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Yummy Blackberries - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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Moghamer, MaHsA, Mazaamir and 80 other people liked this
مهدی حالا که اصرار میکنی خوب بیا دوست باشیم :))))
- فائزه
البته اگه مشت نزنی قبول :))))
- Mahdi Ebrahimi
نه دیگه مشت ها را گذاشتم برای بعد :))))
- فائزه
عظمی جان اینا شاتوته :))))))))
- Mahdi Ebrahimi
فائزه پس دوست هستیم :))))
- Mahdi Ebrahimi
عظمی جان احسنت به درایت بالای شما اصلا هر چی شما امر بفرمایید
- Mahdi Ebrahimi
دلم ترشی جات خواست خب، فک کنم هنوز یه کم ازون قره قروتام داشته باشم :دیبخورم که نمیرم الان
- Vicey
اینا اما شیرینند :))))
- Mahdi Ebrahimi
Yummy! :-)
- Anna Haro
NOM NOM :))
- Mahdi Ebrahimi
Blackberries make GREAT pies
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Good Imagination Sean :D
- Mahdi Ebrahimi
لااااااااااااااایک
- تنهاترین انجل
:))
- Mahdi Ebrahimi
تمشكه. من از 100متري هم ببينم مي شناسم از بس عاشقشم:پي
- Rezvaneh
شاتوته :))
- Mahdi Ebrahimi
من با راحله موافقم :))
- Mahdi Ebrahimi
:)
- Mahdi Ebrahimi
اووووووووووووووووووم! به به
- ٤دی
Name three songs [or movies] to help you get over a breakup. #shareit
Amani, Midori, Nurse Katie and 3 other people liked this
Explain what makes these good post-breakup songs. - (today's Pinky: http://www.plinky.com/prompts...)
- Kol Tregaskes
I'd have to get a girlfriend first, all the music has changed since the last one!
- Geoff Schultz
breakup? What breakup? ;D
- Sasha Kovaliov(.com)
Feeling Stronger Every Day - Chicago; She F*ing Hates Me - Puddle of Mudd; Wise Up - Aimee Mann
- Morgan Haley
Never helped me over a breakup, but always found 'Rise' by Gabrielle a beautiful, uplifting song - borne out of horrific circumstances ...
- Patrick Jordan
Sasha, you lucky man. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
I don't know about three songs but my favorite break-up movies are High Fidelity and Swingers.
- Akiva Moskovitz
I thought it was called Vodka or Whiskey :) Either will work :D
- Sasha Kovaliov(.com)
Akiva, I'll add movies to the question too, ta. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
"Never Ever" by Ciara just came out (R&B), also "Smile" by Lily Allen, and "The Best You Never Had" by Leona Lewis - all pretty recent actually.
- Amy
pj harvey "rid of me", cure "how beautiful you are", manu chao/mano negra "I don´t want you" crying, cursing, rising again...
- esther ♥ ♫
'16 Candles', "We can't be Friends" by Deborah Cox/RL, "Is this the End" New Edition. (I could go on and on)
- Amani
Thanks A Lot: Third Eye Blind, Counterfeit: Limp Bizkit, and Bloon On The Ground: Incubus http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Nurse Katie
Friendship Tree
MaHsA, Farahnaz, Moghamer and 48 other people liked this
Great caption and Absolute source, Thanks for both my friend
- ardiba
I like this picture. this is so meaningful.
- Mahdi Ebrahimi
wow, absolutely great!
- saeedeh
from NoiseRiver
Mahdi, I normally link to the source via the bookmarklet, when you upload the image just add the source as the link. Thanks for this though. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Dear Kol Tregaskes: i will do it :)
- Mahdi Ebrahimi
OK. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
looks more like an "orgy" tree to me...
- Joshua Schnell
اینا دارن خوراکی می خورن ؟:دی
- Noosha
عجب شخم عمیقی! کلی خاطره زنده کرد این درخت دوستی
- ardiba
There's a whole lot of friendship going on there...
- BEX
Ten Must-Have Gmail Filters Available for Download #shareit - http://lifehacker.com/5167829...
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Darren, Roberto Bonini and Midori liked this
"Now that you can export and import email filters with Gmail, we've decided to compile some of our favorite filters for organizing your inbox into a single, handy download. Come and get it!"
