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Geek love: finding out your wife has Digg and Reddit accounts. I don't even have a Digg or Reddit account. /swoon
DGentry, Amit Patel, Hameedullah Khan and 7 other people liked this
She's an undercover geek.
- imabonehead
Her username was taken from an unsolveable captcha, too. She rocks.
- DeWitt Clinton
totally geeky!
- imabonehead
Sigh. Someone signed up for a Facebook account with my email address and the "if you think this is an error" link does nothing.
Vadim Spivak, Alex Scoble, Victor Ganata and 11 other people liked this
What's interesting is that Facebook doesn't make you wait until you confirm your email address before you can start using the account. So I'm seeing her add friends, get messages, etc. The "if you are receiving this in error" link in the email takes you to a "Report Abuse" page, which has a button that does nothing but return you to the Report Abuse page.
- DeWitt Clinton
Spectacular fail.
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
People have signed up for so many services using my email addresses. I'm amazed by how many services don't require confirmation of the email account — including banks!! I'm getting people's bank statements and the bank ignores my protests.
- Amit Patel
Reported the link not working correctly as a bug. Let me know which email address of yours it was and I'll try to get it sorted out.
- David Recordon
Thanks for looking into this, @David. The email address they signed up with is 'dewitt' at gmail, which I don't use myself, but it forwards to my normal account. But the real bug isn't the Report Abuse form, of course. Why not verify email addresses before enabling the new account?
- DeWitt Clinton
The link is now fixed.
- David Recordon
Rock on. Thanks, David!
- DeWitt Clinton
David, this problem is back. I received another sign up email (this one to a different address). When I clicked on the "If you are receiving this in error " link I got the following message: "The confirmation link you have entered has expired or has been copied incorrectly. Please copy and paste the full link you received in the confirmation mail. If this still doesn't work, you can...
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- DeWitt Clinton
Remember when I said we were one url shortener going away from "I told you so"? Well, I told you so. http://blog.tr.im/post...
Daniel Rowley, Adewale Oshineye, John μller and 17 other people liked this
The comment back in May: http://friendfeed.com/dewitt.... So now that it is happened to one of the url shorteners, how do we protect ourselves and our content from the rest? (I fully appreciate that I used tinyurl to squeeze my link into the SMS-sized Twitter window. Irony acknowledged.)
- DeWitt Clinton
Wow: It's one thing if it were a small service, but to shut down tr.im, one of the big ones, is insane. I was thinking about this, and short of banning all URL shorteners (something I figured Google would do eventually for the bad ones, http://marktrapp.com/blog...) I wonder if there'd be a way to have some sort of autodiscovery mechanism for URL...
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- Mark Trapp
I also find it pretty tragic that their response in the comments to people asking for some sort of compromise on getting their data out is "it wasn't supposed to be used this way." Regardless of how they intended the product to be used, people *were* using it in a specific way, and they did absolutely nothing to discourage or stop it. That's the real silliness of URL shorteners: they...
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- Mark Trapp
I'm looking into this option now for hosting my own shortener: http://yourls.org/
- Dennis O'Neil
I still feel Twitter could make url shorteners unnecessary if they chose to.
- Jason Wehmhoener
Shortening URIs is plain evil, respectively expressing design flaws. In the very few cases where it is --was!-- somewhat 'necessary', e.g. to mask affiliate links, a site can easily run its own URI management. In all other cases it's a sign of a faulty site architecture. Every piece of content should be available under one and only one URI, and every URI should point to one and only one...
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- Sebastian
Mind still boggles that clicking "forgot my password" on 1 employee's personal account compromised Twitter's entire business
tonx, Здесь вам не тут, Simon and 4 other people liked this
xkcd - A Webcomic - Addiction - http://xkcd.com/597/
tonx, Charlie Anzman, Rob Boek and 44 other people liked this
Rachel and I successfully stayed away from the internet, telephone, radio, tv and newspapers all weekend!
- Kevin Fox
"Constant novelty saps my initiative." That's how the internets gets you.
