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The fact that I learnt and can still do long division on a piece of paper pleases me greatly...
Michael W. May, Penguin, Jenny R and 10 other people liked this
Me too!
- Ian May
What about long division of polynomials? There's a challenge!
- Bryce Roney
It frustrates me I forgot almost everything else.
- Rodfather
LOL! Is there any other way? :)
- Rah-PM 2012
Bryce, this is true. Which is why I prefer synthetic division for polynomials
- Melanie Reed
Actually, I tried to learn synthetic division but it confused me. Long division works for me so in the rare event that I may need to divide a polynomial, I'll use it.
- Bryce Roney
Yeah, same here. But once I finally "got it" then it was hard to go back to long division for polynomials. I'll be doing it again for this semester. :(
- Melanie Reed
I remember that Laplace transforms are an easier way to take a derivative. I have no recollection of how to do a Laplace transform.
- DGentry
DGentry neither do I, but they'll probably force me to do it for class. ;)
- Melanie Reed
Google Releases the "Fuck You iPhone" Phone - http://75.101.183.223/rd...
mehmet t. akalın, Eric Geller, Jerry Perez and 4 other people liked this
Such language sis.
- Dave Friedel
Oh no. My doorbell just rang.
- Shawn Farner
Fuckin doorbell.
- Dave Friedel
You're faced with a text parsing problem. You say: "I know, I'll use a regular expression!" Then someone quotes Jamie Zawinski automatically. Now you have two problems. :)
Kevin Shaum liked this
Anyone bringing up the "Two Problems" quote should read this http://regex.info/blog...
- gorauskas
Black Adder Remastered: The Ultimate Edition - http://www.amazon.com/dp...
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Kol Tregaskes, Kamilah Reed (K. Gill), Glenn Slaven and 5 other people liked this
I wonder what they added to it? Or is this just Blu-Ray or something?
- Spidra Webster
Ah! Looks like they added commentaries. Goddammit. I own the complete set from before. At least it's cheaper this time...
- Spidra Webster
I wishlisted it, then jonesed, then ordered it as my xmas gift to myself. I bloody well deserve it because I'm spending xmas by myself again...
- Spidra Webster
I wish I could afford this...however, I have a cunning plan!
- Carlton Hackett
I shouldn't. But I did. I'll be cutting back elsewhere.
- Spidra Webster
Got this! Yay!
- LB so u no it's real
I've still never seen this series
- David Rothman (☤)
David, codpieces play an important role...
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
Vacation starts in less than 6 hours face!!!!!
Scott (Honey Boo-Boo!), tehKenny, Carmen wBabby and 18 other people liked this
Also, I wear a lot of black.
- Mary Carmen
Oh, yeah
- ha3rvey (Hugs 50% off!)
Love black!
- Bette Cooper
grrrr
- Georgie Bestie
Great happy for you..................did you hear we are suppose to be getting snow. here on LI...I hope not I have to go to my friends wake up in Lake Ronkonkoma tomorrow night :(
- just ZONED
No, I didn't. I should check LI weather. Im driving up on Wednesday. I hope it will be snow-free.
- Mary Carmen
LI weather http://www.erh.noaa.gov/er..., if of any help
- chaz2b
Thanks Chazz. It looks like my drive will be snow free and Christmas will be rainy. I can deal with that. It will be COLD!
- Mary Carmen
Take me with you....pleeze?
- Morgan
I hope so to Mary snow and holiday driving =sucks big time
- just ZONED
Hope you have a good one. I must try this vacation thing sometime.
- Ian May
My Little Pony Customizations - http://vida.posterous.com/my-litt...
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Iván Abrego, Kevin Shaum, Jemm and Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart liked this
My last Twitter thought... People now have businesses based on Twitter being up (iPhone apps and such) and Google and Bing are now paying coin for the fire hose. How long until the reliability of Twitter becomes an issue?
Bryan Entzminger, John (bird whisperer), Yaniv Golan and 8 other people liked this
I believe the reliability of Twitter will improve to a level that it will no longer be an issue. Twitter is maturing and the Fail Whale may someday be a relic, or just during "scheduled" maintenance.
- Louis Gray
Louis, that very well may be true, but a year ago not a few people thought the problem would be fossilized by a year later, and here we are :)
- Micah
since it's free, they have a lot of time.
