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What would a chimp do to someone who posted an abstract with the full article behind a pay wall?
posted to MetaFilter by srboisvert at 9:55 AM on August 10, 2007

triolus: I agree.

I just think that if these people really wanted to keep in contact with him so much, they should probably never have thrown Christian to the lions in the first place.
posted to MetaFilter by Atom Eyes at 9:02 AM on August 10, 2007

Subprime is an issue, but it's not the issue. Of itself it's nowhere near enough to break the market. What is enough is a spread from subprime into a contagion of other credit / credit derivative markets, and that is what's proved so interesting / alarming about the past few months. Will it or won't it?

There have been multiple distress signals from credit markets, hedge funds and mortgage providers in recent times. All par for... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by bookie at 7:39 PM on August 9, 2007

Essentially, I am getting paid to watch YouTube. Please don't tell my boss.
posted to MetaFilter by daveleck at 5:06 AM on August 9, 2007

While you're waiting around for the super or the gas company: Behind your stove, there's probably a shutoff for the gas. Shut it off, without telling the new roommate, then see if she can still smell gas at the pilot.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by box at 2:23 PM on August 8, 2007

One year my dad planted his garden too close to the fence, on the other side of which was a dairy farm.

Fact #1: Cows love ears of corn.

Fact #2: Cows can climb fences when there are ears of corn on the opposite side.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by mudpuppie at 2:35 PM on August 8, 2007

This is why my wife insists that I troll for gay black cock only in well lit, safe areas, like the bathroom at Borders. Or church.
posted to MetaFilter by ColdChef at 7:51 PM on August 7, 2007

Ironically, Allen was the Police Union's 2007 Lawmaker of the Year.

Makes you wonder how many undercover cops just didn't arrest him ...
posted to MetaFilter by IronLizard at 7:27 PM on August 7, 2007

Step 1: Assessment. Do you have any online friends? Would anyone notice if your postings suddenly stopped?
posted to MetaTalk by Wolfdog at 3:43 PM on August 5, 2007

Well, you're being wrong in lots of ways.

First, there was precious little mocking in that thread. A few people made the tired old "Mormon doesn't need the second M" gag. Otherwise, mostly people were just disagreeing with you, and pretty politely for this thread. If you cannot handle that level of disagreement -- if people stating that mormon ritual is derived from masonic ritual really is intolerable to you -- you probably should not go anywhere on the... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by ROU_Xenophobe at 8:48 AM on August 6, 2007

Excellent article. The way the real world works.

Farmer in Afghanistan doesn't want to raise opium as a slave to the local drug lord. Local drug lord responds by leaking information said farmer is part of Al-Qaeda. The US spirits off said farmer to a secret prison. In a couple of months, said farmer confesses to being al-Qaeda and describes an attack to smuggle bombs on to airplanes inside of wooden legs. The TSA responds by forcing all passengers to hop on their... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by dances_with_sneetches at 8:16 AM on August 6, 2007

Do they work up a sweat on a treadmill first to make the salted ones?
posted to MetaFilter by Terminal Verbosity at 1:35 PM on May 18, 2007

Before clicking the link, I imagined they were loosing an army of rats onto a minefield to detonate any mines. Then I wondered if they'd be heavy enough to trip them. Then I wondered what PETA was going to say about this. Then I clicked the link.

I suppose this makes more sense, though I feel slightly cheated. Cool story, thanks.
posted to MetaFilter by Terminal Verbosity at 8:46 AM on May 18, 2007

This reminds me of something I saw in Mad years ago about a family that lived in the scoreboard of a baseball stadium. I remember thinking back then that it would be kind of cool. Now? Yeah, prison.
posted to MetaFilter by Terminal Verbosity at 5:56 AM on May 17, 2007

Don't confess to error, Malor. If you can make this fly, I'll have just the excuse I need for denying some of my earlier aperçus.
posted to MetaTalk by Abiezer at 7:17 AM on August 6, 2007

If it gets favorited, I don't care if I actually said it or not.
posted to MetaTalk by Astro Zombie at 6:48 AM on August 6, 2007

You should be fucking smacked for posting such shit.
posted to MetaFilter by nola at 7:49 PM on August 4, 2007

So, the guy was a fraud because he lied about how he obtained his results, but he actually did succeed at doing something new and useful?

