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  1. Twitter subpoenaed on Penn. AG Corbett Subpoenas Twitter For Bloggers' Names · · Score: 4, Informative

    That's kind of old, according do ACLU helping keep Twitter users' IDs secret in Pa. a judge will decide whether the subpoena is thrown out.

    Falcon

  2. Apple does sell a tablet like the ModBook Pro on Google Stops Ads For "Cougar" Sites · · Score: 1

    Apple does not sell a tablet like the Modbook Pro, Apple sells MacBook Pros to Axiotron who then modifies them. There is a difference. Searching Apple's online store only even returns one result for modbook, a Western Digital external hard drive.

    MacBook Touch

    Now I know you're making things up, searching the store for "macbook touch" does not return one MacBook Touch, the only touches returned for the iPod Touch.

    Falcon

  3. Re:"Millionaire dating" isn't considered explicit; on Google Stops Ads For "Cougar" Sites · · Score: 1

    AdSense vs. Google search. Not the same thing at all.

    Google's guidelines for image advertisements includes the following:

    Ah but those guidelines are for AdWords not AdSense. What the differences are I don't know though.

    How about this, searching for sugar daddy returns 7 results about dating and 9 ads for dating websites. On the first page of results there are only 2 results for food, Sugardaddys "Sumptuous Sweeties - It's not your everyday brownie" and Sugar Daddy "Candy you ate as a kid". Searching for cougar returns 4 ads for dating and 2 results for dating websites. Three more web results are definitions and wiki articles. Included news results include articles about what Google is doing, BYU's football team the Cougars, and actual cougar cats. The web search also includes images of cougars, that is cats.

    Falcon

  4. Re:It seems to be google being sexist on Google Stops Ads For "Cougar" Sites · · Score: 1

    Ah, when I search for sugar daddy

    Google search is not the same thing as Google AdSense.

    Ah but sugar daddies are candies yet at the top of the results is for a "Millionaire Dating Site" which is a sponsored link. Then of the sponsored links to the right, there are 7, not one is for candy, they are all dating or arraignment websites. Of the actual results, there are 2 about candy, the one above and Sugardaddys Sumptuous Sweeties and another is a wiki page with links for different meanings. The rest of them, 7, are again arrangement or dating websites. The results for cougar are a bit different though, there is no sponsored link above the results. But there are 4 ads on the side, about dating including www.SugarDaddyforMe.com. Of the actual results the top is the definition from the urban dictionary, wiki is the next two, the first about the cat then about Age disparity in sexual relationships. After those news links are next, from BYU's Cougar football team to Google killing "cougar ads". Of the rest of results on the first page only two are dating websites. Not including the 2 definitions and news results 3 results for "cougar" are about dating whereas 7 results for "sugar daddy" are dating.

    Falcon

  5. Re:prostitution in Rhode Island on Google Stops Ads For "Cougar" Sites · · Score: 1

    who wouldn't - think of the trafficked women!

    One thing that gets me is that some of those who oppose prostitution are supposedly pro women. What could be more anti-woman that denying them the right to decide what they will do with their own body? And that includes feminists. In order to get away with it they twist it around and say prostitution is a way "in which women are exploited by a patriarchal system". Then again they say the same about marriage.

    Falcon

  6. Re:Don't underestimate the Wii on Wii Could Be What the Doctor Ordered · · Score: 1

    If the choice is between DDR and world of warcraft, then even Lance Armstrong is going to benefit from choosing DDR.

    That depends on the goals. World of Warcraft and other games, while not doing much for physical fitness, can help cognition. What Video Games Have to Teach Us about Learning and Literacy: Revised and Updated Edition. A therapist I saw suggested I get some computer strategy games to play. Two she had me play while I saw her was Building Perspective and Hot Dog Stand.

    Falcon

  7. lawn care on Wii Could Be What the Doctor Ordered · · Score: 1

    I know I'm perilously close to be completely-off-the-damn-topic, but what really gets me is the fertilization of lawns. People use herbicides to keep weeds down, which kills off clover -- so grass mixes don't even contain clover anymore. Clover is a nitrogen-fixing plant; a lawn with a decent amount of clover doesn't need to be fertilized as much (if at all).

    So am I but if you like gardening humour you may like God and St Francis Discussing lawns.

    Falcon

  8. Re:Sort of healthy on Wii Could Be What the Doctor Ordered · · Score: 1

    Reduce your hyperactive kids intake of fast carbohydrates (rice, potatoes, bread, not just candy and cake) and he/she will no longer be hyperactive or have problems concentrating.

    Haha! I was hyperactive and hypoglycemic. Until about 15 years ago friends told me I had to slow down.

