MeFi comment:
"You can't have a really useful concept of "censorship" that applies only to governments. Corporations have power, too. Especially in our society.
This. A thousand times.
People who bitch about 'censorship only applies government'..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by tehloki, JHarris, Slap*Happy
Yesterday
MeFi comment:
"A simple observation:
A lot of countries have parliamentary systems where bipartisanship isn't practiced, and progressive politicians can be rowdy, vicious, argumentative and willing to attack the opposition and call out shameless lies.
A lot..." [
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favorited 19 times, recently by Nattie, haveanicesummer, sotonohito, Procloeon, shmurley, p3on, einzelsprachlich, graventy, JHarris, Shecky, tarheelcoxn, aeschenkarnos, marble, Hactar, UseyurBrain, mikelieman, oneswellfoop, Doublewhiskeycokenoice, Nanukthedog
2 days ago
MeFi comment:
""Owning a dog really is quite an extravagance, mainly because of the carbon footprint of meat," he says.
There are two elephants in the room here. The first is that my dogs eat chicken necks and other offcuts that I ask my local butcher..." [
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favorited 23 times, recently by tippiedog, idiomatika, ceri richard, bitter-girl.com, The Bellman, Bangaioh, hecho de la basura, vers, brand-gnu, Mngo, GeckoDundee, EatTheWeak, zardoz, jock@law, aeschenkarnos, Pope Guilty, hifiparasol, drjimmy11, smoke, JHarris, ShawnStruck, mccarty.tim, farishta
4 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I live in one of the most bogan suburbs in Hobart, which probably makes it one of the most bogan suburbs in the country. A clear bogan majority, infact. The suburb is mostly public housing units. I bought my own house from a 38-year old..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by skoosh
5 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Jimbob: Are you still hungy, CJ?
CJ: Ummm, yeah.
Jimbob: What would you like to eat?
CJ: Toast, please.
Jimbob: Okay, what do you want on your toast?
CJ: Vegemite, please.
I have this conversation with my 3-year old at least twice,..." [
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favorited 16 times, recently by Admira, blueberry, ZaphodB, tehloki, smoke, sebastienbailard, Flashman, Pope Guilty, alteredcarbon, miss-lapin, doozer_ex_machina, harriet vane, Jilder, ravelite, GeckoDundee, chrismear
8 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I always imagine it's like Jello mix without sugar and with spam mixed in.
Try to imagine pouring a shitload of salt into a pint of Guinness, then boiling it down to a thick, shiny sludge.
No, scrap that, just go buy some...." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by ZaphodB, tehloki, Jilder, zardoz
8 days ago
MeTa comment:
"A quick observation from someone's who's been out hiking for 3 days, came back and discovered this an hour ago.
To me, it feels more like voting than the previous system did.
The binary state of "this comment was faved, this comment..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by Jelly, Riki tiki, marsha56, CrayDrygu, Ms. Saint
9 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I really hate to link to what amounts to a climate-change denial blog (although thankfully, it's not a completely insane), but someone else has crunched the numbers and come to quite a different conclusion...." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by taz, khafra, Lou Stuells, strixus
9 days ago
MeFi comment:
"that said, i personally believe that employers should be free to fire anyone for whatever stupid petty biased reason they please.
Well then, you're a morally corrupt arsehole, and I hope you're living in a box on the sidewalk within a year. If..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Coatlicue
13 days ago
MeFi comment:
"πππππππ πππππ ππππππ ππ πππππππ ππ." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ixohoxi
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I don't understand what that imeem thing everyone's linking to is supposed to be about, because all it does is complain that I don't have iTunes installed. Funny, I never realized iTunes was a prerequisite for listening to music these days...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ourobouros
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I finished reading some Literature last night. I won't mention the title or the author, except to say the author had previously won a nobel prize in literature.
The book was an unmitigated piece of arrogant, self-indulgent crap. Huzzah for..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by PhoBWanKenobi, drjimmy11
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Don't worry, Artw. We went though this all a decade ago in Australia with Pauline Hanson and the One Nation party.
