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And I took this photo to prove it.
I'm calling the Wired editors now to give the password and collect my money.

tr.im was BY FAR the flakiest URL shortener out there. It seemed to me like it was down or overloaded as often as it was up. The biggest reason not to use tr.im isn't bogeyman partnerships between Twitter and bit.ly, but this:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3565/3796342926_a4365424b1_o.png

http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=george+bush

Heck, tons of people have been linking images from Flickr searches in this thread.

Flickr thinks it's cool.

http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=bush+hitler

Now, if he wants to do a REAL test of his privacy -- photoshop some photos of a male politician in a pink tutu and make disparaging comments about his sexual orientation. I bet you get a knock on your door within a day.

That is, if the politician is a Democrat and not a Republican.
 
(But seriously folks, it is just me or are the paranoia levels on Slashdot reaching an all time high?)

Well, lets take a look really quick.

on the home page for flickr, I simply types Bush in the search box and found these results in the first few replies.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bar-art/1549247793/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/inkvision/43028237/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrwaldo/309309512/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/eduardo_dacosta/511117225/

I think the one that probably shows the most evidence of this is this one.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bmj/5799991/
Notice the caption "it's true, photo's don't lie".

Yea, it's obvious that they are protecting Obama. Probably because Obama has decided to steer a bunch of government money/usage their way with making the government sites on Flickr.

BTW, when I searched for Obama, it was about 10 pages in before I found the first photo criticizing him.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/3834570613/

It's nothing more then a re-posting of the pulled photo with a story under it about the action. I wonder how long it will stay there?

Well, lets take a look really quick.

on the home page for flickr, I simply types Bush in the search box and found these results in the first few replies.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bar-art/1549247793/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/inkvision/43028237/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrwaldo/309309512/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/eduardo_dacosta/511117225/

I think the one that probably shows the most evidence of this is this one.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bmj/5799991/
Notice the caption "it's true, photo's don't lie".

Yea, it's obvious that they are protecting Obama. Probably because Obama has decided to steer a bunch of government money/usage their way with making the government sites on Flickr.

BTW, when I searched for Obama, it was about 10 pages in before I found the first photo criticizing him.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/3834570613/

It's nothing more then a re-posting of the pulled photo with a story under it about the action. I wonder how long it will stay there?

Well, lets take a look really quick.

on the home page for flickr, I simply types Bush in the search box and found these results in the first few replies.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bar-art/1549247793/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/inkvision/43028237/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrwaldo/309309512/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/eduardo_dacosta/511117225/

I think the one that probably shows the most evidence of this is this one.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bmj/5799991/
Notice the caption "it's true, photo's don't lie".

Yea, it's obvious that they are protecting Obama. Probably because Obama has decided to steer a bunch of government money/usage their way with making the government sites on Flickr.

BTW, when I searched for Obama, it was about 10 pages in before I found the first photo criticizing him.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/3834570613/

It's nothing more then a re-posting of the pulled photo with a story under it about the action. I wonder how long it will stay there?

Well, lets take a look really quick.

on the home page for flickr, I simply types Bush in the search box and found these results in the first few replies.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bar-art/1549247793/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/inkvision/43028237/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrwaldo/309309512/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/eduardo_dacosta/511117225/

I think the one that probably shows the most evidence of this is this one.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bmj/5799991/
Notice the caption "it's true, photo's don't lie".

Yea, it's obvious that they are protecting Obama. Probably because Obama has decided to steer a bunch of government money/usage their way with making the government sites on Flickr.

BTW, when I searched for Obama, it was about 10 pages in before I found the first photo criticizing him.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/3834570613/

It's nothing more then a re-posting of the pulled photo with a story under it about the action. I wonder how long it will stay there?

Well, lets take a look really quick.

on the home page for flickr, I simply types Bush in the search box and found these results in the first few replies.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bar-art/1549247793/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/inkvision/43028237/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrwaldo/309309512/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/eduardo_dacosta/511117225/

I think the one that probably shows the most evidence of this is this one.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bmj/5799991/
Notice the caption "it's true, photo's don't lie".

Yea, it's obvious that they are protecting Obama. Probably because Obama has decided to steer a bunch of government money/usage their way with making the government sites on Flickr.