    Falcon

  9. Re:It's about Apple on Google Stops Ads For "Cougar" Sites · · Score: 1

    Doing a Modbook themselves wouldn't gain Apple anything.

    Ah but I think they would, otherwise they'd never have done the iPad. The iPad is just an overblown iPhone that can't make phone calls or a crippled MacBook, if Apple were to release a tablet like the Modbook Pro, with a compleat implementation of OS X they could sell for more than a MacBook Pro. When I first heard of the iPad I, and many other photographers, were hoping for a laptop with a built-in tablet. With one we could take it with us to a photoset for a day of shooting and be able to use a pin for some editing. Here's a poster on photo.net wanting a way to go through a photo session while between different places to pick and choose keepers and throwout don't keeps. Now I won't suggest the driver doing it but a second person can. As the article Apple iPad: For Photographers? says the iPad is designed for the consumer, but if Apple were to release a tablet for photographers many would want to get one.

    Sure those photographers who want one bad enough can buy the Modbook Pro, but then they wouldn't get the support Apple offers. I'm typing this on a MacBook Pro I bought almost 3 years ago. Every tyme I had a problem with it, 3 tymes, I was able to put it in my backpack and go to an Apple store to have it looked at. The first tyme was the day after I got it, I had ordered software utility with it but I could not boot with the disk when I tried when I got it. So I slipped it into my backpack and drove to an Apple store the following day. There I found out the software version was an old one whereas the MBP was a new one. Another tyme I had to reinstall OS X and the other tyme the graphics system had to be replaced. Each tyme I was able to go to Apple and have it looked at that day. I wouldn't be able to do that with a Modbook.

    Apple made the right choice for Apple.

    With many Apple users being graphics artists and photographers Apple would sell more tablets if it were not an overblown iPhone or a crippled MacBook. Here's more of what photographers say about the iPad both positive and negative. There are good ideas or points made on both sides, one good one being taking the iPad to a meeting and being able to show photographs, but related to that is the bad of the lack of much mass storage.

    Falcon

  10. do you eat potatoes, pasta, rice, bread, etc? on Wii Could Be What the Doctor Ordered · · Score: 1

    Rice and a lot of breads and pasta actually have a higher glycemic index than sugar

    That really depends. Are the grains refined or whole grain? Whole grains not only have a lower glycemic index but also contains fiber which helps moderate blood sugar. A few months ago I was at a Barnes and Noble and did a backstep to look at a book I caught a glimpse of, Healthy Eating Using the Glycemic Index for Optimal Health. I had an appointment with my personal care coordinator, my doc arranged my seeing her, later and asked her if she knew of the glycemic index and what she thought. She said I should look at the recipes in the book to see if I liked any, so when I did I went ahead and bought it. I then looked more into the index and found more recipes online. My favorite so far is Banana Bread, but I use one cup of whole wheat and one cup of rye and instead of baking a loaf of bread I bake some muffins. I may also add blueberries, another fruit, and or some nuts.

    Falcon

  11. I got the wii fit on Wii Could Be What the Doctor Ordered · · Score: 1

    I don't have any game consoles but my sister has the WII Fit and she had me try it out one day while I was at her house. She didn't like it when my first try with the meditation game I beat her record.

    I really like the obstacle course where you are jumping from ledge to ledge and avoiding giant wrecking balls.

    I liked it too. I guess in retaliation for beating her meditation record she laughed every time I was knocked or jumped off a ledge.

    While we were playing with it her son, who's in the Marine Corp, called and I told him I might get one too. She laughed at that too, but later she said she had problems with it. I don't recall what they were but I figured I'd go ahead and save my money. I get exercise riding my bike, rollerblading, and walking.

  12. Re:Google Slap on Google Stops Ads For "Cougar" Sites · · Score: 1

    In the online advertising world you generally try and avoid Google.

    If businesses try to avoid Google for online ads then why is Google the largest online ad provider? Microsoft, Yahoo!, and others are there to take business away from Google. Google is used because it is effective enough to keep it's advertisers.

    Falcon

  13. Re:Hypocrisy? on Google Stops Ads For "Cougar" Sites · · Score: 1

    It is censorship, self-censorship.

    Falcon

  14. traits looked for on Google Stops Ads For "Cougar" Sites · · Score: 1

    This conversation has gotten too intelligent, compassionate, mature, and reasonable...

    Ironically, some of the traits I also like in a woman. :-)

    Those are some of the same traits that attract me.

    Falcon

  15. statistics on Google Stops Ads For "Cougar" Sites · · Score: 1

    Statistically, fahrbot's situation is an exception to an overwhelming rule: there are many more older men in relationships (and certainly in marriages; check the stats) with younger women than there are older women in relationships with younger men.

