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MeFi post:
freedom
know that major news sources love to exaggerate Muslim outrage, right?
Surely you jest. It's amazing that Muslims have time to worship satan, what with all their being constantly outraged and everything.
posted to MetaFilter by tkolar
at 2:37 PM on July 24, 2008
MeFi post:
Squeeeee!
Okay, everybody on 3.
1....2.....3
"Awwwwwwwwwww....."
posted to MetaFilter by tkolar
at 11:00 PM on July 21, 2008
MeFi post:
Information Design + Politics = WIN! (Hopefully)
I donated to Mr. Tevis' campaign this morning and have felt great since.
And really, what better endorsement could there be than one from "tits mcgee"?
posted to MetaFilter by tkolar
at 5:31 PM on July 16, 2008
But speaking as a liberal, I couldn't support him. He's at best a moderate dressed in the clothing of Obama-like change and Web 2.0 campaign tricks. I know MeFites are generous people, with more often than not a liberal political bent.
I'm confused by this attitude. I find his positions conservative for my taste too, but they're so far left of his opponent that I can't but help think that electing him would be progress worth making.
posted to MetaFilter by tkolar
at 5:51 PM on July 16, 2008
Miko wrote...
It feels a little bit wrong for me to work toward giving his constituents a representative they may or may not want.
I'm a little confused about this. It's not like we're paying for a goon squad to pound on doors and beat people if they don't vote the right way.
Unless, of course, that's exactly what we're doing.
stevis, what's your opinion on bludgeoning constituents?
posted to MetaFilter by tkolar
at 5:56 PM on July 16, 2008
I wonder how many of his donors also donate to politicians who do actually represent them. There's something odd to me about the idea that donors would flock to send this person money because of his cool website and his being better than the alternative, while not having it occur to them to advance those causes in their own home district.
Many of us liberals flock to liberal districts, where basic causes like "Bible in religion class, science... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by tkolar
at 6:01 PM on July 16, 2008
Miko wrote...
Tevis is in Kansas and what he does will be in Kansas and for Kansas unless it ends up in the Supreme Court.
We're all in this together.
Yeah, Kansas doesn't come in too badly compared some states, but encouraging good educational standards in a negative flow state is worth a few bucks from me.
posted to MetaFilter by tkolar
at 6:27 PM on July 16, 2008
Considering how many of us have donated more than $9, maybe his total is over $26,000 with 2,203 contributors.
I would guess he's got a hell of a lot more that $26,000 on his hands right now.
posted to MetaFilter by tkolar
at 3:05 PM on July 17, 2008
This is such an obvious media opportunity - play your cards even halfway right and you should be all over TV all day Monday.
With the headline "Thousands of liberals attempt to buy a seat in the Kansas legislature."
Don't be too sure that the people of Kansas will think this is as cool as we do. It looks a lot like outsiders meddling in local affairs.
posted to MetaFilter by tkolar
at 8:33 AM on July 19, 2008
He probably took the money and absconded to Mexico.
You have to admit, that would be a novel position on illegal immigration.
posted to MetaFilter by tkolar
at 11:42 AM on July 20, 2008
MeFi post:
China Colonizing Africa With Dire Consequences for Africans
Heh, that Time article is just rife with irony.
After battling for years against the white colonial powers of Britain, France, Belgium and Germany, post-independence African leaders are happy to do business with China for a straightforward reason: cash.
Oh yeah, also because they spent years battling with Europe and are a wee bit pissed off about that.
The people of this bewitching,... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by tkolar
at 11:14 PM on July 19, 2008
Whups, sorry, "Daily Mail" not "Time" by which I meant "Times" anyway.
posted to MetaFilter by tkolar
at 11:14 PM on July 19, 2008
I wrote...
Heh, that Time article is just rife with irony.
[...]
Really, an English newspaper is going to criticize people for plundering Africa?
A bunch of other people wrote...
What's your point?