- Kol Tregaskes
from Bookmarklet
Space Shuttle Launch Schedule 2009: Discovery’s Timeline - http://www.inquisitr.com/19738...
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Ron Bailey and Midori liked this
Shuttle Launch Live 2009: Discovery Webcast - http://www.inquisitr.com/19744...
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Ron Bailey, istanbuldailyphoto, Midori and Mona Nomura liked this
Bridge Turns Trucks into Convertibles - http://www.techeblog.com/index...
Victor Ryden, zsafwan , Hutch Carpenter and 4 other people liked this
"Whether it be rental or cargo trucks, this bridge never loses. Unfortunately, the engineers overlooked the fact that most trucks won't clear its 11' 8" height." Click the link for the complete video
- AJ Batac
from Bookmarklet
I'm not gonna lie... i laughed every single time!
- Joshua Schnell
There are no signs there? So weird.
- Admiral Anika
Reasons for using Internet Explorer - http://graphjam.com/2009...
HealingBrush, Jay, Srinath and 128 other people liked this
Nah. I think it's just right :D
- AJ Batac
surfing at all?
- sofarsoShawn
Am I the only person who hates the term "surfing" in respect to web browsing?
- Gabe
@Gabe, I don't particularly hate the term surfing, but I do think it's rather dated and Nintiesish.
- Christian (Simply X)
It's true: I used IE to dl first three versions of Firefox, but ditched it due to bloatiness. Now I'm back to IE and Chrome.
- Jemm
you can try to pry ie from my dead cold hands :(
- chaz2b
streaming netflix movies 90% downloading chrome 10%
- David Lynch
So, if were to somehow magically find a copy of Windows without IE, install it on a virgin computer, how do I get "the first" browser in there without a browser? I have to go to Babbage's and buy a Firefox 3.5" ?
- Matthew DeVries
Matthew, USB stick containing the Firefox installer.
- AJ Batac
I always carry portable apps (http://portableapps.com/apps) just in case. ;)
- AJ Batac
AJ: What do you do when you configure a machine remotely?
- Gabe
If you can access the machine remotely, you can open up a folder (share) so you can dump in your Firefox installer.
- AJ Batac
@David Lynch You don't need IE to use Netlfix Watch Instantly. So stop using it! ;o)
- Paul Reynolds
IE8 is a much improved version, although Firefox is still milesahead imo
- Nicholas James
The one place where sadly I have to use IE, is with home grown enterprise apps that my company makes for getting at the databases, HR filings, etc. They mostly work Firefox, but when they don't hours of work can be wiped out :(
- Matthew DeVries
If somehow IE disappeared from your Windows computer, there's always "ftp ftp.mozilla.org" from the command line :)
- Victor Ganata
They forgot "testing code for the people too clueless to switch to something else." That's the only time I use it.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
+1 Jandy
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Mod up Jandy +5: Interesting ...boy, FF sure could use comment ranking :)
- Glenn Batuyong
No no no to comment ranking. *shudders* If you want Digg, go got Digg.
- Matthew DeVries
Bah! ftp.mozilla.org from the commandline! ;o
- Daniel Bruce
ftp> open ftp.mozilla.org
- AJ Batac
@Matthew but then it wouldn't be FriendFeed :) ...seriously, comment ranking would allow more compact commenting because instead of dedicating a line each for "+1 whoever" (and typing it) you could just click an arrow-up or something and a score would appear next to it. If ya want, mouse-over the score to see who upped it. Let's make the web easier to use.
- Glenn Batuyong
I use it to test for clueless people and, sigh, Quickbooks ONLINE. Yep, I have to keep VMWare Fusion/XP/IE handy so I can use a web app. It's almost criminal.
- Paul Reynolds
Have you seen Hacker News? I love their ranking implementation :)
- AJ Batac
Glenn and thus killing the social website and making it a popularity website. It's just for finding out what your trusted followers think is interesting, not for building popularity through the coolness of your posts.
- Matthew DeVries
:)))))))))))))))))
- mhmazidi
They also forgot "my workplace refuses to upgrade or allow users to upgrade".
- Rochelle
Fantastic!
- Martha
so true!!!
- TheBuzzMachine
=)) since 2005, valid for me :)
- Ahmet Alp Balkan
Because you like the setup popping up every time you use it.
- Stephan Miller
from Friend Deck
I am force fed IE @ work for enterprise apps. We might as well be using command line database software, IE only apps make me sick.