- Mike Nencetti
I wonder if the Google and Bing relationships included a service level agreement of some kind. I'd also like to see if Google and Bing are getting the same reliability levels as the freebie users; in most enterprises, paying customers would get priority access to server resources.
- Kevin Shaum
Wasn't the parting of ways with Blaine Cook ( a year and a half ago) supposed to signal the end to their problems (at least that was the story at the time) -- it seems the problem was elsewhere and still exists.
- Brian Sullivan
I am not attempting to sound naive. I talked with Ryan Sarver today, their Director of Platform, at LeWeb, and it was a good discussion. Twitter is growing up. It doesn't have to be my favorite, but it is a utility, and one that is funded well, and has sharp execs. The company is learning how to scale. Despite the occasional whale (like I got today), it's miles ahead of 2008. Understand my lack of favorable bias. :)
- Louis Gray
Well I'm glad they are improving their platform. I wish them no harm and would hate to see them get all lawyer'd over reliability.
- Johnny
The reliability would have been much less of an issue if we had multiple interoperable microblogging services. Email is reliable enough to base a business on. Do you think this would have been the case if the only email service available was, say, compuserve?
- Yaniv Golan
More on this at http://yaniv.golan.name/blog...
- Yaniv Golan
Vulcans Gone Wild! - http://jeffisageek.posterous.com/vulcans...
Philipp, Kol Tregaskes, Andy Bakun and 14 other people liked this
I totally thought this was Rachel.
- Anika
[*]_[*]
- Mo Kargas
um, if it's vulcans 'gone wild', aren't we supposed to see some vulcan boobies right about now? wouldn't that be, well, logical?
- Morgan
Morgan, that picture *is* wild for a Vulcan.
- Spidra Webster
awww man! you are no fun!
- Morgan
Interspecies conjugation strikes me as entirely reasonable based on this picture.
- Mark J
... [inappropriate comments censored]
- Lo the Baker
you know the Spockster got all redonkulous with the ladies! he just played it smoove and easy all those years....
- Morgan
Ok, I just read that female Vulcans can go through Pon Farr so you might get some "gone wild" there.
- Spidra Webster
I'm convinced I'm half Vulcan. My ears are kind of pointy, even. This is not helping what is already an absurd fetish. :D
- Lo the Baker
MST3k meets Star Wars - http://jeffisageek.posterous.com/mst3k-m...
comix aka martha and Kevin Shaum liked this
Pacman Ring Series Sterling Silver and Black Onyx by luckyduct - http://www.etsy.com/view_li...
doli incapax, kopuk, Kevin Shaum and 3 other people liked this
"The series consists of four rings- One with a big shiny flat pacman soldered to the top, and the following three with black onyx cabochons. The only thing you need to do is tell me all of your fingers sizes except for your thumb, and we're in business!!"
- AJ Batac :)
from Bookmarklet
http://twitpic.com/pu98r - Kermit / Bale
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Atakan Ka, R_ C, Ron Bailey and 63 other people liked this
Now where's that classic from Mo with the heads turning?
- Micah
Ah-ha! Here it is: http://friendfeed.com/mokarga...
- Micah
I keep expecting one of them to snap. They're both batshit crazy.
- Andrew Smith
Haha Andrew!
- AJ Batac :)
They separated at birth... http://community.livejournal.com/ohnothe... :))
- Olcayto Cengiz
Whoa what a collection, Olcayto.
- AJ Batac :)
Hahahahaha, great collection!
- Tugce Cengiz
Olcayto, ok, that just blew my mind. wow.
- Micah
Holy COW, Olcayto, those are amazing! (Also: I'd totally tap that.)
- Ladyepiphanybug
WHAT DON'T YOU F***ING UNDERSTAND!
- Vicarbott
That's actually strangely relaxing.
- Deborah Fitchett
bump, ;)
- chaz2b
that's one deep conversation
- echostreamer
if you watch it continually, you will be hipnotize... try it!
- kadirhan karahan
lol jajajajaja
- Ferzvladimir
Shendy Patricia, Joe "Brrzzzzzzt" Pierce, Robert DeBord and 4 other people liked this
hahaha <3
- Anna Haro
House Potter
Sinan İŞLER, Fırat Yıldız, ahmet kakıcı and 7 other people liked this
hahaha
- Shevonne
Whatever clock - http://www.anamappe.com.br/blog...
Lu Tao, Lysender, Felicia Yue and 15 other people liked this
Where can I get one of these?
