How, with our system of law, can the Military Commissions Act be repealed?
posted to Ask Metafilter by frecklefaerie at 5:53 PM on October 1, 2006 (28 comments)

Hentai sculpture sells for $15m (NSFW)
posted to MetaFilter by East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 at 5:45 PM on May 15, 2008 (98 comments)

I have a Wacom graphics tablet. Is there a (preferably free or at least cheap) kanji handwriting recognition program for WinXP that would let me write kanji by hand without knowing the correct stroke order, and produce a translation and/or Unicode characters that I can cut and paste?
posted to Ask Metafilter by martinrebas at 11:39 AM on April 22, 2008 (5 comments)

Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C.? (pdf) We assemble a dataset on technology adoption in 1000 BC, 0 AD, and 1500 AD for the predecessors to today’s nation states. We find that this very old history of technology adoption is surprisingly significant for today’s national development outcomes. Although our strongest results are for 1500 A.D., we find that even technology as old as 1000 BC matters in some plausible specifications. (via)
posted to MetaFilter by Kwantsar at 10:57 PM on February 26, 2007 (53 comments)

After receiving mixed advice three months ago, I bought an HP Pavilion Elite m9150f running Vista Home Premium. Except for being a little slow to boot into Windows, I've been happy with Vista ... until last night, when Vista Service Pack 1 installed "successfully". I dutifully rebooted and now it won't boot into Windows at all. I've tried system restore from two restore points. Neither works, although I do get a helpful message stating that "a recent upgrade" may be causing problems. The computer can boot into Fedora 8, so it's not hosed, but I've run through my limited bag of Windows tricks. Any suggestions?
posted to Ask Metafilter by lukemeister at 7:02 PM on March 20, 2008 (18 comments)