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Air France Flight 447: A detailed meteorological analysis http://www.weathergraphics.com/tim...
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Dominos PIzza responds to video WITH video: http://www.youtube.com/watch... - @dpzinfo is on Twitter, too.
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The franchise owner of the store, located in Conover, NC, has terminated the employment of these individuals. The individuals have been arrested and face felony charges. The store was closed down and scrubbed from top to bottom while we worked closely with the local health department to ensure customer safety.
- Jeff (the メガマクダジ of FF)
The fridge is happy!
TiTi, Nia, Moved to Facebook and 26 other people liked this
Not much for cooking, hm? =D
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Weird, your Yoplait containers are totally different.
- Alix Whitmire
Tina: It really is that obvious... hmm, I should have have some meat in there just for show.
- Nicholas Kreidberg
Alix: Bought in a huge multi-pack (stawberry/peach/blueberry) from Costco.
- Nicholas Kreidberg
*buys NK some groceries*
- Derrick
*moves into NK's house*
- Mona Nomura
Awesome, groceries from D and Mona as a room mate? Done and done!
- Nicholas Kreidberg
*moves into NK's fridge*
- Pete Delucchi
I'm totally sleeping in the bed with Mona.
- Derrick
Ahhh. That makes sense.
- Alix Whitmire
Disclaimer: I'm a TOTAL bed hog - it doesn't matter how big or small you are, I'll push you off the bed!
- Mona Nomura
Mona, I might be a lot of things, but one of those things is NOT SCARED OF YOU. Bring it. O_O
- Derrick
En garde!
- Mona Nomura
Wow, things are getting interesting! Wahoo!
- Nicholas Kreidberg
:)
- Derrick
[whispers] Did she just say, 'en garde'?
- Admiral Anika
Haha that would make an awesome short movie
- Rodfather
A happy fridge is a happy Nicholas
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Sweet!
- David Cook
Here is Why Facebook is not as Cool as FriendFeed and Why it Totally Makes My Head Hurt Sometimes - http://flickr.com/photos...
Jorg Jansen, Jens Christian Freund, deakaz and 283 other people liked this
No. Way.
- LogEx
-nuff said....or not said. I don't want any more snowballs thrown at me...PLEASE!
- Jennifer Windrum
Yeah, all that crap is pretty annoying.
- DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
and you people complain about a little chapstick and lips every now and again. sheesh. I'd much rather see chapstick and lips any day of the week over getting a "crush jason alexmi" request or getting *two* sammy is sexy requests in the same day!
- Thomas Hawk
=O
- Shevonne
You know you can turn that off right?
- Eric P
hahahahhaa
- Shevonne
horrible
- andy brudtkuhl
OUCCCCH (E.T. Voice)
- sean percival
no doubt. i'm always blocking apps. i don't want play around with hatchlings or pieces of flair or get involved in any dang food fights.
- Jason Shultz
from twhirl
wow
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
That right there is the biggest reason I can't stand Facebook and I would dump it in a heartbeat if it didn't mean that all of my family and distant friends would instantly have a shitfit.
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
Also - Facebook = "Real life Friends". If you only friend people you're actually friends with it's actually a terrific application for keeping in touch. If you try to treat it like a Friendfeed/Twitter/MySpace then you wind up with a load of crap and its utility takes a nose dive.
- Eric P
PREACH!!
- Derrick
thankfully i've avoided this kind of garbage
- chrisofspades
I block just about every app invite I get. I'm glad some people like it, but I despise ANY application, social network, or whatever that the second step in adding the app is to SPAM all of my friends with it. This is a terrible process and needs to be done away with.
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
I didn't add them. They are invitations.
- Thomas Hawk
Totally agree with you. couldn't have said it better.
- Karoli
Sean hit it perfectly. It's why I use Facebook as nothing more than an address book for people from my past. That has always made me sick, screen 2 is "Tell me who to spam!"
- Matthew DeVries
@Haggis: Agreed. And I too block pretty much every app invite I get. The irritating part is when someone gets all uppity with me because I didn't return their snowball or superpoke them back. I'm like...srsly? You send me that ridiculous crap and then have the nerve to get mad at ME for not participating?