Let me just cut straight to the point and blame Alanis Morissette for bastardizing a perfectly useful term to the point that people don't understand it when it's used correctly.
posted to MetaFilter by tkolar
at 9:04 AM on July 20, 2008
MeFi post:
It seems like your thong is showing.
Can we come up with a MeMail pony based on this?
Yes, but there would be a 10% chance that any given comment would be posted to a public forum with your name attached.
Are you feeling lucky, punk?
posted to MetaFilter by tkolar
at 12:30 PM on July 19, 2008
"Your regularly have anger issues in Metafilter threads"
"Your abuse of the English language, mistaken or otherwise, makes you a subject of mockery."
posted to MetaFilter by tkolar
at 2:07 PM on July 19, 2008
MeFi post:
Nintendo's E3 Keynote Largey A Dissapointment, Says Internets.
MotionPlus adds the ability to detect sustained velocities
Or rather, the ability to remember that you haven't decelerated yet.
posted to MetaFilter by tkolar
at 6:33 PM on July 16, 2008
However, the wiimote will still need to know its initial position and velocity, probably by calibrating it by holding it still at a neutral position, and even a very accurate accelerometer will accumulate error just from the discrete sampling and integration.
Actually, given what it is and how it's used, I'll bet they use any prolonged period with no acceleration to zero everything out. There's no physical way for a human body to keep an object at a... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by tkolar
at 6:43 PM on July 16, 2008
MeFi post:
Iran, Iran So Far Away
So, while there's probably something to your theory, is there anything other than a group of random news links here?
Which is a nice way of saying "What the hell is this doing on the front page of Metafilter?"
posted to MetaFilter by tkolar
at 11:07 PM on July 15, 2008
MeFi post:
Boing Boing Finds 21st Century Trotsky?
Hey cool, I was born this year.
posted to MetaFilter by tkolar
at 5:52 PM on July 14, 2008
Conceptual Narrative and Capitalism
Has anyone shot the writer of that article yet? I ask merely for informational purposes.
posted to MetaFilter by tkolar
at 10:33 AM on July 15, 2008
The new Battlestar Galactica is a joke. Flying motorcycles? Really?
posted to MetaFilter by tkolar
at 11:25 AM on July 15, 2008
I think all will become clear if you click on sciurus' link to the article.
Ah. I stopped at reading the URL, but I can guess.
posted to MetaFilter by tkolar
at 11:35 AM on July 15, 2008
Ooh, and "Back To The Future Part III" just came out.
That's right you sad sacks, there are kids in college who were born after the Back To The Future trilogy finished.
posted to MetaFilter by tkolar
at 12:19 PM on July 15, 2008
Huh, A.V. I was going to go with
September 13, 1999 -- the Moon is hurled out of Earth orbit by a massive explosion in Nuclear Waste Disposal Area 2, where nuclear waste from Earth has been dumped and stored on the dark side of the Moon. The 311 inhabitants of Moonbase Alpha are cut off from Earth, and traveling through the cosmos on an unknown trajectory.
But I think I prefer yours.
posted to MetaFilter by tkolar
at 1:33 PM on July 15, 2008
2006, the beginning of the Wiilenium. Nintendo dominates the home gaming market for 1000 years.
posted to MetaFilter by tkolar
at 1:43 PM on July 15, 2008
MeFi post:
530 pounds, 240 kilograms, 38 stone.
Durn Bronzefist (like the name) says...
If you're burning what you're taking in, where are the extra calories coming from?
That's the problem right there. The definition of a healthy diet is not "burns exactly what you're taking in", particularly with regards to short term and long term energy availability. The human body wants and needs some oversupply to store as fat -- which is to say that a regular appetite will very... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by tkolar
at 8:27 PM on July 14, 2008
I think the problem is some hear obese and think "25lbs over weight."
According to this if I was exactly 25 lbs over my fit, high school self I would be obese.
posted to MetaFilter by tkolar
at 8:33 PM on July 14, 2008
I've wondered why people who've tried every other method of losing weight don't simply cut a check to a neutral party for some extremely large sum,
Might work for some folks, but for people who fit the addiction profile it would be a waste of money. Very few crackheads give up their habit because of money.
posted to MetaFilter by tkolar
at 8:38 PM on July 14, 2008
I mean, weight gain not correlated with calorie intake?
