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Clearly unprotected
It could have been worse, someone might have tried to take it through customs and had it confiscated. Then we wouldn't even be allowed to know if it was missing or not.
posted to MetaFilter by blue_beetle
at 11:48 AM on August 5, 2008
MeFi post:
Watching the Growth of Walmart Across America
Soon there will be a Wal-Mart inside every Starbucks. Inside the Wal-Mart will be a McDonalds containing a Starbucks. That Starbucks will in turn contain itself, and the circle will be complete.
posted to MetaFilter by blue_beetle
at 5:08 PM on July 31, 2008
MeFi post:
Fast Food Apartheid
"Sorry poor people, you're too dumb to feed yourselves. We'll decide what you can eat. Also, please report for forced sterilization, as you obviously don't deserve to reproduce and wreck our beautiful genes."
Oh America, you were once so beautiful, such a bright ray of hope in an oppressed world yearning to be free. Look at you now. You've changed, and you are ugly.
posted to MetaFilter by blue_beetle
at 9:32 AM on July 31, 2008
Please tell me in which year/month that so-called ray of hope happened. I'm dying to know.
So if McD's served out their crap on plates and took orders tableside, would they qualify as a sit-down restaurant?
I'm not saying that fast food is good food, I'm saying that the idea that anyone has any right to stop someone from doing what they want to their own body is abhorrent to me. Let people be fat, thin, healthy, sick,... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by blue_beetle
at 11:03 AM on July 31, 2008
MeFi post:
Bring in 'da statistical noise...
How do we know that the world hasn't already ended, and that we're not just living in a ripple in space-time propagating laterally in n-dimensional space?
posted to MetaFilter by blue_beetle
at 6:31 AM on July 31, 2008
MeFi post:
Jetpack!
Don't think of it as a jetpack, think of it as a velocity-accelerator for recumbent bicycles!
posted to MetaFilter by blue_beetle
at 10:42 AM on July 29, 2008
Also, if we apply Moore's Law to this situation, in 5 years it will the size of a pencil and be able to lift an aircraft carrier!
posted to MetaFilter by blue_beetle
at 10:44 AM on July 29, 2008
MeFi post:
Word Withdrawal
It's a BOOK OF FACES, why can't you see that? WHY?!?!?!
although, I suppose we should be grateful it's not a book of faeces.
posted to MetaFilter by blue_beetle
at 8:41 AM on July 29, 2008
MeFi post:
What Muslims Really Think
<sarcasm> I support any study or survey that combines one billion people into one homogeneous group. It makes it easier to figure out who I'm talking about when I say "them". After all, I imagine they're all identical killing machines worthy of nothing but the most hideous end. </sarcasm>
posted to MetaFilter by blue_beetle
at 8:14 AM on July 28, 2008
MeFi post:
The Genealogical Revolution Will Be Digitized
The Mormons' interest in genealogy stems from their belief in baptizing the dead by proxy.
While that is not false, it's not the primary motivation behind it. The motivation comes more from Latter-day Saints views on the family relationship being eternal, and that knowing who you 567th grandfather is is just as important as knowing who your cousins are. I won't get into the doctrine and all that, but I just wanted to say that it's much much more... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by blue_beetle
at 1:42 PM on July 27, 2008
MeFi post:
Raise one for the red lantern
I think the race should continue indefinitely unless everyone quits but the last man. He would be the winner. No one else would place.
posted to MetaFilter by blue_beetle
at 2:44 PM on July 26, 2008
MeFi post:
a beautiful life
davejay: I have an ...ummm... friend who pays his parents mortgage. It happens.
posted to MetaFilter by blue_beetle
at 7:57 PM on July 25, 2008
MeFi post:
Second Suns and Planets X
If we had the ability to turn Saturn into a star, we would probably already have the ability to turn a baseball into a star. Why go so far away when we could stay home and do the same thing?
posted to MetaFilter by blue_beetle
at 11:19 AM on July 25, 2008
MeFi post:
Fungi are weird
So can we alter it to eat radiation and poop oil? Because honestly, that would solve pretty much everything.
posted to MetaFilter by blue_beetle
at 9:45 AM on July 25, 2008
MeFi post:
Love me, leave me, pay me.
That's what I love about the american judicial system: always thinking of new business opportunities to keep the economy strong!
posted to MetaFilter by blue_beetle
at 8:45 AM on July 25, 2008
MeFi post:
Googles social interface
Exactly. If it ain't broke, and really, it isn't, don't fix it. One of google's initial strengths was it's incredible simplicity. For the most part, they've held on to it. Don't blow it now.
Apparent simplicity. Google is all kinds of complex under the covers, but it makes it look easy. That's why it's so good at what it does.
posted to MetaFilter by blue_beetle
at 8:27 AM on July 23, 2008
MeFi post:
Virtual Thinking
Lol, the first link states that these methods won't replace traditional science. Don't they realize that science has already been replaced by SCIENCE!
posted to MetaFilter by blue_beetle
at 7:30 PM on July 21, 2008
MeFi post:
It seems like your thong is showing.
Your constant complaining about american politics, combined with your absolute refusal to participate in the process of change leave me confused and irritated. Sincerely, the Rest of the WorldTM
posted to MetaFilter by blue_beetle
at 1:35 PM on July 19, 2008
