MeFi comment:
"Actually, why not just release the movie without the songs that are financially problematic... but with instructions or the audio equivalent of subtitle files that will then play those songs using the correct audio tracks, which would cost maybe $15..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by sondrialiac
11 days ago
MeFi comment:
"In that small yellow school bus kind of way..." [
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favorited 12 times, recently by Goofyy, clearly, maxwelton, grubi, dejah420, Pantengliopoli, Twicketface, axon, M.C. Lo-Carb!, oozy rat in a sanitary zoo, electrasteph, amuseDetachment
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
""Innocent" is misleading- more than half of those pictures were ads that intentionally- and this is clear from the text, in many cases- attempt to suggest sexual or erotic imagery...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by arcticwoman, thewalledcity
4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Phanx: Disclaimer: I have no views about the impending American election and hardly know who John Mc Cain is.London, schmondon. You could have saved 78 keystrokes by simply typing "Disclaimer: I am a moron." How is it possible you..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by MegoSteve
4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"So there was this woman, let's call her "Kate".
I met Kate, who was a bartender at a local watering hole I frequented. She was my slow descent into alcoholism. Kate was... simply the most extraordinary woman I've ever met. She was so..." [
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favorited 7 times, recently by cilantro
Last month
MeFi comment:
"This article avoids the dangerous side of the chan world.
Y'know, when that Fox news video was posted here a few months ago, I joined in the laughter, thinking "Silly clueless mainstream media, not understanding what 'anonymous' means, ha ha!..." [
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favorited 7 times, recently by Anders Levant
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Justinian: Okay, the fact that the "anonymous Russian tycoon" may be some trumped up mob boss makes me kind of sadSad? That's the shit that makes me livid. Okay, the fact that guys like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates are rich is... well, you..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by manguero, cass, aeschenkarnos
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I guess I'm in the minority, but I kind of like the new system. Why should gymnastics have a ceiling of 10.0 when "real" competitions do not? See, the great flaw- to my decidely American-centric viewpoint- of gymnastics and similar..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by doteatop, DevilsAdvocate, stirfry
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Well, I think she's quite attractive. Very full, feminine figure: wide curvy hips, round butt, full breasts, some nice facial features. I've never met her, haven't watched her show or her tape, but any pictures I've seen are generally flattering...." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by grubi, Suparnova, limited slip, papafrita
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"lupus_yonderboy: When I read this article, I say, "These people enjoy hurting strangers. What sociopaths they are."Exactly, exactly, EXACTLY!
When people- like obvious chan-ophile TheOnlyCoolTim, who is neither cool nor the only Tim-..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by bonaldi, electrasteph, dirigibleman, TheOnlyCoolTim
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"You people are crazy. No, Michael Reagan shouldn't be legally allowed to say that- meaning, he should be investigated seriously for death threats. He's not speaking in the abstract here, he's talking about a specific individual and the method of..." [
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favorited 70 times, recently by schwa, nudar, iamkimiam, supercrayon, tehloki, preparat, Dreama, sequential, h00py, Jimbob, turgid dahlia, Stylus Happenstance, axon, jb, avocet, Skwirl, grapefruit, mikedouglas, romakimmy, grouse, jammy, longdaysjourney, desiderandus, aeschenkarnos, matty, sugarfish, mystyk, mer2113, zarah, liza, ursus_comiter, shmegegge, Sys Rq, sidesh0w, Balisong, jokeefe, loiseau, yhbc, daveyt, liquorice, hydropsyche, etaoin, homunculus, Foci for Analysis, peacheater, Hot Like Your 12V Wire, gorgor_balabala, moxiedoll, sondrialiac, marble, Pope Guilty, jack_mo, hal9k, lalochezia, lizzicide, Optimus Chyme, wendell, cashman, MythMaker, rtha, malpractice, fleetmouse, Countess Elena, EatTheWeak, mrzarquon, Pater Aletheias, Blazecock Pileon, lupus_yonderboy, From Bklyn, effbot
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Interesting? Expected. When there isn't the physical element of seeing an artist perform their own material in person, that connection to who created something is lost. The recorded medium becomes rife for one performer to cover another's work,..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by roll truck roll, debord
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"geoff.: Right, which is why this whole debate gets absurd rather quickly and why I can't figure out the big hoopla over performance enhancing drugs. So someone can have a strictly regimented diet and train 10 hours a day but can't inject low doses of..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by ShawnStruck, aeschenkarnos
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"longsleeves: Mozart was composing at five. I'm just sayin'.Cripes, I know! When she first started playing Fur Elise, my reaction was "Wow, that's awful!". So her hands are small- big deal! Her sense of rhythm is non-existent, and her..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by mammary16
