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Scottie

So what would you use it for then? Well, not you specifically but what's the worst case scenario that you envision here with FB? Power. Social engineering. Political and economic determination/manipulation. Big Brother. Various levels of global-scale espionage, intrusion. None of it benevolent. All...

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Here's a few shots from the Vancouver International Buddhist Temple, a remarkable (and lavish) temple down in Richmond, BC, from a couple of days ago. It was done up for Chinese New Year: (1) http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y252/various_penguins/Temple001_zps15c8758f.jpg (2) http://i7.photobucket.c...

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You're welcome, Syb. But you really shouldn't worry about someone stealing information from Facebook as much as you should worry about the fact that Facebook is stealing information from you with no accountability whatsoever for what they do with your data. It would be somewhat naive to think it is ...

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Every time I see a screencap of silliness from Facebook the user pics are pixelated and the names are blacked out in pretty much the same way. What's up with that? There's nothing remotely illegal about screencapping from that site.

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I have no doubt that there will be a replacement tree there this year. I wonder if they'll name it. I may be misremembering this but I'd swear I saw on the Masters a couple or three years ago that they have some big ol' nursery as part of the Augusta National lands on which they had meticulously gr...

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Who are you getting for announcers? During the Canadian games it is Harris, Rainnie and McCusker (who is flat-out silly, giggle-gushing like a schoolgirl). But 90% of the curling games have no announcers or commercials. I've PVR'd at least a dozen non-Canada games. ETA2: This is the guide, channels ...

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They have a replacement though, right? Augusta has a whole nursery of replacement trees, including that one in particular, and shrubberies and whatnot, don't they?

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for those interested in Canada, TSN2 will show the tiebreaker tonight between Scotland and Norway at midnight ET, 9pm Scottie time. Sweet! Thanks for the heads up. But surely it is also on those Telus (and Shaw?) "feed" channels of the CBC with no announcers and no commercials? Gotta be, ...

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You're probably still getting up higher than most of us. Or far higher. I used to be able to easily get my wrists above the rim. Today? I probably couldn't get up enough to touch the net unless it was a particularly longish net.

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Great idea for a report, Bronto. And well done. I tried something similar about 15-years ago when I was back home in Nova Scotia for Christmas. Not on video or anything like that. A good friend of mine that I grew up with used to be an assistant coach for the QMJHL team in my hometown and we took a ...

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I like that the Russians don't speak a word of English, except when it's time to yell, "SVEEP! SVEEP! SVEEP!" I was watching one of the Chinese games the other day and it was the same, out of nowhere, you hear "GOTTA GO!" Yes, the China/Canada game looked like it was brilliant; ...

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Sent. And now afraid to log-in here tomorrow.

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There was this cult once, and probably there were quite a number of similar cults throughout the ages, that believed its members were an intergalactic getaway team and then when a particularly large comet passed by the Earth, a unique comet in the wake of which trailed an intergalactic spaceship, th...

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Took me a few clicks, Bronto, but I think I found it!

http://www.awkwardmomentsbible.com/answersingenetics/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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"Now that Bill isn't here, let's discuss how wrong he was when he intellectually kicked my ass all over the stage." Funny thing, I was watching a Bourdain No Reservations episode yesterday in which he visits the Citadel of Erbil, a town which alone is older than the Earth and the universe ...

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I'm going to make a guess at parameters based on Brian's original post. Every athlete he mentioned is retired after a long and successful, if not dominant, career and became iconic statesmen of the game (if not more). So by "beloved" the idea is of someone who was admired not just during t...

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Facebook doesn't pay to be on other sites. They wormed their way into the internet by supplying the bandwidth for sites to have likes and comments and interactive shit without having to host it all on their own corporate sites. In return, Facebook gets staggering amounts of user data from those corp...

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Neil deGrasse Tyson ‏@neiltyson wrote:Without a space program that discovers, tracks & deflects killer asteroids, our extinction is assured by one. Have a nice day.

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Bensell wrote:This article from slate.com pretty much sums up my thoughts on the figure skating announcers: . . .

It pretty much sums up Slate, too.

