MeFi comment:
"It's ridiculous to accuse someone of racism simply because they are interested in the question of whether there is a link between race and intelligence.
I think it's valid to ask if there's a genetic component to intelligence, but useless to ask..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by moxiedoll
An hour ago
MeFi comment:
"The Congress that just gave the telecom companies illegal-wiretapping immunity is going to spearhead an investigation into … illegal wiretapping?
Excuse me if I don't hold my breath...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by dejah420
Yesterday
MeFi comment:
"> Which means that while the information will be easier to distribute, it will be of lower quality (quality here based on subjective but traditional views of public good, like independence and advocacy).
Except this is exactly what the public..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by aeschenkarnos
2 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Google took a huge usability hit when they started indexing stuff behind paywalls and returning it in the search results. I don't know why they started doing that.
If this new feature lets people vote down that crap, I guess it'll be good, but it..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by JHarris
2 days ago
MeFi comment:
"effbot: While I still think that sucks, that page makes it clear that you're supposed to get the "First Click Free" — that is, you're supposed to be able to click on the link in the Google results and see the information that caused the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by jamjam
2 days ago
Ask comment:
"Careers are overrated.
Are you enjoying what you're doing right now? Does it pay the bills? Are you putting away money for retirement?
If the answer to those questions are 'yes', congratulations — you're probably doing better than 50% of..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by wheat
2 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I'd like them to just pull out all the stops, combine the Olypmic and Paralympic games, and define "human" as anything that can pass a Turing test and derives its energy from the Krebs cycle.
If you want to saw off your legs, have them..." [
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favorited 15 times, recently by tehloki, ZachsMind, rusty, Goofyy, Optimus Chyme, darkripper, aeschenkarnos, geekigirl, mek, By The Grace of God, sebastienbailard, gorgor_balabala, Dormant Gorilla, hincandenza, Lentrohamsanin
4 days ago
MeFi comment:
"dirtynumbangelboy: I think those are all good and valid reasons why the parks are "no smoking," but I'm not sure they justify a ban on tobacco, or the use of non-smoking tobacco products. There's a fairly substantial difference between..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by tehloki
4 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I noticed last time I was on a plane (last week, Delta, STL to CVG in case anyone cares), when they went through the usual "no smoking, Feds will get you" lecture, they also specified that you couldn't use smokeless tobacco either.
Now..." [
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favorited 7 times, recently by Crabby Appleton, threeturtles, rusty, dejah420, Dormant Gorilla, flaterik, BrotherCaine
7 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I just sent $10; even if we probably don't agree 100% (and I suspect we don't, although the things I'd have a problem with were I a constituent are not the same issues others here are taking issue with), your opponent is so offensively stupid on..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by BrotherCaine
7 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I find the concept of Twitter interesting, although I don't use it myself. But the idea of subscription-driven presence/status updates certainly isn't a flawed one. Anyone who's used an IM system with a status line can realize that; you quickly..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by iamisaid
10 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Requiring people to vote seems like a terrible idea. We already have a huge problem with so-called "low information" voters pulling levers based on hearsay, rumor, or the candidate's haircut; the last thing we need is more people who..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by roystgnr
11 days ago
MeFi comment:
"> It's a "get out of jail, free" card. We just handed it to them, right as we were starting to look at what they did. This is corruption in action.
It's even better than that. It's a get (your friends) out of jail free card, a..." [
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favorited 12 times, recently by shiu mai baby, jlbartosa, roystgnr, giraffe, Mayor West, weston, Auden, oaf, Amaterasu, kid ichorous, dirigibleman, orthogonality
11 days ago
MeFi comment:
"> What is your objection to having someone else in the office do it?
I don't want to speak for anyone else, but I think part of the objection is that by shuffling the office around because of her nutty beliefs, by giving her any quarter at all,..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by desiderandus, sotonohito, LucretiusJones, chuckdarwin
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"> Uh, will someone please put this in layman's terms?