- Keith Pelczarski
awesome strip. Me, I did a great job of staying away from the internet when I was way the hell out in the country for a week and had no connectivity.
- j1m
That is also one of my favorite reasons to go camping. I find it really clears my mind.
- Robert Felty
If Randall provides high resolution versions of his comics, I'm printing this one for my office.
- Kevin Fox
Drop him an email and he might add it to his store: http://store.xkcd.com/
- Tony Ruscoe
He painted a mural (of http://xkcd.com/327/) for the Google Cambridge office.
- Mihai Parparita
I was away from the internet for a whole week. In Canada. It was nice, but I had a ton of email to tend to when I got back. :(
- Amy H.
Unfortunate World Trade Center Old Ads - Oddee.com (world trade center ads) - http://www.oddee.com/item_96...
Ajay Thampi, Mitchell Tsai, Martin Ringehahn and 22 other people liked this
Painful to look at as I remember 9/11 all too well.
- Susan Beebe
ouch
- xero
The PIA one especially...
- Kamath (नमः)
Hmm "When life depends on it, you use asbestos" should be prepended with "until inhaling the dust kills you", in my opinion...
- Tyson Key
Wells Fargo makes me feel "secure".
karl dotter, Nitesh Dhanjani, tonx and 53 other people liked this
Your money is "safe" with them.
- Paul Buchheit
Mmm... Sun logo...
- Brian Johns
http://quotation-marks.blogspot.com/ is one of my favorites
- Bret Taylor
really don't believe in changing the favicon, do they?
- Prolific Programmer
Bret, I went there first, but it wasn't immediately obvious how to "submit".
- Kevin Fox
Why is it always Sun and BEA favicons that show up on these sites? I see those two all the damned time.
- Joel Webber
Anything with apologetic quotes denotes SERIOUS BUSINESS. Don't let the flimsy appearance fool you.
- Jeff Ventura
Whoa that is lame! hahaa!
- Susan Beebe
LOL. It's the airquotes from Friends!
- Admiral Anika
*snicker*
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Bret - that's a great blog. Hadn't seen that before.
- Hutch Carpenter
I don't trust any bank. They're all licensed bandits. felt that way long before they helped screwed up the economy
- Ian May
"Security" and "Safety" are great things to feel.. Its like Wells Fargo really "values" their customers. =P
- Nicholas Kreidberg
I just subscribed to that blog too... labeled it "funny"... awesome
- Susan Beebe
RT @judell: Q: What's the diff between Citi and the Somali pirates? A: The pirates are realistic about the value of cargo in the hold
Keith Pelczarski, tonx, Jeff Eddings and 13 other people liked this
Another Diff btwn Citi and Somali Pirates? The pirate's victims *know* they've been ripped off.
- Kevin Bedell
Don't get me wrong, I love the Gmail themes, but did they really have to uglify the new default to get people to change themes to fix it?
tonx, Rakesh, Kirb and 9 other people liked this
Seriously. And it loads half-broken in the most disturbing way.
- Paul Buchheit
I don't have themes yet, can we not go back to the old default once the new one is rolled out?
- Benjamin Golub
I'm unable to change my theme, but I definitely got the new ugly one!
- Patrick Lightbody
Patrick: if you got the new theme but no "themes" tab in settings, log out and log back in.
- Tudor Bosman
I think browser reload should be sufficient (or just enter https://mail.google.com/mail/ in the nav bar).
- Paul Buchheit
If you have the new 'darker blue' theme, you can sign out and back in and themes will be active. Go into settings -> themes and choose 'Classic' to get back to where you were this morning.
- Kevin Fox
I guess it makes sense if you think that the user will have to go into themes to change back into 'classic'. But I thought that Google went above and beyond such gimicks?
- sofiagk
Patrick, a reload should do the trick.
- Private Sanjeev
And then some people still don't have the option to change it just yet. They are rolling it out in groups!!
- Paul
Log out/log in, refresh, hard refresh, no luck. May just be a long rollout.