- Daisy
Target. Quite expensive...
more...
- AJ Batac :)
you could probably make one for about 5 bucks
- Alfredo 亜瑠布れっど
I still have a few Google Wave invites. Anyone?
Vicarbott, Pik Quinn, Morton Fox and 2 other people liked this
Me, please. I tried asking Google nicely, but that hasn't worked yet.
- Kevin Shaum
Done.
- LB so u no it's real
This one! I asked Google too, but I've been shunned so far :( pikquinn[at]gmail.com
- Pik Quinn
Done. :)
- LB so u no it's real
Got it! You're a doll :) Thanks
- Pik Quinn
Happy to help!
- LB so u no it's real
Hi Laura, I am Gandhi from India and I am a big fan of Google, I hope you will be generous enough to give me an invite to wave. Thanks. my email id is kontaktgandhi@gmail.com
- Vikram Gandhi
Done!
- LB so u no it's real
did you sent the invite to kontaktgandhi@gmail.com
- Vikram Gandhi
I did. Or rather, I sent it to Google Wave, and they should handle it from there. Two others I've sent tonight have already gone through, so I hope you'll get it soon!
- LB so u no it's real
ok thanks, god bless you. Do visit my store http://multifabonline.com [I hope this is not a spam]
- Vikram Gandhi
No problem, Gandhi! :)
- LB so u no it's real
hi laura if you still have a wave invitation i would like one ecwhitehead@gmail.com
- beth
Sent, Beth. :)
- LB so u no it's real
thanks
- beth
You're welcome, Beth.
- LB so u no it's real
i got your frindfeed no invitation or did i miss something?
- beth
Beth, I sent it to Google Wave. They should send something to your Gmail, but it may not be right away.
- LB so u no it's real
ok thanks
- beth
Hi Laura, got the invite fro google just now, thanx a lot.
- Vikram Gandhi
*bites finger*.............. daaaaaaaaamn
Ladyepiphanybug, Nakachi, ffcode and 34 other people liked this
Why photograph anything else when I have two of the most beautiful things in the universe in my own home...
- Johnny
Foxy lady.
- ☆ Mellyboo ☆
Bump, indeed.
- tehKenny
Agreed. Beautiful
- Just Katie
Do you share? Y/N :P
- Rochelle
HOT
- Beau Liening
Do you need a second wife? Y/N?
- aden {Chickadee}
Oh My Word (note: I think i've typed and erased 20 different thoughts and decided to just leave the original)
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
who's that chick and why is my hubby taking pics of her :p
- Rachael Worthington
dunno, but she shore is purty
- MoTO Bott
Very purty :)
- Johnny
kind eyes
- Brent
beautiful!
- Anna Haro
nice! Johnny it's great how much you love them i mean your angel and the little angel
- ffcode
Hmm... Johnny, does Rachael know that you just posted about her boobs?
- Ladyepiphanybug
THIS IS SRS BIZNESS PEOPLES...
Kevin Shaum, Steven Perez and Eric liked this
FIRST RULE OF SRS BIZNESS DON'T TALK ABOUT SRS BIZNESS
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
SECOND RULE OF SRS BIZNESS DON'T TALK ABOUT SRS BIZNESS
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
THIRD RULE OF SRS BIZNESS TWO SRS PEOPLES
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
FOURTH RULE OF SRS BIZNESS ONLY ONE BUNCH OF SRS AT A TIME
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
FIFTH RULE OF SRS BIZNESS SRS BIZNESS IS DONE NEKKID
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
SIXTH RULE OF SRS BIZNESS SRS BIZNESS NEVER ENDS
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
WHY ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT SRS BIZNESS AND BREAKING THE RULES????
- John (bird whisperer)
BECAUSE I AM DYLEN TURDER
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Happy Birthday to Paul Buchheit!
HealingBrush, chaz2b, Mitchell Tsai and 80 other people liked this
Happy Birthday, Paul! And thank you for FF. It's being a great help to me just now.
- Auntie Buttinsky Botts
Happy birthday!
- Becca
Got the image here: http://www.labnol.org/interne...
- AJ Batac :)
Writing "Don't be evil" 500 times..penance for selling out to Zuckerberg? :) Happy birthday, Paul!
- Alex Schleber
Happy Birthday!
- Shevonne
;) so many birthdays this week. Happy B-day Paul!
