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From the second paragraph of the deletion review page: "Deletion review (DRV) considers disputed deletions and disputed decisions made in deletion-related discussions and speedy deletions. This includ…

Maybe I'm a fast reader, so try timing yourself reading this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_review#Steps... . I don't find it to be much more than a minute.…

I seem to be dropping like a stone here, so let me go on forever about this: 1. Danny Sullivan hears that his friend Jessie Stricchiola, a pioneer in fighting click fraud, has been deleted from Wikipe…

His case for the notability of his friend doesn't seem to add anything that hadn't already been considered by the Wikipedians already, and his attitude was monstrously shitty. Especially his reaction …

I don't talk to my friends for evidence, I look at studies. Google's ad revenue has nothing do with what the majority of anybody does. Google is doing ads well, better than they had been done before, …

That assumes both that the increase in reading scores due to increasing family income is linear, and that annual family income and birth spacing are completely independent of each other.

Since crack babies don't exist, but black people have been have been the majority of people incarcerated for crack related offenses (though they are not the majority of crack users), I'm assuming that…

Pure anecdote, but I and my sister (2 of 2) were born almost exactly two years apart, and I know that before she was born, there was an absurd amount of attention paid to me for the first couple of ye…

As far as I've heard, almost nobody clicks on ads. Just because ads produce enough revenue to support a business, don't assume that that means that a majority ever clicks on them. That's akin to an ar…

That's not an argument, just a weird insult.

Without a baseline, how would I be able to tell if those statistics were frightening?

He definitely shouldn't have mentioned the guy's wife and kids, but it's certainly not against the law. It's definitely not bright to admit in public to hacking computers in the same way it's not brig…

His goal seems to be to keep the page from coming up on google searches on "Steve"'s families' names.

It is moronic that he thinks that informing cops about child porn on a computer he hacked would get him out of trouble, or get the pedophile in trouble - but the odds that a pedophile is going to call…

I don't buy that raising the incarceration rate leads to lowered crime unless you're putting people away for life. Seems more likely to create a larger number of people on the street with few job skil…

If that you could care less is the most you can say about something, that's an insult. If you say that you couldn't care less, that's just a lie - you're responding to it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wik…

cyanogenmod for Touchpad: http://rootzwiki.com/topic/3477-releasealpha2discussion-cyan... …

1. It's not a competitive market; each person who wants to watch a particular movie only has between one and maybe four choices of venue until the travel costs outstrip any differences in price. Any n…

I don't find it inconsistent. Not-good is not negative, it's neutral. Martial arts skill is good, lack of martial arts skills is neutral. Also, knowledge is good, education is only good to the extent …

The solution is not to get ditch diggers to go to college, but to respect ditch diggers. Our society, and Brooks, has respect for a person that increases exponentially with the distance between that p…

This will be a good thing for the world, because a lot of this stuff is common knowledge yet not published because journalists don't want to be beheaded along with their families, but it will be bad f…

You definitely have to make a case that the expensive wine passes the second test.

The car-intellectual property comparison is dubious when the MPAA is comparing downloading movies to carjacking, and it's equally dubious in this situation. When you're sold a DVD in a game on it, you…

Chicago is as flat as a board. Reclaimed swamp.

I don't think Republicans are evil. I think people who make arguments that rely on renaming something that already has a name, then rely on the connotations carried with that new name to imply that wh…

Gubuntu. Luckily, Unity starts with 'U' already, so everything works out in the end. >Switch to Linux Mint, which is Debian-based and appears to use the "old" GNOME 2 Linux Mint isn't Debian-based…

I didn't know the difference between an IOU and a bond is that IOUs can't be sold. I'll need a reference to IOU law for that, because I always thought that they only existed as a talking point from th…

That's just a meaningless assertion. SS money doesn't just go into the general fund, bonds are issued. That's what the entire discussion was about. When you buy bonds, the money goes into the general …

I wasn't recommending holding the trade deficit constant, I was isolating the relationship between public and private savings. And if I ever say "all other things being equal," I'm not actually recomm…

Unless you read the parent. >We were merely reducing one kind of debt, namely debt held by the public. Total debt continued to increase.