- Pete Delucchi
Mimi Switch remote control relies on facial expression, not phalanges - http://www.engadget.com/2009...
Mike Reynolds, Ontario Emperor, Midori and RAPatton liked this
"Sure, the Mimi Switch is quite clever: instead of relying on your fingers, this remote control uses an earbud containing infrared sensors that measure the inner ear movements resulting from various facial expressions. "An iPod can start or stop music when the wearer sticks his tongue out," says the inventor, Kazuhiro Taniguchi of Osaka University. Sounds innocent? Not so fast. The device can also be used to monitor your facial expressions for the appropriate levels of cheerfulness. "If it judges that you aren't smiling enough," the inventor goes on to say, "it may play a cheerful song.""
- Victor Ryden
from Bookmarklet
um, what's up with her tongue?
- Neil Bernhart
her tounge looks not like a tounge. something else comes to mind.
- Jason Shultz
from twhirl
buraKargın, Like, Alfredo and 8 other people liked this
"It’s STILL so cold outside. Harumph. At least some people are enjoying the snow"
- AJ Batac
from Bookmarklet
hello kitty is the anti-christ...
- Russell Wagner
A Completely Unscientific (Yet Accurate) Look at Social Sites - http://brainz.org/complet...
Ahsan Ali aka. Slick, Jick Nan, Angela P. and 173 other people liked this
Myspace: "12% Proud owners of butterfly tramp stams 7% Club promoters 27% Bathroom mirror exhibitionists 11% Animated .gif birthday cake comment fairies 17% Investors who gobbled up virual glitter factories on the cheap 24% People that haven't found out about Facebook yet 2% People who can't afford match.com" LOL!!!!!!
- Mona Nomura
That's good stuff!
- Patrick Jordan
ROFL. That's hilarious.
- Admiral Anika
hahaha!
- Carmen
Haha.. "Investors who gobbled up virtual glitter factories on the cheap"
- Rodfather
Change the 19% Live blogging their lunch to Live blogging their toddler and that is totally me. And I am very unapologetic about it :)
- Michelle Martinez
Those numbers are 150% accurate.
- Richard Lawler
Facebook: "15% People who have no idea what is going on, they just like to look at pictures" HAHA
- Mona Nomura
Thats great!
- Bluesun 2600
Scoble doesn't have a twitter %age of his own? Maybe that for FF analysis...
- Rob Kramer
great charts - hope they will add other networks
- Alexander Benker
What's Propeller? This is making me LAUGH "22% SEO Spammers 11% Nigerian Scammers 17% Viagra Spammers 50% Propeller Employees"
- Mona Nomura
ha...sounds like I am among the 14% for twitter.
- Midori
man i can relate to so many of these hahahaha
- Alfredo
Love it!
- sofarsoShawn
It's funny because it's true LOL
- Mona Nomura
That's hysterical!
- Shevonne
Whomever did this, just won the internet in my books!
- embee
I can't WAIT to see the next round!!!!!
- Mona Nomura
from IM
Correction: it's funny because it's *extremely* true
- mike fabio
from twhirl
awesome. I should have browsed FriendFeed more before posting this one myself!
- Thomas Hawk
made me laugh
- Richard Akerman
hahhahahhhaha I love the Facebook 12% (or something) that has no clue what's going on but loves looking at pictures -- that's almost all my real life firends on there LOL
- Mona Nomura
from IM
so many damn truths there LOL
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
haha, this is cool. where's friendfeed?... aah, to small and geeky I guess
- Peter Efland
Funny because it's true!
- tomit
Somebody had to come up with a piechart for FF
- Jason
now this is FUNNY.
- michael sean wright
Facebook: 13% Our moms. Mom hasn't hit Facebook yet, but she is on Twitter... and followed my husband... and Britney Spears.... BUT NOT ME.
- Alix Whitmire
hahhahahhahahha!! Alix LOL!
- Mona Nomura
I guess I'm in the MySpace 12. :)
- EricaJoy
Yeah... and I cant block her mom.... :(
- Shawn Whitmire
I bookmarked this yesterday, hunted all over for copyright notice or authorship, because I want to use it in a presentation. Couldn't find way to attribute aside from URL! Generous folks ...
- Patricia F. Anderson
this is awesome
- Angela P.
I know Mona, the MS categories are hliarious! And what about divorcés on fb?
