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My, it seems you have uncovered a periodicals repository!
DU:
"Notion" being the operative word. Most (all?) of these journalists (or in some cases "journalists") still represent, consciously or unconsciously, the views of their corporate masters.
DU, I'm wondering how many journalists you actually know.
And yeah, neutrality is a myth - often a dangerous one - but I'm afraid earnest use of the phrase "corporate masters" might have tipped... [more]
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at 11:15 PM on July 22, 2008
MeFi post:
he could bear to wait no longer
A smart man inquired, "Do you know there's a person under your train?" I looked at the blood on the windscreen momentarily before assuring him that, yes, I was aware.
He paused for a heartbeat, looked at his watch and said, "So, how long before we get on the move again?"
Submitted for your consideration: The Problem.
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at 3:34 PM on July 21, 2008
jhc - with all due respect (and your moronic comment about PTSD reveals that not very much is due)
... you don't look clever.
posted by Nick Verstayne at 7:32 PM on July 21
Just wondering, Nick - why was it important for you to actually type out and post that comment? If there's something about jhc's understanding of PTSD that you disagree with, enlighten us.
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at 8:37 PM on July 21, 2008
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One-woman crime spree
With the open borders and only partially-connected police forces, I'm surprised Europe doesn't have more of these traveling serial killers.
Why are you surprised? Most people don't want to be serial killers. For the average schlub, there's not much reason to - shit pay, no benefits, lots of manual labour, isolation, health hazards galore - and it's not as though less-than-draconian security measures somehow magically convince... [more]
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at 6:59 PM on July 20, 2008
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Watchmen Trailer is Up. It's not good.
Rorschach's line in the trailer appears to have been, ah, somewhat cleaned up from its original version in his journal excerpt on page 1:
The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown. The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout 'Save us!' And I'll look down and whisper 'No.'
I... [more]
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at 9:23 PM on July 17, 2008
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Suspect Soldiers
Just think of it as the Army recruiting "veterans" of the constant street wars being waged across this country, to be used in the constant street wars being waged in another country. Makes perfect sense to some people.
So, you're saying poverty, institutionalized racism, and the drug war is a training exercise.
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at 6:58 PM on July 16, 2008
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The psychological impact of war
In the first situation, the soldier is a victim. In the second, the soldier is an accessory. A lot of people don't want to hear that, but they counter with calling me a dick instead of explaining why there's no difference.
Two words, Mr. Mayor: poverty draft.
Anyway, beyond issues of culpability, which are certainly complicated, the result is still the same: a large portion of an entire generation is coming home broken, and... [more]
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at 9:55 AM on July 16, 2008
MeFi post:
I Never Drink Water, Fish F**K In It
Some day I'm going to make a FPP all about the virtues of snark and offhand pithy sarcasm, and watch with glee as MeFi contrarians' heads asplode in the comment thread, or respond, in true contrarian fashion, with a slow but steady stream of carefully reasoned sincerity - or, having nothing constructive to say, say nothing. I know, I've loosed my share of snarktillery as well, but it's just seemed particularly excessive this last week.
Anyway,... [more]
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at 9:09 PM on July 4, 2008
Because it falls out of the fucking sky, people
But not, in many places, sufficiently to meet people's daily needs with any reliability. Food grows out of the fucking ground, but we still have hunger.
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at 11:23 PM on July 6, 2008
MeFi post:
WhoTubes?
DU -- In order to view copyrighted material on a computer, you must request a copy of the material from the server, to transmitted and stored on your computer. That's just the nature of computers.
In order to view copyrighted material using your eyes, you must request a copy of the material from the physical world, to be received by your eyes and stored in your brain. That's just the nature of brains.
EVERY TIME YOU THINK, YOU ARE COMMITTING COMMUNISM
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at 7:25 AM on July 3, 2008
Judges make rulings on law, not on public opinion.
And the law isn't open to interpretation. If it were, we'd need, like, some sort of special caste of magistrates, charged with the task of interpreting it, and that'd be nutty.
The law is a collection of opinions, interpreted by people with opinions, and enforced by people with opinions and guns.
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at 9:19 AM on July 3, 2008
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Melt it down and make it into a coat hanger.
Some of those abortions were of female children. They didn't get to choose anything, ever.
Some of those abortions were of potential future time travelers. They didn't get to choose whether to go back in time and kill Hitler. Are you happy, Henry Morgentaler? Or should I say... Heinrich Morgenazi?
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at 7:15 PM on July 2, 2008
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Faceless People
I truly despise how large corporations are slowly bleeding the mysterious and whimsical of all life. In creating a context where it's assumed anything extraordinary like this is simply another advert, artistic intervention becomes a tool for cultural circumvention, the loop of consumption comes that much closer to being closed, and everyone gets that little bit more cynical.
Stunts like this are a crime against imagination, and I deeply resent them.
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at 11:51 AM on July 2, 2008
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Bicycle Lock / Planter - get your bike out of the hall
(Part of the problem is 99 out of 100 riders lock their bike to the ring and not the post like they're supposed to.)
Hm? If you lock to the post and they get the ring off, they have your bike. If you lock to the ring and they get the ring off, they have your bike, but they also have the Heavy Ring Of Shame, and I'd like to think any cyclist would "stop to chat" with someone lugging a ring attached to a bike.
