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"... then doesn't even bother to answer the original question?
It's worse than that - even after the huge essay of defensive unrelated crap, he claims the answer to the question of why the plan wouldn't have included not making Bush look like a..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by rigby51, The Ardship of Cambry
10 hours ago
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"This was such a frustrating story when I heard it on NPR, mainly because they glossed over the fact that ripping the DVDs is illegal precisely because of the crazy DeCSS issue, not because ripping DVDs is inherently illegal. I know it isn't a subject..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by finite
6 days ago
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"Besides, it's CLAY. It doesn't get more natural or healthy for my little pumpkin.
Or more environmentally destructive!The United States Geological Society estimates that 85 percent of the 2.54 million tons of clay used in this country every year..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by hazyjane
6 days ago
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DVD player that isn't hostile to end-users?
favorited 11 times, recently by everybody polka, Mitheral, jluce50, bcwinters, runtina, majick, arcticseal, SirStan, mu, qvtqht, exogenous
8 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Not to mention the obvious fact that if the Government is the only entity left willing to buy these "complex instruments" (debt, shitpiles) the corollary is that NOBODY ELSE IN THE WORLD wants them...." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by dejah420, oozy rat in a sanitary zoo, oaf
11 days ago
MeFi comment:
"The "don't" link just cries out to be used as the backdrop for "We're experiencing technical difficulties!" screens." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by xorry
12 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Bernanke, trying not to slip in the patches of blood on the floor, struggled with Greenspan. The older man moved like a snake that moved like a former Fed Chairman who moved like a ninja. At last, Bernanke got a solid grip on Greenspan’s collar and..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Richard Daly
12 days ago
MeFi comment:
"It looks like McCain may have helped cover up information about POWs left behind in Vietnam.
From the article: 6. On November 11, 1992, Dolores Alfond, the sister of missing airman Capt. Victor Apodaca and chair of the National Alliance of..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by agregoli
12 days ago
MeFi comment:
"The only way to change things is to participate.
You have been left behind.
What you think of as your party is dying because it no longer has a core. The party you believe yourself to be a member of is a party of hate and lies. Change does..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by blueberry, five fresh fish, fourcheesemac
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I'm not claiming small town people are any better than big city people. The latter are certainly more...polished. My main point is that if Obama supporters don't get that their disdain is visible and noted by those small town types, that Obama just..." [
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favorited 9 times, recently by five fresh fish, zardoz, palomar, shiu mai baby, blueberry, contessa, dirtdirt, fourcheesemac, Alvy Ampersand
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I think we are starting to see McCain's (in)famous temper showing through, especially now that he is being called out for his lying and dishonorable campaign style.
I have every hope that McCain will actually snap on-air very soon. It would be..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by leftcoastbob
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Ha! I'm not worried at all because I don't own any money!
Yeah, holdings in Money aren't looking too hot right now. I'd suggest diversifying into water and proteins...." [
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favorited 19 times, recently by olya, flotson, schyler523, juv3nal, aye, cadge, Heretic, ChuqD, verb, salvia, waxbanks, amyms, sebastienbailard, bookish, limeonaire, MikeKD, fourcheesemac, cathodeheart, localhuman
2 weeks ago
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"You may be interested in The Authoritarians, which goes to great lengths to understand and explain the sociological and mental states of someone who responds well to authoritarianism. This part about failures of basic reasoning struck me..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Kid Charlemagne
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"As a non-church-goer, I have no problem with this, as long as the churches consequently lose their tax haven status." [
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favorited 24 times, recently by nenequesadilla, jeffburdges, Reverend John, notashroom, Hactar, graymouser, BrotherCaine, MikeKD, Midnight Rambler, Lentrohamsanin, Caduceus, liza, DU, winna, Pope Guilty, pompomtom, mullingitover, Weighted Companion Cube, sperose, maqsarian, acro, Shepherd, orthogonality, Blazecock Pileon
3 weeks ago
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"Oh, or the alternate path: Put your friend on the defense, ask him to explain why he thinks history will regard the administration highly. What specific things will be regarded highly?..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Meg_Murry
3 weeks ago
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"Wow, I'm so different on this thread.
Nope. You pay too. You invited her into the place. You had the choice of inviting someone more responsible.
But, stew? In the toilet? Who would even have considered that a potential roommate may do that?..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by martinX's bellbottoms
3 weeks ago
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"Can you be more specific about why you're asking this question? Are you tasked with creating this? Do you need someone else to create one for you? What do you want to monitor?
Generally, I've created dozens of these kinds of things in Excel..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by KB.Boston_implant.By way of NY
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"My sister reports from Chapel Hill that some of her friends who are legal citizens received pamphlets from some Republican-leaning organization telling them they cannot vote because they were not always citizens. Insane stuff going on...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Blazecock Pileon, yertledaturtle
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"The reason HFCS is in everything in the US is because of tariffs that make importing sugar expensive. Coke and Pepsi switched from sugar to HFCS in the US in 1984, but in other countries these drinks are still sweetened with sugar. Corn products are..." [
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favorited 6 times, recently by MikeKD, tehloki, dejah420, Baby_Balrog, malocchio, dabitch
3 weeks ago
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"It's refreshing to hear that women WOULD sleep with men they consider very good friends, but isn't this coming from a self-selected audience of women who 1) are on MeFi, 2) are against the theory and felt they wanted to voice this?
Sure it is. The..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ROTFL
Last month
MeFi comment:
"However, by the time we have scanned, cropped, cut out backgrounds, fixed broken lines, simplified, sharpened, and otherwise cleaned up the original drawing, we assert that the result is a new artwork derived from the earlier drawing. The derivative..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by haunted by Leonard Cohen, aeschenkarnos, bunnytricks, gubo
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I've just agreed to write a movie for Sony and producer Scott Rudin about how Facebook was invented. I figured a good first step in my preparation would be finding out what Facebook is...
I, um, I guess I can't disagree with that approach...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by grouse
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Any technology whose flowchart includes a "SPACETIME FUSION" box is automatically awesome." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by you, Tapioca
Last month
MeFi comment:
"are populated with people from Google, Microsoft, Sisco,
Sisco?" [
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favorited 7 times, recently by tehloki, shinynewnick, Suparnova, ztdavis, gen, perilous, preparat
Last month
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"Synergy is supposed to let you accomplish this. I haven't personally tried it, though." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by cmchap
Last month
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"For fuck's sake, the problem with the Series of Tubes speech is not that it's a bad metaphor, even though it is. The problem is that he's a shit-for-brains manipulator trying to pass laws affecting your rights. Imperfect metaphors are fine when the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by NailsTheCat
2 months ago
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"Of all the profit-motive conspiracy theories this has to be the strangest I've heard. Are you suggesting that manufacturers could, but aren't, making displays in small tiles that consumers would buy and somehow stack together and wire up themselves,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by missmagenta
2 months ago
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"wget will do exactly what you're looking for. Curl will also do it, but I learned wget first and so recommend it first. It has a method to create a local copy of any site to a specific depth. It will also rewrite all the links and references so that..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by sebastienbailard
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"All I can say about this is that I sure hope the participants from $NATION wins, since that clearly means that $NATION is better and cooler than other nations...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by TheOnlyCoolTim
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I think there has to be a "one way or another" with gay marriage advocates specifically because they've made the idea that being gay isn't a choice as an anchor to their entire platform. As I said, I don't have a clue as to what's right,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by RedEmma
2 months ago
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"I dated a girl in high school who had been struck by lightning indirectly along with all the other people sleeping in a particular tent. Their dog was killed instantly. She's undamaged with the exception of having a 1-inch circular welt on her..." [
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2 months ago