- Christopher Galtenberg
Duncan Riley says "roll-out isn't immediate but everyone should have access by the end of the week"
- Christopher Galtenberg
got mine yesterday using desk at the moment just have a diff look is a release
- Trevor Cook
Seriously. My first thought when I saw the new default was "how do I change this?"
- Amber
We did pretty extensive testing on the new default colors. Both surveys and logs showed it to be preferred to the classic skin. People actually thought Gmail was faster with the new colors.
- Michael Leggett
As a designer, I think the classic skin is a better pallet for the app b/c the subtle blue lets text, links, and things like new chats stand out better.
- Michael Leggett
I've been using skins (internally) for so long the old version looks ugly to me now. (And, humorously, my personal accounts don't have themes yet, heh.)
- Ryan Anderson
gmail's new default theme looks just like a screenshot posted on nov 2007 here http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007...
- Mateo Yadarola
my rundown on the new microsoft searchperks system http://searchengineland.com/searchp...
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Predicted likelihood of victory: Obama/Biden: 78.5% - McCain/Palin: 21.5% - http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008...
David Hulbert, Chris Menning, udo and 20 other people liked this
Even before the post-debate results are in -- results that will very likely include a sizable bump from independents and uncommitted voters -- FiveThirtyEight's models are now projecting a 78.5% probability of victory for Obama/Biden. This is a high water mark as far as I can tell. Check back next week for the post-debate swing.
- DeWitt Clinton
from Bookmarklet
IEM is in the low 60s.
- j1m
Great, but I fear an October surprise. Repubs have got to have something brewing.
- Tim O'Brien
538 is a great site
- Mike Reynolds
wow--and how many times in history have we seen such expect predictions turn out to be absurdly false? It's not over 'till....you know the rest.
- Dave Saunders
from twhirl
Yep...It's the 3rd quarter...bit of game left to play.
- Alex Scoble
538 rules b/c they go into detail for each state. The overall popular vote doesn't really matter. You can clearly see which states Obama needs to win, basically one of Ohio, Michigan, Nevada, Colorado or Virginia. McCain's scenarios are quite slim.
- Mike Reynolds
wait for the october suprise...wait for it...hint, it involved helicopters
- Gautam Guliani
Google "October 1" CCMRF
- Alan Cheslow
Can't wait to see how it looks after the Biden, Palin debate next Thursday.
- Jeff P. Henderson
Favorite McCain moment was when he called a nuclear Iran "an existential threat" to the U.S. In that case, Jean-Paul Sartre for President!
tonx, Jeff Eddings, Capn' One Eye - adrift and LogEx liked this
Sarah 'Miss Teen USA' Palin - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Mitchell Tsai, tonx, nyenyec and 32 other people liked this
LMAO!
- April Buchheit
that clip is so classic.
- Mark Foundos
simply awesome
- Harjeet Taggar
It didn't land on me how awful Palin's response was until now.
- Robert Konigsberg
I was thinking the exact same thing as I watched part II of the Couric interview. The comment about Putin and our airspace is a classic.
- Wil Witherspoon
... for the children!
- Chris Lamprecht
Ah. Tautology at its very best.
- Ginger Makela Riker
Holy cow. Damn.
- Jason Shultz
from twhirl
Lol-Wat.com :: Scanning a mirror doesn’t work - http://www.lol-wat.com/2008...
fshamsi, Kristian Salonen, Anne Bouey and 67 other people liked this
whoa.. speechless
- Jay
Multilayered ... ness
- Michael W. May
Wonder if that was a blonde asking the question?
- Sally Church
They have phones that act as mirrors. I have seen the commercial, so therefore it is true.
- Tim Hoeck
I love Yahoo Answers...
- WorldofHiglet
really? I would have thought this would have worked. LOL
- Keith - @tsudo
WHAHAHAHAHAH!
- Lindsay is in 20-ten
Really strange, it should have worked. Maybe they scanned the wrong side of the mirror? ;)
- Ray Metzen
They need to scan their face as well.
- Michael C. Harris
Whenever I try that, everything is backwards.
