought about making MeFi posts about lately, but didn't get around to. One is the massive refugee flows (possibly more than 3 million people) from Zimbabwe, mostly into South Africa. Because neither the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Abiezer
10 months ago
MeFi comment:
"That story actually just reminded me of how poor most video game criticism is, compared to, say film or book criticism (I'm a Metacritic addict). Video game critics seem to love to complain about things like the quality of the voice acting, or..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by BrotherCaine, billyfleetwood, Baldons, jjwiseman
10 months ago
MeFi comment:
"If you care about this, tell Reid to call the senate into immediate pro forma session to prevent a recess appointment.
You underestimate this administration. I'm willing to bet money that the appointment already happened this weekend, probably..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by tehloki, amberglow
10 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Wow- we call content like the Bourne series and Tom Clancy novels formulaic, but the process that Edward Stratemeyer created for the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew novels, as described in sy's link, gives the term new meaning.
Anyway, formulism gets a..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Terminal Verbosity
11 months ago
Ask comment:
"There was a period of about a year when I think I may have been the most knowledgeable person alive about the current state of American college humor magazines. My purely subjective favorite was the Berkeley Heuristic Squelch...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by andoatnp
Last year
Ask comment:
"The most attractive hardcovers I own are Neal Stephenson's recent Baroque Cycle. The paper is more off-white than most, the fonts are fetching and distinctive (because its historical fiction; they're still totally readable), the binding is..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ElectricBlue
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Those of you squawking about iterative versus non-iterative are still missing the point entirely...You cannot know, nor can you intuit, what your opponent will play. Not from one round, not from 1000 rounds...Remember, that there is only 1 answer..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by tehloki, reventlov, markr
Last year
Ask comment:
"The short answer is that, yes, that's allowed. For a more definitive explanation, see the GPL FAQ, particularly these two questions:A company is running a modified version of a GPL'ed program on a web site. Does the GPL say they must release their..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Loto
Last year
Ask comment:
"Off the top of my head: "Where men build on false grounds, the more they build, the greater the ruin" -- Hobbes. Probably not quite appropriate...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by iamkimiam
Last year
MeFi comment:
"I'd never seen it before. Best line:
Caller: So do you understand that there's a different between .002 dollars and .002 cents?
Supervisor: Yes.
Caller: Then can you tell me what the rate is?
Supervisor: .002...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by dreamsign
Last year
MeFi comment:
"I'm watching my diet now, but that looks like something I'd have liked to chew bacc a few years." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by HeroZero
Last year
MeFi comment:
"As he swung aside the arched portal linking the chamber with the corridors beyond, a maddened, blood lusting screech reverberated from his ear drums. Seemingly utilizing the speed of thought, Grignr swiveled to face his unknown foe. With gaping eyes..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Smilla's Sense of Snark
Last year