- fn (fairnymph)
Hey - Myspace is still useful for independent bands! I'm embarrassed to have its iPhone app (on my last page) so I can check up on my band's issues/shows/whining/etc. on the go... We do, however, get lots of friend requests from butterfly tramp stamps, and we deny them because there is no way they looked at our profile. But seriously, if a BAND denies your friendship on MySpace you need to re-evaluate your life.
- Isabelle
Awesome! This is two weeks old but I just found it today.
- Stephan Miller
from Friend Deck
Teenage swimmer dies after shark rips off his arm
| Mail Online - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news...
Emma, Shey, Jamaican of FF, Susan Beebe and 4 other people liked this
"A young French holidaymaker has died after having his arm and part of his leg ripped off in a terrifying shark attack in the South Pacific today. The 19-year-old student was swimming with friends off a beach in the French territory of New Caledonia, 1,200 miles north east of Australia, when he screamed for help. His friends dragged him onto a boat and rushed him to shore, but he died from a massive loss of blood by the time emergency workers were able to reach him. The incident confirms fears in Australia that sharks are more active this summer season, possibly because they are following shoals of fish that are swimming closer to shorelines. Three people have been attacked by sharks in the Sydney region in the past four weeks and although there have been no fatalities serious injuries have been suffered - a man has lost a leg and another his hand."
- RAPatton
from Bookmarklet
=(
- Shevonne
its been a busy season in australia & new zeland with the sharks :(
- chaz2b
I hope there's no retaliation. This is a mix of encroaching in their pad and our constant deminishing of them and their sources of food. Interesting that their immediate image is of a great white. Chances are this wasn't one of them, prolly a tiger or a mako
- alphaxion
@alphaxion +++++++
- Shevonne
has me concerned about the upcoming season here on the east coast ;O
- chaz2b
Bento Art - http://designyoutrust.com/2009...
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Nikita, Mike Fruchter, Phil Smirnov and 21 other people liked this
Lol, love the bunny! Reminds me of Raving Rabbids... :)
- Danielle Closs
Half Life yeahhh :)
- Ale♫nastrorosa
Half Life! :D
- Francesco Gavello
Too Many Words by =mrs-daria on deviantART
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- Kol Tregaskes
Autumn and winter - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
Mazaamir, Scorpio, yasin ghasemi and 8 other people liked this
liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiike
- تنهاترین انجل
The World Is Tuning Into Twitter Search - John Battelle's Searchblog - http://battellemedia.com/archive...
phil baumann, Svartling, Midori and 2 other people liked this
"In the future, searches won't only query what's being said at the moment, but will go out to the Twitter audience in the form of a question, like a faster and less-filtered Yahoo Answers or Wiki Answers. Users would be able to tap the collective knowledge of the 6 million or so members of the Twitterverse. "You put a question out to the global mind, and it comes back," Mr. Chaffee explained. "Millions of people are contributing to the knowledge base. The engine is alive. You get feedback in real time from people, not just documents.""
- Sean McBride
from Bookmarklet
That's twice in 2 days someone's suggested the same to me. I'm guessing something like this will be here in the next 6 months.
- Siddharth Mitra
Sean, twitter has been incredibly slow at taking advantage of new opportunities.
- Richard A.
There are unlimited possibilities for using tweet-style messages to perform actions, operations, etc. All that is required is a few sprigs of agreed-upon markup. For instance, Twitter and Friendfeed could easily invade Craigslist's turf.
- Sean McBride
What boggles my mind is that Summize wasn't integrated on the Twitter home page months ago; this isn't rocket science. Friendfeed could easily get far ahead of Twitter on search in the micromessaging space. For that matter, so too could Google. Get crackin'.
- Sean McBride
Richard -- indeed. But potential Twitter competitors have been even slower in exploiting the opportunities that Twitter's slowness has provided them. :)
- Sean McBride
Having problems keeping up with social news? Help is here: I slowly work on this digest every day http://www.web-strategist.com/blog...
Thomas Power, Abbas Haider Ali and Midori liked this
a filtered filter does that make you a filterer?
- Thomas Power
BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Space rock makes close approach - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1...
Anthony Citrano, Gavin and Midori liked this
"An asteroid which may be as big as a ten-storey building has passed close by the Earth, astronomers say."