That would actually be pretty damn cool.

Me: Look! I created a perpetual motion machine!

Them: No you didn't, you're a fraud.

[later]

Them: Yeah, this totally isn't a perpetual motion device, but it is a cold... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by quin at 3:40 PM on August 4, 2007

We get so may products from the lowly mole.
Mole skin, the ever useful esters of mole, molasses....
posted to MetaFilter by Floydd at 11:37 AM on August 3, 2007

As jamaro says, the pith (white part of the peel under the yellow zest) is terribly bitter.

The zest itself, though, is the difference between pretty good lemonade and the tangy, fragrant lemonade you deserve. The zest is full of delicious citrus oil.

I slice the zest from the lemons before slicing or squeezing them. I use a sharp knife, since it's easier to control that a vegetable peeler. Then with the edge of the knife, trim off any residual... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Elsa at 6:33 PM on August 1, 2007 marked best answer

Things like this make me regret ever getting married and having children.
posted to MetaFilter by ColdChef at 10:19 AM on August 3, 2007

Read it to the end then signed up a MeFi account just to say thanks for posting it.
posted to MetaFilter by Molesome at 3:37 AM on August 3, 2007

I'd like to point out that much of this rhetorical jargon was first coined by that greatest of Greek sophists, Yourmomides.
posted to MetaTalk by boo_radley at 3:55 PM on August 2, 2007

"All right, Gordon, put the sample in the chamber. Hmmm, thats an odd reading.....I'm sure it's nothing....."
posted to MetaFilter by Avenger at 6:41 PM on August 2, 2007

I wonder how many times you'd have to say in a low, menacing voice "I'm going to kill you" in the vicinity of a lyre bird before you guarantee that that bird is going to freak the shit out of every solitary walker in those woods for the rest of its life.
posted to MetaFilter by George_Spiggott at 9:12 PM on August 1, 2007

I live a few blocks away, in Dinkytown. I have some photos on Flickr.
posted to MetaFilter by adamwolf at 6:05 PM on August 1, 2007

Stop favoriting things. You're using up the internet.
posted to MetaTalk by found missing at 4:24 PM on August 1, 2007

What is wrong with being pro-life yet having compassion for the woman who gets an abortion? I don't see any logical or ethical problems with that. I don't think punishment is the issue for these people, they seem to be more concerned about the loss of human life.

The fundamental issue here is that, by and large, pro-lifers don't really believe that an abortion is "a loss of human life". Oh sure, they make a big fuss about it being murder... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Avenger at 11:59 PM on July 30, 2007

What gets me is that it's pretty much the same question, if you honestly believe that abortion is the murder of a fully morally considerable human being, as "If a person hires an assassin to kill someone, what should the punishment be?"

It always goes back to that chart that circulated awhile back which points out that almost none of the pro-life nostrums are consistent with the view that abortion is murder, and almost all... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Pope Guilty at 5:40 PM on July 30, 2007

I'd be hit by that.
posted to MetaFilter by Brandon Blatcher at 9:54 AM on July 30, 2007

I am woefully ignorant of anything but the broadest outlines of Aussie domestic politics so ignore this as you see fit, but Effigy2000, your argument struck me as very similar to the whole New Labour debate we had in the UK when in looked like we'd be stuck with the Tories forever, so a lot of principles were compromised to focus on the prize of power.
For my money, this was a mistake as the Labour Party's subsequent record in government shows this strategy is strongly habit-forming... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Abiezer at 3:59 AM on July 29, 2007

Confessor, are you a Dowsing Thomas?
posted to MetaTalk by isopraxis at 12:45 PM on July 28, 2007

That was a totally bizarre Slavoj Zizek kind of moment there. The power class was buzzing around in the sky, watching the ruination of someone's life way down below - making buckets of cash by broadcasting someone else's tragedy, then - WHAM - the real bursts into their own life, they become the live tragedy - but we're still viewing the whole thing through the lens of a t.v. camera. How tragic and fascinating.
posted to MetaFilter by Baby_Balrog at 3:07 PM on July 27, 2007

You know, I understand the worry that being too laissez faire about political posts might slowly steer the good ship Metafilter into the waters of endless SHITCOKC!!! political rantery in thread after thread, I also often learn quite a bit from the better, more thoughtful comments in political threads here, something which never happens anywhere else that I've found yet.

