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Nov 4 at 22:48 PM
As others have noted, there is nothing in this picture to suggest that any of those cords are actually plugged into anything.
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How Dumb Can People Be?How Dumb Can People Be?Windows 7 Pre-Beta Available On BitTorrent SitesNetHac (NetHackz)
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November 23 2008, 6:11pm | Comments »
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Forced Bye (The Edge of Vanilla)
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Created Oct 26
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Oct 26 at 02:34 AM
"I’m aware of M/M slashfic, and have, in fact, looked some over. I mean, who can resist some hawt Kirk/Spock action, right? My guess is that women close to my own age probably aren’t participating in those boards - at least, not very many of them."It's largely women who are writing the M/M slash fiction stuff, and has been ever since the Kirk/Spock stories. Diane Marchant's Kirk/Spock slash fic was the first of its kind published in a fanzine in 1974.I think women your age just aren't telling you how much they get off on M/M slashfic.
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November 23 2008, 4:33pm | Comments »
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Comment on PZ Meyers, A Frackin’ Cracker, and the Neoatheist Movement by Brian Carnell
“I’ve never read a text before with so many “particularly” ’s” LOL.
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November 19 2008, 10:49am | Comments »
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Cuba chooses Linux
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Yeah if you can handle the poverty, censorship and the one-party dictatorship, Cuba ain’t so bad. And unlike South Africa during apartheid, its uber-cool to visit for hospitality and culture.Anyway, anyone want to bet how long MS lets this stand? I mean if there were ever an OS designed for a one-party dictatorship, that’s Windows Vista.Read more comments by Brian Carnell
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November 19 2008, 6:14am | Comments »
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This post will make you 75% more likely to make the right decision on medicines!
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This also happens the other way, of course, when we learn that some drug X or behavior Y resulted in a 32% increased relative risk factor.Journalists really have no idea what the numbers they throw around mean.Read more comments by Brian Carnell
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November 19 2008, 5:49am | Comments »
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Mind bending discussion of life, the universe, and everything
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I’m with Greg. The Strong Anthropic Principle seems to be teleological.This was especially annoying,‘On the other hand, if there is no multiverse, where does that leave physicists? “If there is only one universe,” Carr says, “you might have to have a fine-tuner. If you don’t want God, you’d better have a multiverse.”’Ugh.Read more comments by Brian Carnell
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November 19 2008, 5:43am | Comments »
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Exploring Social Media: The Motrin Moment Impact of Social Media (Commenting Issues in the Blogosphere : The Blog Herald)
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Nov 18 at 15:26 PM
I'm with Zach on this one. After reading the initial posts/tweets about this Motrin ad I tracked it down on Youtube expecting some blatantly offensive ad...and instead found a fairly pedestrian piece of marketing fluff. Apparently social media movements will be all about incessant navel gazing-inspired whining.
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November 19 2008, 1:52am | Comments »
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OCLC’s planned search engine: The pros and cons of crapola filtering by the world’s librarians
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I have to say I don’t understand this at all. Suppose I go to my university library…there are literally thousands of books in there that are filled with absolute nonsense. The public library down the street is even worse.Would a librarian stand up and say “we will not purchase any books for our collection that are not thoroughly vetted for factual accuracy by a special committee of librarians”? If not, how are web-based sources any different?Read more comments by Brian Carnell
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November 8 2008, 8:15pm | Comments »
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Comcast Now Restricts Bandwidth Data Transfer Levels (Lorelle on WordPress)
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Created Oct 3
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briancarnell says:
Oct 3 at 20:28 PM
"250 gigs is a lot of bandwidth to consider especially since even I made do with a 16/48 peak/non-peak bandwidth cap and am online 24/7 as a heavy internet user."No, actually, 250gb/month is not a lot these days and the original article is correct that such limits will stifle innovation. Now having said that, Australia/New Zealand have specific issues due to the limited fiber optic cables for international bandwidth (it is my understanding, for example, that NZ has a single fiber optic cable for International IP).I regularly transfer >500gb/month on my Charter connection and have hit >1 TB/month at times.Along with normal web browsing (which for me is about 1-2gb/day given how pages have bloated with the proliferation of broadband); there is also managing my server and websites; using online backup systems like Amazon's S3/Jungle Disk (where I currently have >300gb of data archived); downloading movies, music and video games; streaming music and movies (Youtube, etc); voice over IP; Skype/Ooovo/other video chat; VPN/VNC (I am constantly logged into my home computers from wherever I work/visit); etc.For me at least, my broadband is my all-in-one communications solution. Adding some silly 250gb cap in the U.S. is just unwarranted at the prices the Comcast monopoly is charging.The only thing that cable/DSL caps will do is simply drive Verizon's FIOS and similar services (hmm..maybe those caps aren't such a bad thing!)
briancarnell says:
Oct 6 at 16:17 PM
"Most infrastructures for phone lines are already established. Charging for them is greed. In a world where peak oil is past, Capitalism will scramble for every last dime it can before it hit the brick wall of reality."This isn't about free-market capitalism; in fact it's the opposite. This is about cable companies trying to retain their monopolies when their main argument for said monopolies is disintegrating.
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November 7 2008, 12:29am | Comments »