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
""I feel bad for her because she really is looking to gain friends as opposed to focusing on winning."This is an amazing post. Simultaneously reflecting the mind-numbing banality of so many people, the vapidity of reality TV itself, the..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by ericbop, ethnomethodologist, matty
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"$600 for a 45 minute session? 20 of those a week dealing with people who's biggest problem is that they don't think they are unhappy and don't want to be fixed? That's $12,000 a week, or about $52,000 a month. Work 10 months a year, make over half..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by tehloki
3 months ago
Ask comment:
"So much has been said that's very true. Guys are not children or shaggy dogs, we are not simple-minded, we are not dumb or lacking complexity. We just operate differently, and put importance on different things. We do try to understand what's..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by urbanwhaleshark
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"drezdn: Meanwhile, the other improv group shows up to treat the game like a major league affair while the 20-year-olds beat the youth 110-2.Wait, why on earth would top major league prospects even give up two runs to little leaguers? I mean,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by drezdn
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"It's not really a cognitive dissonance. The thought of dying is so sweetly alluring, but the poison pill of hope rots away inside me, that little voice that thinks "Well, maybe things will get better" when all experience hath shewn that it..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by CitizenD
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"tippiedog: Kinda like playing the lottery.Except people actually do win the lottery, the payouts are established ahead of time, and the odds are clearly printed on the back of every ticket.
DU: I'm talking about a visceral reaction to the shmoozing..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by tippiedog, DU
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Iosephus: There seems to be a final link to a Tom Clancy clone's "other side's story". I'm arsed if I'm gonna read it in detail, though, but a quick scan gives enough clues about what the heck was all that about (and ruins the surprise if..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by moonlet
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Well original poster, YOU'VE read them all, so please give us the synopsis so we know what the hell this is, and what the big payoff is- a horror story? What's the gimmick, a "soylent green" type jobbie job?
See, if I spend 20 minutes..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by liza
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Oh, it turns out if you just jump to the last entry, you can find a link to the "other side" view, which is written in human. That link is actually really, really good and makes the weird entries have a context that makes real sense. If..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by tehloki, oxford blue
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"That pretty much sums up why Microsoft makes crap software; they just don't care about quality, and dumb people run that company. Sloppy, dumb coders do things like "Then it'll reboot" without thinking "Hey, I'm not changing kernel..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by autodidact
3 months ago
MeTa comment:
"But to be fair, it's ridiculous sometimes the amount of sycophancy that goes on in this place. For example, I have jessamyn in my favorites, and hardly a day goes by without some comment or "answer" of hers getting best answer or heavily..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Sonny Jim, Blazecock Pileon
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"My former manager and I talked about making a parody of these videos, called "WhereTheHellIsGreg", which would simply be him doing a ka-razy dance while in his car commuting to work... then in his office... then at a Starbucks... then in a..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by bibliowench, liza, tehloki, h00py, tomcooke
3 months ago
Ask comment:
"I answered something about the scale of (generic search engines) here. That thread has some very interesting information in general, as well.
The short answer to give you an idea: Google is estimated to have hundreds of thousands of machines, in..." [
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favorited 117 times, recently by dd42, kwaller, AceRock
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Why should Clemens be "shamed" as a steroid "cheater"? His use at best was likely later in his career, and its impact is questionable overall; he was already a HoF player- like Bonds- and numerous other players were named in the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by languagehat
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Phillip Toledano’s new book Phone Sex (July 2008, Twin Palms)A book about phone sex operators published by "Twin Palms"? I'm surprised it wasn't put out by "Eponysterical Publishing Co."...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by moxiedoll
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Durn Bronzefist: Intelligence quotient. One hundred times mental age over chronological age. Of course it's dynamic.Isn't IQ, though, actually a z-score reflecting rarity and not the older mental/physical age division (which is why the not..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by BrotherCaine, Dormant Gorilla, PareidoliaticBoy
4 months ago
Ask comment:
"Mostly your problem comes down to learning to accept that the good is not the enemy of the perfect.