CDNIC
posted to MetaFilter by tkolar
at 8:40 PM on July 14, 2008
If you'd like to tell me how, on a regular basis, unspent calories do not turn into additional body weight over time, I'm all ears.
I'd like to know myself. See my example upthread about a 300 pound man maintaining his weight at both 1200 and 2400 calories per day. Where do those 1200 calories go?
Using a phrase like "diminishing returns" suggests to me that you are not taking a mechanistic approach to... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by tkolar
at 9:31 PM on July 14, 2008
Uh, P.o.B, serazin keeps asking for proof of long-term weight loss, and you keep providing proof of short term connection between diet and weight.
I have yet to see serazin suggest that there's no short term connection between diet and weight, and I have yet to see you provide any support for the idea that controlling diet will work for long term weight control.
posted to MetaFilter by tkolar
at 10:43 PM on July 14, 2008
Even the relatively civil and accepting metafites community
This community does not exist.
Yes it does. It's just in a constant battle with the simplistic and judgmental metafites community.
posted to MetaFilter by tkolar
at 7:55 AM on July 15, 2008
But just because it isn't easy to maintain doesn't mean that diet and exercise don't work.
When you look at any medical treatment -- CPAPs for sleep apnea for example -- compliance is a huge part of deciding whether they work or not. CPAPs have close to a 100% success rate, if only patients would use them consistently, but only a fraction of patients do.
I feel like we're having the same argument here. CPAPs "work"... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by tkolar
at 8:34 AM on July 15, 2008
From what I understand, before an addict is rock-bottom, broke, passed-out-by-the-toilet, and their life is completely fucked, at one point they are sober.
Actually that's not entirely clear. If by "sober" you mean "not intoxicated" then yes. If you mean "sober" as in "not addicted" then not so much -- the genetic roots of addiction are pretty clear.
Put another way, an experienced... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by tkolar
at 8:42 AM on July 15, 2008
OmieWise wrote...
Choosing to be compliant with diet and exercise are just that, a choice. It may be harder for some and easier for others, but it's still a personal choice. The evidence that statistically it doesn't work is not evidence that it isn't effective, just that people aren't compliant
It's taken me a while to respond this as I think we're largely in agreement re the difference between being effective for one person vs. effective... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by tkolar
at 10:47 AM on July 15, 2008
MeFi post:
Don’t ask, don't tell - gays in the US military
That's the choicest quote? I thought this was pretty good:
"You read about the Spartans, they were all homosexuals, the whole lot of them," West says. "And I don't think anyone would suggest for a second that the 500 Spartans fighting against the Persian Army were not pretty macho."
posted to MetaFilter by tkolar
at 7:37 PM on July 14, 2008
By the way, "West" there is Admiral Sir Alan West, retired of the British Navy.
posted to MetaFilter by tkolar
at 7:39 PM on July 14, 2008
First of all, who the hell is West? They don't introduce him before just using his last name.
The link goes to the third page of the article.
posted to MetaFilter by tkolar
at 7:45 PM on July 14, 2008
So what's the problem?
The problem is that the U.S. military is conservative Christian organization.
posted to MetaFilter by tkolar
at 7:56 PM on July 14, 2008
um, he is aware that Great Britain [is] part of Europe?
Careful there. You're likely to get your ass kicked by a poofter.
posted to MetaFilter by tkolar
at 8:46 PM on July 14, 2008
I've always thought that Don't Ask Don't Tell was the most astonishing piece of institutionalized hypocrisy,
I suppose, but it allowed a large number of gay people to serve without directly contravening the Uniform Code of Military Justice. I know that doesn't mean a lot to civilians, but I've met at least one homosexual who -- despite remaining closeted in the military -- was grateful to no longer be violating military law just by serving.
posted to MetaFilter by tkolar
at 9:45 PM on July 14, 2008