    Do you have those stats? CNN says in Older women and younger men: Can it Work? that a "2003 study by AARP revealed that 34 percent of all women over 40 in the survey were dating younger men, and 35 percent preferred it to dating older men." AARP has Cougars and Their Cubs as well as a number of other articles on cougars. Now those two articles were the first 2 results for statistics dating old young.

    Falcon

  16. Cougar dating on Google Stops Ads For "Cougar" Sites · · Score: 1

    searching for cougar dating brings a sponsored link for www.DateACougar.com.

    And many others. Years ago I googled "cougar dating" myself.

    Falcon

  17. Re:It's about Apple on Google Stops Ads For "Cougar" Sites · · Score: 1

    You say that like Apple's still working on the Macintosh.

    Apple quietly boosts MacBook speed, battery life.

    If the iPad had been more like the Modbook Pro I may of been in line to get one. Apple should have partnered with, or bought, Axiotron and offered the Modbook itself.

    Falcon

  18. Re:They have FamilySafe backwards! on Google Stops Ads For "Cougar" Sites · · Score: 1

    A coupling of an older man with a younger woman has a greater chance of bearing children than that of an older woman and a younger man.

    It seems to me that the Cougar scenario contains more safety from creating a Family than the other

    Many Cougars specifically state they do not want children even when they are looking for a long term partner. On the other hand others may want to do a Murphy Brown.

    Falcon

  19. Re:on the one hand google jumps ship on china on Google Stops Ads For "Cougar" Sites · · Score: 1

    Yet Google's Street View has been collecting data on people's Wifi networks. Germany Asks Google to Surrender Private Data.

    Do no evil?

    Falcon

    Oh, btw way I loved the movie The Graduate when I saw it as a kid.

  20. prostitution in Rhode Island on Google Stops Ads For "Cougar" Sites · · Score: 1

    Prostitution is no longer legal in Rhode Island, governor Donald Carcieri signed a law making "the buying and selling of sexual services a crime" in 2009. Prostitution was legal in many places until the same people who pushed for Prohibition also pushed to make prostitution illegal as well. Some US cities had their own red-light districts. But before they existed prostitution was legal anywhere. The idea of red-light districts in the US came about with the same goal as the .xxx domain, first require prostitutes to work only in specified places then make it illegal. Once grouped it's easy to control them.

    Given the ever growing emphasis on the government staying out of "morality" issues, I'd wager that within the next few decades it'll be legal in at least a few more states.

    Unless people and/or their representatives come to their senses I doubt prostitution will be made legal again. If anything laws against it will not be enforced.

    Falcon

  21. "Millionaire dating" isn't considered explicit; " on Google Stops Ads For "Cougar" Sites · · Score: 1

    I suspect it really is just that simple... "CougarLife.com" is considered explicit; Google would probably treat a site called "SugarDaddyHeaven.com" exactly the same.

    But Sugar daddy is explicit and so is the first result, Sugardaddie.

    Falcon

  22. The problem is that the two are not often on Google Stops Ads For "Cougar" Sites · · Score: 1

    compatible. The site for older men trolling for younger women likely intentionally does some obfuscation to hide what they are after.

    I don't think sugar daddy is obfuscated, neither in description nor in domain.

    Falcon

  23. Re:It seems to be google being sexist on Google Stops Ads For "Cougar" Sites · · Score: 1

    Google obviously considers the terms "cougar" and "sugar daddy" to be non-family-safe, therefore "CougarLife" is out;

    Ah, when I search for sugar daddy one of the sponsored links is www.SugarDaddyMeet.com. "Sugar daddy" is not "out" as you say.

    CougarLife got flagged immediately because of its explicit domain name

    So if I want a cougar rescue service I better not name it, and register it's domain as, www.cougarlife.com?

    Falcon

  24. Re:It seems to be google being sexist on Google Stops Ads For "Cougar" Sites · · Score: 1

    I seriously doubt this is the reason. Cougar is something someone searches for when they want mature woman porn. That is probably the just of it.

    "Cougar" is also what people search for when looking for mature women for dating.

    Falcon

  25. Re:Someone who's not lazy... on Google Stops Ads For "Cougar" Sites · · Score: 1

    Or, the ones selling mountain lion repellent. Sure, I've never seen a mountain lion around here, but don't you think we're about due for one?

    That's not nearly so funny if you're a parent or a child living near their habitat...

    I lived in an area with Florida panthers, and when I spotted one while camping as a teen I was awe struck. Growing up camping and hunting big cats weren't what needed to be watched out for instead boars or wild hogs and poisonous snakes had to be looked for. Of course I love hunting with a camera so I want to see everything, I even took photos of beads of dew on spiderwebs and leaves.

    Falcon