- Michael W. May
from twhirl
the only thing worse than yahoo questions is yahoo answers. I got a bunch of racist responses.
- Andrew Warner
My old boss had a sony vaio/viao? laptop that had a default screensaver that showed the webcam output from the top of the screen. It was trippy.
- Lucas Eagleton
"I xeroxed a mirror. Now I have an extra xerox machine." - Steven Wright
- Jemm
The mind boggles. And I hate to be prejudiced, but I'm guessing blonde.
- Cyndy
Wow that really is remarkably stupid.
- Toby Graham
now this is a winner
- Olivier
The original thread is here: http://answers.yahoo.com/questio...
- Yuval Atzmon
This made me feel *so* much better about myself.
- Sprague D
Now if you can only get the computer to cook dinner for you and to have Sex with you, then you will not need a wife! LMAO
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
looking through Yahoo! Answers kills my brain cells
- Imabug
Hello, tech support? I think my scanner is broken. I scanned my mirror but my face isn't in the scan...
- Dread Pirate PJ
listening to Stereolab makes the perfect soundtrack for riding the subway
I used to do the same with Tangerine Dream and the German autobahn many years ago. They just go together somehow. :)
- abacab
AT&T History
Jick Nan, Bill Romanos, Dave Dash and 54 other people liked this
Very interesting. Anyone know the original source of the image?
- Mike Doeff
From SNL a few years ago... AT&T: We'll be a monopoly again, soon.
- ha3rvey (big appetite)
None of them use the Bell logo anymore, though. Not even Cincinnati Bell. (which isn't even on the diagram as an independent player.)
- Alex Power
It's like the second terminator. You smash it to bits, then it reassembles and starts killing again.
- Paul Buchheit
"That's no moon. It's a space station."
- Andrew Smith
I'd like to see the whole family tree, with Lucent, Nortel, and what it was like before 1984.
- Gabe
See also http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Isaac Hepworth
having iced coffee made with a Clover machine at Cafe Grumpy, perfect on this super hot NYC afternoon
Susan Beebe, ChangeForge | Ken Stewart, tonx and 2 other people liked this
I'm having iced coffee made with an aeropress at home. Yummy. :)
- Jasmin Patry
Ok @Scott, if you want to keep making me nostalgic for the upper west side apartment I gave up last year, you need a real NY experience (besides the pizza slice). You need to go to Grey's Papaya. I know its ghetto food (please excuse the slang term) but its a true new yorker experience and you haven't really arrived until you do the stand up there. If you like hotdogs. Order a recession special ;-)
- InPerpetualMotion(Gina k)
Read about that in Wired. What are they charging you for Clover-made coffee? Is it all that?
- Laura Norvig
Gina, I know Grey's Papaya very well, went there the first time in the early 80's.
- Scott Beale
Laura, I don't understand your question about charging for coffee. They don't give it away for free. I just think it's great that they use their Clover machines for iced coffee. Haven't seen that before with other cafes that us a Clover.
- Scott Beale
Just curious how much it costs. Usually a cup of Clover-made coffee costs more than a cup of regular coffee.
- Laura Norvig
laura - their pricing varies by bean - the beauty of those machines is that you can get any coffee in their arsenal brewed on demand. in general its cheaper than a pint of beer.
- tonx
NY was super hot today, wasn't it... it's still 82 outside @ 9pm!! awesome!.. i think it's one of our last summer nights though *crying*
- Susan Beebe
Yeah, the weather was awful in NYC today, glad that it is cooling off tomorrow.
- Scott Beale
Susan, it's still 80F past midnight and my air con is down :-(
- Sally Church
Cold day riding my bike on the beach and I was craving a hot coffee the whole time.
- Andrew Warner
Thomas Friedman on Letterman 2008.09.08 - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Mark Stahl, Wil Witherspoon, Karl Rosaen and 12 other people liked this
You go, Dave.
- Heidi Moon
Please vote for my SxSW panel on how to not go to SxSW yet again. It will be held off-site in San Francisco and require jaded drunkenness.
