Not to single out Eideteker, as I've seen this sort of attitude from many other people here, but his sort of nonsense is why I visit Metafilter a lot less often than I used to.
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 4:25 PM on April 18, 2008

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posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 7:09 PM on March 4, 2008

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posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 8:43 PM on February 11, 2008

I am actually in Cairo at the moment, arriving last Saturday from Ottawa. I fully expected to have no connectivity here during my visit, but even Saturday night was able to find WiFi near my hotel that allowed me to send a couple of important emails back home. On Sunday both our office and the hotel had fairly good connectivity, and since then I think Egypt is back to perhaps 80% of normal.
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 11:17 PM on February 5, 2008

The Laura Washington piece is too poor to read.
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 11:08 AM on January 29, 2008

Cory Doctorow has done a great deal of good work on Internet law issues, particularly DRM, which is more than I expect his attackers in this thread have done.
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 10:04 AM on April 17, 2007

Nice to see Hall and Oates finally having some political impact.
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 9:29 AM on November 10, 2006

Maybe there should be more government involvement in the economy like that.
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 4:41 AM on May 31, 2006

For some reason I couldn't stop laughing. And that's wrong.
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 7:35 AM on May 26, 2006

Looks like a meteor or similar object to me. No evidence suggesting it's an alien spacecraft, that's for sure.
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 4:53 AM on January 22, 2006

One concern I have about the ID argument is a general one: if God has intervened in evolutionary processes in the past, what was His mechanism for doing so? Did God simply will that certain changes take place? Did He have to intervene physically to modify genes or the environment? Did He use proxies (angels)? And if the answer to any of the above questions is yes, then what evidence of any sort is there for these supposed interventions? If they happened, they left no trace.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 1:04 PM on January 20, 2006

1. Jack Layton Leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada (100%)
2. Gilles Duceppe Leader of the Bloc Quebecois (80%)
3. Paul Martin Leader of Liberal Party of Canada, Prime Minister of Canada (60%)
4. Stephen Harper Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada (40%)

:-)
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 4:57 PM on January 17, 2006

I just looked up "gender discrimination" in the dictionary and there were the Air New Zealand and Qantas logos next to the definition.
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 2:47 PM on November 29, 2005

It was the quote in the second-to-last paragraph that got me.
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 8:39 AM on October 11, 2005

Well, this is a better fit then Roberts replacing O'Connor.
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 7:52 AM on September 5, 2005

First of all, I believe that what someone blogs on their own time is really their business. There are a number of cases where it could impact on their work life: if they are criticizing their employer or co-workers, talking about company processes, publishing hate speech, and so on. Otherwise, it really shouldn't matter if they want to publish something.

I think it is very telling that this sort of article appears in an academic publication. The dean of my faculty once... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 6:47 AM on July 15, 2005

And better than the last two Star Wars movies.
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 9:21 AM on April 27, 2005

So fake fake fake fake, from the get-go.
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 12:36 PM on April 20, 2005

What monju said.
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 8:58 PM on April 7, 2005

Anyone notice Kevin give the shocker?
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 4:15 AM on April 2, 2005

Um, it has a sort of Birch Society/Lyndon LaRouche/New World Order sort of feel to it.
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 10:04 AM on March 18, 2005

A note at the bottom of the page linked reads as follows:

Note added: A small number of enquiries have been received from people seeking to locate this book [about the Seven Dwarfs]. The enquirers have apparently not realized that while the newspaper article is quoted verbatim, it is presented here ironically, to illustrate typically absurd claims of the hoax. One does not smell poison gas, let alone pass through clouds of it, and live to recount the experience. This... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 9:54 AM on March 18, 2005

Wow. Thank is actually going to be WORSE.
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 8:06 PM on March 16, 2005

Wow. The Bank is actually going to be WORSE.

I didn't think that was possible. Really.
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 8:07 PM on March 16, 2005

Canada strongly supported the US invasion of South Vietnam

Chomsky tends to exagerate, which hurts his arguement that none of us have the moral high ground.
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 7:47 AM on February 1, 2005

To answer the question... it's always hanging by a thread. The real scandal is that so many people just don't vote.
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 7:26 AM on December 17, 2004

Can't copyright an idea.
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 9:49 AM on December 16, 2004

I don't have simple answers to the questions raised in this thread. Within some international development circles, "aid" is a very problematic notion. It connotes mega-projects, bloated bureaucracies, and decades of failed paradigms; see Graham Hancock's Lords of Poverty. There is a wide spectrum that runs from purely humanitarian aid and disaster relief all the way to infrastructure development and building civil society. Arguments rage as to the usefulness of any of these approaches.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 9:37 AM on December 6, 2004

The game's fun. And my costume is just a dark suit, fedora hat, and glowing purple eyes.
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 2:19 PM on November 5, 2004

I'm quite frightened today, even living up here in Canada. But just when you think you have it all, W, it begins to slip away.
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 10:45 AM on November 3, 2004

I can see it from Toronto, not that I have much interest in it. I assume the blocking is a cost saving measure that also serves as a metaphor for the current administrations attitude toward the rest of the world.
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 7:49 AM on October 27, 2004

Bush will (barely) win the popular vote, but Kerry wins the Electoral College and the Presidency.

