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Benny Andajetz, your FPP said: NEWSFILTER: Military Wants Rummy Gone. Now you say, The military Times papers speak for the military...

Both statements are just wrong.

The first statement is so wrong, it's dangerous. Do you have any idea what would happen to our constitutional republic if our active-duty military ever thought they could challenge their civilian leadership as you suggest?

The second... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by taosbat at 6:18 PM on November 6, 2006

there are still people in that thread who refuse to believe that Haggard's been lying, even in the face of direct evidence from his own mouth--that alone should be enough to keep it open.

It's also still developing as a story--let the thread be where all the updates go.
posted to MetaTalk by amberglow at 1:12 PM on November 4, 2006

How exactly does one learn how accurate one's gaydar is?

Take the Gaydar Test!
posted to MetaFilter by ericb at 10:21 PM on November 2, 2006

fine, fixed.

(What bingo sees from now on)
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie at 2:13 PM on October 31, 2006

Utterly shocking.

America is in serious trouble. The sooner the United Kingdom invades and spreads freedom and democracy, the better.
posted to MetaFilter by fire&wings at 5:51 PM on October 30, 2006

Man, touchscreens just suck. ATM use buttons for a reason.
posted to MetaFilter by smackfu at 4:12 PM on October 30, 2006

I want them on stickers.
posted to MetaFilter by mr. strange at 4:04 PM on October 28, 2006

ROFLSTALIN
posted to MetaTalk by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 1:20 PM on October 26, 2006

Oh, wow. Holy shit. Look for this: "These are the lowest-ranked movies, in order of ascending average ranking:"

Look at the chart under it. Look at the ninth item. It's Rise of the Undead.

Err... I directed that. No kidding. And my mama never thought I'd amount to anything.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 11:32 PM on October 26, 2006

You know, a lot of these deleted chatfilter AskMes could have been great posts in the blue. If you are interested in reactions to mortality, maybe do a little reading, find some interesting links on the subject, and make your question part of a post on the front page? Some of my favorites posts ever (crazy stuff you believed when you were a kid, say) started that way.
posted to MetaTalk by CunningLinguist at 7:09 AM on October 25, 2006

Turning into? The subtitle of that post is "dump on women." I don't understand how that sort of thing isn't the definition of chatfilter, but then just what is the definition of chatfilter is one of those imponderable mysteries that keep me going to church. But I must say I couldn't see the three comments you linked to as offensive. Dumb, maybe, but I can't think of an answer to a question like that that isn't basically dumb.
posted to MetaTalk by nanojath at 7:33 PM on October 22, 2006

"Annoying, dealbreaker-level things women do in relationships"

You thought this was going to be uplifting?
posted to MetaTalk by smackfu at 7:24 PM on October 22, 2006

I turned off img tags, while I work on this.

I feel a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.
posted to MetaTalk by jessamyn at 9:41 AM on October 22, 2006

posted to MetaTalk by bob sarabia at 12:22 PM on October 20, 2006

i don't like it when people post rants in metafilter.
posted to MetaTalk by mr_crash_davis at 10:27 AM on October 20, 2006

You can also go there via the neuroscience gateway (run in conjunction with Nature), which also has commentaries on hot new papers.

my friend works for Nature on this
posted to MetaFilter by gaspode at 2:05 PM on October 20, 2006

And now...

...naptime.
posted to MetaTalk by loquacious at 10:01 PM on October 19, 2006

That's not irony Krrrlson. I very much mean what I said. It's righteous condescension.

Adherence to the GC and Constitution (which says, by all means, if someone is trying to attack the country lock them up, but if they're a citizen, present some evidence, try and convict them, and then lock them up for life or execute them) isn't what lost the war in Iraq, and is losing the war on terror. Incompetence is. Plain, simple incompetence on the part... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by bardic at 7:46 PM on October 19, 2006

Seems to me they're already voting with their ammunition.
posted to MetaFilter by mr_crash_davis at 5:10 PM on October 19, 2006

However, you can secure a linux box (and it's filesystem) to the point that it's not as trivial as an issue, even with full physical access.

Ah, no. The threat model for an attacker with physical access to the device is pretty much the same for any hardware running any operating system, and Linux certainly doesn't possess any qualities that makes it any stronger in the face of that threat than Windows is.
posted to MetaFilter by cmonkey at 9:53 AM on October 19, 2006

Give me local access to the machine and I can "hack" any aspect of the default security in 30 seconds - with full access to your precious NTFS drives and passwords

Wow. It's not like you can't do that to linux with a bootable disk or anything. Windows is the sux!
posted to MetaFilter by srboisvert at 5:17 AM on October 19, 2006

As an academic (ahem), I am totally unconcerned with such matters, and frequently post personal, identifying information wherever (and whenever) appropriate.

This is rooted in the fact that departments that are hiring you are not going to be doing extensive google searches, and then pass you over because of a few jokey comments here and there - they just aren't. If the few departments that I have been involved in are any indication, most wouldn't even think of using... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Quartermass at 6:02 PM on October 18, 2006

seemingly neglectful

How about just neglectful.
posted to MetaFilter by three blind mice at 7:13 AM on October 18, 2006

How about an elephant?
posted to MetaFilter by homunculus at 1:00 PM on October 17, 2006

I think it should remain for the illustrative aspect of it.

People should have access to a collection of posts which are demonstrative of what we want here at Metafilter. It's the inverse of broken windows.

