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"After reading many of the Iraq/Afghan/Cablegate logs I am compelled to inform my fellow citizens that I saw nothing in these logs that could endanger our troops or public servants. Here’s what I did see: I saw Iraq war logs that painted a very bleak picture of the situation there which doesn’t match up with the “improved security” that’s been reported by the “Defense” Department for years. I saw proof of public officials acting dishonestly and abusing their posts. Overall, I saw an out of control government that is in over its head and does more to endanger the lives of its people than any publishing organization ever could. I volunteered to protect this country under the impression that my government followed the will of the American People and adhered to the US Constitution. As it turns out, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were never constitutionally declared and despite public opinion being against the two wars they continue to grow more destructive. My experiences in these wars... more... - Paul Buchheit from Bookmarklet

"First off, the song was inspired by a short story first published by Richard Foster in the Nov. 1973 issue of Road & Track; you can read the full story here. In short, it's a futuristic tale in which government regulations have conspired to make cars so safe that they could survive 50-mph head-on crashes with no damage to car or driver. A rebel who has use of an old MGB, however, regularly drives his little car out in the country but is often beset by drivers of "Modern Safety Vehicles" (MSVs) who like to ram old cars just for kicks. The story relates one harrowing adventure in which two MSVs coordinate their attack. The song itself (lyrics below) differs somewhat from the story. In the original, new cars seem to be normal in most ways--gasoline engine, wheels, etc.--just much safer, at least for the driver and passengers. In the song, the antagonists are "gleaming alloy air cars" which seems to imply some sort of anti-gravity technology. Also, in the story, driving an old car was... more... - Paul Buchheit from Bookmarklet

According to classiccars.com a barchetta is: "an open top car dedicated to racing without doors or a top and with uniform and streamlined bodywork. It could have one or two separate seats." - Maggie

"ten years from now [in 2008], the phrase information economy will sound silly." - Simon from Bookmarklet

The net effect might not be that big -- moving money from one place to another, mostly. But the impact feels big if you're a moved-from business or a moved-to business. - Bruce Lewis

I still see uploaded pics, if that is what you mean - Alex Scrivener

Working for me now. Thanks FF team! - AJ Batac

i made the mistake of searching that term, then image-searching that term. - Eric Eldon

Hahaha, genius - JSLeFanu

See http://twitter.com/gaustin... for one such confused individual. - Paul Buchheit

don't you see some performance drop? - testbeta

9 out of 10 doctors recommend it! - Gabe

It may just be speculation, but making money on money rather than producing something is at the root of a lot of evil. - Todd Hoff

"But now some of the cables provided by WikiLeaks to Spanish newspaper El Pais confirm that the US government has pushed other countries to adopt measures that go beyond US law, unleashing the fury of Spanish Internet users. A set of cables reported on by El Pais make clear that the US government played a key role in Spain’s controversial website blocking law – the 2009 Sustainable Economy Bill, which the Spanish government is now trying to sneak it through a Committee in a pre-holiday session on 21st December. (Spanish readers, please see Action you can take below). El Pais reports that in February 2008 the US government threatened to put Spain on the annual Special 301 Watch List issued by the Office of the US Trade Representative unless the new Spanish government announced new measures to address Internet piracy, including a law that requires ISPs to terminate the Internet access of subscribers accused three times of file sharing - like the French “HADOPI” Three Strikes law." - Paul Buchheit from Bookmarklet

Fortunately, it looks like Spain rejected the website blocking law. - Gabe

Nice! What is it? Looks like an ACME anvil. - Sajida Hina Khan

Locking pliers are Vise Grips. A device with the screw is a vise in the US and a vice in other places. - Gabe

What is this a picture of? - Steve and 4 other people

An explosion. - Paul Buchheit

(removed minor issue) - DGentry

You may be right Philipp. It could serve its purpose even if it never finds commercial success on its own. - Paul Buchheit

Everclear + Egg Nog = awesomesauce - April Buchheit from Bookmarklet

I prefer rum or kahlua in my eggnog. - Robert Felty

I wouldn't say survival. That lessens what you have just described. Say rather it is a higher gift because it elevates, it cries, it praises, it mourns and it rejoices. And it expresses these things when our hearts our too full for just words. - Melanie Reed

Read the whole thing. - Paul Buchheit

while te idea of being generous is nice, the quote characterizes a person to which I'd not like to be closer than a gunshot range. - 9000

roissy-lookalike theses analyzed: http://issendai.livejournal.com/572510... - 9000

LOL! I guess for some people getting fired is a matter of perspective. - April Buchheit