Bush   49.1% for 267 electoral votes
Kerry   48.9% for 271 electoral votes
Nader  01.1% for    0 electoral votes
Others 00.9% for    0 electoral votes
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 10:34 AM on October 26, 2004

Someone kill this thread.
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 10:26 AM on October 23, 2004

The Internet is a network of networks, all running the same or compatable protocols (TCP/IP, etc.) for data communications. Networks and parts of those networks, like individual servers, can come and go and there is still an Internet. Some networks might be private -- VPNs and WASTE networks -- but they are still a network and part of the Internet.

NIPRNET and SIPRNET sound like seperate, secure data networks, perhaps not connected to or part of the Internet, using... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 8:09 AM on October 14, 2004

Here we go again. Quite sad, actually, since it would seem that his parents may be responsible in part for their son's death. A friend of a friend of mine refused conventional cancer treatment for more than a decade due to her religious "beliefs" and died a long and very painful death. We all have to try to construct our own loves as best we can, but seeing suffering extended past the point of life is a form of self-torture.
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 7:56 AM on October 14, 2004

[this is good]
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 7:16 AM on October 11, 2004

Congrats to emptybowl; he has been added to my list of MiFi Post Nazis, along with Smart Dalek.
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 4:56 PM on September 23, 2004

How can you leave al-Qa'ida off your list? Most evidence -- including statements by their leaders and members -- points very clearly to their responsibility for the September 11th attacks. The planes hitting those buildings was not an accident.

Perhaps you are asking who on "your" side is to blame for not stopping the attacks. Again, that seems reasonably clear: the whole system of national security, bureaucratic and political, failed. The biggest problem seems... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 9:56 AM on September 11, 2004

Propaganda is always part of the political process, and I don't want to idealize American democracy and naively expect purity of discourse. But the skill and ruthlessness that I have see from the increasingly authoritarian right in the past fifteen years has gone beyond annoying or scary, because it has worked so well to convince many people to support policies that are completely to their decrement.

Clinton was impeached for lying about a blowjob. Bush is likely to be... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 6:18 AM on August 27, 2004

From the book:

John Birch
B Company
3rd Shore Party
11th Marine Regiment
May ’65-Feb. ’66

After training we went to Hawaii with the first Marine Brigade and got orders. They said: "Well you’re going back to invade California. Thirty days leave. A mock invasion. Get to see your parents and all that stuff... go anywhere on the mainland!" Off we sailed. Three mornings later after the sun had... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 10:53 AM on August 27, 2004

I wonder if spotlighting Kerry's Vietnam experience as the right is doing is about Kerry or Iraq. Both, I suppose.
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 10:54 AM on August 27, 2004

I agree completely with Bremser. His points about album art and liner notes are particularly important. I would extend the problem to just about any piece of audio that isn't within a contemporary popular music context: historical pieces, Folkways, wax cylinders, bootlegs, radio archives, classical... it's a long list. During the salad days of Napster I collected many interesting pieces of audio, but because of poor labeling and tagging have no idea where they are from. But I find the tagging... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 7:04 AM on August 14, 2004

Links to Windows Media file.
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 10:41 AM on August 6, 2004

I'm checking out SUSE Linux in the next couple of weeks, after years of not having the two weeks required to get Red Hat to recognize my mouse.
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 3:57 AM on July 22, 2004

Always left off these lists are titles like Hitler's Mein Kampf (Canada's biggest bookstore chain, Chapters/Indigo, won't sell it under a directive from the company's de facto owner), The Turner Diaries (written and published in 1978 by William Pierce, leader of the neo-nazi National Alliance), and The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Hate speech all, yes, but speech nonetheless, and banned in various places. And I'm sure such works as Understanding Loved Boys and Boylovers and Daddy: an erotic... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 9:41 AM on July 12, 2004

Just before I posted, I tried sending invites to both Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail accounts. To Hotmail, no problem. At Yahoo! the invite was moved to the Bulk folder. Your mileage may vary.
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 1:27 PM on June 22, 2004

I'm disappointed with MT. During the past few months communication from the company has been awful, and has really created an environment in which a lot of people are going to be angry about the new licensing.

Blogging software is so simple that, really, it shouldn't be something we should have to pay for. I'm not suggesting a free lunch from Six Apart; what I am saying is that we should get behind open source publishing apps like WordPress. How free, democratic, open,... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 7:50 AM on May 13, 2004

plemeljr, I can indeed export from MT to something else. In fact, I am going to have to because MT is no longer sold at a price and with a feature set that makes sense to me. And the migration will be a problem, because there always are when one moves from one platform or format to another. Being trapped doesn't mean one can't escape, just that escape is, at least, difficult.

I am going to choose a platform from someone who won't try to leverage my dependence on them to... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 8:17 AM on May 13, 2004

rcade, we are not marching toward a world where everything has a price tag on it. I liked MT, but calling it a "sophisticated content management system" is an insult to high powered and free content management frameworks like Bricolage, Zope, OpenACS, phpNuke, and so on. As others have said this morning, MT is only a step ahead (if that) of other, free choices, and that makes their selection of price points confusing.

This is getting talked about throughout... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 8:30 AM on May 13, 2004

Don't misunderstand me: MT is/was a very good application and Ben and Mena deserve to be rewarded and make some money. But the way things are going at this point, I'm not sure they will be getting any more of my money, and that makes me sad, but things might improve...
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 12:04 PM on May 13, 2004