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MeFi post:
Boing Boing Finds 21st Century Trotsky?
I'm loving the snark. Keep up the good work, Metazens.
posted to MetaFilter by Blazecock Pileon
at 12:16 PM on June 30, 2008
Has anyone built an un-disemvoweller? That would be a neat greasemonkey script.
Someone should make a disconsonantizer trojan that installs itself on the browser of anyone who reads BB. Fght cnsrshp wth mr cnsrshp.
posted to MetaFilter by Blazecock Pileon
at 12:28 PM on June 30, 2008
And they're always preferable to love triangles.
Sex with squares is boring? You do the math.
posted to MetaFilter by Blazecock Pileon
at 4:42 PM on June 30, 2008
That Violet Blue thing.
Cory and the editorial staff rail against censorship and then mandate the use of doublespeak like "unpublishing", deleting her material and anyone else's who even mentioned her. What a breathtaking, idiotic display of hypocrisy on their part. Astounding.
posted to MetaFilter by Blazecock Pileon
at 11:03 AM on July 1, 2008
Blazecock: Jebus... hyperbolate much?
It's amazing what words are invented to try to clean up messes, and as near as I can tell, we were just witness to the euphemism of the year. I find the post-hoc apologia and linguistic refashioning to be just as fascinating and inventive. Language is a terrifying beast.
posted to MetaFilter by Blazecock Pileon
at 11:45 AM on July 1, 2008
That it unflatteringly resembles Newspeak is bad fucking luck under the circumstances.
Come on. In the null distribution of words in the English language, most would call the use of a neologism like "unpublish" more of a "statistical outlier of interest" than "bad fucking luck". Adding the air of secrecy and cabalistic wagon-circling seems to make that verbiage more than just a word plucked from the thin, sweet air that... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Blazecock Pileon
at 2:26 PM on July 1, 2008
That comment doesn't say that anymore. Can anyone vouch it used to? Has Boing Boing always been at war with East Asia?
It appears to have been unsaid. Wow.
posted to MetaFilter by Blazecock Pileon
at 2:42 PM on July 1, 2008
In other news, the Boing Boing editors have been put in charge of Givewell.
posted to MetaFilter by Blazecock Pileon
at 2:44 PM on July 1, 2008
They're really digging themselves into a hole.
Also known as unclimbing out of the unsky.
posted to MetaFilter by Blazecock Pileon
at 3:00 PM on July 1, 2008
oh dang, blazecock's pulling no punches, all linking to the cached copy of the original comment in the boingboing thread and sheeit.
From Orwell to Givewell... But hopefully people will read what's on record and get to decide for themselves.
posted to MetaFilter by Blazecock Pileon
at 3:48 PM on July 1, 2008
man alive, if teresa nielsen-hayden's comment has anything to teach us, it's that we should be happy and proud to have jessamyn and cortex.
Seriously, has BB been hacked?
posted to MetaFilter by Blazecock Pileon
at 6:01 PM on July 1, 2008
Seriously. I flagged that so hard that it spilled over into commenting about it too.
Metafilter doesn't deserve the label to begin with, but can we not give the "boyzone" complainers valid ammunition by giving that asshole any more attention?
posted to MetaFilter by Blazecock Pileon
at 6:06 PM on July 1, 2008
What breaks the spirit of the web is that a blog is considered as a record, sort of like a newspaper.
I like how the "serious, professional" bloggers on BB want it both ways: They want to treated like serious journalists, like members of the press, with all the romance and drama associated with a breaking story.
On the other hand, when they caught unpublishing doubleplusungood comments, then all of a sudden, it's... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Blazecock Pileon
at 9:28 AM on July 2, 2008
Charlie Stross has picked his side! BURN HIM.
No need to. He seems quite willing to go down with the s(t)inking ship.
posted to MetaFilter by Blazecock Pileon
at 9:30 AM on July 2, 2008
I'm not going to go back and look for it, though, and even if it's not there, it may, of course, have just been unpublished, to get the past into line with the current way that things always have been.
What policy change? Unpublishing for any or no reason has always been their policy.
posted to MetaFilter by Blazecock Pileon
at 9:37 AM on July 2, 2008
MetaFilter: Nice poke in the asshole with a 'steampunk dildo.'
Sounds painful. Those gears and valves have sharp edges.
posted to MetaFilter by Blazecock Pileon
at 3:43 PM on July 2, 2008
and all that steam, too.
And the DRM! Don't get me started about dildo rights.
posted to MetaFilter by Blazecock Pileon
at 3:50 PM on July 2, 2008
Way to get on my good side.
Mt. Stross, no one has any obligation whatsoever to get on "your good side" in order to tell you how misplaced your loyalties happen to be, with respect to what secretive "unpublishing", comment and policy revisions mean for open and free communication in a public forum. Either you take your blinders off and grow up, or you get taken to task for defending people who have tainted themselves, by all... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Blazecock Pileon
at 9:40 AM on July 3, 2008
MeFi post:
Melt it down and make it into a coat hanger.