- Friendfeed's Francisco
I just opened the link and I'm kind of astounded. I had no idea what a deep influence Paul had over at Google. Created GMail? I am in awe. That plus Friendfeed and many other accomplishments. Happy birthday, Paul. I know we get fussy here sometimes about you, but that's only because we love so much what you helped create, and we're terrified at the thought of it vanishing.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
Happy Birthday, Paul!
- Anne Bouey
Happy Birthday, Paul!
- Kevin Fox
Huge happy b-day PB
- Christopher Galtenberg
Gosh, when you run a 30-thread -Xmx900m Clojure job on a MacBook, OS X starts walking funny.
Kevin Shaum liked this
(Image) - http://alfredo.soup.io/post...
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Anna Lynn M., Christopher A. Wichura, Kevin Shaum and 7 other people liked this
How Superman Defeated The Ku Klux Klan - Superman - io9 - http://io9.com/5394980...
Sam Harmon, Private Sanjeev, Steven Perez and 17 other people liked this
"Almost too weird to believe: writer Stetson Kennedy infiltrated the KKK in the late 1940s, and learned the powerful organization's secrets — but nobody would publish them. Meanwhile, the Superman radio program needed a villain to replace the Nazis. According to Mental Floss Magazine, Kennedy managed to work all of the Ku Klux Klan's most secret recruiting and organizational practices into his 1940s radio serial, "Clan Of The Fiery Cross." And as a result, the Man Of Steel dealt a crushing blow to the racist organization: As the storyline progressed, the shows exposed many of the KKK's most guarded secrets. By revealing everything from code words to rituals, the program completely stripped the Klan of its mystique. Within two weeks of the broadcast, KKK recruitment was down to zero. And by 1948, people were showing up to Klan rallies just to mock them."
- RAPatton
from Bookmarklet
Is it incorrect to infer that recruitment went down as protections to secrecy were dismantled?
- MoTO Bott
I think that is what the author holds to be true.
- RAPatton
It's a true story - the Klan arc on the Superman radio serial went nationwide when the show was very popular. The KKK was outraged that some of its closest secrets were being divulged to children in an afternoon radio serial.
- Bill Sodeman
That's really cool.
- Toby Graham
@RAP... I find that a bit disturbing and disappointing. People will participate in all manner of foolishness and base behavior under cover of darkness. Perhaps it's naive to think otherwise.
- MoTO Bott
*stops vivisecting grandmothers and becomes a dentist*
- Joe The Sausage
You guys crack me up.
- MoTO Bott
Problem Solved. - http://www.zee.me/blog...
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Andrew Terry, Kevin Shaum, Jan Ole Peek and 10 other people liked this
Miss Italia - Official 2010 Calendar (14 pics) - My Modern Metropolis - http://www.mymodernmet.com/profile...
vimoh, April Buchheit, Kevin Shaum and 3 other people liked this
Ah, nuts. A world polluted by gamma radiation. I can only guess who's to blame for this miasma.
Nakachi, Janet-The Bottley Crue, George Hall (Australia) and 35 other people liked this
You ate too much cilantro, didn't you?
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
LOL Alex!
- JCunwired
Uh Oh Cilantro flu epidemic
- Janet-The Bottley Crue
WHO TALKING SMACK ABOUT CILANTRO! DYSP SMASH!!!
- Steven Perez
RRRAAAAAWWWRRRRRRR!!! KAIA MAKE DYSP ANGRY!!! DYSP SMASH!!!!
- Steven Perez
"Miasma" Niiiiiice.
- Martha
OBVIOUSLY YOU ARE NOW REAPING THE WHIRLWIND FOR YOUR CILANTRO ADDICTION. THE TOMATOES ARE ROFLing AT YOU. YOU SHOULD EAT SOME RED AND BLUE FOODS TO BALANCE YOUR COLORATION. OR MAYBE JUST RED.
- ha3rvey (Hugs 50% off!)
LITTLE MAN MAKE DYSP ANGRY WITH STUPID WORDS!!! DYSP SMASH!!!
- Steven Perez
from IM
Too much Spice Girls, Steven? ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Liked for the use of the word miasma. <3 13th century medicine...back when people thought piles of cloth would magically transform into rats.
- Christian (Simply X)
I read miasma and think of Oedipus. Clearly not enough caffeine yet.