BTW, when I searched for Obama, it was about 10 pages in before I found the first photo criticizing him.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/3834570613/

It's nothing more then a re-posting of the pulled photo with a story under it about the action. I wonder how long it will stay there?

Well, lets take a look really quick.

on the home page for flickr, I simply types Bush in the search box and found these results in the first few replies.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bar-art/1549247793/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/inkvision/43028237/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrwaldo/309309512/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/eduardo_dacosta/511117225/

I think the one that probably shows the most evidence of this is this one.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bmj/5799991/
Notice the caption "it's true, photo's don't lie".

Yea, it's obvious that they are protecting Obama. Probably because Obama has decided to steer a bunch of government money/usage their way with making the government sites on Flickr.

BTW, when I searched for Obama, it was about 10 pages in before I found the first photo criticizing him.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/3834570613/

It's nothing more then a re-posting of the pulled photo with a story under it about the action. I wonder how long it will stay there?

You have as much right to political trolling in Flicker as you do standing on a soapbox in your local mall.

You are allowed to troll so long as the management approves.

Which is very true - but problems arise when management selectively decides who get a soapbox and who does not.

They don't seem to have a problem with the photoshopped Sarah Palin porn, so I'd say not very.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/stef0065/2995333239/

I had a Pro account with Flickr but I had some other issues with Flickr that caused me to allow it to lapse. In the meantime I've been checking out other sites, and the one that seems most Flickr-like without the culture of censorship running it behind the scenes is iPernity.

If you're in the US, due to currency exchange rates their equivalent of a Pro account costs a bit more but it's still pretty reasonable.

Seems Flikr's owners are Democrats; or maybe they're Republicans afraid of backlash. I wonder what they'd have done if they were there while Bush was in office if he had been similarly parodied? I know if it had happened to Bush, the neocons would have had pitchforks in hand.

I think Flikr's removal of the parody was in extremely poor taste. The picture's a joke, son. Grow a sense of humor! Seems to me a bit of political correctness gone even more crazy. Political correctness offends me almost as much as real censorship.

Also, I wonder if the Streisand Effect will hit?

I looks like there are plenty of Bush parodies out there.

Most of which make the Joker/Obama image look quite tame.

This is not unusual as most in the media, including Internet media, are liberal and will only allow their talking points to be heard. It's funny how the group that screams for equal treatment and equal rights is so quick to silence any that oppose them.

Seems Flikr's owners are Democrats; or maybe they're Republicans afraid of backlash. I wonder what they'd have done if they were there while Bush was in office if he had been similarly parodied? I know if it had happened to Bush, the neocons would have had pitchforks in hand.

I think Flikr's removal of the parody was in extremely poor taste. The picture's a joke, son. Grow a sense of humor! Seems to me a bit of political correctness gone even more crazy. Political correctness offends me almost as much as real censorship.

Also, I wonder if the Streisand Effect will hit?

I looks like there are plenty of Bush parodies out there.

Most of which make the Joker/Obama image look quite tame.

This is not unusual as most in the media, including Internet media, are liberal and will only allow their talking points to be heard. It's funny how the group that screams for equal treatment and equal rights is so quick to silence any that oppose them.

Seems Flikr's owners are Democrats; or maybe they're Republicans afraid of backlash. I wonder what they'd have done if they were there while Bush was in office if he had been similarly parodied? I know if it had happened to Bush, the neocons would have had pitchforks in hand.

I think Flikr's removal of the parody was in extremely poor taste. The picture's a joke, son. Grow a sense of humor! Seems to me a bit of political correctness gone even more crazy. Political correctness offends me almost as much as real censorship.

Also, I wonder if the Streisand Effect will hit?

I looks like there are plenty of Bush parodies out there.

Most of which make the Joker/Obama image look quite tame.

This is not unusual as most in the media, including Internet media, are liberal and will only allow their talking points to be heard. It's funny how the group that screams for equal treatment and equal rights is so quick to silence any that oppose them.

Seems Flikr's owners are Democrats; or maybe they're Republicans afraid of backlash. I wonder what they'd have done if they were there while Bush was in office if he had been similarly parodied? I know if it had happened to Bush, the neocons would have had pitchforks in hand.