John Massaglia, tonx and tim tate liked this
Does Bush Believe McCain Was Tortured? - http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_dai...
Rafael Robayna, Ben Matasar, Steven Perez and 31 other people liked this
"It involved sleep deprivation, the withholding of medical treatment, stress positions, long-time standing, and beating. Sound familiar? According to the Bush administration's definition of torture, McCain was therefore not tortured. ... Now the kicker: in the Military Commissions Act, McCain acquiesced to the use of these techniques against terror suspects by the CIA. And so the tortured became the enabler of torture. Someone somewhere cried out in pain for the same reasons McCain once did. And McCain let it continue."
- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
Again "like" is a wrong word. Thanks for sharing is the right one. How about offering a reader a choice of words to express the feeling? Well, I guess this comment rather belongs to FF feedback room.
- ǝuǝƃnǝ
Still not sure where I stand on this. I think that there must be a limit to the violence involved in torture. BUT, bad people do bad things, and they are not going to tell us what they are planning if we ask them nicely...even if we say please.
- Bob Blunk
They don't tell you what you want to know when you torture them either. There is some kind of myth out there still running around that says torture works. It does not work.
- Brad Nickel
Didn't we get some of our worst intelligence (about the non-existent WMDs in Iraq) from someone that we tortured? People will say whatever it takes in order to get it to stop.. even admitting they did something that they did not in fact do..
- Alex Barbara
Having the Shrub as prez since they stole the election in 2001 (with 600,000 fewer votes than Gore got) has been a torture to the entire world. Period. Now that McCain's enlisted Rove and his dirty pranksters, I don't know whether Obama will get voted in or not.
- Siddharth Deb
No, the WMD stuff came from a pathological liar. You do get what you want to know by torture if it's performed on the person who has that information. That still doesn't make it right.
- Amit Morson
Bob: Isn't it interesting how many murders and other crimes are solved without waterboarding? And by "crimes" I'm not referring to just pickpocketing - we figured out who was responsible for bombing the USS Cole without torture, too. The world isn't an episode of 24. Here's how we did in in WWII: http://bit.ly/4AGA9K
- David Worrell
This is a really good article. Puts things in perspective.
- Rodrigo Jaroszewski
Torture is an entirely untrustworthy method for acquiring and verifying intelligence, people will in fact say whatever they think the torturer wants to hear, just to get them to stop. Not only is it completely irresponsible military strategy, it's also severely immoral. Anyone that advocates a permissive attitude towards torture should be ashamed of themselves.
- Jason Wehmhoener
from NoiseRiver
Brad++, Jason W++
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Bob, with "bad people" do you mean e.g. the (according to Wikipedia) "approximately 420" Guantano detainees who "have been released without charge"? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...) Or with "bad people" do you mean e.g. politicians responsible for pre-emptive strikes against another country under false pretenses, who you think should be tortured in order for us to find out more about what their real motives were?
- Philipp Lenssen
Torture doesn't work, it destroys the reputation of the torturer, and it is the favorite tool of despots, tyrants and sadistic totalitarian regimes. In American popular culture, torturers used to be portrayed as sinister villains, and with good reason. How far we have fallen.
- Sean McBride
The neoconservatives behind the torture policy have repeatedly smeared as "bad people," "terrorists," "traitors," etc. anyone, including mainstream Americans, who disagrees with their extremist program. This is how it always goes with torturers -- they end up torturing anyone who gets in the way of their quest for absolute power. See Stalin and Hitler for two telling examples.
- Sean McBride
Somehow it's still Clinton's fault.
- Tad
we must do what is necessary to protect the United States and bring justice to those that harm it. The prisoners at Gitmo have been treated better than what most of them deserve.Remember people, these are terrorists we're talking about. Those are the people responsible for 9/11, for car bombings and much more.
- David Ward
Wow, here on Friendfeed no less. Are these guys serious with the absolute faith they put in the military apparatus, and so completely willing to waive the rule of law because someone was indirectly associated with "car bombings and much more"? How can you even have a discussion with someone that has so little respect for human rights? Even during WW2 we didn't torture Nazi war criminals. Are these guys worse than Hitler? Is 9/11 worse than the execution of 3 million Jews?