- Heather
Oedipus FTW
- Nathan Rein
NO SUCH THING AS TOO MUCH SPICE GIRLS! DYSP SMASH!!!
- Steven Perez
WHAT IS A "SPICE GIRL"? ARE THEY SUPERHEROES LIKE "PAPRIKA GIRL" OR "CUMIN WOMAN"? THIS WILL OBVIOUSLY END BADLY.
- ha3rvey (Hugs 50% off!)
SPICE GIRLS PRETTY. SPICE GIRLS LOVE CILANTRO. SPICE UP YOUR LIFE, OR DYSP SMASH!!!
- Steven Perez
from IM
Err, freeps, can you enlighten me .. what's ciltrano ? [gazes curiously into the horizon]
- Ahsan Ali
This is Steven Perez's O Face
- Mike Nayyar
Ahsan! Don't blaspheme!
- nouhad
MIKE NAYYAR IS PUNY MAN!! DYSP SMASH!!!
- Steven Perez
from IM
Oh, coriander. Dhanniya, been it eating it all me life. Bleh.
- Ahsan Ali
o_O o_O o_O
- Steven Perez
from IM
WTF. Cilantro is Coriander.
- nouhad
Yes, it is. Cilantro is what we call it over here in the Colonies.
- Steven Perez
from IM
(This pic is going to haunt me forever, isn't it?)
- Steven Perez
from IM
It shan't die soon, Steven. It shan't.
- Mike Nayyar
LOL Alex
- Alfredo 亜瑠布れっど
Bump for the good times.
- Mark Krynsky
sloth unleashed - technohell: erostika: ... Cylon-O-Lantern - http://mudwerks.tumblr.com/post...
Just Katie, echostreamer, Louis Trapani and 3 other people liked this
gret pumpkin!
- echostreamer
The classy thing for Barack to do would be to decline gracefully until he gets somewhere in Mideast or NKorea or AfPak or somewhere.
Kevin Shaum, Akiva and Roberto Bonini liked this
"And then one day you find, ten years have got behind you, no one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun"
Kevin Shaum liked this
Cheater got OWNED - http://meme.yahoo.com/wrzl...
David, Sullivan, Murat Küçükosman and 137 other people liked this
bizim köy mü lan yoksa burası :) yararlar adamın kafasını çot diye işte böyle...
- ems
oohaaaa.!!
- şafak başkılıç
yarışta şike yapacaksan önce dengede dur dimi kaçma fırsatın olsun :)
- Murat Kaya (mrtky)
haketmiş
- pessimist
Fanatizm sadece futbolda yok demek ki!
- Nihat Solmaz
yok ems ora türk köyü değil bizimkiler aşağı atmakla bırakmaz böyle hakedenleri :))
- Murat Kaya (mrtky)
İlk izlediğimde ya aşağıda su yoksa diye içimden geçirdim, nasıl bir sinirmiş anlam veremedim :))) ama çok da güldüm :)))
- Cagatay Karakoc
"seni adi adam, senin ben, al ulan ulan sana gel nen gel.. hıh yarışma sen ohh" attıktan sonra "gel ya mahmut hiç şevk kalmadı gidip birer bira içelim" demiştir:)) kol kola gidişlerini görürüz son karedede:P
- İrem[taşımasu]
yalnız kahve montlu adam soteye yatmış orda, saldırı planlı bence.
- Parfe
yalnız dikkat edersek yayınlanan kanal RTL.. aksiyon normal ;) her şekil
- ems
@mrtky, peşinden atlayıp bide suda sopalarlar bi temiz :)
- Fil
bisikletli sanki ilk darbede aşağıya atlayacakmış ama yeterli itmeyi alamaış o yüzden beklemiş gibi. direk kurmaca bile olabilir yani :))
- yasin
OMG!
- ◄ 道 ► D/\\/|I|D ッ
süper :D
- Erdinc Ciftci
bisikletli kurtulmak için aşağıya atlamaya çalışıyor ama ayağı kendi bisikletine takılıyor dikkat ederseniz bizim adamımızda madem aşağıya atlamak istiyosun ben atarım seni diyerek fırlatıyor :)
- Göksel Şirin
hah ben de bundan korkuyordum, yahoo meme ile birlikte 10 senelik videolar yeniden canlanacak.
- Samim Maşat
Haha süper :))
- Ömer Ekinci
seni amna godumun, diye atı veriyor pisikletçiyi.. yauu...