I think Flikr's removal of the parody was in extremely poor taste. The picture's a joke, son. Grow a sense of humor! Seems to me a bit of political correctness gone even more crazy. Political correctness offends me almost as much as real censorship.

Also, I wonder if the Streisand Effect will hit?

I looks like there are plenty of Bush parodies out there.

Most of which make the Joker/Obama image look quite tame.

This is not unusual as most in the media, including Internet media, are liberal and will only allow their talking points to be heard. It's funny how the group that screams for equal treatment and equal rights is so quick to silence any that oppose them.

I consider this one of the best methods, you get three great things out of this: non-recoverable drives, frustrations worked out, and some really interesting conversation starters if you take it apart (the disk platter deforms in very interesting ways when hit!) For example: This Drive is no longer readable, and if you look at any of the photos that show the top of the drive, you can see how the disk platter deformed.

Comparing caricatures with realistic depiction of humans? Come on... That ain't even a proper straw-man.

Try these instead:

Japanse Spiderman manga vs. American Spiderman Comic.

Note how lips, nostrils and ears are generally unarticulated (particularly noses and ears that often are not present at all, or are just hinted) and how much more detailed american (comic) faces are.
On the other hand... manga artists attribute much greater attention to eyes and hair.

You can tell the character by his/her eyes immediately.
Bigger and more detailed the eyes - more innocent the character. Slits with a tiny dot for a pupil - evil fucker.

Make a small version of one of these. Use a fixed duct to make it take its air from one the inevitable warm exhausts from your electronics. "Movement. I've got lots of movement." This baby is hot.

Found a pic of the result of one of these
"explodes"

Couple problems here for me. First, I am paranoid enough that I don't want any internet enabled extraction of money from my bank account

To log in to my online banking, I need my account number, two digits from my PIN (not the one used for the debit card), and four digits from my password. That lets me check my balance, and pay bills I've paid before.

To transfer money to a company/individual I haven't given money to before I also need my debit card and a Chip and PIN reader. I put my debit card in the reader, put in my debit card PIN, put in a number shown on the website, and get a number displayed on the reader. I put that number in the box on the bank website. I don't know what kind of encryption is used on European debit cards.

Second, my friends do not let me "bill pay", they want cash or check.

My friends don't want to carry around large amounts of cash, risk losing a cheque, or have to take the cheque to the bank. If there's a computer nearby (and a chip+PIN reader) we'll transfer the money then, otherwise one of us will email the other the account number.

Basically anyone that won't take a credit card wants cash or check. Checks work well for charities since they don't have to pay the 2% transaction fee to the credit card companies. Speaking of which, I hear there are several stores now encouraging customers to use cash or check to avoid the 2% fee.

You obviously have different (arbitrary) fees imposed by the banks. Organisations (including charities) here don't like cheques, they have to pay to cash them, and pay someone to open the letters. They don't like cash either, they need security staff, there's a risk of theft (from employees too) etc.

The US has, bar none, the best medical care in the world.

That's why the US at the top of this graph. Oh wait...

I thought Langdell was cool with trademark dilution.

Using the string indicated in the post, I tested this, 05:10 CDT on 08/08/09, and got results much the opposite (I'd do the whole copy-paste thing, but adding the paragraphs and breaks would take far too long--how about a screen grab? Here!

Please note, I'm no MS fanboi, I think the /. effect may have made Bill Gates shit his pants.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3604/3585051300_d23a37a32e_o.png

I presume that all politics are based on a circular system, where you have left and right on each side, moderates in between on one "side" of the center, and the crazy at the other side. If you go too far left or right away from moderate, you've entered the crazy zone. I made a graphic to help those who don't understand: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3426/3771404858_8a85ffcdb7_o.jpg

Steve told the man himself. (click "all sizes" upper-left). It will remain "splendid" for a "long time to come". It's been 3 yrs, 5 months. As far as I figure, you never really own a Mac. If you bought one for $2800 3yrs 5months ago (41 months) that is just $68/month. That's nothing. Not even half of a milkshake -- I mean coffee per day. So, if you only paid $2800 at that date, it is as though you've been renting it for 3.5 years at $68/month and just stopped. Well, if I stopped renting something, I would not expect to be able to keep it, so you are lucky to have your PPC macs at all, including any new OS updates Apple has GRACIOUSLY allowed to put on your RENTED hardware. I would stop whining and send the mac back to Steve to recycle into magic, and just go on "renting" another 17-inch beauty starting at $2499. What-do-you-know, they even say "as low as $57.00 a month". Though at that rate um, the, uh, term might be longer than I calculated. :/