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
I am blocking most apps, because things can get outta hand ...
- Rene Wirtz
@Amanda: I tell/have told all my friends that they can send those requests, but that I categorically deny all of them. It's surprising how that already decreases the number of requests.
- Rene Wirtz
I do get tired of all that crap. My bro sent me a video to watch on Farcebook a few days ago, but to see it I would have to download yet another silly wall. I don't need more than one, nor do I need to install multiple calendars so you can see when my birthday is. Go to my profile.
- Ian May
For every app invite i block, i seem to get twice as many the following day. Its better now their not all over people profiles pages when they do get added though.
- Simon Wicks
Thomas - I think you're really gettign confused between Facebook and these leeches trying to suck off the Facebook platform. Just ignore them and these requests would never appear. Or better yet - DEfriend anyone who would be so stupid as to include you on a list of requests. JUST DUMP THEM - and everything will be fine.
- Marc Canter
But seriously...you really should accept my Pirates vs. Ninjas request.
- Adam
You're just waaaay too popular, Tom ;-)
- Dave Fortheloss
Yep. I put a moratorium on adding apps and made that abundantly clear, but I still get all the cr@p.
- Julie Barrett
from twhirl
this is just one example of the silliness and boring nature of facebook. Frankly it's just not engaging. There's so much wrong with it and this is just the start. FriendFeed is a far superior platform for probably 100 different reasons.
- Thomas Hawk
I have found that blocking invites from certain users and applications is very helpful.
- Adam
@Thomas I agree with you 100%. I think FB is near unusable.. You're right it's not engaging - it's more of a distraction and there's very little value proposition for me to connect with people. I get the same with email/IM/flickr.. FF is far superior in my estimation
- andy brudtkuhl
that's just crazy! insane! crazy?...insane?
- .LAG liked that
Holy crap and I cry when I see 3 of them on my bar.
- Admiral Anika
Just looked at this and confirmed that I have no interest in joining Facebook.
- TranceMist
I'm not a fan of the tons of virtual goods and apps either, but I've got tons of friends who would qualify as "normal people" and cannot imagine living without FB. It's a rich way for them to keep in touch with people. I like FF a bunch but I also recognize the bandwagon effect that exists with FB.
- Cecyl Hobbs
A picture is worth a 1000 words.
- Eric Logan
*Brain cramp*
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
HOLY FRAKKIN' FRAK
- Josh Haley
Sweet baby Jesus
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
I've just been blocking all Facebook apps.
- Morton Fox
INSANE Bro!
- Francis Aldana
@Morton Fox: I do the same. Problem is that you have to opt out of each crappy app that anyone you know has managed to dig up. If you don't log in often and deal with these head-on, the simple act of opting out can be daunting.
- Keith McCammon
It's striking how many people hate Facebook who nevertheless for various reasons feel unable to abandon it -- not so much a virus as a fungus. It's depressing to think that due to network lock-in my daughter may be stuck on it for years to come.
- Tim Ostler
something will come along to replace it. it's the inevitability of things.
- Jason Shultz
from twhirl
I don't get why people who don't like apps don't block them all, or why people who do like them feel the need to send invites to everyone, let alone whine that you haven't accepted. Most apps I use have a button that shows your friends with the app, and I only send to those.
- Alix Whitmire
@Keith IIRC there's a greasemonkey script that lets you block them all at once.
- Alix Whitmire
Yep. Stuff like that's why I get the heebie jeebies about 5-10 mins after logging into Facebook.
- Susan A. Kitchens
Ahhhhhh, the voice of reason! I'm so glad I'm not alone.
- Rob Fahrni
RT yourself from June 2008?
- ThePicMan
Sweet baby jesus on a stick!
- Bec Rowe @d0tski
Jebus Herschel Krustovsky! That's ridiculous!
- Abbas Haider Ali
You should make that your Twitter background. :)
- Pete Delucchi
This post is what made me finally deactivate my Facebook account. I've had enough.