- ems
Instant KARMA!
- AJ Batac :)
wow!
- Bren
Heheheh
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
oha
- Sinan İŞLER
hala güldürüyor
- Sinan İŞLER
چه پاکاره :)) -در راستای این که اینا عجق وجق می نویسن ما نمی تونیم بخونیم !!!
- bersam
Arkadan gelen, iteni tartaklamaya başlayınca "atsaydın bari" dedim içimden. Demez olaydım :D
- Oguzcana
ama haketti. :D
- kirmizimercan
Bisikletci sanki gonullu atlamak icin...
- Elestirel Gunluk
Nedense bu video bana kurgu gibi geliyor. Cheater'ın duvarın üst kısmına doğru meyletmesi ve aşağı atılmak için pek bir dirençsiz olduğunu gözlüyorum.
- Cem ARGUN
Instant Facilitated Karma. I like. (In this one specific example, not as an overarching philosophy of vigilantism.)
- SAM
Meanwhile, nobody is helping the rider who got shoved and is lying there while bikes drive around him.
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
actually, the guy who saved the pushed-over rider's bike looks like he's gonna help him after the coast is clear.
- Joe The Sausage
amanııın,dünya şiddet doldu iyice...
- Delfina
adamın inanılmaz bir adalet anlayışı varmış
- Yiğit Arda Türkoğlu
çocuğun babası mıymış o?
- Durukan Duru
Holy cow. Can you imagine your thought if you are one of the trailing bikers?
- Louis Gray
hahahah :D kesin türk ya :))
- Kemal ONUR
hobaaa!
- BartuG
That's terrible...but I can't stop watching.
- Tammy Marshall
Harbiden, belki kurmaca olabilir. Yorumlardan birinde okuyunca bi' anda dank etti.
- Bora DAN
Do You Find This Painting Obscene? - http://thomashawk.com/2009...
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Pierre Honeyman, Wai Seto, chaz2b and 46 other people liked this
Ask yourself this — do you find this painting obscene? There are no warnings regarding it’s placement in the museums all ages gallery. And why is it not ok to show the backside of painting of a woman in a museum, but it seems perfectly fine for people to show full frontal nudity of the famous statue of Michelangelo’s David? isn’t it a double standard for Flickr to say that great art of females ought to be treated differently than great art of males. The basic problem is that the Censorship Division at Flickr is unchecked. They’ve been given unlimited power over who sees our images and who does not. Flickr relevancy to our culture is too important not to resist these intrusions. Censoring great works of art is an insult to all photographers and artists. Like the Victorians of yesteryear who ruined many sculptures by plastering fig leafs over their private parts, Flickr wields the censors sword flippantly and seemingly without consequence. This is bad for morale, bad for Flickr/Yahoo’s...
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- Thomas Hawk
the latest image of mine that Flickr has censored.
- Thomas Hawk
Of course not.
- Todd Hoff
Obscene, no. An example of why painters should study anatomy, yes. (This is one of the many reasons I'm weaning myself off of Flickr.)
- Jennifer Dittrich
Not obscene. Who are they protecting anyway? This reminded me of something I heard the on NPR about people in Seattle being upset that their kids maybe exposed to a nude cyclist from time to time at the park or a local festival. GET OVER IT. Kids are not scared by nudity. Behavior yes. So as long as the naked people are minding their own business... not an issue. This surprises me from Flickr, how do they justify this? #puritancolonyethics #liveuptothefoundingfathersintentions
- SAM
nudity is not obscene unless sexually explicit - kids certainly are not traumatised by nudity - never understood that anglo saxon hangup
- Iphigenie
Flickr currently has this image censored in my photostream. They censored it behind my back. I hate it when they do that. Thousands of children view this image every year as it hangs in an all ages gallery at the Art Institute of Chicago.
- Thomas Hawk
SAM, they justify it because the Censorship Division at Flickr seemingly has no accountability to anyone.
- Thomas Hawk
Not obscene enough ;)
- Jemm
Exactly Joelle. Thomas: They don't even email you to let you know they feel some of your content is objectionable?
- SAM
No
- Lars Clausen
that's beautiful! Of course it's not obscene...jeez, what's next, just showing the wrists or ankles on a woman is going to be considered obscene!?!
