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"Another possible reason for McCain's sudden decision to try to damp down some of the truly repulsive mob rhetoric is that (assuming he's decided he's going to lose) he may be hearing from some vulnerable Republican Senators and Congressmen that it's..." [
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more than 12 hours ago
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"Oh! Zelazny! You could go all obscure on people!
Benedict
Eric
Caine
Bleys
Brand
Julian
Gérard
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Corwin
(The Nine Princes in Amber . . .)..." [
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Yesterday
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"Scow Crush sucks. You should read Quacksalver.
Dude, you misspelled Quackslaver. If you had included the subtitle (Tales of the Rabid Duck) you would have known that...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by misha, mitzyjalapeno
4 days ago
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"I'm really wondering how the financial meltdown is going to play in the election.
It's a huge plus for McCain. As the only candidate to have barely escaped indictment in a scandal involving a massive bank industry failure brought about by corrupt..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by blueberry, five fresh fish
3 weeks ago
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"The signs they would show looked oddly uniform in places and not like somebody actually created them by hand. Like they were machine printed to look handmade. Which wouldn't be all dastardly or anything, just kind of fakey.
Plus I heard that woman..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by delmoi, Fuzzy Monster
Last month
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"What's the over/under on how long it takes McCain to flip-flop on his position on drilling in ANWAR? He currently claims to be opposed. She is for. Hmmm... who do you think will win? Not the oil companies, surely?..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by contessa
Last month
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"I have no idea how these people got their cats wedged into their transmogrifiers, or why." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by vrakatar
Last month
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"I know plenty of women who've had abortions. They've gone in in the morning, come out a few hours later, and they've led the rest of their lives with no guilt or compunction about it at all. Why don't I ever see this portrayed?
Because it would..." [
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favorited 13 times, recently by jamuraa, minifigs, Freon, grapefruitmoon, Saddo, outlier, crossoverman, cj_, h00py, tyrantkitty, Snyder, Malor, Solon and Thanks
Last month
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"Yes, because Judd Apatow was telling you not to have an abortion.
You misspelled "shmashmortion"." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Monochrome
Last month
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""I was born by cesarean. But you can't really tell. Except, every time I leave a room, I go out through the window." - Steven Wright" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by chuckdarwin
Last month
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"Do you know any lawyers anywhere? As a lawyer, one of the questions I get most often is "Hey can you recommend someone in East Nowhere who can help me with . . . " Lawyers know other lawyers all over the country. We work with them and do..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by The World Famous
Last month
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"Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong and irrelevant. None of the copyright advice here answers the question and most of it is dead wrong. ASCAP and BMI almost certainly can't collect royalties in this case because of what's called the "Home-Style"..." [
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favorited 7 times, recently by ekstasis23, josher71, By The Grace of God, Liosliath, MegoSteve, bwalkers, An Infinity Of Monkeys
Last month
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"Lothar and ericb are both correct. The issue is extremely complicated for iTunes material for a variety of reasons (which is why I suggested the OP see a lawyer), and if I had meant "successfully" I would have said so -- in fact I lost a..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by thewalledcity
Last month
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"roll truck roll: I think so, as one of the announcers pointed out that only three female gymnasts (two Chinese women and Nastia Liukin) "have" 7.7 difficulty routines on the uneven bars. So the judges at least know in advance what the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by roll truck roll
Last month
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"Actually, EndsOfInvention, another huge SW geek here (i'll go geek to geek on this one with anyone) and what Empire and Jedi prove, when compared with the "first" (most recent) trilogy, is that directing matters and George, um, can't. That..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by magstheaxe
Last month
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"Since someone has recommended IndieBride, I will plug my wife's book: Something New:Wedding Etiquette for Rule Breakers, Traditionalists, and Everyone in Between. She's the etiquette columnist for IndieBride and you can read her column and send her..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Elsa
2 months ago
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"I don't for a moment mean to suggest that such an upbringing produced a superior generation of adults. What it produced was another group of people who later spent their lives going about the world's business, with no strong grudges against their..." [
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favorited 10 times, recently by es_de_bah, MythMaker, nushustu, low_horrible_immoral, imperium, peacheater, jamjam, small_ruminant, scrump, batmonkey
2 months ago
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"Before you listen to all this lovely advice, make sure you check what your company's policy is, if any. To give just one example, if there is a litigation hold in place, wiping the drive entirely could get both you and the company in a great deal of..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by BrotherCaine, Roach, ghost of a past number
2 months ago
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"Sometimes kids won't believe the truth anyway. True story. I'm in a taxi with my niece, who is five, and my sister (her mother).
