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Quite a bit faster than my 300 baud modem back in the 80's, but comparable to my 56k modem in the 90's.

A very important piece of history, there.

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Reebok Talking Boobs Actually Sell Shoes

There should be a tag for "better with the sound off".

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Family Guy: Peter Hitler

boozenpuken!

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Fox News - No Terrorist Attack During Bush's Presidency

& She wasn't "lying", she believed what she said. Most republicans actually think Bush's presidency started when 9/11 happened. They're not far off. He didn't actually do anything before that aside from take vacations.

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Republican Birther Posts Racist Billboard In Denver, Co

Waste of air. Moving on.

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Howard Stern Hates Kirk Cameron

I'm not a fan of Howard's childish and insulting manner, but when it's directed at Kirk Cameron, I don't mind so much.

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Power Wheels Kid Crashes Down a Hill

I don't understand why people are amused by videos of children hurting themselves. It makes me ache inside to see how close they come to serious life-threatening damage. Adults who do dumb things are occasionally funny, especially when the result is unexpected. But when the title of the video gives away everything it contains, where is the humor? And I expect the fact that it's a kid makes this funnier to some than if it was an adult.

I'm not trying to judge, I just don't get it. Why am I different from those who laugh?

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ABC on Palin - "Selling Lots Of Books Is Not Politics"

I'm startled by the man who thinks that Palin is clever, but not serious. I'm quite certain it's the other way around.

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What it Takes: Phoenix Anarchists face down NAZIS (NSM)

These are sad, sad people. You can have a political agenda similar to Nazism, but once you actually start identifying as Nazis, the single most hated group (and accepted by mainstream society as hated), then you are demonstrating a real cry for help. They need therapy. Lots and lots of therapy.

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Pro$titution

Yes, please end this puritanical nightmare we are in. Even though I don't think I would ever use a prostitute's services, it's horrid to think of the conditions these poor women suffer simply because their trade is illegal.

I think it's quite simple. When making something illegal does more harm than good, put it back the way it was and try something else!

Prostitution and the drug trade would not be entangled with serious crime if they weren't illegal.

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Elegant Forkless Bicycle

The advantage is awesomeness.

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Father Separated From Child By Train Door

*tear*

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A way to watch Twilight and actually enjoy it. [RiffTrax]

I knew there was something missing when I suffered through that movie! Now I'll have to get the rifftrax for when I suffer through the second movie!

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Frankie Boyle Top 5 Jokes

Can somebody translate this to English, please?

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Olbermann Goes After Sarah Palin's Lies

There's no way voting republicans will select her as the candidate against Obama. She'll be out of the race by the time she announces she's in. She's a figurehead for the moment, but everybody knows she brought down the McCain campaign, and you'll see republicans start to come up with odd reasons to vote against her. They will never mention her lack of intellect or political knowledge, it will be strange things. Then she will bow out, saying that she needs to focus on her family and her "other projects".

Hopefully at that time she will disappear forever.

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After You

Ah yes. The mystery of the man with no peripheral vision! If not for the camera reversal, it would be impossible to not see what happened to the girl.

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Bizarre "Trick" Touchdown Pass on the Goal Line

You don't see many "no look" passes in football. As far as I can tell, that's the only trick. Otherwise it's a short pass to the tight end.

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David Mitchell's Bread & Milk rant from QI

From comedy.org.uk:

There are at least two known "Truths" which have appeared on The Unbelievable Truth which are in fact false. One is that you if remove the fleas from a hedgehog, then the hedgehog dies. The other is the cricket did not exist during Shakespeare's time. Both of these were corrected when David Mitchell appeared on an episode of QI.

Source: QI, Series F, Episode 11 - Film

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Couple Arrested for Not Paying Tip

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:
I've got to side with the business on this one. If you go to a restaurant that requires you tip, then don't act surprised and angry at the end of the meal when you get your bill.

That is the point. You should not (and in all likelihood *cannot*) be "required" to tip. They were surprised and angry by the service not the included tip, and the it should have been removed from the bill as soon as the customers complained. None of this "If you don't pay it I'll call the police" bullshit.

The saddest part is that they said they will pay the tip if the problem ever comes up again. Maybe they'll change their minds if they win the court case.

Edit: Check out the utter destruction on Yelp!

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What if Earth had rings like Saturn?

Several people have mentioned the "shadow of the rings". The rings would be pretty thin on an astronomical scale, so there wouldn't really be much of a shadow when the sun was behind them. I'd guess that a full "ring eclipse" would be like a slightly overcast day where you could still couldn't really look at the sun. On the other hand, the diffraction pattern might be magnificent. I guess it would depend on what the rings were made of.

Also keep in mind that the "shadow" would constantly be moving based on the time of year, so there would be no place on Earth where the eclipse was permanent.

I wish he had shown some images of the shadow that Earth would cast on the rings. The two cutoff points from the part of the rings that show brightly at night to the part that is in shadow would give a real good sense of what time it is.

And just how dark would night be at that point? There would be significantly more reflected light than what the moon gives us.

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