MeFi comment:
"I think bonaldi is talking about a kind of implied social contract laying down the mutual duties of content publishers and content consumers. Trouble is, most geeks are hardcore libertarians when it comes to their computers and will never recognise..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Riki tiki, bonaldi
5 days ago
MeFi comment:
""For one thing, the national accounts leave out a crucial dimension of the economy–the part that exists outside the realm of monetary exchange. This segment includes both the ecosystem and the social system–the life-supporting functions of the..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Perplexity, kid ichorous
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Time to quit and, unfortunately, wait until the country collapses completely, so it can be rebuilt.
As bad as Zimbabwe is, I'm sure it could get a lot worse. A complete collapse would never be a clean slate to rebuild from - it would involve..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Jimbob
2 months ago
MeFi post:
Coping: A Survival Guide for People with Asperger Syndrome
favorited 45 times, recently by Durin's Bane, saturnine, yohko, electriccynic, ZenMasterThis, deborah, librarina, divabat, LobsterMitten, dr_dank, alexei, kindalike, benimoto, JHarris, Lafe, nickyskye, Xere, Anything, agropyron, milov, winston, Manjusri, brevator, heatherann, tracert, rmm, nasreddin, alteredcarbon, motty, andywolf, babybuns, BishopsLoveScifi, everichon, mike3k, dsaelf, Hal Mumkin, phrontist, Slarty Bartfast, mduda, octothorpe, Elsbet, pinothefrog, Blazecock Pileon, amyms, The Great Big Mulp
5 months ago
MeTa comment:
"If new media is to challenge old media, new media has to stop having tipsy giggles of validation whenever old media nods in our direction.
"Sure those bloggers are entertaining, but in the end they're really just insects who either feed off..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by mediareport
5 months ago
Ask post:
What are some good books on calendars, chronology and the division and measurement of time?
favorited 9 times, recently by bienbiensuper, ifjuly, jessica, Dean King, Alvy Ampersand, ikahime, tatiana wishbone, peacheater, bonobo
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Cranky Media Guy talks about his "history of media hoaxes and stunts" and personal friendship with Andy Kaufman on MeFi..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Pope Guilty
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"The quality and legality range from superb to questionable, and some require the original game data files." [
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favorited 6 times, recently by brandnew
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I admire the effort, but I'm starting to worry that all environmental problems have been condensed into the word "carbon". We're doing a lot of nasty things to the environment, and putting carbon into the atmosphere is only one of them, and..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by regicide is good for you, Rock Steady
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Options include: Kick in the nuts
I believe the technical term is CBT." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by chrismear
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"The Pentagon buys $45 cans of Dr. Pepper, $500 pencils, $8,000 toilet seats and so on.
Not that the Pentagon doesn't waste vast amounts of money, but there's more to this story than is commonly reported...." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by andywolf, Saddo, mek, rockhopper
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Just like hot or not, this equates web design with visual design, but anyone who's had to actually use a website (or a person) knows that looking pretty is about 15% of what makes it good...." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by sonic meat machine, Brainy, kigpig, DU
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"What does that have to do with anything?
Nothing really. It's just why the Iraq figure always comes up. Not because it's new or relevant - just because it's cathartic, if deeply counterproductive, to axe-grind...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by yerfatma
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"For what it's worth, the artist claims the light is not artificial. I like the images whether they're photos or not." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by wires
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"If the ISPs, telcos, Apple, Intel, Google, Facebook et al. are really making so many billions off the back of pirated music, then they should get together and buy the entire music industry outright, then use music as a loss-leader for their real..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by MikeKD
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"While we're thinking up new ways of advancing mutual understanding by labeling people, what's a good one for "someone who ascribes deficiencies in character to people based on opinions said people hold at that particular point in time"?..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nickyskye
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Stop buying shit you don't absolutely need. Pay off your credit cards and debt. Cancel your cable TV. Implement personal austerity.
That's good advice recession or not...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by bukharin
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"klang, are you trying to say that Mickey Mouse wouldn't make a better president than any of the mainstream candidates?" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Blazecock Pileon
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"It also shows, of course, that Bush's paranoid delusions have killed so many people that "mass murderer" is no longer a valid term, he's entered "attempted genocide" territory.
Nah, "murder" and "genocide"..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by interrobang, MikeKD, lodurr, panamax
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Traffic management is the internet equivalent of taxing the rich. It hurts the 5% of users who are responsible for 95% of the traffic, while improving the connectivity of the rest. People complain about it on MetaFilter because people on MetaFilter..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by smackfu
7 months ago
MeTa comment:
"This is really cool, monju. I wonder what it would take to convince mathowie to make the entire MeFi database available à la Wikipedia's Database Download. It's all publicly available anyway, and I just know there are armies of perl-script-wielding..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by thisjax
9 months ago
MeFi comment:
"'blacks who can't get ahead are mostly responsible for their own condition.'
I wonder how the respondents read the word responsible. You might not be responsible for being in trouble, but you can't avoid being responsible for getting yourself out..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Danila
9 months ago
MeFi comment:
"After donning elaborate makeup and clothing, men engage in stylized dance and preening to win the favor of a desired woman - often one who is already married.
This description makes them sound as if they are more similar to us than different...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by craniac
9 months ago
MeFi comment:
"the real question is what the penalty should be for miscarriage.
If abortion is murder, then miscarriage is manslaughter." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Pope Guilty, Jimbob
9 months ago
MeFi comment:
"> One in four adults is a binge drinker
> Mid-life bingers...Pupils aged eight are 'hungover' at school...Middle-class girls 'most a risk of becoming binge drinkers'...Addiction danger for child drinkers...Third of men use alcohol to deal..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by idiomatika, lalochezia, genevieve, bunnytricks, papafrita
9 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Obsessive completism is underrated, and this is Shakespeare on nightmare difficulty with 100% kills and secrets. I can't wait." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Songdog, EarBucket
9 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I dont think its fair for the privileged to call what they do "work."
To those complaining about how the boss class just turn up at the office and sit around in meetings all day: they're working hard. I'm sure you have a bitter anecdote..." [
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favorited 6 times, recently by arcticseal, wuwei, _squid_, zevious, Lentrohamsanin, b1tr0t
10 months ago
MeFi post:
Mind the Gap
favorited 17 times, recently by The Shiny Thing, aye, Bora Horza Gobuchul, jclovebrew, magic curl, Crabby Appleton, Soup, maryh, the luke parker fiasco, nicolin, silas216, FissionChips, disillusioned, gsb, keevinl, nickyskye, monkeyx-uk
10 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Pity it didn't lead to a plague of cats. Nobody would object to millions of cats swarming across the land would they?" [
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favorited 2 times, recently by tehloki, Xere
11 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Is it a taxi? Is it a train? Actually it is a bit of both.
It looks like 98% rail, 2% taxi; it doesn't matter how many environmental objectives it meets if it doesn't meet the transport objective of getting you from A to B (where A and B are..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Deathalicious
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Really, homodigitalis. This atheist would just love to believe in God. How gosh darned nice it would be to have an omnipotent benevolent divine force looking out for you at all times, to have a simple method of determining what's right and wrong, and..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by MsElaineous
Last year