Okay ... basically, when you type a web address, like "www.metafilter.com", into your computer, it has to be resolved into an IP address, like 74.53.68.130, in order to actually..." [
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favorited 7 times, recently by Riki tiki, grabbingsand, olya, lalochezia, ceri richard, kalimac, horsemuth
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I think Weston is right on the money, but I'd also add that I think there's a prestige aspect to it as well. I bet that if you got a few hundred people together and asked them to rank the perceived intelligence of people in a bunch of different jobs,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by marble
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Ugh, sorry. After we're done talking about the "DNS system", we'll discuss "ATM machines"..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by dabitch, Jimbob
2 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"I take Amtrak up and down the Northeast corridor (and occasionally elsewhere) regularly.
In general: it is far, far more pleasant than U.S. domestic air travel. However, that's not saying much, and I still end up frustrated and dirty and cursing..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by eritain, ignignokt
2 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"After submitting I saw your followup on sleeper cars.
I've only taken one of them once. Bottom line: I thought they were pretty nice. The staff in the sleeper cars are different from the staff in the regular trains, and they do seem to make more..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by largecorp
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"> That scenario where the terrorist knows where the bomb is, and the only way to find out where it is is to torture him? I'm down with that. That isn't to say I don't believe there should not be consequences.
Sure. It's really not hard to come..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by ShawnStruck, Snyder
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I wonder if there's some way Google could eliminate the features that provide all the logging data. It seems like they're just providing their adversaries with the rope that they'll eventually be hanged with; there's no technical reason that would..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by aeschenkarnos
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"> I never understood why it was necessary to have a big steel ball you had to push forward to open the flow on those things. Was this some vestigial pre-industrial milk dispenser design? Why not just the little black crescent you push with your..." [
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favorited 16 times, recently by tehloki, dd42, bullitt 5, stupidsexyFlanders, orthogonality, deafmute, magstheaxe, BrotherCaine, marble, sebastienbailard, roystgnr, Kraftmatic Adjustable Cheese, billyfleetwood, Faint of Butt, everichon, hifiparasol
3 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"nthing just re-corking the bottle and taking it home. You bought the bottle of wine; if you don't want to finish it then with the meal, that's your business. I'm not aware of any U.S. state where that would be illegal, and I've never had any..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Capri
3 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"Anyone complaining about this should take one big step back. This is how the justice system in the U.S. is supposed to work. The whole function of the Grand Jury is to keep someone from being prosecuted for an act that's technically illegal but the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by TheophileEscargot
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I'm not sure that anyone is saying that they can't do what they did; after all, BB is their site, and I doubt they made any warranties to anyone posting on the site that they'd archive their comments and make them available forever. (Although,..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by NolanRyanHatesMatches, ShawnStruck
3 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"Every house that I've lived in that's had central A/C had some way of automatically draining the condensate water that naturally accumulates on the coils to the outdoors.
Where the evaporator (cold coils) has been in the basement, the typical..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by zippy
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"As long as we're trading personal truths here, one of the lessons it took me the longest time to learn was to stop worrying about "what do you want to do?" or "what do you want to be?". Even for a single person you don't have..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by susanbeeswax, Durn Bronzefist, JDHarper
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I think it's a mistake to concentrate only on energy shortages, because that's just one facet of the problem. There are lots of others. Heck, I'm not even sure that petroleum shortages are the biggest issue facing Western-style civilization.
In..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by dyoneo, Telf
4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"> Wow...really? I'm curious about this, I'd love to know what you mean by this. What's your assessment of "everything" Twitter is doing?
Well, first off, I said "pretty much everything," not "everything," because I..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by acro
4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I think the key problem here is that many artists have gotten into thinking that they're in a sort of manufacturing industry, where they design a product (the music) have it manufactured (at a replicator) and then sell the copies.
This model isn't..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by blasdelf, Popular Ethics
Last month
Ask comment:
"Accounting.