Oh my, what timing! The military needs to deploy these propaganda posters immediately!: "War propaganda for the new millennium" http://www.flickr.com/photos/doctabu/sets/72157620497679512/

IANAL. Could this sketch from 2000, which clearly showed plans for twitter, be used as prior art? If so, then the patent is invalid. If not, then Twitter must not be infringing.

It seems like 99% of patents these days are covered by prior art, and 100% of them are covered by triviality.

No, the only true random number is 17. This was asserted by several mathematicians who used several lines of reasoning (one rather like this). Then you get the random sequence 17,17,17... and the random rational 0.17171717... and lots of other perfectly good random numbers. Though you probably shouldn't use them as a source for cryptographically strong random numbers.

I was simply amazed to see this cloud formation until I read about the rocket launch at Vandenberg earlier that evening http://www.flickr.com/photos/peaqoud/2152740519/in/set-72157601528841883/

Nothing new here. Trumpton had artificial firemen in the 60s. See!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kulakovich/2072737950/

kulakovich

Imagine being a photographer on the Paris-Dakar race where you're shooting hundreds (thousands?) of photos on a high-res DSLR for three weeks (a week before hand, the race, the aftermath) out in the field. There are a ton of week long sailing races that any one photographer might blow through 1000 photos a day. Highest quality 1080p is said to consume 1GB/minute. How many hours of video could national geographic tape with just three of these in the field with a MacBook Pro? Lots of options for pros. Consumers will buy these but rarely use them to their potential.

Your comment appears to say that haloes were widely used in pre-Christian religious depictions. That is not established in your quoted source. [...]

Just because you looked in the wrong place doesn't mean they don't exist.

I looked at the source you mentioned first, it didn't support your statement, I asked for expansion. Nor did I say they didn't exist, nor even that I'd looked in the right places. I've been trawling around lots of sites looking for pre-Christian images of haloes as everyone says they were widely used by everybody in depictions all over before CE. Yours is the first hint of actually imagery.

The pictures from Taq-e Bostan (eg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taq-e_Bostan, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithra, http://static.newworldencyclopedia.org/1/10/ArdashirII_.jpg) are either Ardashir I or II. I again can't find a better image but if you notice each of the old-king, new-king and priest wear crowns/helms with what appears to be a fabric band (ribbon) extending down, on the right 2 images this comes down in drapes from the central crown on the left images it appears to hang from the ray-like crown (reminiscent of Aztec headdresses, http://images.travelpod.com/users/mebiner/2.1230803220.elaborate-aztec-headdress.jpg). In the other images Ardashir's crown appears to have an ostrich feather or similar. It seems a leap to suppose that only one of the crowns depicted is an artistic device.

The fabric pieces can be seen best in images like http://flickr.com/photos/37514330@N00/3202629664 [or http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/16084455.jpg%5D which unfortunately doesn't include the priest (Izad Mithra, or in the Taq-e Bostan page it's said to be Izad Bahram; Izad being the Zoroastrian form of Yazata which means "worshipful" and some render as "god").

It's the best I've seen however, a good find, dating from 300BCE around Persia. I'd want to see other instances of "haloes" in the Persian culture of the time to be convinced on this, as like I said I think it's just a picture of a headpiece.

And you suck at reading too, if you didn't even follow the link [http://home.comcast.net/~taoistresource/art_halo.html] in the "quoted source" you complain about.

You did say "according to this page" and not "according to links on this page". Obviously being an illiterate makes it hard for me to check your post to be sure, perhaps you could do that?

Buddhist art and writings don't appear to exist from before about 100-200AD the canon of Buddhist lore being passed down orally since 400BCE. Whilst that link shows images it doesn't date the images, so establishing a date from them is impossible. They appear mainly to be Thangka which date from a Nepalese influence in 600AD.