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at 8:22 AM on July 1, 2008
dobbs, I assumed you were referring to the 2x4 thing, which, as it turns out, makes it irrelevant which part you lock to - unless you were lucky enough to lock to the half of the ring that didn't come off on the first try (but if you locked to the post as well, they could probably lift your lock off).
I've never heard of people actually cutting through the rings. That sounds like it would draw far more attention than cutting a lock - but there are some pretty brazen... [more]
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at 9:27 AM on July 1, 2008
MeFi post:
A new jug ships clean
The redesign of the gallon milk jug, experts say, is an example of the changes likely to play out in the American economy over the next two decades. In an era of soaring global demand and higher costs for energy and materials, virtually every aspect of the economy needs to be re-examined,
except for, you know, having Wal-Marts.
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at 6:54 PM on June 30, 2008
MeFi post:
Beasties Boy Made Good
Last weekend, a top female rep for Nestlé pitched a fit at the Nantucket Film Festival, which Nestlé co-sponsored, during a screening of "Flow" - a documentary bashing Nestlé Waters as harming the environment.
Um.....
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at 10:15 AM on June 26, 2008
MeFi post:
This is how we do it.
This is the truth of it: Fighting leads to killing. and killing gets to warring, and that was damn near the death of us all. Look at us now - busted up, and everyone talking about hard rain. But we've learned, by the dust of 'em all, Bartertown's learned. Now, when men get to fighting, it happens here, and it finishes here. Two men enter, one man leaves.
Two men enter, one man leaves.
Two men enter, one man leaves.
TWO MEN ENTER, ONE MAN LEAVES.... [more]
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at 9:43 AM on June 19, 2008
And of course cops don't trust the judicial system, no street gang does.
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at 9:46 AM on June 19, 2008
Lastly, imagine if you will: Your responding to a DV. You get there and the woman is on the floor bleeding from her head (not moving), the dude has already blown his head off with a shotgun(pussy)... brains are on the ceiling, and there are two children standing at the top of the stairs. Go see that, and deal with something like that and then say Fuck the police. Asshole....
1. There was a murder-suicide
2. Profit????
3.... [more]
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at 8:34 PM on June 19, 2008
MeFi post:
GemCraft
For epic bosses you need to do some strategic combining - yellows, greens, cyans and purples, in that order of priority. Damage doesn't scale with cost, it's true, but specials (chance for triple damage, poison duration, chance for shock, chance for armour reduction respectively) does. Don't bother with blue - use trenches for slowing, and save any blues you get to build bombs.
Focus on bends in the path, where one gem will get the longest time to fire at the creeps.... [more]
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at 10:52 AM on June 17, 2008
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Objection!
If one post graduate woman in Arkansas thinks Hillary Clinton is the person most qualified to be president, does that nullify the opinions of those who think that everybody has their own truth on the subject, and those truths are equally valid?
Epistemological validity and correctness aren't the same thing.
Though it seems to me (IANAPM*) that, despite Blue Hair's objections, what's being discussed in the link actually... [more]
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at 10:08 AM on June 8, 2008
Opinion comes with the unspoken stipulation, "...until further notice," whereas truth does not.
It used to be the truth that the world was flat.
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at 10:11 AM on June 8, 2008
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Nosed me in the fist, assed me in the boot, then hit my car door with his torso
That quote from the Sergeant is shameful, but not surprising. Most Toronto cops really, truly just don't get cycling. Every PC should be required to spend a year as a bike cop. Wouldn't hurt to keep them out of the cruisers anyway.
I should say, though, that there are a lot of good things about Toronto from a cyclist's perspective: there's a great community, and from an infrastructure point of view, that stuff is there, it just needs to be encouraged,... [more]
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at 1:34 AM on May 30, 2008
MeFi post:
Conjuror or Barbarian?
this looks like a dangerous time sink
You are on teh Internets. It is a loud and stupid place. Obvious directions are Metafilter.
> Metafilter
You are reading Metafilter. There is a dangerous timesink here.
> Avoid timesink
You cannot avoid the dangerous timesink.
posted to MetaFilter by regicide is good for you
at 8:54 PM on May 14, 2008
MeFi post:
Non-lethal injections
I guess all the people that should be deported can now just refuse to get on the plane, and voila, they are automatic U.S. citizens.
ok
Hey, let's do this for our own prisons, too! Don't want to go to jail? Just refuse to go and we'll set you free!
ok
posted to MetaFilter by regicide is good for you
at 11:07 AM on May 14, 2008
MeFi post:
Now, Get Off of My Lawn!
we assumed that teens would use their know-how and understanding of technology to form the vanguard of this new, hyper-informed era.
Please define "we."
Also, LOLANYONEWHOTHOUGHTNEWTECHNOLOGYCOULDMAKEUPFORACENTURYOFCULTURALNARCICCISM
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at 10:49 AM on May 14, 2008
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"creating a hospital without walls"
The team is a partnership between St. Michael's Hospital and two downtown police divisions.
As far as I know, there are now four teams, or maybe that's four participating divisions.
I saw this a year ago and just remember thinking that the mental health worker in the duo they followed pretty much seemed to be human window dressing. As I recall, the cop did most of the talking, clearly thought he was in charge no matter what,... [more]
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at 3:24 PM on May 9, 2008
You know I think I'll actually just pop back in and say the word "actually" a few more times.
Yikes.
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at 3:47 PM on May 9, 2008