- Rochelle
HUGE LOL
- Kamilah Gill
aw man, what happened to the flickr image?
- Kamilah Gill
yep, I just IGNORE these types of apps/notifications- I have SO many sent to me and I would literally need to quite my job to attend to them full-time. It's insane. I think 95% of them are a waste of time imho... there are always going to be those people who love to do the spamming but it doesn't mean you need to pay attention to them :) One part of FB that I also do not love.
- Deanna Belle Govoni
This is one of the big reasons why I try and limit friends to people I know in person, and a few others who I can trust to not act like invite-wielding idiots.
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
that's crazy!
- K.D.
Why would you blame facebook for you having idiot friends?
- Richard Lawler
Who ever said Facebook is cool? It's a rambling mess suitable only for people with lots of spare time and nothing else to do with it.
- Todd Brunner
from twhirl
shit like that is what makes me hate FB. they need an option saying "please auto ignore all invites from everyone". i used to have a greasemonkey script which did it, but the bloody things are getting smarter
- Terry O'Fee
Richard: Who said I have idiot friends? Intelligence has nothing to do with people trying to share their fave FB apps with everyone else, especially before Facebook put in limitations to keep apps from spamming their users' friends.
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
Thing is, once burned, twice shy. So only people I can trust to not send me lots of invites get to be friended to me on Facebook.
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
it's just some people. i know great people who forward every single email online. there's one person, ive given her an old yahoo email adress so i dont hurt her feelings :P
- Terry O'Fee
Smart people catch on to spamming apps quickly, they recognize when they've been spammed, instead of signing up and passing them along, or continuing to request you join (insert game of the week.) If your friends can't figure out what's annoying to you, how can you expect Facebook to?
- Richard Lawler
immediately block app requests as they come in! according to the picture there were not so many apps involved here, but blocking them from the beginning on spares you more invitations..
- Johannan Edelman
I thought my FaceBook was bad when requests piled up, but you definitely win! I don't feel quite so irritated about it, now ;o)
- Seth Greenblatt
Yeah, that's one thing I hate about FB, those cutesy apps. I almost never participate in that...
- Rick Cogley
Try Facebuprofen.
- david beckwith
Just say no to 99.9% of all facebook apps and your problems are solved... :)
- Walt Ruppar
Some of my friends are so annoying on FB that I have to permanently block all invites from them. Bloody Blood-sucking-vampire-stricken-greek-godish-monsters.
- Aman
ha ha
- Saravanan
Aman: Sad to see I'm not the only one who suffers so.
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
@Chris: Indeed it is sad. I am in the process of forming a group called "People who hate people".
- Aman
WOAH! You know, I think it is funny, I removed ALL my apps the other day, AND told all my friends that I removed my apps, and they are STILL sending me app invites. If you keep up on it, it's fine. If you don't, it looks like this... /sigh
- Danielle Closs
Friends oh Friends.
- Aman
But FB is still better than the Google counterpart - Orkut. The sleaziest Social Website of all times. Their tag line : "Its so easy to get molested online, let us make it easier for you".
- Aman
Holy Facebook Crap Batman!
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
Some apps are good but most are just spam. Good apps are hard to find but there are a few nice ones out there, I like the ff app and the twitter app. I also use the slayers app and the compare people app. I'm a little shallow.
- Wesley Robin Guerrero
I hate the updates that I don't need. A large number of apps are useless.
- Palak Mathur
Urgh! So true!
- Vera
I just ignore pretty much everything that's not a message or a new friend request.
- Jim Hearts FF
NADD
- bifurcafe
DELETE BUTTTTTOOOONNNNN!!!!!
- Susan Beebe
Mine looks almost as bad as that and I only have 8 friends (real life friends & family)
- April Russo (app103)
Use http://www.ignoreall.com/ Cleans up everything in a jiffy.
- Jauder Ho
I like FF for commenting on stories and seeing a discussion. I like FB for smaller discussions. FF bigest minus for me is the lack of a notification if someone specifically responds to me.