That sounds pretty close to what you're describing. If getting a CPA isn't feasible, some sort of certification or at least some coursework in bookkeeping might be what you need to get your foot in the door. You might also want to look..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by cst
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I can't really shed any tears for anyone who's underwater now or about to be soon. The demand for entertainment and information is clearly still around, and it's not going anywhere.
If the Internet allows that demand to be sated by a relatively..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by MikeKD
Last month
MeFi comment:
"organised religion sucks therefore all spirituality does too without exception
I really have no idea how you could get this idea from the books. Is there some other version out there, where he winds up the last book by advocating burning..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by rtha, infinitywaltz
Last month
MeFi comment:
"> People can self-segregate, but there is so much on the Internet, that it is hard to keep it up for long.
I'm not sure I agree with this. If anything, the Internet makes it easier to self-segregate. On the Internet, if you choose, you can..." [
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favorited 20 times, recently by axon, Hot Like Your 12V Wire, Jilder, MikeKD, roystgnr, nooneyouknow, tehloki, pompomtom, Leon-arto, liquorice, jammy, Sangermaine, fuzzypantalones, Joh, rodgerd, peacheater, Pinback, zabuni, Caduceus, acro
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I had an English professor once who proclaimed that semicolons were dead, and the em-dash should be used instead in all instances. (I believe this was on the advice of William Zinsser.) I proceeded to use the semicolon out of spite, and still do...." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by sebastienbailard
Last month
MeFi comment:
"So they're not mature enough to vote, buy cigarettes, or take photos of themselves naked, but they're A-OK to become parents?
Stay classy, America." [
more]
favorited 2 times, recently by docpops, Monochrome
Last month
MeFi comment:
"> it would be an utter crime to waste it on transportation when it could go to electricity generation.
Not sure I follow. Why is using it for electricity generation better than using it for transportation? It seems to me that replacing..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by tachikaze
Last month
Ask comment:
"I'm with him; he shouldn't be stuck with paying any more than his 1/3rd share because you and your BF broke up. That's not fair, and I don't think there's any sort of implied "risk" inherent in living with a couple that you'll maybe end up..." [
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favorited 9 times, recently by sondrialiac, inatizzy, shinynewnick, pinksoftsoap, Liosliath, kate blank, sunshinesky, queseyo, crabintheocean
Last month
MeFi comment:
"> And anyone thinking that the fear of a lowering birthrate in first world countries is so much racism had better be prepared to pay more taxes to support the non-working population.
So we should continue to increase the population,..." [
more]
favorited 3 times, recently by Avenger, marble, ssg
Last month
MeFi comment:
"> Technological progress will, barring a massive fuckup on a global scale, bring the real yields closer and closer to that fundamental envelope.
This seems disturbingly like an article of faith, and I don't take things on faith -- and I really..." [
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favorited 7 times, recently by Avenger, nooneyouknow, MillMan, jb, marble, dyoneo, phrontist
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I would really like -- and I'd pay extra for -- an airline with less security. (Unfortunately GenAv is a little too rich for my blood.)
With the possible exception of reinforced cockpit doors, I don't believe for a second that anything the TSA..." [
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favorited 10 times, recently by melorama, Espoo2, Monochrome, etaoin, Xoder, liza, tachikaze, Phalene, b1ff, Crabby Appleton
Last month
MeFi comment:
"The article that I read about this (not sure if it's the linked one or not) suggested that most Japanese are under the limits, so perhaps that's a big part of the blasé attitude. A policy that effectively tells most people "hey, you're doing..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by jrockway
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Nor can schooling guarantee employment in today’s cut-throat, competitive world.
Well, they are correct in saying this, at least. Schooling certainly cannot guarantee employment.
But it sure as hell helps. In fact, I'd go so far as to say..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by peacheater, Monochrome, fook
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I gotta wonder if this whole endeavor was like a videogame version of "Springtime for Hitler". It's so hilariously goddamn bad, I can't imagine anyone who's played PC games in the last decade to think it would have worked.
Therefore I..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by outlier
Last month