It might be worthwhile to put some context on the page explaining that there was a contest each day and those are the selected winners.

But it should remain. We should triumph excellence so that people may have an idea of what we triumph.
posted to MetaTalk by dios at 8:31 AM on October 17, 2006

sorry people, just couldn't resist piling on
posted to MetaFilter by forwebsites at 12:10 PM on October 13, 2006

And as long as there's YouTube and Jesus, Rudy will never win. He's done this more than once -- not that there's anything wrong with it.
posted to MetaFilter by turducken at 11:05 AM on October 12, 2006

Unanswered is kind of useless.

Disagree. Strongly. It's both potentially useful AND fascinating.
posted to MetaTalk by dersins at 6:26 PM on October 12, 2006

got it, douchebag removed.

(while I got you here, test this out! it has lots of bugs but should be finished soon)
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie at 3:41 PM on October 12, 2006

so long as the feeding part does not require the listening part. I didn't find anything in that article that lead me to believe that the recipients of the aid were required to participate in the religious ceremonies only that they were offered in addition to the aid.

Actually, that is in the article. And there's no oversight on whether any of these groups are requiring participation or not in the prayer and attempted conversion before giving aid or food or whatever it is.
posted to MetaFilter by amberglow at 8:00 PM on October 11, 2006

It's not the fault of Christians that Jews and Muslims don't eat pork.
posted to MetaFilter by Blazecock Pileon at 9:48 AM on October 11, 2006

Cortex's comment got me thinking. Shouldn't we have a celebraion of good threads matowie enabled? I'd start with the first post over 10, 20, first over 1000 etc.

Actually, similar motivations spawned my (badly, badly neglected) ReFi project.
posted to MetaTalk by cortex at 2:28 PM on October 10, 2006

Insects as food
posted to MetaFilter by rough ashlar at 8:12 PM on October 10, 2006

You've just solved Christmas! Thanks!
posted to MetaFilter by DenOfSizer at 5:23 PM on October 10, 2006

Fucking A. I've been waiting for a good excuse to post this for a while. Motorhead, in 1984, on The Young Ones, doing Ace of Spades:

This is Rock and Roll. [youtube]
posted to MetaFilter by BeerFilter at 5:51 PM on October 7, 2006

The Navy made a huge mistake. However, this boy will easily quadruple of more his earnings in the next year alone, with more to come. He took GW to the supremes and won! He can write his ticket with all the best firms. Don't cry for him, cry for the country who lost him as an underpaid government lawyer.
posted to MetaFilter by caddis at 7:43 PM on October 9, 2006

despite?
posted to MetaFilter by mwhybark at 6:35 PM on October 9, 2006

Phht. Neverwinter Nights 2 is released on October 31. Priorities, man.
posted to MetaFilter by solid-one-love at 7:47 PM on October 9, 2006

Today there were two weather elephants over the central USA and an elephant over Quebec (reference top photo). One very bold elephant was over the north central USA, and another was over Texas and the lower Mississippi Valley. An elephant represents a demon Commander, such as Baal.

wtf? ... this site is seriously wacked
posted to MetaTalk by pyramid termite at 6:15 PM on October 8, 2006

Is Andy Partridge's letter to God in there somehwere?
posted to MetaFilter by NoMich at 9:46 AM on October 7, 2006

What about the slime mold beetles in the genus Agathidium: A. bushi, A. cheneyi, and A. rumsfeldi?

Christened by two former Cornell entomologists
posted to MetaFilter by MonkeySaltedNuts at 5:30 PM on October 7, 2006

posted to MetaTalk by riotgrrl69 at 1:52 PM on October 6, 2006

I have a 3 part solution.

1) ALL pages msut be 18 and over.

2) ALL pages must be homley.

3) Legalize gay marriage.
posted to MetaFilter by tkchrist at 5:51 PM on October 4, 2006

Foley's Conduct was No Secret to Bloggers
Rumors on the web go back to March '05, raises questions about leadership"ABC's Brian Ross broke the story of Mark Foley's digital escapades with underage boys last Friday. He was the first mainstream journalist to do so, but the story has been circulating on the Internet for over a year.

...there was also a digital record of the allegations against Mark Foley. I am not referring to Foley... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ericb at 1:30 PM on October 4, 2006

Of course it's a serious and potentially dangerous perversion. But pedophilia it ain't. Because that difference between 8 year olds and 16 year olds is a significant one, as most of you may remember. While teens are still forming their sexuality and can be damaged by contact like this, there is little doubt that they are sexual creatures in their own right (as a lot of these IM's illustrate) and have adult sexual features that can be appealing to adults. Lumping them in with the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by delmoi at 12:08 PM on October 4, 2006

Yeah, the word "pedophile" getting slung around in this case is really starting to irk me. There's a big difference between whatever crimes have may have been committed and what he is actually being punished for.
posted to MetaFilter by hermitosis at 8:57 AM on October 4, 2006

Every time you self-link, a kitten masturbates... or something.
posted to MetaFilter by knave at 12:52 AM on October 7, 2006

Unfortunately, she doesn't review the Boku No Sexual Harassment Cornbrator Hyper Wank Device.
posted to MetaFilter by Kickstart70 at 8:43 PM on October 5, 2006

"Don't Mess with Texas" is an anti-litter campaign slogan. Jackass.
posted to MetaFilter by John Smallberries at 7:52 PM on October 5, 2006

If only you had proof of some kind...
posted to MetaTalk by smackfu at 9:53 PM on October 5, 2006