- ChiliMac
Agree with ChiliMac.
- Aman
That's a big list... I'm getting tired of hitting the ignore as well.
- Gary Gifford Jr
Believe me, even a good confrontation with those slimy friends does do any good. They keep sending invites even after that.
- Aman
I'd be a rich man if if I got a penny for everytime I click ignore. I'm just not making that much use out Facebook nowadays! That's why I decided to give FriendFeed a test trial.
- Vincent Nguyen
This is why they made the block function, I've blocked over 500 applications and I don't get many requests anymore. I promise, it works.
- Aaron Myers
It looks like facebook just threw up on your screen, IGNORE ALL!! And back away slooowly...
- Peter To
I don't get it. I have 600+ friends on FB (not crazy huge, but not an insubstantial number). About once a week, I do a combo of ignore-app's and ignore-all-apps from a few friends, and voila! In about 1-2 minutes, I'm all set. 1-2 minutes a week. How many friends do you have on FB, Thomas? And how many years has it been since you've cleared things out? While I think FB shares some of the blame, is this situation any different than not cleaning *anything else* out once in a while?
- Adam Lasnik
LAZINESS - because someone else will do it. - http://www.deaddog.com/...
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What an image. That's me always having to put the roll on the roller. Top-out fed, of course.
- Josh Haley
lololol terrific.
- Kamilah Gill
If that was sitting on a purple tub, that could be my house. My husband has a this horrible disease that prevents him from putting a new roll on. It's called Myshitdontstinkitis.
- Admiral Anika
Welcome to my loo. (Anika, your house sounds like mine)
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
Heres the thing, its just going to get all used up again anyway, then you have to take the old one off and put the new on one. Really that is just cutting out the middle man.
- Joe Pierce
I wish it were like that at work. The roll doesn't roll and you end up tearing off one square at a time.
- Rodfather
Laziness comes in many forms doesn't it?
- Sean
thats from my firehall .. outta of 4 shifts ,, 2 of the shifts do all the cleanup , the rest are 2 lazy ,,, freackin peee's ,me off
- johnpiercy
I can relate John.
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
If I do that, I'm the one who will end up installing the roll anyway.
- Morton Fox
OMG i hate when people do that lazy lazy lazy lazy, i am always the one to change the roll in my house it makes me insane to always have to do it cus other people are lazy
- Angela P.
HAHAHAHAHA
- Anna Haro
This would have been even more lazy if it was done "via Reshare".
- Louis Gray
Yep. And that someone would be me....grrrrrrr!
- WorldofHiglet
I am guilty of this as well. Sigh...
- Drew Lucas
Sitting there with time to kill anyway, is just lazy :)
- Simon Wicks
Louis, bookmarklet FTW.
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
Guy Builds Six Cheese Fountain For His Wedding Reception - http://www.geekologie.com/2009...
Shey, Jamaican of FF, "Joey", ژنرال فرهاد and 47 other people liked this
Classy!
- Mona Nomura
from Bookmarklet
Just looked at the video - he'll need links to coronary care units
- Sean Kelly
lol
- Anna Haro
This is making me sick LOL
- Mona Nomura
LOL
- Live4Emma (L4S)
Ok. BRB
- Mona Nomura
Don't get between a man, his wife and cheese fountains... er... Man and his cheese fountains!
- Jim Goldstein
Oddly would have thought a wedding video would have the wife in it...
- Sean Kelly
Ha! And there are instructions!
- Jess
@sean, wives come and go, cheese is forever
- Steve C
Maybe the wife was too embarrassed. I loved this comment: "He puts the ass, in CLASS"
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
That's what I want when I get married. One fountain spouting cheese, and one fountain spouting chocolate. Screw appetizers and cake!
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
gross...
- Susan Beebe
Um... Scott? No getting ideas here, mmkay?
- Ladybug Heather
In other news, I'll shortly be going out for nachos.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
Nothing pleases like assorted cheeses!!
- BEX
Six cheeses. Not five, not seven, but six.
- Oldengrey (Jay)
Cornershop ('Brimful of Asha') and Irish coffee...