That he received the Order of Canada has of course enraged anti-abortion groups, and has deeply annoyed some pundits.
Oh, Canada. *sigh*
posted to MetaFilter by Blazecock Pileon
at 5:33 PM on July 2, 2008
Some of those abortions were of female children. They didn't get to choose anything, ever.
So you've interviewed a female-gendered fetus and been able to communicate coherently in the English language, eh?
posted to MetaFilter by Blazecock Pileon
at 6:00 PM on July 2, 2008
MeFi post:
The Prognosis, Doc?
But socialized medicine is even worse.
Canadian health care has many well-publicized limitations. Nevertheless, it produces health benefits similar, or perhaps superior, to those of the US health system, but at a much lower cost. Canada’s single-payer system for physician and hospital care yields large administrative efficiencies in comparison with the American multi-payer model.60 Not-for-profit hospital funding results in appreciably... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Blazecock Pileon
at 5:39 PM on July 2, 2008
MeFi post:
Soft Science
Without getting to heft them to feel the difference in mass, these are just different shaped beanbags with funny faces that are otherwise mostly the same.
No need to be anti-matter.
posted to MetaFilter by Blazecock Pileon
at 4:52 PM on June 30, 2008
MeFi post:
Secret moves against Iran
Hersh really does seem to be a broken-record here, but throwing in Kristol's observation makes me nervous.
That could just be to scare people into voting for McCain, by insinuating Obama is weak on "terrar". More neocon fear mongering, as usual.
posted to MetaFilter by Blazecock Pileon
at 11:09 PM on June 29, 2008
The real question -- is it because every time he's yelled, they've backed off, or is he crying wolf.
Who the hell cares if Hersh is crying wolf? The answer is good, either way: We're not in another war we will never win.
posted to MetaFilter by Blazecock Pileon
at 11:03 AM on June 30, 2008
MeFi post:
Anger Management Gas Station
My point was less about how much crude calculations like those can tell us as it was about trying to make a point through oversimplification.
What is certainly true is that what you folks overseas are paying above cost (due to taxation) is going into your infrastructure, e.g. healthcare system, public transportation. Whereas what we're paying above cost is profit for ExxonMobil, Halliburton et al., which we will never see again. And by never, I don't... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Blazecock Pileon
at 6:33 PM on June 29, 2008
A quick google search show that the average wage of £23,764 is only around 22% higher than the US average wage of 38,651. It sure as hell isn't just 22% more expensive to rent, buy food or buy houses, that's for sure.
The British are not required to pay for healthcare out of income. Given the huge cost of health insurance in the US, your numbers will need some serious upwards adjustments.
posted to MetaFilter by Blazecock Pileon
at 10:08 AM on June 30, 2008
Unless you spend 38% of your wages on healthcare, it isn't going to even bring parity, though, is it? It is certainly not that significant a variable.
You'd be surprised. Anecdote is not data, but I found out how much my broken knee cost and it was shocking. I can only imagine how much worse it is for Americans with chronic ailments requiring multiple treatments and/or ongoing medication.
I wouldn't know how to begin to... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Blazecock Pileon
at 10:52 AM on June 30, 2008
MeFi post:
Get it all on eBay
It's a tragedy when you try to sell out, but you find no one wants to buy. I feel bad for the 14-year old pretty much being sold with the package deal. America in a nutshell, really.
posted to MetaFilter by Blazecock Pileon
at 10:36 PM on June 27, 2008
MeFi post:
Tornado Engines
But you can't open up a can of heat, nor can you just hook up your wonder machine to the "heat pipe" and go on your merry way.
You sure can.
posted to MetaFilter by Blazecock Pileon
at 3:34 PM on June 27, 2008
You still have engineering problems.
Granted, but it's not like Stirling engines are pie-in-the-sky perpetual motion machines. You can certainly make use of what is otherwise wasted heat from chemical, nuclear, kinetic etc. energy processes.
posted to MetaFilter by Blazecock Pileon
at 3:47 PM on June 27, 2008
MeFi post:
Buy Now, It'll Only Go Higher
If speculation is the cause, won't speculators be hurt the most when the speculation fueled bubble bursts?
No, we taxpayers will bail you guys out, no worries.
posted to MetaFilter by Blazecock Pileon
at 9:35 AM on June 27, 2008
I am also curious as to the exact mechanism for speculation driving price. How would that work?
If you predict longer-term volatility in the region where the energy is coming from and an increasingly weakened US dollar, and that seems like a prediction with high likelihood, then it is safer to take today's dollars and invest them in tomorrow's crude oil, in anticipation of a collapsed economy or state of war that will further reduce oil supply and... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Blazecock Pileon
at 3:24 PM on June 27, 2008
MeFi post:
Free speech?
cue baying about the First Amendment starting in 3, 2, 1..
But America is awesome! What's wrong with you?!
posted to MetaFilter by Blazecock Pileon
at 12:50 PM on June 27, 2008