- Kol Tregaskes
from Bookmarklet
We keep thinking that an economic depression is the worst thing that could happen. Is it possible that we are looking at the collapse of the American empire -- and entry into a new era similar to the dark ages?
daysleeper, Jack Sagel, Roberto Bonini and 21 other people liked this
Yes.
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
hahahaha
- anna sauce
Eventually we will run out of rich people to tax.
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
Yes.
- Anthony Citrano
Collapse of the American empire possibly but a new dark age would be a bit much.
- ronin
Eventually, Mark, the rich people will have to work like the rest of...oh wait, never mind.
- Alex Scoble
I've contemplated that seriously. It's one of the reasons I moved from Manhattan to semi-rural NC. I think it's quite possible we'll revert to an agrarian society and I want to be prepared for such an eventuality. While I fear how I may suffer without internet, I'm also somewhat excited about this possibility. It could be a Very Good Thing, in the long run. We need a revolution.
- fn (fairnymph)
Alex, next time I climb a 30 ft.utility pole, while carrying 50-60 lbs. of test gear, I'll call ya.
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
Collapse of the American empire does not equal the dark ages. Portugal is a fairly pleasant place these days. So is the UK. The funny/sad thing is that Americans have gotten so lazy that we probably don't have the capacity to do the basic self-sufficient things that have gotten people through hard times for millennia.
- Jason Wehmhoener
Don't be so dramatic. Seriously. Oh - and fairnymph - I'm moving back to NC to get a head start on the new... bright ages... or whatever. Honestly, people, a recovery will happen and things will have changed but we won't be riding horses and tending to crops.
- Nation Hahn
But, But, But... Jason? That's what the government is for; to care for each and every one of our needs.
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
Damn, I sort of want to ride horses and tend crops. Where are you moving to in NC?
- fn (fairnymph)
Collapse of the American Empire, yes. Dark Ages? That's kinda pushing it.
- Helen Sventitsky
Hehe, Mark. You know what I was going to write, but so many of us in the corporate world don't work very much either.
- Alex Scoble
First, invent the myth of an American Empire, and then cry wolf at the demise of the myth...wow...great fiction! The only group that has morphed more than the US is the Beatles...
- Wallace
Yes. I'd pinpoint the collapse starting in '82.
- Admiral Anika
perhaps it's the beginning of the end of an empire, but it's not the dark ages. it's start of the new world order.
- .LAG liked that
Lindsey: making things and farming. Your friends may be more self-sufficient than most Americans.
- Jason Wehmhoener
Yeah, if the UK and Spain managed to survive the destruction of their empires, I don't see why we couldn't do it, too. The fall of the empire has been going on for a while now, I guess it's only now that a lot of people are starting to figure it out.
- Victor Ganata
I agree with what Nathan is saying above. Just like any depression - if it happened - is going to be Great Depression ][, nothing like the last one. It will/would be bizarre in ways we cannot predict nor imagine. I think Brian's term is intended that way. Likewise a new Dark Ages would be unbelievably different and only similar in broad structural ways.
- Anthony Citrano
People will make do, whatever happens. Some people will, anyway. Some people will whine and cry and jump off of tall buildings.
- Jason Wehmhoener
Maybe the real "dark ages", for Americans at least, is that this "American Dream" idea—a home, a car, 2.5 kids, a dog and three weeks of paid vacation—looks like it's going to suffer a brutal death.
- .LAG liked that
what I mean is, take the period of the fall of Rome .. the couple of generations or so. You can find countless technical dissimilarities between them/then and us/now. But you can also find unbelievable strategic and social parallels that are simply stunning and weigh much heavier and more consequential than the details. Think of Brian's metaphor in those terms and we'll be getting somewhere.
- Anthony Citrano
And even the collapse of the Roman Empire has been mythologized and overemphasized. When 476 rolled around, the Empire still had another 1,000 years left to go, they just really lost control of the hinterlands. I could see a situation where parts of the country might enter a dark age, but a core would remain intact, though diminished.
- Victor Ganata
I think the only fall is that of fake/faked wealth. No more maxing out the CCs for Americans.
- Patricia
On a more serious tone I think we will see an end to the "American Dream" (house with a yard, kids, dog, etc...) for many, many people. I also think the US will no longer be called upon to financially support other countries as much as we now do. While it doesn't seem like a major U-turn, it is enough of a pardigm shift to call it the end of an era.