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Where's the 45? :D
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
good question, Sean. Solid State Radio, ftw :)
- Bren, Not Grinchy
Everybody needs a bosom for a pillow. Where's the bosom?
- Kamath (नमः)
that's an even better question, Kamath! any volunteers?
- Bren, Not Grinchy
I'm sorry Bren. L4S and I will be coming by shortly to relieve you of all your Bailey's.
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
hands off! heh... I have about 3 bottles, though...
- Bren, Not Grinchy
(Try not to say anything Penny)
- Penny
bring it on, Penny :)
- Bren, Not Grinchy
I'm try to volunteer for good causes as much as I can :P
- Penny
screw baileys! ill chuck some of my 45s on :P
- Terry O'Fee
am I a good cause, then Penny? :) </batting eyelashes>
- Bren, Not Grinchy
everyone should own at least one 45, for collection sakes :P
- Terry O'Fee
I still have 'But Not Tonight' by Depeche Mode on 45
- Bren, Not Grinchy
Since you batted your eyelashes, I consider your cause good ;)
- Penny
it took batting my eyelashes? man, I'm triple slippin' (and I rhyme like a school-teacher)
- Bren, Not Grinchy
Warning: extremely corny movie quote coming up! Nah, you had me at hello ;)
- Penny
no one got the D.U. ref? man... A, where are you? Penny: :)
- Bren, Not Grinchy
depeche mode? nice.. i own quite a few. my fave is 99 red balloons :P
- Terry O'Fee
ah yeah! b/w '99 Luftbalons'? I think I lost that one at some point...
- Bren, Not Grinchy
yeah german a side, english b side :P
- Terry O'Fee
Amazing Stingray Migration - The Photography Network - PictureSocial - http://www.picturesocial.com/profile...
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Like autumn leaves floating in a sunlit pond, this vast expanse of magnificent stingrays animates the bright blue seas of the Gulf of Mexico. Taken off the coast of Mexico's Holbox Island by amateur photographer Sandra Critelli, this breathtaking picture captures the migration of thousands of rays as they follow the clockwise current from Mexico's Yucatan peninsula to western Florida. Measuring up to 6ft 6in across, poisonous golden cow-nose rays migrate in groups - or 'fevers' - of up to 10,000 as they glide their way silently towards their summer feeding grounds.
- Thomas Hawk
from Bookmarklet
Stunning photography.
- Håkan Dahlström
!!!
- Derrick
can´t even imagine how that must look in motion. amazing.
- esther ♥ ♫
pretty amazing photo, now that is something I wish those on the boat had a Flip or Vado!
- Lou Paglia
Wow.
- Admiral Anika
those are stingrays? wow
- AJ Batac
what a glorious picture of stingrays....
- sean808080
WOW! What an amazing photo.
- Devlin Dunsmore
from twhirl
Wow 2.0
- Thomas Power
I am awe struck
- Pete Delucchi
Crikey
- BEX
Wow, that is one of the most amazing photos I have ever seen!
- John Ford
Inhabitat » FOLDSCHOOL DIY Foldup Cardboard Furniture for Kids - http://www.inhabitat.com/2007...
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"Foldschool supports craftsmanship as a face-to-face approach to design and brings together product and user the closest possible. The mindset of Foldschool is to restore design to one of its original missions: to provide a product at an affordable price through a smart manufacturing process.”"
- Dinah
from Bookmarklet
Innovative design and looks like it's fun for the kids.
- Dinah
Ordered green coffee beans. 5 lbs each of Bali Blue Moon, Colombia Supremo Narino - Reserva del Patron & Guatemala Antigua - Pastoral. Woot!
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TP2Location - Resolve any Telephone Number to its geographical location. #web - http://www.tp2location.com/index...
Marco(aureliusmaximus), Kol Tregaskes, Chieze Okoye and 5 other people liked this
"Resolve any Telephone Number to its geographical location."
- Seth Greenblatt
from Bookmarklet
Coolest.USB.Drive.Ever: The Heckler & Koch miniature P30 Service Pistol USB drive. - http://us.hkwebshop.com/HKWebSh...