Three of the principles I bring to bear in any system design:
Simplicity is a sign you're doing something rightBuild a village, not a..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by lucyleaf
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I cried a little, which was... unexpected. Because politically/intellectually, I agree with lupus_yonderboy. Every Bush voter- every "W '04" bumper sticker owner- should rot in the same prison; Bush is a sociopath for whom no amount of..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by wires, Floach, glycolized, brundlefly
4 months ago
Ask comment:
"This thread is blowing my mind. Why even ask them? Go sit in another seat where it's not cold, make it someone else's problem. Preferably, the someone else is either the driver, or someone a hell of a lot more determined than you are.
Or, if..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nasreddin
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Yeah, what -harlequin- said; how is un-DRMing the music via backup and re-rip not a violation of DMCA laws, and Microsoft's suggestion to do this itself not a DMCA violation? Someone should sue them, just to make them go through the hassle of..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by seanyboy
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"fuse theorem: Wow, just wow. Lori needs to hook up with this guy.Wow, for a ranting craiglist post, that wasn't misogynistic, and basically dead-on-balls accurate. He's completely right!
Me, I couldn't make it through the original post, since I'd..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by eritain, chicainthecity, marble
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"1) I do not live in New York- I live in Seattle- so what exactly was I supposed to do about this? Even if I feel an injustice has occurred, what was the point of putting this on the blue, just so I can get ineffectually outraged?
2) The only..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by schyler523
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"But to be fair, unlike most other types of employment I do think that a team has every reason to know the real age of a player before signing a contract. Surely, whatever else you might feel about poor, misbegotten Miguel Tejada (whom I remember..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by nimsey lou, Cool Papa Bell, dyoneo
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
""My four-year-old could have done that."Interestingly, this is one art installation that will certainly defy anyone to critique its merit in THAT regard, eh?..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by fleetmouse, jayder, Pope Guilty
5 months ago
Ask comment:
"I will give you the same advice I'd give myself, as one who is 10 years older and very much like you- including the traits of being boastful, narcissistic and self-absorbed. I don't take my own advice, so I imagine you'll take this with a fairly..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by skryche, narrativium, sweetkid
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"dawson: Is that a roll of pennies in your pocket, or...... are you seriously under-endowed, ha ha ha amirite?! Roll of pennies, I mean seriously! Look, I'm no size queen, but I'm not gonna bend over for less than a roll of quarters...." [
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favorited 6 times, recently by liza, Marla Singer, noway, MikeKD, The Light Fantastic, Roman Graves
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"How are you all missing the subtleties that this is a song about pubescence, and the average Catholic's struggle between spiritual pursuits and the fleshy domain?
Look, I shouldn't need to spell it out for you, but obviously the anna character is..." [
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favorited 8 times, recently by blasdelf, Tobu, kev23f, the cydonian, Hot Like Your 12V Wire, ifthe21stcentury, limnrix, chrismear
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"DecemberBoy: *chan users may be immature, but they're not sadisticBullshit, among other examples. The ED post has been edited to remove some of the details, but those non-sadistic chan fuckers went so far as to stalk this person in real life,..." [
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favorited 7 times, recently by funkiwan, tehloki, ymgve, The Light Fantastic, Drexen, Skorgu, wires
6 months ago
Ask comment:
"No, I think it's morally, ethically, and legally wrong to not prosecute a former president simply because of the "political complications". It's not some mature "there's grey in the world" thinking, EB, it's small-minded and..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by blueberry
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Teachers like this are worth their weight in gold. It's funny; if you said to a company, "I am a consultant who can spend a few months working with several dozen of your employees, and after this they will be self-motivated learners,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by unregistered_animagus
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I can't quite articulate why, but there's something very funny/ironic/a propos about the fact that the inventor is speaking in German, but is dubbed over.
That said... wow, that's really cool. I'd always understood that pulling out individual..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by goodnewsfortheinsane
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"felix betachat: Cohen is David. He plays the fourth, the fifth, the minor fall and the major lift even as he is singing them. His song is rich and complex, resonant with history and loss, terror and joy. It's David's life and his own at the same time...." [
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favorited 6 times, recently by shiu mai baby, malaprohibita, Pantengliopoli, yonation, tyrantkitty, donnagirl
7 months ago