The greek image of apollo is one I know, it's about 200AD IIRC (certainly post-Christian). The others look like standard depictions of Helios, being the sun after all, they're more than likely CE. The naive image at the bottom is similar in showing gods of the Sun, Dawn and Morning Star, that they should be shining is not necessarily a depiction of deity/holiness but a simple reflection of their purpose - but they'd be relevant if dated early.

Hindu art is full of haloes, eg http://www.hindu.com/fline/fl2503/stories/20080215250306500.htm the end of that page shows a Jaina shrine from 900AD. "Hindu art" by T. Richard Blurton states that imagery of Vishnu appeared in the "early centuries AD

I know the technology isn't exactly cutting edge, but I'm surprised I didn't see railroads being mentioned as a possibility. Here's a flickr album showing them being moved without a problem http://www.flickr.com/photos/10372533@N06/2468920475/ Run them on trains to as close to where they're going to go as possible, then air lift them to their final destinations, simple as that.

Here is the link http://www.flickr.com/photos/rainbow9/

I put up one of those cubicle bookshelf, (like this one), that has a lid that comes down. I stuck a couple of Micro ATX machines, cables, and switch in it, and I'm done. Since they're low-power machines (one is a Via C3, the other is a low-power Athlon X2), I can run it closed up just fine.

Yes, but he only wields this power for good.

Oh, how quickly they forget.

You're right in that we're really talking about perceived treatment. But you can't deny that wages play a huge role in that perception. Underpaying someone is prime evidence that the employer lacks respect for the employee, and when thus underpaid, an employee has every right to feel shafted.

Look: for 30 years now, wages have not kept up with productivity. Our hard work is going toward the enrichment of a few. It's high time that we increase general wages across the board and end the second gilded age.

"There! Are! Six! Floors!"

Hmm... that's what I count too. Maybe they're using that new math, where the roof counts?

Maybe they're in China? :)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mendhak/3229053685/

I had that problem before with the article on Hayo Miyazaki that I'm contributing to, but I went to Flickr, found a bunch of good, professional-looking pictures of Miyazaki-san and asked the photographers to release their picture under the correct CC license. I got one in less than a a week. The photographer was only glad to help and have his work seen.

A quick search on Flickr quickly reveals a good photo of Ms Berry and Mr Clooney. So, I suggests someone gets to it.

I had that problem before with the article on Hayo Miyazaki that I'm contributing to, but I went to Flickr, found a bunch of good, professional-looking pictures of Miyazaki-san and asked the photographers to release their picture under the correct CC license. I got one in less than a a week. The photographer was only glad to help and have his work seen.

A quick search on Flickr quickly reveals a good photo of Ms Berry and Mr Clooney. So, I suggests someone gets to it.

Space Shuttle don't cause 'em, but it creates them. (how's that for logic?) Here's some pictures of the Shuttle's vapor trail in the high atmosphere, noctilucent. Pretty cool looking, eh? http://www.flickr.com/photos/35423990@N00/sets/72157600329483616/

I've never seen any real cost savings by setting it up to run less often during the day when nobody's home. (Once the walls and floors and ceilings warm up (or cool down in the winter) to a certain point, then the A/C or furnace has to work a lot harder to move the temperature back to the comfort zone for your return home.

Your AC uses more energy when you leave it on during the day vs. letting the house heat up. There are 3 reasons:

When you run it all day, it cycles on and off multiple times. An air conditioner reaches peak efficiency after about 30 minutes of operation
Running during the day causes you to pull hot air from your attic ducts into your house. This increases the heating load. Running in the evening when the ducts are cooler will be more efficient.
Finally, whether you leave it on all day or turn it on in the evening, it doesn't change the net amount of heat entering your home

I have collected about two years of temperature data on my AC and these are the results I've found. This graph shows that the longer the AC continuously runs, the colder the air output is:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/schramroyal/3735622175/

Also, the AC output temperature is warmer during the hottest part of the day (when you are probably at work) because it must pull the return air through hot duct work. The most efficient way to run an air conditioner is to leave it off during the day and then turn it on in the evening and have it run for a long time (at peak efficiency) to cool your house.

I may have had excellent karma two weeks ago, but I can tell you that when pro-lifers allow something like this to live (google Juliana Wetmore), It makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside.

It's as if science is wiping God's ass rather than antagonizing him.

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...or is that too soon?