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"TFA said absolutely nothing about anything outside the USA. So does World = USA in the title "How Monsanto owns and manipulates the world's food supply"? Except I tend to think Monsanto is screwing us around all over the world and not just in N.America." - Julian Bond

"Who owns it?" - Julian Bond

"So why did they all get the date of the Solstice wrong? Just not very good astronomers?" - Julian Bond

"Apart from being buggy as hell, - It's terrible as an IM system and unfortunately that's what people try and use it for - It's not great for shared document editing which makes the Etherpad acquisition interesting. - It is at least a lot more open and web friendly than Skype group chats What I actually want is a split screen. IM group chat in one pane for discussion. Real time group editing of a document in the other pane. So in google terms, that's Gtalk-web and Etherpad or an improved Google docs. Trying to do both in the same place (as Wave tries) seems like a mistake." - Julian Bond

"Meanwhile the ice caps are still melting, the glaciers are still receding, the oil is still going to run out and China is the canary in the mine with its pollution problems." - Julian Bond

"9. Start your group on Yahoogroups. Because LinkedIn Groups suck for discussion." - Julian Bond

"9. Start your group on Yahoogroups. Because LinkedIn Groups suck for discussion." - Julian Bond

"I wish:- - The iTouch was an iPhone with the cellphone radio turned off. AND NOTHING ELSE CHANGED. Leave in the camera, microphone, GPS, etc etc - And since there's no danger of screwing the cellphone network, they opened up development for it, removed the restrictions and removed the necessity to jailbreak it. - Apple made an iTouch with an internal hard disk. Preferably 160Gb Oh. Wait. That would mean the iTouch was a better, cheaper, iPhone. That'll never do." - Julian Bond

""Unfortunately, Lala is currently only available to people in the US. We are working feverishly to expand internationally, so please stay tuned." Fail!" - Julian Bond

""Unfortunately, Lala is currently only available to people in the US. We are working feverishly to expand internationally, so please stay tuned." Fail!" - Julian Bond

"Sorry, I forget. Could you tell me again. Why are our troops in Afghanistan? I spent a very happy few days in Herat in 1978. Since then the Afghanis have tried to cope with 10 years of Russians, 10 years of the Taliban and now nearly 10 years of US, UK and coalition troops. Bush, Obama, Blair, Brown, you've all got blood on your hands. Just stop it. Please." - Julian Bond

"As a Brit I have to applaud a brilliant Swiftian article. In those few words you’ve managed:- - To point out again that Murdoch *IS* Elliot Carver from Tomorrow Never Dies. - Show that 99% of the media is an Emperor with No Clothes because they took the Murdoch-Google-Bing story at face value. The level of analysis has been pathetic - Talk about UK politics instead of USA politics for a change - Reminded everyone that Murdoch built his empire in the UK and currently controls both ends of the newspaper spectrum there with the biggest tabloid and the biggest broadsheet. But most of all I applaud you for upsetting a bunch of anal Americans with a bit of hearty swearing. I mean, America, FUCK YEAH!" - Julian Bond

"Because Blair, Brown and all their cronies have blood on their hands. Having been there, I weep for Afghanistan. They almost made it to a rational democracy but then they've had 10 years of the Russians, 10 years of the Taliban, 10 years of the Americans. That's nearly 2 generations of destabilisation." - Julian Bond

"America, Fuck YEAH!" - Julian Bond

"Why? Why? Why did they base their data model on dividing the world up into cities?" - Julian Bond

seriously. even with Philadelphia (the closest city to me) on the list, there is not much foursquare offers me since I live an 1/2 hour north. - bear (aka Mike Taylor)

"And now the next in the series. "Quantum Mechanics at work (PIC)" http://images.google.co.uk/images..." - Julian Bond

"No matter who you vote for, Mandelson gets in." - Julian Bond

"No matter who you vote for, Mandelson gets in." - Julian Bond

""If you don’t back a copyright treaty being negotiated in secret, you must want to destroy Hollywood" And amazingly enough, they're right." - Julian Bond

"Do Apple/We really need an appstore? Surely it should be the same approach as for Firefox. There's a Mozilla run directory, but you can load an extension from anywhere on the web if you click through the "this might be dangerous" warning." - Julian Bond

"- It's terrible as IM and unfortunately that's how everyone starts using it. - It's not exactly great as a shared editing program Perhaps if Google actually implemented group chats in the desktop version, we wouldn't need wave at all." - Julian Bond

"That's "Change we can believe in", for you. Troops out now. Just stop it, already. And that goes for you Gordon Brown, too. You've got blood on your hands. As we've just had Nov 11 and Remembrance Day and the dead keep rolling into Wootten Bassett, perhaps we should remember the old men who send those young men off to be killed." - Julian Bond

"Private email server with TLS. Private proxy with SSL. SSH. Skype. PGP. Tor. Public Wifi. Internet cafes. Now what are they going to do? As ever, these things inconvenience and cost the average innocent user while having zero effect on the actual criminals. So tell me again, why are they doing it?" - Julian Bond

"Or how you back it up" - Julian Bond

"How about IRC + SubEthaEdit? Because - Twitter is hopeless as a group chat IM replacement - And so is Wave but Wave is quite good as a real time, joint editing wiki. It's just that everyone's first reaction is to use it like IM group chat and frankly it's useless at that." - Julian Bond

"Or Apple incompetence?" - Julian Bond

"Which country is this about?" - Julian Bond

"You say you want a revolution Well, you know We all want to change the world" - Julian Bond

"Or waited till Apple got their act together" - Julian Bond

"1) Sell tracks at a reasonable price eg $0.10 to $0.20 for LAME 192K VBR, $1 to $2 per album 2) Digitise every bit of audio ever produced and make it available through easy to use websites 3) ??? 4) PROFIT! It's not rocket science, is it. There is a price where convenience competes with free but it's a lot lower than current iTMS or Amazon pricing." - Julian Bond

"Simple answer. Don't use iTunes. That's ok for music, except what else is there for things like Calendar?" - Julian Bond

"Yeah. Send in a gunboat. That'll do it." - Julian Bond