MeFi comment:
"> In reality it is a bunch of hackers that like to break security and let the world know how they did it. It is part theft, part misplaced heroism, and loaded with as much ego as brainpower.
Are you serious? Do you work with security in any way,..." [
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"> Modern nuclear plant designs are as close as you get to foolproof with respect to catastrophic failure. I'm not going to take the time to explain it because frankly the data has been out there for years and you owe it to yourself and the rest of..." [
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MeFi comment:
"From: Evil Overload
To: Staff
Subject: Armor
After seeing in recent internet "youtubes" I have witnessed the structural weakness of used floppy diskettes for armor. Especially against electrically powered rubber band miniguns...." [
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"I can imagine the through process that led him doing this to show off to his buddies how fast the car can go, and how quickly it can stop. I wouldn't be surprised if he had done this before on the same runway.
However, when he did it the practice..." [
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MeFi comment:
"From 4th grade until 8th or so, I spent almost every saturday, and possibly once or twice during the weeks, at Than's Diner. It was a small, train car setup, with maybe 3 two person booths, but you pretty much had to sit at the counter. It was run by..." [
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MeFi comment:
"> McCain will pick up the Romney with the power sliding doors and the DVD players in the headrests
I sure hope so.
How else am I going to move all these "McCain/Romney 08: a house for every wife" bumperstickers...." [
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MeFi comment:
"Or they think they have good coverage.
Until they get really sick.
Or get a chronic illness.
Or get hit by a car
Or get fired.
The freemarket answer to drezdn's story (used as an example because i've heard it so many times) would be..." [
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MeFi comment:
"recoveringsophist- Thing is, people are trying to use the Bible as the basis for a science textbook. Although it is dressed up as a book on Intelligent Design.
People such as Konolia find it hard to believe that we are related / descended from..." [
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MeFi comment:
"About the CS3 installers and updater: We know. Painfully. We could blame it on trying to mash together Macromedia & Adobe in one rev while moving to Mac Intel and Vista simultaneously, but at the end of the day things never should have happened..." [
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MeFi comment:
"> So Obama compares an infant human being to an STD. I am so IMPRESSED.
Actually, he is listing the consequences of poor sexual education, which include teenage pregnancy and increased risk of stds.
I am sorry, but to equate two things which..." [
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MeFi comment:
"Ah, I wish my web gallery was still up. I spent two summers in Derry and Belfast studying the conflict.
Check out the Nerve Centre, really an artists collective that started out of the need of some highschool kids wanting a space for their band to..." [
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MeFi comment:
"man, if there is one group of people I do not want to pick an intellectual fight with on the internet, it is the MetaFilter crowd. Reading over the new comments here is just amazing. I have no idea what Boing Boing is doing about it on their end,..." [
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MeFi comment:
"> Opposing sex ed in school does not exclude family guidance in the area, and your assumptions are just way out of line.
The problem is the family guidance can be wrong and poorly informed, if it happens at all. It is a privilege to have the..." [
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MeFi comment:
"> If, by some chance, she decides to go ahead and have an abortion, she can use their doctor. They'll cover the bill. No one ever even needs to know.
The only moral abortion is my abortion
Pro Life people have abortions also, but only the..." [
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MeTa comment:
"I was sitting a friends family's house, visiting on a road trip I took with my best friend who is also a lesbian. The younger sister in the family mentions that she is going to amsterdam to study abroad in the fall.
And proceeds to say "when..." [
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MeFi comment:
"Here's another way to put it: The squirrel is not a canary because the squirrel does not have wings. You have built yourself a false premise and a logical framework from with it could (poorly) be inferred that a canary without wings is indeed a..." [
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MeFi comment:
"> McCain can't seem to rattle him or shake him off his game, no matter what he tries, and it's leading him to take more and more desperate moves to try to change the shape of the race. McCain's a recreational gambler (though not, to my knowledge,..." [
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MeTa comment:
"> Around here, we spell humor without a "u". And we like it that way.
hmor?" [
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