Who? - Paul Buchheit from iPhone

The boy! - Paul Buchheit

Adorable! - Martha

Sweet... - Robyn Hawk

I don't know which is which Don. Last year she went to the one near Mountain View, but this year she goes to the one closer to Palo Alto. - Paul Buchheit

Well, Facebook is flush with cash, Yahoo! on the brink of disaster, so… - Alessio Bragadini

I remember when Delicious was all kinds of awesome. *sigh* - Absentee

Sure! iPad changed the game - Guy Vander Heyden

it's still on amazon's best sellers list - 落后青年李三海

"It's taken 41 years, but a previously unseen set of photos of the mighty Niagara Falls reduced to nothing more than a barren cliff-top have finally surfaced. The stark images reveal North America's iconic - and most powerful - waterfall to be almost as dry as a desert. In June 1969, U.S. engineers diverted the flow of the Niagara River away from the American side of the falls for several months." - Paul Buchheit from Bookmarklet

Mark: Apparently ice dams can stop water flow altogether, but it hasn't happened since maybe 1848. What happens is that ice ends up covering the river and the falls (such that you were allowed to walk on it up to about 100 years ago), but the water still flows underneath it. - Gabe

I'm on your side Paul! :) - Oguz Serdar

remember android too wasn't taken seriously by many in its initial stages it was expected to fade away, but then google gave nexus with help from manufacturers, chrome os comes with a hardware it mght be difficult but lets see how laptop companies see it do they bring out chrome os based notebooks? because it ight actually cut costs, a chrome os notebook is expected to be cheaper than usual win or iOS based notebooks even netbooks lets see how asus sees it - testbeta

Spam filtering is too complex to be left up to random perl scripts or whatever these people use. Several months back, a different ISP was blocking our email because the from address included the word "friend" (as in "friendfeed.com"). - Paul Buchheit

Well, in defense of that ISP... Even Google doesn't use Google Groups, for some of its products because of the spam presumably. - Space Cowboy

"So what is causing the delay? The likely culprit is disagreement on the design, purpose and execution of the project. One of our sources told us that he/she has heard “tales of disorganization and too many different teams working parallel or in conflict.”" - Paul Buchheit from Bookmarklet

Around the same time you posted this, Peter posted a link to a blog post praising the culture of engineers at Google http://friendfeed.com/peterno... But I think that culture can also be a problem. Engineers can make the coolest products in the world, but do they understand how the masses are using social? How frictionless it needs to be? How, as... more... - Laura Norvig

"The first commercial spacecraft to return from a low-Earth orbit splashed into the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday about 500 miles off the coast of Southern California. The Dragon, a craft developed by the company SpaceX, was concluding a brief but possibly historic flight for the infant commercial space travel industry. The vehicle hit the water shortly after 2 p.m. ET, a little more than three hours after liftoff from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida atop a Falcon 9 rocket. Before splashing down, the Dragon orbited earth at more than 17,000 mph. Only six nations or government agencies have recovered a spacecraft from a low orbit: the United States, Russia, China, Japan, India and the European Space Agency." - Paul Buchheit from Bookmarklet

crap! Time to get cracking on that UFO. - Private Sanjeev

Another giant leap for the PayPal legacy. - Toph Tucker

Curse you! - Brian Johns

Dang. And here I was doing a great job of avoiding looking at any of it. I got what I deserved. LOL - Curtis (a) Jackson

It might be time to teach her how genetics work. :) - April Buchheit

About a second later, though, she said, "My eyes aren't blue, they're brown." - April Buchheit

I'm surprised by how well the fault tolerance comic is doing. - Tudor Bosman

:) - Paul Buchheit

Wow - Scoble, Alex Scoble

It happens in Great America? What has happened to the West? - ThinkEzy

"In a similar warning, college students considering careers with the federal government received an e-mail this week warning against reviewing classified information posted by the document-sharing Web site. Career counselors at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs urged students not to post links to the documents or make comments on social media Web sites, including Facebook or Twitter." - Simon from Bookmarklet

Jennifer: It's not that they can't read the information; it's that the documents themselves are classified and they're just not allowed on unclassified government computers until they've been officially declassified. Being published in the NYT does not automatically make information declassified. - Gabe

"I feel like we're at a tipping point here. A lot of VCs still act as if founders retaining board control after a series A is unheard-of. A lot of them try to make you feel bad if you even ask—as if you're a noob or a control freak for wanting such a thing. But the founders I heard from aren't noobs or control freaks. Or if they are, they are, like Mark Zuckerberg, the kind of noobs and control freaks VCs should be trying to fund more of. Founders retaining control after a series A is clearly heard-of. And barring financial catastrophe, I think in the coming year it will become the norm." - Paul Buchheit from Bookmarklet