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
Ask the British how that went. The sun set on the British empire, yet they'll still well and alive so it may not be that bad.
- Morton Fox
@patricia: that's an interesting take: 'fake wealth." i guess no one really thought that buying that bigscreen HDTV for $5000, on credit, really puts you in the hole for five large: because you feel rich that you just bought a big-ticket item in the first place. now it's time to pay...and we ain't got no real money. :(
- .LAG liked that
@fairnymph - Raleigh. I actually added you on facebook this afternoon when I saw you belonged to the network via FF. It is rare to find a FF'er nearby.
- Nation Hahn
Idle, crumbling factories, vast tracts of abandoned or never-lived-in homes, and local unemployment rates ≥ 15% in certain parts of the country may not be a full-on dark age, but I have a hard time calling it bright.
- Victor Ganata
Brian used the word "empire" in the OP. The U.S. may not be an empire in the classical sense of the word, but what other country has bases in and troops stationed in so many other countries in the world, even in places that we're at peace with, in countries who are our allies? American culture reaches every point on the globe, and we talk about being the only superpower left standing. If that's not an empire, it's a pretty good approximation of one.
- Victor Ganata
Victor is on the right track, here, I believe.
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
I think it's obvious what dies first; suburbia. Many smaller cities will find ways to survive - perhaps not thrive - depending on what systems remain stable and consistent. I think rural, self-sustaining areas will do well. Even counties that are fairly self-sufficient and self-governing will be alright. (You see them in the mid-Atlantic states especially.) But suburbia is over.
- Anthony Citrano
Recommended reading: "The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century" http://is.gd/lxzb — it's a little over-the-top at times, but it lucidly describes the clusterf*ck of crises that are all beginning to unfold before our eyes right now.
- .LAG liked that
+1 LAG. I know Jim and rave about him often in these pages. He's been dead-on right through this whole thing and still gets no respect. His weekly missive - "ClusterFuck Nation" - is a must-read.
- Anthony Citrano
@Anthony: yeah, i've been reading him for years... and it's chilling how prescient he's been in predicting calamity after calamity. but it's a story that ends tragically only if people refuse to change, even in light of harsh, raw reality. time will tell.
- .LAG liked that
Absolutely. No doubt. Simply put all the data and major strategic trends together and compute.
- Sean McBride
not a "dark ages" but a collapse of nation-states - they are obsolete and there is no movement to do anything different, so they will eventually crumble beneath their own weight (banking system seems to be the first to go)
- William Harryman
One scenario from the global view: too many people, too much pollution, too few energy, food and water resources, global warming, peak oil, spread of portable WMDs, violent competition for shrinking resources, collapse of government authority, domination of territories by the most heavily armed feudal gangs, etc.
- Sean McBride
Anthony and LAG are talking turkey. http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl...
- Sean McBride
John Robb thinks this a test for the nation state model. Can nation states provide value enough to justify their continued existence? So far it's not clear to me. This model seems unable to detect, manage, and fix a wide range of systemic problems globally and nationally. Why should it be kept?
- Todd Hoff
Beyond a depression, the next worst step is a collapse of the US dollar. If that happens, everyone goes with us. It isn't like the US economy exists in isolation. So, if the US 'empire' goes down, the rest of the world is If you're really hoping for a dark ages, you need some worldwide cataclysmic destruction to wipe out our technology. While there is a non-zero chance of this...
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- stretta
I'm not too optimistic.
- Midori
The supremacy of the nation-state has been eroding for a long time now. I used to think that the multinational corporations would inherit their power, but given how the financial crisis has disabled them worse than the government, I can't help but wonder if this may actually mark the resurgence of the nation-state instead.
- Victor Ganata
fairnymph, there's an alternate view (http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2009...) that says high density cities are the most efficient organization for a collapse because it is more efficient as far as heating, cooling, transportation, providing services, etc.
- Todd Hoff
I'm thinking China will still be around whatever happens to us. If the dollar did fall catastrophically, they would take a huge hit, but they'd be in better shape to rebuild than we would be. The end of the U.S. doesn't mean the end of the world.
- Victor Ganata
For intelligent discussion about the collapse of the American empire, much of it by former high-level government officials (including CIA officials), see Antiwar.com http://www.antiwar.com Most of these folks are neither lefties nor righties -- just bold and clear thinkers who know whereof they speak.