- Kamala Whitaker
Pat, so why does the backside of a painting of a woman by a famous artist violate the Flickr TOS while the front side of Michelango's David seems perfectly fine? Isn't it a bit of a double standard to try and enforce a policy whereby hundreds of (use your own favorite euphemism for male member) are allowed unfettered on Flickr while a female's behind is not? Both are great works of art, why censor one and not the other?
- Thomas Hawk
I'd be fine with that Pat, I'd appreciate the publicity. But you've neglected to answer the question as to why it is ok for flickr users to photograph and post Michelangelo's David statue showing full nude male frontal genitalia while a photo of a similar work of famous art is censored when it depicts the backside of a female.
- Thomas Hawk
Absolutely not obscene! Pathetic that some might think it obscene. In school I learnt about the great painters and most of them had nudes, some a lot more full frontal and yet it was about the art, not about the nudity. I would have no problems showing these type of pictures to my kids who are all under ten. The human body is amazing and beautiful and should be glorified!
- travispuk
from iPhone
Nup
- Amy
No. Wow Pat, nice attempt to derail the convo. Did you know STUDENTS in EUROPE frequently spend DAYS at museums stealing from the Great Masters -- by making illegal copies of paintings! Not photographs, actual paintings! The horror! Think of the dead artist's great great grandchildren! Now, if you want to contemplate something worth while, what if I were to make an oil painting of one...
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- Richard Walker
I dont find it obscene. There are many paintings, like you said, hanging in art museums all over the world that have this kind of scene.
- Shevonne
I'll give a hint to what I think is the correct answer: How much you "borrowed" depends on how much interpretation that person put in. Since Thomas interprets quite a bit, that would be the problem. That you used an ARTISTIC photo without permission. However, making a single fine art painting is unlikely to "damage" Thomas or make the photo less valuable. The litho series is where it becomes a serious violation. Mass production.
- Richard Walker
There is literally more explicit nudity on the walls and ceiling of the Vatican than that.
- Alex Scrivener
Many Americans have issues with nudity - often equating it with pornography - and apparently being unable to discern the difference. Silly while all around us media is awash in sexual imagery. The more humans attempt to control something the greater attraction it has. Where nudity is no big thing there is far less pornography just as where everyone drinks wine with meals there are fewer...
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- Internet Strategist
Obscenity laws in America are obscene.
- Ankush Narula
Yes, but in a good way ;-)
- Rubin Sfadj
whats obscene! we've created in the first place:)
- samantha
I like how I can post this image to FriendFeed and don't have to worry about it being censored. Maybe Flickr ought to consider replacing their censorship division with FriendFeed's censorship division. I think it would be a big step forward for them. That Flickr thinks that they have to "protect" their users from images like this is absurd.
- Thomas Hawk
Obscene, no; Mature, possibly, but you might see more at a news stand or magazine rack.
- Grant Bierman
Pat, flickr doesn't own the image,Thomas does, so if they block him posting to FF, there are other issues they would need to address. The problems with censorship is that you need to be consistent, otherwise you run the risk of being hypocritical, and it's pretty clear that in this case there was a lack of consistency.
- Deepak Singh
Pat, Flickr has not removed the restriction. This is the second version of this image that I've posted. The first version is here: http://www.flickr.com/photos... That image is still censored by them. I appealed their decision via email today and received the following reply back from Flickr staffer Terrence: "As per our Community Guidelines, Female breasts,...
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- Thomas Hawk
I sent a follow up email back to Terrence asking him if this prohibition only applies to females and why, for instance, Michelangelo's sculpture (with full frontal male nudity) is not censored, but I have not heard back from him yet. Hopefully I will soon. It is ridiculous that they would censor this image on Flickr and I hope to have this decision reversed. The Censorship Division at...
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- Thomas Hawk
No ...but it's probably NSFW
- .LAG liked that
I think Terrence answered your question. You didn't follow the rules Thomas. They are at the least being consistsnt. If you properly labled the pic it would have been left alone. Flickr never said it was obsene they just want those people who are sensitive to the issue to be able to filter it out.
- Jason Williams
from iPhone
no the picture is not obscene.
- Kim Landwehr
not obscene
- MiniMage, enterRUPPted
Not obscene to me, but that of course depends on your cultural background. What I believe the web needs are 'global' standards against censorship and a strong institution to enforce them. Both of which is probably a long way from being put into place. E.g. I think in the US those issues are pretty much left to the companies while in Germany we would ask government or other officials to...
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- Jens Holze
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