The idea that 'Metafilter doesn't do X well' isn't true, and need not be true.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by stavrosthewonderchicken at 5:42 PM on July 26, 2007

Why isn't he being tried for treason?

Because treason is more than just liking the wrong people, you fascist toad.
posted to MetaFilter by dhartung at 11:37 AM on July 24, 2007

In the graveyard, now night's on the way
I think upon those who decay.
Some were lovely and young,
Some were heroes unsung,
But they're gone. As shall I be, someday.
posted to MetaFilter by Pallas Athena at 12:14 PM on July 23, 2007

Ramix: how about just the Epilogue?

There once was an everyday guy -
His virtues? I won't even try.
He had, in the end,
All he wished for: a friend;
Now he's fled to the clouds in the sky.
posted to MetaFilter by wanderingmind at 12:08 PM on July 23, 2007

Like the night, in her beauty she strides
In the darkness her light is my guide
Her allure leaves me spent
But she's still innocent
(I'm Lord Byron, so trust me: I tried.)
posted to MetaFilter by Pallas Athena at 10:23 AM on July 23, 2007

John Milton, whose metre still shines
Told how, midst prelapsian vines
Eve ate the fruit
And God gave them the boot
But the Devil got all the best lines.
posted to MetaFilter by unSane at 10:19 AM on July 23, 2007

After spending two decades of life
Fighting Trojans and monsters and strife
Odysseus's mission
Had just one ambition:
To slay the guys screwing his wife.
posted to MetaFilter by wanderingmind at 9:18 AM on July 23, 2007

A troupe of transsexual warlocks,
A eunuch, a clown, and some morlocks:
These folks, to a man
Were not in Kubla Khan
And the fault is entirely Porlock's

Sorry.
posted to MetaFilter by flashboy at 8:20 AM on July 23, 2007

A colonoscopy for Bush? What are they hoping to find, his head?
posted to MetaFilter by mr_crash_davis at 9:26 AM on July 20, 2007

LOLZCONSTITUTION
posted to MetaFilter by Blazecock Pileon at 8:58 AM on July 20, 2007

Since when were we a first past the post system? This is a good post.
posted to MetaFilter by absalom at 7:11 PM on July 19, 2007

One more game you cannot win.
posted to MetaFilter by ColdChef at 7:09 PM on July 19, 2007

dios: At which point I suppose we are suppose to point and laugh at the stupid people with stupid beliefs.

BitterOldPunk: *coff* Drowning Pool isn't death metal. *coff*

freebird: I think freebird is generally considered "seminal southern rock" mister_a.

I'd like to nominate this thread for highest eponysterical comment ratio of the month.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by googly at 10:47 AM on July 19, 2007

It was a video of the man speaking, and a translation. Are you saying that the translation was wrong? Any arabic speakers in the house? The Israelis neither made the video nor broadcast it. MEMRI recorded it and translated it. How can a link to Israeli intelligence possibly be relevant, even if true?

Just sayin.

Selective MEMRI
MEMRI tries a SLAPP

Places like Powerline and MEMRI rate... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by nevercalm at 1:25 PM on July 13, 2007

The segment should've been called, "Glocks, not cocks!"
posted to MetaFilter by phaedon at 4:54 PM on July 9, 2007

Really, you people amaze me. Go take a fucking walk if someone messing with your words on the internet riles you up that much.

Fixed. I believe I captured the spirit of your comment.
posted to MetaTalk by YamwotIam at 5:04 PM on July 7, 2007

Those dolls were totally hot. They could do better then the losers they've attached themselves to.
posted to MetaFilter by mazola at 9:43 PM on July 8, 2007