- Sean McBride
@stretta - perhaps I misunderstood but it's statements like that that really bug me. I don't think anyone here is *hoping* for a dark ages. I wasn't hoping for a banking collapse nor a 50% drop in the equities markets either. For many of us there's a huge difference between what we *want* to be true and what we think might actually *be* true.
- Anthony Citrano
Chris, I think we're very far away from the dollar collapsing, but all it would take is a situation where no one wanted to lend the U.S. any more money, and the government had to resort to printing it. We're nowhere near there yet, but that doesn't mean we couldn't get there.
- Victor Ganata
New Mexico woman accidentally swallows ring during marriage proposal | WCBD - http://www.counton2.com/cbd...
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"A New Mexico couple has more than a simple proposal story to share with their family and friends. Reed Harris, whose family is from Blanding, Utah, wanted his girlfriend Kaitlin Whipple to receive her engagement ring in a memorable fashion. “I knew that he was proposing soon, I just had no clue when,“ Kaitlin wrote on her blog on Wednesday, “but I did not expect what actually happened.“ The couple joined friends for a shake after their LDS Institute class at San Juan College in Farmington, New Mexico. Everyone except the bride-to-be was in on the plan to stash the ring in the milkshake. To encourage her to eat the ice cream faster, they challenged her to a race. “I mean, I was taking huge bites and swallowing,“ Kaitlin wrote. “There was no tasting at all. I get to the end and everyone starts staring at me with this weird, worried look on their face, and I have no clue what is going on around me.“ Friends recorded the entire moment on a cell phone camera."
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"As they showed us the X-ray, they were still laughing about it. Kaitlin was never convinced she actually swallowed the ring until the X-ray proved it. After that, friends offered all sorts of advice between their chuckles. “Everybody stocked me up on fiber and prune juice and everything we could think of, and pills just to make that thing come out!“ Kaitlin said. The ring “arrived”...
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- RAPatton
ha
- Richard Lawler
Perhaps it is her lack of gag reflex that garnered her a proposal in the first place?
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Obama releases secret Bush anti-terror memos - http://news.yahoo.com/s...
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"The Obama administration threw open the curtain on years of Bush-era secrets Monday, revealing anti-terror memos that claimed exceptional search-and-seizure powers and divulging that the CIA destroyed nearly 100 videotapes of interrogations and other treatment of terror suspects."
- Mona Nomura
I hope there are solid reasons to file criminal charges. This can't be allowed to happen again and the only way to ensure it is for the people responsible to be prosecuted. If they just walk, this Country is fucked. The next time we get another organized crime syndicate in control of the White House, it'll just be worse.
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Why wasn't Bush impeached? And can his administration be prosecuted?
- Mona Nomura
Mona, because he couldn't get a BJ...
- Amit Morson
Bush wasn't impeached because it would have been fodder against Democrats in the election. It's unfortunate that politics plays such a role in prosecuting politicians. Where better to be a criminal than the people who make the laws?!
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they won't be prosecuted either, because the Obama admin will think it a distraction to their agenda - look for "pre-emptive" pardons (a la Nixon/Ford) for the Bushites down the road...I'm not kidding. Obama wants no "noise" to gum up the works, legislatively/media-wise, anything. remember - "he who attacks everything, attacks nothing". Pick your battles carefully.
- Russell Wagner
It's so baffling how former President Clinton was almost impeached over infidelity and for the crimes Bush's administration committed, we're OMGing at the headlines and turning the other way.
- Mona Nomura
Mona - President Clinton was impeached, he just wasn't thrown out of office.http://query.nytimes.com/gst...
- Mattb4rd
Impeachment of Bill Clinton http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
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So what's our country's excuse for not impeaching Bush?
- Mona Nomura
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Did he commit treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors?
- Mattb4rd
Perjury, obstruction of justice, and abuse of power - just like Clinton in that article you linked me, Matt. Except Clinton's end result was getting fucked while Bush fucked us all and several countries. :)
- Mona Nomura
Isn't releasing secret memos during a time of war treason?
- Robert Hafer
Good point, Robert. Anyone? Anthony or Victor?
- Mona Nomura
Wonder which way Robert's leaning.
- Shawn Farner
Mona, Clinton was impeached for lying under oath in a trial. He was subsequently also disbarred for it, IIRC.