Niece: Were there dinosaurs when you were little?
Me: No the dinosaurs were all gone a long time before that.
N:..." [
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favorited 79 times, recently by jobby
2 months ago
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"Taking something that isn't yours? That is theft. Deal with it. Yeah, fine, that's not the highly legalistic definition.
dnab: The problem is that theft is a legal concept, so to say "yeah, that's not the legal definition" sort of..." [
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favorited 29 times, recently by mrgrimm, Akeem, dansdata, tiny crocodile, Bromius, lizzicide, spiderwire, artifarce, contraption, schyler523, tomcooke, Manjusri, kosher_jenny, secretary bird, ukdanae, litlnemo, perilous, Monochrome, Kraftmatic Adjustable Cheese, mrzarquon, dyoneo, wendell, SpacemanStix, Crabby Appleton, Kat Allison, fantabulous timewaster, xthlc, Faint of Butt, Popular Ethics
2 months ago
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"bonaldi: It's interesting that you raise that. Again, we have two separate conversations going on here (or anyway, some of us do), the question of what the law says and the question of what people can might colloquially say, so let me try to get at..." [
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favorited 14 times, recently by rokusan, drdevice, kev23f, tiny crocodile, lizzicide, spiderwire, artifarce, bookish, Manjusri, sparkletone, Shepherd, Monochrome, sculpin, bonaldi
2 months ago
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"Everyone wants to BE Batman.
No one, however, is willing to BECOME Batman.
Everybody wants to go to heaven. Nobody wants to die." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by rokusan
2 months ago
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"The law is a collection of opinions, interpreted by people with opinions, and enforced by people with opinions and guns.
posted by regicide is good for you at 12:19 PM on July 3 [+] [!]
Eponyserious...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious
2 months ago
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"If this 'gospel of Judas' paints Judy in a good light, well duh. It's his side of the story. Naturally he's gonna err on the side of "i'm not an asshole"ness. However, it obviously wasn't him. He hung himself from a tree. He didn't stop and..." [
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favorited 11 times, recently by KingoftheWhales, merelyglib, RussHy, turaho, prosthezis, Sangermaine, christonabike, jtron, ursus_comiter, twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious, rodgerd
3 months ago
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"And what's wrong with NAS -- again just in the interest of providing a better answer? Notably something like the ReadyNAS Duo?" [
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favorited 2 times, recently by thewalledcity, gjc
3 months ago
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"I wonder, Bellman, if this has ever been put through a legal accounting?
That, Popular Ethics, is the 64,000 multi-billion dollar question. Do the copyright laws actually "promote the progress of science and useful arts", as they are..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by ads, Popular Ethics
3 months ago
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"Has anyone considered that the author might have been using daimon in it most obvious translation: daemon? Let me just check ps -aux here . . .
launchd, kextd, netinfod, syslogd, configd, coreaudiod, memberd, securityd, notifyd, distnoted (what..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Zero Gravitas
3 months ago
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"He dismisses as libelous electioneering claims that he ate pygmies during his years as a rebel leader.
"Can you spare some change to help me get something to eat?"
"Sorry, I'm a little short myself...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by J.R. Benedict
3 months ago
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"Crapmatic: You're missing what is, in my view, the best website on the internet for kids that age and the only one I actually pay for because my kids enjoy it so much (though the free version is fine), Up To Ten. You want the Boowa and Kwala section..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Mamapotomus
3 months ago
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"Do people claim IP on jokes now? Geez.
posted by tybeet at 1:14 PM on June 20 [+] [!]
Actually, this is a pretty fascinating topic for IP lawyers, and University of Virgina Law Professors Chris Sprigman and Dotan Oliar have written an..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Smart Dalek, jtron
3 months ago
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"Truthfully she shoulda looked at this dialogue, turned to Night and said, "you gotta be kidding me right? Where's the real script? This is a joke, right?"
Sir Alec Guiness (reading): " . . . until he turned to evil . . . turned to..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Pallas Athena, captnkurt
3 months ago
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"And let's pretend I spelled "apologies" that way because it's funny in context because I forgot the extra "n" in Guinness, not because I can't type. Or spell. Or whatever...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by h00py
3 months ago