Robert Peña, Eric Lewis, Rob Brammeld and 4 other people liked this
This would so be a problem at work.
- Todd Jordan
He he.... imagine this at an airport!
- Carlos Granier-Phelps
@lisafyfe Flu-like symptoms. Plus, it's back-to-school week during the winter, which means thousands of big petri dishes are reactivated.
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101 Classic Computer Ads - http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008...
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We had those AT&T machine at my college and were old back then. They worked, I guess.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
Man, that Apple IIc is huge! I remember it being so small and light. As a kid I really wanted one to replace the II+ we had. And the Amiga second place ad was prescient.
- Kenton
Wow and so was the Compuserve one."By the year 2000 the rest of the world may catch up with the way Compuserve's Electronic Mall does today."
- Kenton
I have 2 of those AT&Ts still, keep wondering how I'm going to get data off
- clarke thomas
You'd better find some 5 1/4" floppies.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
I remember those but first one I used was an IBM XT 8088 so many years ago. And then stepped up to a Tandy 1000 rl :) amazing how things have grown and improved
- Raymond Marr aka Knatchwa
Phrase of the day, by Bethany Lewis: "retarded tingles" which is when someone else is making themselves retarded and i feel so bad i get this tingling sensation
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Big Three Ad Campaign... you wouldn't buy our cars, so... - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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I'm incognito overhearing a large group of women at next table discuss praying to God to change their husbands. Collecting illustrations.
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NY Post's online headline (no permalink): "Juice Canned." Bet they've been waiting for that one for 13 years.
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Barkalicious! - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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lol
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Just got married http://joi.ito.com/weblog...
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Congrats! Vimeo has nice 16:9 video. Joi is CEO of Creative Commons and is a Japanese VC and one of the most well-connected people in the world.
- Robert Scoble
Congratulations!
- wyclif
Congratulations!
- CW™
WOW, that's fabulous!! Congratulations :) Yeah for Joi Ito of CC!! woo hoo! (Thanks Robert, again!)
- Susan Beebe
Congratulations!
- Jauder Ho
Congratulations!
- Parth Awasthi
Congrats!
- Rodfather
Congratulations!
- Mohamed J
Congratulations Mr. Ito. Best regards, some fans from Turin, Italiy!
- 1Co
Congratulations! Happy!
- Кто здесь?
Proof Of A Correlation Between MySpace Usage And Illiteracy - http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008...
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"Plug a search term into StateStats and it shows how common that search term is in each state relative to the other 49. StateStats colors the states where a search term is common red -- uncommon, blue. This means that for a universally common term, like "iPhone," there are a lot of purple states. There's a more severe contrast between red states and blue states for a term like "Jerry Yang," whose fate seems to interest only New York and California."
- edythe
from Bookmarklet
interesting
- RAPatton
BlackBerry Storm review - Engadget - http://www.engadget.com/2008...
Eric Lewis, James Hoang, Sameer Panchangam and 3 other people liked this
Solid review of the BB Storm. Interesting bit about the touch interface: "the company has added touch and multitouch functionality to take the place of trackball movements. What this means is that unlike the iPhone, which is most certainly the closest competitor on the market to this phone, the Storm's UI is not custom built for touch navigation -- touch navigation is added after the fact. Things which flow naturally on an iPhone -- flicking through lists, scrolling for a contact, moving around in a webpage or looking through photos -- feel inelegant and uncomfortable on the Storm." -Engadget
- DeWitt Clinton
from Bookmarklet
@aaronkrug2 - because there should be no limit to what you can earn, or what you can lose, in a democracy.
Aaron Krug, Craig Eddy, Jeff (the メガマクダジ of FF) and 13 other people liked this
laissez faire capitalism is what got us tycoons and sweatshops. We've been semi socialist since the New Deal. Limits are good.
- Aaron Krug
Amen to Aaron.