- Craig Eddy
Craig - I saw. I was living in Tokyo during the trials and missed the whole thing. By the time I returned home, that news was long over - never took the time to read up on it. But now I know, thanks to everyone pointing out I was wrong. :)
- Mona Nomura
To say Bush had a secret memo is not the same as saying Bush's memo was a state secret or top secret.
- John D Reasor
"The Justice Department released nine legal opinions showing that, following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the Bush administration determined that certain constitutional rights would not apply during the coming fight. Within two weeks, government lawyers were already discussing ways to wiretap U.S. conversations without warrants."
- Mona Nomura
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Robert: It seems he de-classified them, and we're not at war in the legal sense (there hasn't been a declaration of war). This is well within the powers of a president.
- Kevin Fox
Amit, that is great.
- anna sauce
"Too often over the past decade, the fight against terrorism has been viewed as a zero-sum battle with our civil liberties," Attorney General Eric Holder said in a speech a few hours before the documents were released. "Not only is that school of thought misguided, I fear that in actuality it does more harm than good." Maybe, finally, we got the good guys in office? A man can hope.
- Tudor Bosman
@Tudor: not really. Aside from the speech rules (which, if you pay attention, you'll note that these memos affected not at all since they weren't laws nor executive orders), Obama wants to engage in the very same (if not worse) interrogation tactics. The difference is he wants them to be done by our allies, not our government. All we have are more cowardly guys in office. Def. not good guys.
- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
Mark: I don't want to debate this, but I reserve judgment on the (operational) decision to invoke state secrets privilege in the telecom immunity case. It may be that there are indeed secrets that could not be revealed; you need a plan to reverse Bush's policy, you can't necessarily turn around in the blink of an eye. Similarly: Obama may have disagreed with the war in Iraq, but the right way to end it is NOT "bring all troops home tomorrow".
- Tudor Bosman
@Tudor: i'm not talking about the telecom immunity thing, that's another debate entirely. Outsourcing torture to third-parties is not a reversal of CIA-evil. IMO, it still leaves blood on the President's hands.
- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
The more I see of Mona's serious side, the more I am developing a Mona crush. :)
- Sean McBride
By the way: has everyone here noticed that, after eight years, the government has failed to reveal from its interrogations of the conspirators a single fact about the operational details of 9/11? Please explain to me why this shouldn't ring big alarm bells. One would have expected the details of the 9/11 plot to have been widely disseminated long before now.
- Sean McBride
Sean, I don't know it you watched it, but the other day Obama gave a "Mission Accomplished" speech at an armed forces base. In it he congratulated the soldiers for achieving the goal of ousting Saddam Hussien. I thought we went there to get the WMD's...
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
Sean: Just for argument's sake: How would we know what the government has learned from its interrogations of the conspirators? There's the maxim that people never hear about the clandestine services' successes, but everyone knows their failures. Not that this is justification for their actions. I'm not very Machiavellian. Just wondering if we'd know if, say, a dirty bomb plot was foiled due to torture.
- Kevin Fox
Wait, MGG, that can't be right b/c Judith Miller wrote for the NYT, and the NYT has a "known liberal bias", so why would they be in cahoots with the Bush admin?
- coldbrew
MGG I think it is more an example that people are still under the euphoria and not really paying attention to what is being said.
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
coldbrew -- The New York Times has a known *neoconservative* bias. Neoconservatives (and neoliberals) at The New York Times were working in cahoots with neoconservatives in the Bush 43 administration and Dick Cheney's office. (See, for instance, links between Lewis Libby and Judith Miller.) Some well-known neocons and neolibs in the New York Times institutional culture over the years:...
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- Sean McBride
Kevin Fox -- since there has been so much public controversy and disbelief about the 9/11 official story, one would have expected the government to gather together every scrap of information it could from these interrogations to support that story. There has been nothing. Zilch. In fact, the records of the interrogations seem to be disappearing. Most of us haven't just fallen off the turnip truck, right?
- Sean McBride
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Superhuman: The secrets of the ice man - life - New Scientist - http://www.newscientist.com/article...
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"Perched on the edge of an Antarctic ice sheet, Lewis Gordon Pugh surveys the waves. At 0 °C, water does not get much colder than the sea beneath him. Undeterred, Pugh unzips his jacket, strips down to his swimming trunks and dives in."
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He is crazy!
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brave man, and look, not a flinching muscle in his body :O. I shiver just looking at this.
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