The BNP won't last long on the political scene, because the Conservatives will the election and adopt all their policies,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Artw
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"It's truly disturbing, that people like CountSpatula are so willing to trust their health to a private company with no motivation beyond profit, and think they'll somehow magically do a better job, for cheaper, than the government. The evidence..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Lizc, zardoz
4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Because every other government has solved this issue to the satisfaction of their respective citizens.
So, so not true! I am deeply unsatisfied that when I take my son to visit his doctor, for free, so she can give us another prescription for his..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by tehloki, aeschenkarnos, rokusan
4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I like this. It looks fantastic, and running around as that fox is great.
But I don't understand why the fox's owner is some runestone-collecting hipster...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by krilli
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Hi. I'm Australian. We are pretty racist. I'll just get in with that before delmoi gets here to say it first.
But more importantly, beyond that, "Hey! Hey! It's Saturday!" it a completely fucking stupid show that died a decade ago and..." [
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favorited 17 times, recently by axon, turgid dahlia, b33j, chronic sublime, harriet vane, liza, aeschenkarnos, Duke999R, smoke, nudar, h00py, Think_Long, hot soup girl, ollyollyoxenfree, the.carol.baxter.experience, dumbland, No-sword
Last month
MeFi comment:
"If this thread had been about NZ I'm sure my posts would look very similar to yours.
I think most Aussies in this thread would look to New Zealand and credit you with doing a bit better than ourselves, at least in terms of dealing with your..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by bystander
Last month
MeFi comment:
"There would have been much more of a hostile reaction.
But, as the incident with Sam Newman and Nicky Winmar showed, the perpetrator would keep their job and the show would stay on the air...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by GeckoDundee
Last month
MeFi comment:
"how would they feel if somebody did a skit in black face sending up an aboriginal character? Would they consider this off limits or is racism endemic to a degree that you can get away with pretty much anything on national television?
The kind of..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by divabat, nudar
Last month
Ask comment:
"6 months into a post-doc, I have I social life. And I did during my PhD as well. Sure it's possible, and sometimes necessary, to put in long working hours, but these hours are generally ones in an invigorating, fun environment (I hope...I guess it..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by coolnik
Last month
Ask comment:
"Learning, practicing, and getting a feel for scales is vitally important. Get a simple blues scale (this is in the key of A)..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by missmobtown
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Fools. Don't you know this is a plot hatched by Obama and carried out by the CIA, FBI and Council on Foreign Relations? Prints of this painting will all have GPS tracking devices embedded in the frames, so they will be able to locate and round up..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by mccarty.tim, Jumpin Jack Flash
Last month
MeFi post:
Lauching a HD video camera into space using a balloon.
favorited 18 times, recently by jjwiseman, lahersedor, dubitable, ericbop, condour75, The Salaryman, quartzcity, reductiondesign, Blazecock Pileon, loquacious, Tube, ShawnStruck, L. Ron McKenzie, unSane, teraflop, ricochet biscuit, peppito, mockjovial
Last month
MeFi comment:
"2) That they didn't link to some corporate PR legal mumbo jumbo page, but instead to an EFF site.
This, I think, negates the "evil" tags in this post. Google aren't doing this because they're evil and nasty. They're doing this because..." [
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favorited 7 times, recently by wildcrdj, aeschenkarnos, marble, haltingproblemsolved, artsygeek, Joe Beese, maqsarian
Last month
MeFi comment:
"It'a fairly commonplace.[citation needed]
Dude, just Google it!
Google has been receiving a growing number of Cease & Desist notices and takedown demands β now averaging 30 a month β in the three years the search engine has been sending..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by JHarris
Last month
Ask comment:
"While in Cairns, get your self onto the Quicksilver reef tour. The boat leaves from Pt. Douglas, but there are busses from Cairns.
Often, when it comes to "tours", the common wisdom is to stick to the smaller, personalized tour groups,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by chalbe
Last month
MeFi comment:
"The only people I know that prefer Myspace are musicians.