- Krishnan Subramanian
Andru: I totally disagree. Unfettered capitalism brings us huge swings up and down. Really nasty for all people concerned. I think you really need to spend some time with someone who lived through the depression.
- Robert Scoble
Andru: Partially agree, there should be no limits on what you can earn, but there should be limits on what you can loose, otherwise, well you just take everyone with you.
- Simon May
I agree with Robert. Unregulated capitalism will eventually keep many risk-takers out of the market because of volatility and lack of clarity. Risk-takers are what grow new markets and grow the economy.
- Ryan
Actually having an organization like the Federal Reserve that can inflate and deflate the currency on a whim causes booms and busts.
- Gregor Morrill
I don't think it was people who lived through the Depression that made these stupid bets. I'll take living through huge swings over being made to pay for other's mistakes.
- Eric Lewis
by the way, TAX is there to regulate the successful
- Simon May
There's nothing wrong with working hard and being smart to earn lots of money. I may be wrong but from what I know, every over the top situation (meltdown) that has occurred is related to people trying to make a buck without really trying or by being duplicitous. Regulation is needed to prevent "phantom money", "pyramid schemes", and outright fraud.
- David Muir
@Robert - I have spent time with people who lived through the depression. I am willing to tighten my bootstraps and change my lifestyle totally if I have to. I don't want the government to jump in and save me. That isn't what they are there for. I don't like them taking control of things because it is convenient, and just feels like it flies in the face of freedom. I don't like it.
- Andru Edwards
@ Andru: lack of transparency in products like Credit Default Swaps and collateralized debt obligations is what started this mess. Regulation would have brought that needed clarity. New financial products will emerge in the future and we will need regulators to correctly identify their risks so we can prevent this mess from happening again.
- JP Adams
Oh certainly, I am all for regulation here, I agree with that JP.
- Andru Edwards
What is frustrating about the whole current mess is that Enron and other corporate malfeasance resulted in Sarbanes-Oxley legislation. That was legislation that didn't do a thing to prevent this situation because they were unrelated. I wish there could be one law: "Always be truthful and don't screw around with other people's money."
- David Muir
Oh, so you like SOME government messing in the markets. Got it. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Gregor, the boom/bust cycle was deeper and more frequent before the Federal Reserve even existed.
- Steve Lowe
I like the government regulating things, but I don't like it bailing out and owning these financial institutions. And hey, you say I might lose my house if this bailout doesn't happen? If I couldn't afford my mortgage 6 months ago, no one would have bailed me out then, right?? I'm a citizen, and the gov wouldn't have helped me. But if I was a big financial business, they would?
- Andru Edwards
Andru: I don't care about your house or mine. I assume I'll lose mine (it's already underwater and if I'm laid off I won't be able to afford to keep it). But our credit markets are close to a meltdown. That'll lead to widespread layoffs. If we can head those off now, shouldn't we? (We'll pay their unemployment checks, anyway, so in the end we'll bail out and bail out and bail out). I'd rather put a little gas into the system and see if we can avoid an economic meltdown.
- Robert Scoble
Disagree. This assumes that full information is available on all choices, which it isn't and isn't to everyone (and the cause why multi-class society exists).
- Vincent van Wylick
Andru, check out my blog post on this very subject (http://tinyurl.com/3l9y43). I think it echoes what you are trying to say. I feel the same way you do, but now is no time to cut our noses off to spite our faces.
- Aaron Krug
@Andru - You are correct that most of the bailout package will first assist large financial corporations. However there is a link between the credit available at the top of the house (big banks) and on main street. If the top falls over the average American will find it significantly more challenging to get a loan for a car, home, send their kids to college... The same difficulty in borrowing money will impact small businesses. I guess what I'm saying is that these different levels are strongly connected
- JP Adams
While freedom ought to be maximized, true justice means that your actions shouldn't infringe on other people's liberty. When your billion dollar profit comes at the expense of other people's ability to shelter, clothe, or feed themselves, that, too, is a form of tyranny and oppression.
