Sure, it won't be the same. And it may be horrible. Remakes often are. But they can also be inspired. I'm getting the impression that they've taken enough time and care here that it's not simply cranking out a quick cash-in on people's memories. So, don't be unmutual. Let's hope for Battlestar Galactica, and not Wild Wild West
posted to MetaFilter by tyllwin at 4:41 PM on August 30, 2008

Local slang of a particular subculture/in-group? Something like "travel east [to the closest larger town with a real gay bar]" or "hang out at the place with the Asian hookers?"
posted to Ask Metafilter by tyllwin at 4:03 PM on August 30, 2008

Youtube seems to agree with j.edwards:
posted to Ask Metafilter by tyllwin at 4:05 PM on August 30, 2008 marked best answer

Just a data point: it's not the expected behavior in a vanilla Vista iTunes installation either. Neither of the Vista machines in my household do this. Is it possibly some feature/plugin related to the iPhone vs the standard iTunes features?
posted to Ask Metafilter by tyllwin at 10:38 AM on August 30, 2008

I'd move iSproggler further down the suspect list -- as far as I can see -- and I used it up until a couple of months ago, when I got tired of every single iTunes update breaking it -- iSproggler doesn't have any such capability, and really just sends reports. Can you tell anything about when the corruption happens, i.e. does it really happen when the track is played in iTunes, or is that just when you notice it , and it might have happened when you synced with the phone, or at some other... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by tyllwin at 3:05 PM on August 30, 2008

The fools. When will they learn that the only permissible answer to any behavioral issue is harsher punishments?
posted to MetaFilter by tyllwin at 6:31 AM on August 19, 2008

Pathethic. Just pathetic.
posted to MetaFilter by tyllwin at 12:31 PM on August 5, 2008

I've never read anything of Rand's which even hinted that she might possess a sense of humor. I don't recall her ever writing that humor was inherently anti-mind and anti-life but she certainly acted that way. Certainly she didn't see Atlas Shrugged as being ironic in intent, except insofar as some of the villans bordered on being sarcastic caricatures even for Rand.

But Galt's motor was not a perpetual motion machine. And truthfully, I found that... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by tyllwin at 11:02 AM on August 4, 2008

OP doesn't say "transcript" does s/he? The word was "information" -- so was it in fact a transcript / screenshot which limits the information vector to that IRC channel, or was it simply the information itself. Could a conversation have simply been overheard, or the information obtained by the Tor poster from somewhere OTHER than the IRC channel?
posted to Ask Metafilter by tyllwin at 6:12 AM on July 17, 2008

Despite the fact that I'm strongly against the death penalty, I'm frankly angry that the prosecution decided to withdraw it.

There's no contradiction there. One can believe that the death penalty should be eliminated as a matter of policy. That doesn't imply that in the interim you're pleased to see the penalties that Federal prosecutors are asking for be changed by cynical gaming to gum up the court system.
posted to MetaFilter by tyllwin at 7:29 AM on July 16, 2008

Reminds me of Elena Dorfman, though I think her work is better.

Also, "deliberately posed in elaborate costumes" is pretty much the opposite of "found," isn't it?
posted to MetaFilter by tyllwin at 6:40 AM on July 14, 2008

"No one told me there would be unremitting noise every Saturday for the rest of my life.”

Yeah, well did anyone tell you that before investing $1M in real estate, you should do enough due diligence to find out about an unconcealed 40-year pre-existing condition?
posted to MetaFilter by tyllwin at 9:58 AM on July 9, 2008

Looking back on the recent deaths of Jesse Helms and Bozo the Clown, I'm rather saddened to see Bozo the Clown pass on.
posted to MetaFilter by tyllwin at 11:24 AM on July 4, 2008

redacting it instead of explicitly correcting it has me just totally dizzy at this point

Perhaps, we're merely looking at the sort of people who prefer silently deletions to making explicit corrections.
posted to MetaFilter by tyllwin at 8:26 AM on July 1, 2008

silent, dammit. Aging fingers.
posted to MetaFilter by tyllwin at 8:29 AM on July 1, 2008

I shouldn't have snarked. I don't hate Doctorow, I think he's at least a mediocre-to-good author, and I agree with him on most of the issues the advocates. And although I don't believe that Boing Boing can be fairly described as a "personal blog," I surely believe that Happy Mutants LLC has every right to control what appears under that company's header. I'm just baffled that the people involved would want to do this to their reputations. You know that for years to come, every single... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by tyllwin at 9:03 AM on July 1, 2008

Soooo... let me get this straight: Everyone over at BB has had plenty of time to think through this, and they all agreed that secrecy was the best policy. Cory Doctorow, specifically, signed off on this ages ago and knew all about it whenever he's advocated against the secrecy and censorship of others for the last year? Does that seem a fair statement to other readers? Or am I just missing something here?
posted to MetaFilter by tyllwin at 9:57 AM on July 1, 2008

To hold a personal blog to standards of public service and impartiality, and cry betrayal when they fail to live up to these standards, is taking it a bit too seriously.

