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Sam Biddle
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I totally hear you on that. And I don't mind it, personally. But the sub-licensing in particular should not be worded so permissively. Read more

Now that's one treaty I think we would all sign! Read more

No, that's great advice. Once it's online, you can never ever ever ever ever (...five minutes later...) ever ever assume it'll stay under your control. Read more

Yep—Germany has extremely strong (and admirable, I think) privacy laws. Read more

Well that's sort of the entire point, isn't it? Facebook is a wonderful way to share things like photos and videos from your life... but not everyone wants Facebook to in turn own that media. Read more

To be honest, I don't care that much either. But if I were, say, a professional photographer, I might care a hell of a lot. Read more

It's generally considered racist to smear mud on your face *and then* compare that to the color of a black guy. Read more

He captioned the photo "obama style." This is pretty unambiguous, my friend. Read more

The Berner Convention is also not a real thing. Read more

I have to pull it behind me in a little girl's play wagon. Read more

Yeah, it's kind of a bummer that all the highest-end TVs are gigantic, these days. Read more

I guess I could sleep on it. It'd keep me warm during these winter nights. Read more

Interesting side note, if you're a laser nerd like me: the Wicker Laser people told me that cooking a bird SOLELY with laser beams wouldn't be possible (with their gear, at least) but that you could fully cook a small bite of turkey with lasers alone. So uh, that's cool, if you happen to have tens of thousands of Read more

Hey man, the US military engages in pleeeeenty of propaganda too. Daily. Read more

I don't think it takes an article to say that terrorists killing kids with a shrapnel bomb is a bad thing. Read more