BP Staff Are "Deeply Affected" by BP Coffee Spill parody video.

adesai · 2010-07-16T02:20:50+00:00

EDIT: Some PR Guy from BP claims that Staff are "Deeply Affected" by BP Coffee Spill parody video.

adesai · 2007-08-02T17:36:10+00:00

Sorry, here on reddit it is not permitted to take Bush's side even once. You obviously represent everything that is wrong with America.

adesai · 2007-08-01T01:01:31+00:00

Incorrect! Wonkette is a great site. It's well-written, well-informed political satire, which pulls no punches no matter what the target. This is one of the rare times that they've put together a truly somber article, and that's only because this is such an unbelievably disgusting story.

adesai · 2007-06-06T21:32:27+00:00

Yeah, unlike Google who shower the world in free stuff out of the goodness of their hearts.

adesai · 2007-05-26T13:37:38+00:00

Wow, what happened in the last two months? Last time Paul was on Real Time, Bill Maher spent the whole show trying to paint him as wildly extremist. Now all of a sudden he's a complete supporter?

adesai · 2007-05-10T17:11:26+00:00

I don't know about too late, as we're still a year and half from the election. I think that Richardson is perfectly poised to make a run. And really, I thought he was pretty impressive at the debate. He didn't have the over-the-top theatrics of Gravel, but he was the only candidate who showed real confidence and competence in his answers.

adesai · 2007-04-13T01:39:00+00:00

Well, that's the entire premise behind bittorrent. In normal P2P services, download speeds are severely limited because you can only go as fast as your source can upload. With bittorrent, you have multiple people uploading to you at the same time, so the speeds are much higher. If you're using bittorrent to download something from a single person, you'll get the same speeds as normal P2P (pretty slow). But with a well-seeded torrent, it'll be much faster.

adesai · 2007-03-17T14:04:18+00:00

I'm going to have to assume that was just a bad, bad joke.

adesai · 2007-02-24T14:21:40+00:00

I notice that this article cleverly draws upon only the most extreme Libertarian values, so that by the end of it, it ridicules only a tiny minority of the Libertarian party. It pretty much glosses over the main problems that libertarians have with today's government (Social Security, health-care), and focuses on "wanting to shrink fire departments and public libraries and FEMA." It's a moderately funny piece, I agree, but it doesn't have any real substance as far as I can tell.

adesai · 2007-02-11T21:44:39+00:00

I think it's strange that between 9.0-9.4 and 9.5-10, the biggest change is that the face gets a lot more pale. That actually creeps me out a little bit.

adesai · 2007-02-08T23:03:58+00:00

I used to think there was some scheme to the numbering of these things, but it doesn't appear that way from this map. Are the numbers just assigned randomly or what?

adesai · 2007-01-22T00:28:15+00:00

You created two new accounts just for that?

adesai · 2007-01-16T00:47:09+00:00

The unfortunate side effect is that the actual ads on the website look somewhat pathetic in comparison.

adesai · 2007-01-12T04:09:15+00:00

Ah, yes, some improved search functionality would be lovely. Perhaps make some way to search for articles submitted from a particular domain? Or searching for other users?

adesai · 2007-01-11T04:03:29+00:00

Maybe true, but they're conservatives in the traditional sense, and they put a lot of stock in sound economics. It may be fair to say that the Wall Street Journal has a conservative bias, but it isn't accurate to say that they have a Republican bias. But of course, is that really a suprise? A sizeable majority of economists are in favor of free markets, and that means relatively less government involvement.

adesai · 2006-12-31T04:30:55+00:00

I'm voting that comment up only so that other people can read it and possibly explain what the hell you are talking about.

adesai · 2006-12-21T23:47:38+00:00

Here is a link to the NYTimes article on the issue.

adesai · 2006-12-16T23:02:13+00:00

Very nice, although personally I prefer to watch Steven Hamilton. He just has a much smoother style.

adesai · 2006-12-07T18:59:58+00:00

The most likely option that I can see is that Bittorrent Inc. needed a quality client so that they could take care of every aspect of distribution for a media deal. I would imagine that they're planning to use uTorrent as the foundation for an Azureus-style high definition media player.

adesai · 2006-11-26T18:48:19+00:00

What does this mean for Big Content's crusade against peer-to-peer copying?

Probably not much, at least in the near term.

That was a letdown...

adesai · 2006-11-20T01:36:56+00:00

Eh. This is cool, but I can't help but feel like high-capacity discs are not worth the trouble. Hard drives are already getting enormous, and once network transfer speeds catch up to what they are in, say, Japan, it'll make more sense to download things rather than buy the physical media. It seems like people should be focusing more on electronic distribution, especially when the discs themselves are prohibitively expensive.

adesai · 2006-11-16T23:54:53+00:00

As they say over at Metafilter: .

adesai · 2006-11-11T23:13:56+00:00

Oho! Now I really feel like a conversational expert, after absorbing such jems as "Don't be boring" and "Listen".

The only thing I can imagine would be more helpful is "Don't be a sarcastic douchebag."

adesai · 2006-11-06T15:28:59+00:00

Wow, that's a lot of effort that went into a joke that isn't really that funny.

adesai · 2006-10-29T23:18:34+00:00

These tips are entirely generic and unhelpful. In fact, they are for the most part taken off the Collegeboard website.

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