- ⓞnor
I guess I just have to hope that people with a viewpoint like David Ward's ("remember, these dudes are BAD, because someone said so. break out the rack! that'll get us the truth!") are in a fairly small minority and can be overcome through democratic process.
- ⓞnor
People like David Ward have managed to take over the American government under the reign of Bush 43 and the neocons. We live in very scary times, in which every sacred principle of the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights has been debased.
- Sean McBride
David Ward - Bush and neocons have been torturing many people for seven years now. Can you name a single high-level 9/11 conspirator that they've been able to convict in a fair trial on the basis of testimony extracted by torture? If not, why not?
- Sean McBride
There are *rules* for dealing with lawbreakers and enemies. And there are far worse things than 9/11. And torture is a moronic way to get information - it's not like we've actually found Osama, for example. But I do like to think that the David Ward-esque medieval viewpoint, while surely near the center of neocon policy, is not the actual will of the American people.
- ⓞnor
Sean, if anything it's the democrats that want to take away our rights not the conservatives. All I'm saying is we have to stand up and defend this country by force or whatever means necessary. You don't know the whole truth nor do any of us about what really goes on or how bad/good the prisoners are treated. I will tell you we treat criminals in our state and federal prisons better than anyone would expect. I'm not advocating torture at all and don't consider waterboarding or similar methods torture.
- David Ward
David -- how long would it take for you, or I, or anyone here to confess to being the mastermind of 9/11 after being waterboarded? 1 hour? 30 minutes? 5 minutes? I repeat: not a single high-level 9/11 conspirator has been convicted in a fair trial on the basis of testimony extracted by torture. People will say absolutely anything under torture (and waterboarding is indeed a form of torture).
- Sean McBride
Sean, I believe we killed many of the high level terrorists. In many cases of so-called torture, we already have evidence. I am all for human rights but my belief is when you kill innocent people you lose many rights you previously had. We're not killing innocent people.
- David Ward
David - you still haven't mentioned the name of a single 9/11 conspirator who has been convicted of committing 9/11 on the basis of testimony extracted by torture. Many of those who have been tortured are innocent of any crimes. The Bush 43 administration has refused to *question* (not to mention torture) one of the lead 9/11 conspirators -- the head of Pakistan's ISI, who wired $100,000 to the hijackers just before 9/11. None of this adding up.
- Sean McBride
Well, David your opinion that one waives one's human rights if one is a criminal, is not commiserate with the last 200 years or so of Western democratic principles, nor does it pass Constitutional muster; in other words, the rule of law. Are you sure you're living under the appropriate system? Perhaps some Islamic countries would be better suited to your values. Most of the tyrannies that would agree with your position were dissolved when the Berlin Wall fell.
- Rick Powell
And btw, the phrase "so-called torture" is Orwellian, at best. The Viet Kong and the Gestapo knew exactly what it was, and so does Cheney. After all, Cheney and John Yoo borrowed the phrase, "enhanced interrogation techniques,' from those war criminals who came before him.
- Rick Powell
Sean: Just to hone your last statement a bit: The first and only conviction to come out of Guantanamo was against a taxi driver. The administration has already admitted that most, not just many, but most, of released and current detainees are innocent. Yet, prisoners have died from torture, a euphemism for murder in these cases, under the aegis of an executive power run amok. These events are not in dispute. I really can't understand why more Americans are not angry about this.
- Rick Powell
See the last three months of my FriendFeed shares for more information, including this article which I shared four hours before Bucheit's. Read Andrew Sullivan's definitive essay: http://tinyurl.com/5kz74w. Find out where the phrase "enhanced interrogation techniques" came from: http://tinyurl.com/3cjw3t If you're not angry, you're not paying attention.
- Rick Powell
"I will tell you we treat criminals in our state and federal prisons better than anyone would expect" David, and that's likely to be one reason for the camp being where it is (Guantanamo): to escape potential restrictions (human rights) imposed by federal prisons.