- Victor Ganata
@Victor yes, if someone makes a billion dollars by fraud or theft of others - well, that's infringing on their liberty. If you're referring to some people making large profits while others are in hard times, that is not infringing on anyone's liberty. Wealth (which is not "money") is not finite. It's not a zero sum game. Those are common misconceptions.
- Gregor Morrill
+1 @Gregor
- Craig Eddy
@Gregor if you do it by refusing to increase your worker's wages to just keep up with the cost of living, if you do it by laying off thousands of workers while you give yourself an extravagant golden parachute, if you do it by cutting corners in areas that the government isn't watching over, that's not necessarily fraud or theft. You may not be breaking the law, but I would argue it's still tyrannical and oppressive.
- Victor Ganata
@Victor: in free markets, workers have the right and duty to "vote with their feet" and find a better opportunity. If you worked for a company that pressed LPs when CDs came along, and you didn't find a better opportunity, who's fault is it when your job went away?
- Craig Eddy
@aaron - "I feel the same way you do, but now is no time to cut our noses off to spite our faces." - you know, that does make sense. I dunno, i just reallllly feel like this is being forced upon us, changing our government structure, and hasn't even been fully explained to the American people.
- Andru Edwards
You assume Craig that workers actually have that choice. Don't make that assumption as it's a false one.
- Alex Scoble
We've never had true laissez faire capitalism in this country, anyway. Even at our most unregulated, during the last Gilded Age, we at least still had protectionist tariffs. While this bailout definitely chafes, I do believe it is within the government's bailiwick to protect us from extreme market forces. Since we *do* live in a form of democracy, and not a fascist state (yet), I think it's right that the economy should be constrained/manipulated to serve the people, and not the other way around.
- Victor Ganata
Victor, it's *because* of the market being constrained and manipulated - by the government you're looking to "save us" - that we're in this current situation.
- Gregor Morrill
@Alex - unless the employers are pointing a gun at their head and forcing them to work - yes, they have a choice. Consumers have a choice, too, whether to support businesses who they deem to be oppressive.
- Gregor Morrill
The reality is that our economy can't exist without governmental restraints. There has been no time in American history where there wasn't something artificial holding back market forces. What we have here is an example of *greed* that was allowed to run rampant, without governmental regulation whatsoever. This *is* the end-result of laissez faire capitalism: concentration of wealth among a small percentage of the people, and very few opportunities for the people at the bottom to rise up.
- Victor Ganata
The only places that practice pure laissez faire capitalism are developing nations, because the governments are too weak to enforce regulations. I'm not sure that's really how you want our economy to function.
- Victor Ganata
No vote until Thursday -CNBC
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The stock exchanges are lowering prices on some great products. Sounds like the sale is going to be extended a few days. Good news.
- Eric Lewis
Wall Street: Found Wall Street ATM Receipt Shows $97,084.23 Balance - http://consumerist.com/5054164...
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Yowza
- Shawn Farner
Dammit, I knew I dropped something...
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
LOL @ AppleKid's comment: "I am printing multiple copies of this receipt as we speak. The goal is to keep a bunch of them in my wallet. When I give my number to a woman I will write it on the reverse of the said copies. Which probably will work until I pick her up in my 2002 Mazda Protege... at that point the jig is up."
- Hao Chen
I heard about someone withdrawing $70K from my local Commerce Bank branch. Some people do save money like that. To some extent, I do too, except that I use an online savings account.
- Morton Fox
I wish. chit.
- Yolanda
He was checking to see if he could afford to have his pay cut to 400k to be bailed out. Turns out the answer was no. Disgustedly, he threw his receipt on the ground and stormed off to release a threat that he wasn't going to play unless the rules included no cutsies.
- Geoff Schultz
lol @ no cutsies
- Lindsey is Fierce!
Depends on if that's a joint account or not, Gen. FDIC ensures a joint account for 200k (100k for each account holder).
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Sure wish my balance was remotely close to that!
- Deborah Carraro
from twhirl
The insurance max is 100k for an account w/ a one account holder, 200k for joint accounts (i.e. spouses).
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Geotagging in Flickr now faster, simpler - http://news.cnet.com/8301-17...
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