December 2011
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For Christmas, Your Government Will Explain Why... →
Lowering the Bar:
Summary:
The government dropped a bomb on a U.S. citizen,
who, though a total dick and probably a criminal, may have been engaged only in propaganda,
which, though despicable, is generally protected by the First Amendment;
it did so without a trial or even an indictment (that we know of),
based at least in part on evidence it says it has but won’t show anyone,
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Verizon is going to charge customers for paying... →
This is TOTAL CRAP!! If they do this, I am going to pay my bill in pennies just to spite them.
So I’m supposed to believe that it’s more expensive to let customers pay their bills online? As opposed to letting them pay in-person? Or by mail? Really?? It’s cheaper to pay a bunch of people to process checks, and maintain the payment kiosks, and staff retail stores to handle...
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New York Kids Quickly Become Fearsome Negotiators...
Three-year-old girl on bus: I want Twinkies.
Dad: How about broccoli?
Three-year-old girl: How about I have Twinkies and you can have broccoli?
-Port Authority
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Relax, Folks. It Really Is Honey After All →
NPR:
It’s worth remembering that Chinese honey is barred from the U.S. not because it’s unsafe, but because U.S. officials decided it was too cheap. Chinese honey has had more than its share of safety problems. But there’s also plenty of perfectly good Chinese honey for sale on the world market. The European Union is much more fussy about honey quality than the U.S., yet the EU...
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Another statement from Louis C.K. →
Louis CK broke the $1 million mark on his latest stand-up special. He’s keeping about a quarter of that for himself and using the rest to pay for production expenses, reward his staff, and donate to charities.
Louis CK:
I never viewed money as being “my money” I always saw it as “The money” It’s a resource. if it pools up around me then it needs to be...
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An Open Apology to Amy Koch on Behalf of All Gay... →
Former state senator Amy Koch was against same-sex marriage but was totally for adultery. Thus ensues the following letter.
It is now clear to us that if we were not so self-focused and myopic, we would have been able to see that the time you wasted diligently writing legislation that would forever seal the definition of marriage as being between one man and one woman, could have been more...
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Does Airport Security Really Make Us Safer? →
Basically, the US government is spending billions and billions of dollars on “security theater”.
The guy who wrote the article didn’t know much about image editing, but still managed to get through security with a fake boarding pass after fiddling with the program for an hour. People who know their way around Photoshop can get this done in 5 minutes.
The best airline security...
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Pigeons are Good at Math, Alas →
Big Think:
What is astonishing is that pigeons, who learned to peck numbers on a screen in order, performed just as well in tests as rhesus monkeys at numerical competence.
This is the first time complex math skills have been discovered in non-primates, which means birds and primates either evolved these abilities separately or share a common ancestor. The latter possibility means that both...
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Who Supports SOPA: Special Interests →
GamePolitics:
The list contains a total of 142 companies and organizations that think this bill is a wonderful idea. You know who’s not on the list anywhere? The citizens of the United States of America.
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“CSR: Ma’am, do you have a firewall?
Clueless caller: Yes, the chimney is...”
– Yonkers, New York
Overheard by: fellow CSR
Overheard in the Office | And She Always Thought Her Cat Norton Was a Siamese
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