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Comment on Scientific Truth in Product Warning Labels by re-found: buried deep within a thread in slashdot today by sayler () | LjSEEK.COM

Fri, 22 Dec 2006 19:16:54 +0000

[...] http://they.com/disclaimers/8excerpt:NEW GRAND UNIFIED THEORY DISCLAIMER: While the Manufacturer is Technically Entitled to Claim That This Product Is Ten-Dimensional, the Consumer Is Reminded That This Confers No Legal Rights Above and Beyond Those Applicable to Three-Dimensional Objects, Since the Seven New Dimensions Are “Rolled Up” into Such a Small “Area” That They Cannot Be Detected. [...]

Comment on How bad does cingular suck? by secti

secti — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 18:20:59 +0000

I hated them BEFORE they were called cingular. They’ve ALWAYS been liars. Not surprising, really. That’s what liars do. They lie.
They lied to me when I bought my first cell phone from them when they were called Houston Cellular. The ad said, “1000 digital minutes for $100.00″ Each minute after that would be $.25
I found out that digital minutes means you have to be calling another Houston Cellular customer. But in 1998, hardly anyone had cell phones, & it wouldn’t have mattered if they were ubiquitous: I was calling peoples home phone numbers or office numbers – all analog. My first bill was for $400.00. Guess what? I hadn’t used ANY of my 1,000 minutes.
When I got done talking to the INCREDIBLY arrogant CSR, I put the bill into a large envelope, along with a jar of vaseline & mailed it back to them, with instructions on what to do with it.
Never heard from those punks again.

Comment on Thought experiment by They

They — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 14:47:40 +0000

That will do just fine, thank you!

Comment on Thought experiment by jdmensing

jdmensing — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 14:06:56 +0000

Indeed – I will happily check the “Taker” box on that.

I was fortunate enough to locate an image of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed in which a trick of the reflected camera flash projects an apparition above him.

Quite possibly an image similar to your political cartoon idea?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/68153552@N00/136389846/

Comment on Attention drivers by greg

greg — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 13:30:00 +0000

Me! I DO have a presidential campaign bumper-sticker on my car! But you didn’t list my reasons: it’s honorable, beautiful, and effective.
Honorable: I supported the guy who lost, and ongoing history is proving me right. See, elections aren’t like horse races, where the people who supported winning animal are the winners. They’re more like tug-of-wars, where the people try to MAKE one side or the other win, for everyone’s benefit. And they’re like wars, too — where everybody usually loses. We all sure as heck lost this time. Anyway, I’m righter with every day that goes by, and I bathe in that glory and honor.
Beautiful: More and more people look at my Kerry sticker, grow moist about the eyes, and wistfully dream of what might have been.
Effective: It reminds people of the mistake they made so they won’t make it again.
(My Kerry sticker is also a fistula into an alternate universe where Kerry DID win, but I have no control over that. If I remove it, there’s no way into that universe ever again, so I keep the portal open for purposes of freedom, truth, and the American way.)
I enjoyed this site. I found it, as I imagine most people do, by accidentally beginning to type normal English while the cursor was focused in the “location” bar of the browser.