True enough. And though I don't think an LLC with employees and merchandise is a personal blog, I won't argue it. I don't especially take Xeni Jardin to task over this, for example. But Doctorow, specifically, is also a political advocate. When the way he handles his... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by tyllwin at 10:22 AM on July 1, 2008

and we still don't even know why all the Violet Blue posts were deleted yet

Does it matter?

If they just don't like her hair are they not within their rights to deny her their referral traffic and page rank?

If she's the real killer that got OJ Simpson's and Hans Reiser's wives does that make throwing history down the memory hole OK?

I don't think we're necessarily entitled to... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by tyllwin at 11:20 AM on July 2, 2008

overglow, no, just human, i guess

Joel: If what you want is time is evaluate the situation and decide on a response, I think it's deserved. I personally hope that response is something along the lines that WCityMike suggests.
posted to MetaFilter by tyllwin at 1:06 PM on July 2, 2008

A.
posted to MetaTalk by tyllwin at 2:10 PM on June 18, 2008

But, aren't "Let's go to mass," or "Let's go to Bible study," or "Let's go to group therapy," (similarly, "marriage counseling," "English class, etc.) similar constructions that are generally regarded as correct? Can't an article sometimes be omitted and merely implied instead?
posted to Ask Metafilter by tyllwin at 7:30 PM on June 6, 2008

Thank you, splice. I was getting a headache trying to figure out "kumi"
posted to Ask Metafilter by tyllwin at 10:11 AM on May 29, 2008

Just a beginner, and it's mostly a question of recognizing the forms: I kept seeing that first radical wrong and kept reading 組 as 租 because the printed version isn't quite the same as the dictionary that's close to hand...
posted to Ask Metafilter by tyllwin at 12:08 PM on May 29, 2008

Look! Over there! It's a black and white scarf. She must be a terrorist like that Barack Hussein Osama guy! Ooh! Over there! A rainbow scarf! Supporting San Francisco values! Stay distracted, plebe. Forget about that curtain and whatever might be behind it.
posted to MetaFilter by tyllwin at 10:01 AM on May 28, 2008

OP cares about his relationship with his parents or he wouldn't have asked the question the way her did, I think. So advice such as "just cut the cord" may not fit his needs.

I'm closer to the parent side of this question, personally -- my kid who lives with me is eight years younger than OP, but I can't help seeing it more from their viewpoint. And from that side, well, of course they don't want him to go: moving out on someone -- whether it's a parent, a... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by tyllwin at 8:47 AM on May 28, 2008

What is HD/CD limiting?

It just means that right now the CPU is the bottleneck, but that as improvements are made in that area, the speed of the hard drive and/or the CD/DVD drive may become the bottleneck instead.
posted to Ask Metafilter by tyllwin at 12:01 PM on May 27, 2008

My first instinct would be to argue that you shouldn't walk away from a 10-year job so meekly -- that it looks like you accepting the blame, you should line up something else first, etc -- but it sounds like a less than deal environment anyway, and you seem to have made that choice already.

In that case, you need to do what good for you, personally. If you've already made the decision to go, then that means, I think balancing two things: you don't want to so alienate... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by tyllwin at 8:05 AM on May 20, 2008

To be fair to her, I was the one who said closure. Frosty_hut didn't use that catchword. I may well have ascribed to her motives she doesn't have. But is it a question of obsession to think that five minutes of telling them why you're going might make her feel marginally better?
posted to Ask Metafilter by tyllwin at 8:27 AM on May 20, 2008

It rates a mild grump in a low voice from the sister-in-law to her husband alone. Yelling about it is way over the top.
posted to Ask Metafilter by tyllwin at 8:09 AM on May 20, 2008

Malware removers have their place -- cleaning up mild spyware infestations and getting enough control of a machine to back up data files -- but your machine sounds far too infected for you to ever be comfortable that you got it all, and you should be. So, yeah, n'thing the wipe and reinstall. That's especially true if this machine is being used to manage other people's websites. And, by the way, if a machine has been so badly compromised that it may well have rootkits or be part of a botnet,... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by tyllwin at 6:13 AM on May 20, 2008

IANAL, but I've done my share of IT policy enforcement, and my take would be that you have every right to retrieve anything on that work computer (and you could have monitored all trafiic between that work compouter and a webmail site), but you have no right whatsoever to use that information now to access third-party computing systems without authority. Reading the password from some cached file is a separate act from impersonating the ex-employee to hack into his third-party site account. You... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by tyllwin at 7:44 AM on May 19, 2008

I never understood what value film critics bring to society anyway. They could all be taken up in the Rapture and I'd never notice.