- Philipp Lenssen
Rick - 1. Andrew Sullivan has done a superb job in covering the torture issue. 2. Americans should be enraged that Bush and the neocons are ruining the good name of America with their torture policies. 3. The taxi driver in question received a light sentence and had nothing to do with 9/11. After seven years of torture, the Bush 43 regime has not managed to acquire a single conviction of a high-level 9/11 conspirator. This peculiar situation raises doubts about the entire 9/11 official story.
- Sean McBride
@Philipp Lenssen: you obiviously missed my point. I never said anything about supporting the illegal acts of our current administration. They hide behind a curtain of secrecy and fear to carryout illegal and immoral acts, this is true beyond doubt. But the fact remains that there are bad people in this world. It amazes me at how soon we forget about all the people that died on 9/11. But nonetheless, BAD people carried out this attack and if torturing even one person would have prevented it. I AM ALL FOR IT
- Bob Blunk
Bob Blunk: 1. The U.S. government tried to block investigations of the 9/11 hijackers before 9/11. 2. The Bush 43 administration has failed to question (not to mention interrogate or torture) the head of the ISI (Pakistani CIA) who wired $100,000 to the hijackers just before 9/11. 3. The U.S. government didn't torture two persons who it claimed were responsible for the 9/11 anthrax attacks: Steven Hatfill and Bruce Ivins. You and most other Americans have been led up the garden path on these issues.
- Sean McBride
Bob Blunk: Do you have some formula for determining how much torture is allowed based on how many lives would be saved? Does it take into account the fact that the person being tortured most likely doesn't know anything?
- Gabe
The whole "ticking time bomb" scenario is one that exists only in the minds of hacks writing for quasi-fascist television shows.
- Rick Powell
Microsoft Unwrap Mosaics: A new representation - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Via Philipp Lenssen.
- DeWitt Clinton
In a closed system, information tends to decrease and hallucination tends to increase.
jerobins, LiquidLag, Robin Barooah and 40 other people liked this
Agree, but 2nd law of thermodynamics claims that the entropy in a closed system will grow over time (if the system isn't in equilibrium), and entropy is also being described as potential information. Maybe the potential information will grow, but the actual information won't?
- Amund Tveit
The North Koreans must be hallucinating their asses off!
- Ňicķ
Don't forget the Chinese!
- Roberto Bonini
From http://www.amazon.com/Systems... btw. Amund, information can also be noise.
- Paul Buchheit
I'm not suggesting that this is an entirely closed system, but let's not forget the echo chamber that we are all in at this very moment ;)
- tagami
There are almost no closed systems around.
- Benedikt Koehler
To me it seems that if you have a closed system, then the information will criss-cross each other may times, and u will get a lot of noise, but also some modified better information(call it remixing the information) .I love to see these type of philosophical questions. Paul, do keep on pouring this type of philosophical one-liners.
- Varun Mahajan
can't recall the source, but in college i read a book on systems theory that stated complex systems 'do what ever is needed' to maintain equilibrium. and that real change comes from outside the system.
- MikeAmundsen
@Mike which is why a World Government would be a bad thing
- Rudolf Olah
Most of the evangelical christians I know affirm this.
- Tim Wright
The Mercury News takes on blogs...
April Buchheit and tonx liked this
Perhaps clever advertising will save the newspaper industry?
- Paul Buchheit
Fixing video with Photographs - http://www.crunchgear.com/2008...
Bryan Davis and tonx liked this
This is crazy. You have to see the video to believe it.
- tim tate
Wow. That is cool image manipulation trickery. Makes me wish I'd payed more attention in linear algebra class.
- Bryan Davis
Counterintuitively realizing that my inbox is like a scab. The less I pick at it, and the more I ignore it, the faster it heals.
