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I think I can debunk this: red paint for some reason needs more coats than any other color (house painter speaking, step back!) At least with modern paint. Before Behr Ultra a deep red wall would almost always need three or four coats, don't ask me why.

Maybe they went with red paint because it was cheaper and they didn't know they would need three times as much to paint it. But more likely it was because red barns just look better against a green field.

Isn't it all pretty much worthless? A few years ago I thought with google and 'social media' (hate that term) that no one would ever be misinformed again. But look at 'em, people are dumber than ever. If every social thingamajig and comments section were deleted off the internet I think it would be an improvement.

Yeah, I see the irony of saying that in a comments section on the internet.

That's painful to read, I think most people have had similar experiences (though I've never had one quite this bad, they told you not to speak to people? WTF?) At least it teaches you that places like this exist and to listen to your Spidey sense when interviewing for a job.

The Internet is depressing. Let's blow it up and go play frisbee.

Yes, it pushes you out of your natural range like a personal trainer will push you to lift heavier.

That makes perfect sense for breath training, I came upon the kazoo after reading that an early 1900s opera singer never did vocal exercises, she just hummed to warm up. The kazoo works the breath and the vocal cords which are tougher than other muscles, so you can and should work them everyday without fear of injury.

I know he has the best voice therapists in the world and there's no chance he'll ever read this but: kazoo. That's my advice for anyone who has to give a speech or get their voice in shape for any reason. Ukulele & a kazoo 45 minutes every day.

Another Frank Underwood quote:

"Such a waste of talent. He chose money over power - in this town, a mistake nearly everyone makes. Money is the Mc-mansion in Sarasota that starts falling apart after 10 years. Power is the old stone building that stands for centuries."

I wonder if this lobbying group thought that by throwing a little money their way they could persuade the Republicans to stop being Republicans. Instead the Republicans dragged Zuckerberg down with them and probably capsized FWD.us. There aren't any moderate Republicans, at the end of the day none of them are going to support what Zuckerberg wants with immigration reform and this whole thing seems fantastically naive.

I guess that's possible, but unlikely. I'm looking at it now, she's still there and so is a girl I had a crush on in junior high. This is fascinating but extremely disturbing, I'm deleting this thing asap. I figure I must have googled her and found her LinkedIn page while signed in, it could have been years ago. In fact that's got to be the explanation for both of them unless they did something extremely unethical with the email address I gave them.

I didn't import anything to LinkedIn. One person showed up on mine who could only have come from either my Twitter account or G+ account, both of which have been deleted.

Yes, it was a hot chick I was creepily cyber stalking. Like you haven't ever.

$1B in Facebook stock, it's like monopoly money.

Just browsing through it, definitely worth $30 to me. Well written and explains Meteor perfectly for retards like myself.

So tmeasday, now that you're not busy any chance of fixing accounts-anonymous?

Another good one, though it hasn't been updated as much lately: http://www.functionn.in/

Google+ will be a fine replacement for Facebook when everybody gets the signal that FB has entered it's Newscorp-era Myspace phase. But there's another possibility: Facebook may end up leaving such a bad taste in people's mouths that it will be replaced by nothing. Both G+ and FB may fade away as the world collectively says "fuck this".

You might say I'm a dreamer.

So you're saying they're discovered a way to spend money maintaining a huge community that nobody actually uses!

Quick, give that CEO another bonus!

I've tried both but still don't know the purpose of either.

In the comments I think we kind of determined that music + democracy isn't exactly ideal for a variety of reasons. The subreddits everybody agreed were working were heavily moderated or a sort of republic of elected musicologists. Beyond that, beats me.

I understand that even a "dumb" president is probably smarter than the average person but on the other hand starting the Iraq war and ignoring the housing bubble are pretty convincing evidence that he was an idiot in all the ways that count.

Also impressive how fast these guys appear from under their rocks when they're called upon.

10% seems reasonable to me but I agree the Pirate Bay connection is probably hurting their business in all kinds of ways.

What is that? It wants a Facebook.

>Now, when a user wanted to file an appeal, the claim would go directly to the copyright holder.

I put up a Buddy Holly biography a few years ago, Warner (I think) claimed infringement on a song snippet, I filed an appeal that included a link that showed Paul McCartney owned the Buddy Holly catalog and Youtube put it back up in less than an hour. I doubt if the appeal went straight to Warner Music it would have happened quite like that.

They seem to be censoring scandalous gossipy stuff like this and the Donglegate story. Out of good taste or some other motivation, I don't know. The problem is when you start doing that you open yourself up to accusations of vote-rigging, getting your buddies on the front page, etc. It's a bad road to go down but they're definitely on it.

If this were a Netflix of Hulu price model they could really be a threat but I don't really know what to say about this. I'm an Rdio subscriber, I bought subscriptions for my family for Christmas but I'll never use this.

Yeeeaaah... you know what happens, I don't watch the video. Maybe this is a good idea but I'll never find out.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/28/arts/music/justin-timberla... The amount of publicity for this album is mind boggling and it's disturbing how willing people are to be swept away by it. I hope at least when Universal's done paying for all the fake hype they won't have made much profit.

Labels were dependent on radio to sell albums but things like Rdio completely replace buying music. I've been using it for a couple months and already I can't imagine buying music on iTunes or anywhere else. It really is a game changer.

I don't know how you figured "most of us use it". Most of us have probably created a dummy account and quickly said "to hell with this." I won't go near those things, not because of "predestined love" but because 90% of the girls on there aren't attractive and the ones who are I assume are screwed up in some way. And if it makes you uncomfortable reading something so cold and dismissive as what I just said it's just as uncomfortable thinking it, so to hell with it.

I can go up to the bar, have a beer, see a live band, talk to a pretty girl and know in 30 seconds if I like her and if she thinks I'm grotesque. Mother Nature is very efficient. No need to over-complicate things.

They might be raising revenue for the city with noise ordinance fines, who knows. I wish the reporter had included some possible motives. I never met a city cop who was interested in this kind of silly stuff. Lots of bored small town cops, sure, but for the Boston pd to (allegedly) put this amount of effort into busting basement concerts makes me think that money is somehow involved.

Thank ya

The problem with this is most people have bad taste in music.