Well, Doohickie, there are really two types, and each has a different value:

A film reviewer's value is to help me avoid wasting my time and money on crap, and assist me in finding things I'll enjoy. He or she is part of my defense against misleading trailers and other attempts to get me to... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by tyllwin at 7:18 AM on May 9, 2008

Why, thank you, pushing paper and bottoming chairs.
posted to MetaFilter by tyllwin at 9:26 AM on May 9, 2008

People like Sim are always a delimma for me -- I'm not conflicted about to feel towards a garden-variety gay basher or racist or misogynist. And, on the other extreme, I can only feel sorry for someone like Bobby Fischer, who seemed obviously mentally ill. It's the edge cases like Sim -- where I really can't tell if they're in need of help, or just being assholes -- that I never know how to deal with or feel about. I suppose I should just be glad that Sim, luckily, isn't my problem in real life.
posted to MetaFilter by tyllwin at 8:33 PM on May 6, 2008

For the record, the video linked above the fold does not have remotely the sort of hysterical tone suggested by some of the links below the fold. While she does suggest -- briefly -- that the US is moving towards a more polarized income distribution of rich and poor, that's not the centerpiece of her lecture, and she's not climbing into a bunker. The video itself is primarily an attempt to answer the question "How come my Mom and Dad mostly had one person working, while I and my SO both... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by tyllwin at 7:56 AM on May 1, 2008

of course, people don't like to talk about that

She makes that point about schools. A bit timidly for my taste and one of the areas I wish she'd gone into more is the cost of fleeing the cities both to the individual family and to the broader community, but that inevitably leads to the question of "why?" and "why?" is a minefield I can't blame her for not wanting to venture into.
posted to MetaFilter by tyllwin at 8:37 AM on May 1, 2008

So, I guess Scalia will be voting that any sentence over eight years is cruel and unusual, right? Because, y'know no matter what the consequences or degree of guilt, it's old news. Odd, isn't it, that he's all in favor of OTHER people's misdeeds affecting THEIR lives beyond eight years?
posted to MetaFilter by tyllwin at 8:04 PM on April 25, 2008

OK, not to derail, but what's the catch? I might not be interested in paying a serious price for a timeshare, but why does no one even want one at a $50 price?
posted to Ask Metafilter by tyllwin at 11:34 AM on April 23, 2008

I'm left simply puzzled by this -- most people advocating some position or other are delighted to see the ideas spread. I'm trying to imagine Richard Dawkins getting angry at someone spreading the atheist viewpoint without crediting him. Or, if he's too white and too male, to imagine Michelle Obama taking offense that someone repeats an endorsement of Barack without giving credit that she said it first. Is it a question of power dynamics? Is it that when someone closer to the white/male/wealthy... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by tyllwin at 10:33 AM on April 23, 2008

Umm, sorry, that was suppsoed to be " when someone closer to the white/male/wealthy pole repeats it, it seems to be theft"
posted to MetaFilter by tyllwin at 10:35 AM on April 23, 2008

I think it's Roger Zelazny's, "For a Breath I Tarry," though the details are a bit wrong. The cube was a self-portrait, and the old woman was a different statue.
posted to Ask Metafilter by tyllwin at 12:50 PM on April 22, 2008 marked best answer

I can't imagine that likeapen would be fired for complaining about the smoke, either to the owners or to some public authority. Not unless the owners are fools. I expect it would be much more likely that likeapen would be fired in a month or two for being 5 minutes late on Tuesday, making a error on a customer receipt last Wednesday, and not being able to handle a few extra duties that economic conditions forced them to add to his/her duties. And that the owners "wouldn't feel comfortable... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by tyllwin at 1:45 PM on April 17, 2008

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posted to MetaFilter by tyllwin at 7:46 PM on March 18, 2008

Am I the only one to think that the nature of what Wales was doing matters? If it's Jimbo partying with his friends, that's one thing. If Wales is closing a $100k contribution, that's very different.
posted to MetaFilter by tyllwin at 6:54 AM on March 11, 2008

I'm not sure why we're seemingly associating the "spends foundation money on personal stuff" concern with the "sells edits for cash" concern. Blazecock, do you see a connection there that I don't? I though they were basically separate types and instances of accused wrong-doing?

And yes, batmonkey, I agree that taking $5k for edits is much more troubling than 6 bottles of $100 wine. It's just that the edits are are a question of Merkey's word vs Wales'.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by tyllwin at 7:32 AM on March 11, 2008

You can find some more details about the Nan Gilbert Unchosen that iconomy found here
posted to Ask Metafilter by tyllwin at 8:24 AM on December 28, 2007

The amusing thing about lacessit to me is that if one assembled a blue-ribbon panel of scholars: linguists, historians and etymologists, chaired by Queen Elizabeth; to answer the question, they'd eventually be excluded from even discussing or voting on the issue, since they haven't made enough edits. Whereas the way to actually get it settled is to use back channels to convince some admin to summarily ban disagreeing users as sock puppets and open proxies.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by tyllwin at 10:45 AM on December 19, 2007

I'm so glad that I wasn't the only one geeky enough to both (1) try and think who they were cosplaying as (Guu? Sonozaki Shion?) and (2) be annoyed at my low success rate.
posted to MetaFilter by tyllwin at 9:07 PM on November 12, 2007

It's about what I expect when we've given these kinds of powers to Amtrak conductors and various other "private security" agencies.

Sadly, had the blogger made a scene, he would probably simply have gotten tasered and hauled away. Because a loud complaint is "threat" these days. And, honestly, had the entire f'ing train full of people gotten off in sympathy; who here imagines Amtrak would care, or that anyone in power would even blink? I hope I would... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by tyllwin at 4:11 PM on November 8, 2007