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I tend to buffer my responses to slow down the pace of an email conversation. If something is important and I like the person, I'll answer in near real time. If I don't like someone or it isn't important, I'll introduce a day or even week latency. I'd love a gmail feature to help me enforce this. (Mute this person for 1 day)
- Joe Beda ()
The most spine chilling McCain video you will ever see. - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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I did not find this spine chilling at all. More left wing scare tactics. Truth is, Given the criteria laid out in this video, you should be no less scared of Obama as President. And, truth is, I'm not scared of either. Things are going to get worse, much worse, before they get better, and they aren't going to get better because of a U.S. President.
- ComicList
Bush quote: "the truth will say that this intelligence has been intelligent"
- Mohamed J
Damn McCain we lose Obama we lose! WTF? The world is ready for Armageddon one way or another! It is not just the president it is the people behind him! Look at Nanci Peloci, she acts like she is on drugs! And she is a democrat! <sad day for the whole world>
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
Watch my video post, "Is America going to attack Iran?" http://www.igorthetroll.com/blog...
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
time for revolution
- Bob Blunk
Or maybe counter-revolution. Like "Down with Rooseveltian stuff! Back to Federalist Papers!"
- 9000
There is no doubt that McCain will use force. Why did that dude have to lead the American cities question with "Seattle"? Fuck.
- Ryan
I'm way more scared of Obama. We will look back at these past few years as the good old days, back when people had jobs. Ugh.
- Hal Rottenberg
from twhirl
Very well put together.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
"Fear's selling, who's buying?"
- Matt Hartley
Mo: I'm pretty sure Bush said "the truth will say that this intelligence is good intelligence". That said, McCain needs to be stopped and this foolish reign of crazy, self absorbed, war mongering dictators must end. I feel sure that McCain won't be voted into office.
- Brandon Titus
The thing that slows the ambitions of nations like Iran is the threat of US force. Any canidate that takes that threat off the table is destablizing the world.
- Robert Hafer
@Hal- you're seriously scared of Obama? C'mon. We're in debt because we cannot afford war. Debt is what impacts the economy. That's why people are shorting the dollar.
- Ryan
"He will make Cheney lok like Ghandi" - Pat Buchanan on John McCain. Damn, that is quite a statement.
- Darrell Bell
from twhirl
Who's taken the threat of force against Iran off the table?
- Tad
I always worry most about economic policies, an America with a strong economy can withstand alot of other problems. Any canidate that talks about raising taxes scares me.
- Robert Hafer
@Tad that's what many posters seem to want from McCain.
- Robert Hafer
I am a not US resident and McCain scares the crap out of me...
- Jan Cifra
Hafer Yeah I hear you. look what happened when Clinton raised taxes. Who wants to go back to the days of a booming economy, full employment, budget surpluses and raising wages. *shudder*
- Jeff Jones
Wow. That response got totally munged by Twirl. Let's try that again. What is the alternative? Oh, right. Borrow ourselves into oblivion. We're so awesome, we've figured out a way to tax our decendants to finance our wildly out of balance lifestyle. Whatever social programs Obama wants to implement are a drop in the bucket next to an un-necessary $1-5 Trillion with a T war with Iraq. At...
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- stretta
I consider myself fiscally conservative in my political views and in that regard usually side with the Republicans but I just haven't been able to do it for several years now. There's a point when one has to realize that the ramifications of a liberal fiscal policy really doesn't matter when we're at war with the whole world. I'd be damned if there's another military draft without justification, a la Vietnam, and our current diplomatic posture and saber rattling is not a good enough reason...
- grant fox
...I take recession over warmongering any day.
- grant fox
Jeff, the Clinton surplus never materialized, because the economy was predicted to continue growing at the pre-increase rate, which of course it didn't because of the tax increases. Clintons vaunted "full employment" was at 6% unemployment, the rate now is 5.7%, The booming economy was the result of Reagan's fiscal policies. Clinton was leaving office just as the damage he did to the economy was becoming obvious.
- Robert Hafer
iphonegirl, I would think that people on your side of the pond would remember Neville Chamberlain and what came of his efforts to avoid war at any cost.
- Robert Hafer
Bottom line on war is we need to participate with the world and not mandate. America needs to check its ego at the door and foster the relationships we have squandered.
- Andy Lewandowski
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