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MC Fresh Max Appletini

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In that case, it's Amazon following you around, not Facebook. There are countless number of advertising networks that use cookies to track your web usage. It's very difficult to get out of it. Even if you try the big guns, like what Scottie does with Facebook, it probably breaks a lot of pages. Som...

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"Game" is most familiar, Dave. But you'll also hear a single game referred to as a match on occasion. Or a draw. The latter in the sense of tournament round-robins (like the Olympics). So tonight's women's match is the 6th draw (of ten, I believe). Although sometimes used to specify a sing...

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As I said, you don't even need a FB account. Take just about any particular site; some are far worse than others so I'll give you an average example. Go to http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/02/map-the-countries-that-feel-the-most-love-in-the-world/283839/" onclick="wind...

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Lou Piniella was definitely at the same restaurant as me for lunch today. He may have been dining with Mike Francesa, I couldn't tell for sure. Would Francesa be in town already for Yankees pitchers and catchers? Probably: http://www.springtrainingonline.com/reporting-dates/" onclick="win...

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Oh you can completely take those quizzes and not share your results . . . . . . with your buddies. But you're still creating and building upon data that is associated specifically with you; data that you can't see, data that is both stored and mined. You act like this is my first rodeo! Oh, no, not...

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Brontoburglar wrote:Oh you can completely take those quizzes and not share your results . . .

. . . with your buddies. But you're still creating and building upon data that is associated specifically with you; data that you can't see, data that is both stored and mined.

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Let's deconstruct it. For "some sort of dangerous post-apocalyptic hellscape" it's a nice sunny day outdoors and the door to the house isn't even locked. Yet she's carrying a crossbow. Electricity? Yep, works. No problem with the utilities. Bad edit timing on the automated voice beginning ...

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Best I can tell there's little to get. The spreadsheet date is 2023. It's typically shallow Toronto fare. Although the protagonist had that kid* to dead to rights with the crossbow yet didn't shoot her. Perhaps this is a short film about regret. * presumably herself both at the time of filming and t...

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Yikes. Didn't do nearly as well the second time through (450). Also tripped on Slovak and Slovenian. And South Efate -v- Tagalog? Damn! Wow, that's tough sometimes.

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Got lucky on at least one correct answer. Failed to identify Thai. Failed to identify Lao. Not sure I ever even heard of Shona. Never would have identified it. Those African languages all sound alike to me.

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Giff wrote:It shocks me that you think people don't realize this is just for their personal entertainment.

You might want to re-read that to which you responded.

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More . . . Sex and the Olympic Village

http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/video/3203108323001" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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Oh, absolutely. Just as people don't realize they are feeding personal data to Facebook even if they don't have a Facebook account. ETA: And they doubtlessly never notice that clicking "I'd rather have a Toyota than a cheeseburger" results in the appearance of Toyota ads all over their tri...

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It's clickbait. You should ignore it as you'd ignore those infernal fucking clickthru slideshows which suck up your data usage.

Hey, it's the 10 Dumbest Slideshows Ever Slideshow!" Click. Click. Click. Click. Click. Click. Click. Click. Click. Fuck off.

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Speaking of China . . . The Chinese men just defeated Norway to go to 5-1. Three-way tie for first place at 5-1 right now (China, Sweden, Scotland). How big was that China win over Norway? The Chinese men have never won anything. Ever. Nothing. Norway's Thomas Ulsrud has been to 9 World championship...

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Draft-dodging, Muslim? You might get some static on that one. At least in the U.S. I'm quite honestly surprised to see that. Americans largely pretend the Vietnam War never occurred; it's certainly not a period of American history held up as exemplary or glorious. Of all possible American choices, ...

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Gordie Howe. Tremendous choice, Brian.

Cassius Clay?

ETA: One of the coolest (in the "how cannot you not absolutely love this man" way) until he passed away in '06 was Buck O'Neil. Buck, of course, didn't have the fame of those previously mentioned.

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If you want to see a fantastic game of curling (mens) try the on-demand archive of China -v- Sweden from last night. At least the last few ends. And (degen will get this) to quote Vic Rauter "Oh my! Oh my! OH MY!"

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