This pisses me off so much, because I just don't understand it. I hear some local band being interviewed on the radio, and the DJ asks them "So, are you guys on Myspace?". Bands..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by deanc, burnmp3s, rokusan
Last month
MeFi comment:
"besides Nate Silver's stuff, what are some other good statistics-type blogs that do these sorts of analyses?
Well, the Australian equivalent of 538 is The Poll Bludger, although he looks into US elections and polling when not much is happening..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Sebmojo, anomie
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Just out of curiosity, what do you think was successful about the WTO riots of 1999?
Awareness man! Like how McDonalds are now aware they can sell more coffee by branding it "Rainforest Alliance" and having blurbs about how the family..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by rainperimeter
Last month
MeFi comment:
"and brought discussions on globalization out of boardrooms and into living rooms.
I spent some time in some living rooms at or around the time of the '99 protests, and I can confirm that while they did come up as a topic of converstation, these..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by drjimmy11
Last month
MeFi comment:
"When Bertoni showed me a list of his 25 most-difficult-to-predict movies, I noticed they were all similar in some way to βNapoleon Dynamiteβ β culturally or politically polarizing and hard to classify, including βI Heart Huckabees,β βLost in..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by merelyglib, headspace, leotrotsky
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I was stupid enough to get in a Twitter fight about this, this afternoon.
Looking at this from outside America, I'm still deeply disturbed and intrigued by it. I don't know what these people want. I mean, protestors generally want something, or..." [
more]
favorited 12 times, recently by vhsiv, banjo_and_the_pork, axon, AsYouKnow Bob, jokeefe, leotrotsky, Senor Cardgage, lupus_yonderboy, cj_, joe lisboa, Servo5678, naoko
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Isn't it the case that the countries the left points to as examplars of universal health care do by and large have national ID cards and do not provide non-emergency medical care to people without them?
Speaking for Australia, no, we don't have a..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by crataegus
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"importance of industry protection for Australian farmers and the requirement for subsidy so that they could compete in the global marketplace.
What shit me, at the moment, is the environmental subsidy, for want of a better term, that farmers can..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by harriet vane, Megami
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"The problem I have with this argument is that the whiners overlook the main point - you only get a ticket if you're speeding.
I agree with you completely - the people who complain about speeding tickets are basically saying "Hey, I break the..." [
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favorited 12 times, recently by twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious, Mick, Librarygeek, General Tonic, sebastienbailard, Xoebe, Evilspork, Reverend John, Civil_Disobedient, Goofyy, zardoz, Malor
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I had a comment to a comment to a comment to a paper accepted (subject to revision) today. I'm good buddies with the guy whos work I'm tearing apart. We plan to go on like this for as long as the journal lets us...." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by sebastienbailard
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"So all you need is LENGTH(COMMENT) along one axis, COUNT_FAVORITES along another.
May I suggest that this analysis be approached as a statistical model, that includes covariates such as total user comments, user sign-up date, number of people who..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by joseph conrad is fully awesome
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Oh man. I've just remembered that I am evil myself. Many years ago, I managed (through a friend of a friend) to land a job developing a web app for a document archival and management company.
They wanted, essentially, a browser-based version of..." [
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favorited 2 times
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"It's true that they sequester a bunch of CO2, but that C02 isn't destroyed and converted to something else. It's just stored. When the tree dies it gets released right back into the atmosphere.
It actually depends on what you do with the tree...." [
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favorited 2 times
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"you do realize that 90% of 'wine appreication' is yuppies creating an elaborate justification for getting loaded?
The fact that wine labels now contain detailed instructions regarding what you're supposed to smell and taste in the wine confirms..." [
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favorited 4 times
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I suspect that since it helps people get off drugs without suffering (as much) or dying or getting their just desserts somehow.
This is it.
These silly researchers are treating drug addiction as a health issue, when we know what it really is......" [
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favorited 15 times
2 months ago
