SadielCuentas - Slashdot User

Comment What might be new is... (Score 2, Insightful) 170

by SadielCuentas on Sunday May 02, 2010 @09:39AM (#32063422) Attached to: "Lost" and the Emergence of Hypertext Storytelling

As said above, this is not new at all. What might be new is:

1) Interpreting flashbacks as Hypertext
2) Doing that^^^ to get attention

Comment Re:at certain points in history (Score 1) 288

by SadielCuentas on Monday April 19, 2010 @12:09AM (#31892592) Attached to: File Sharing Remains a Perk of College Life

the entire legal system may bow down to one woman sitting on a bus.

Amber Lamps? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN2Q6yiQ2VI&feature=related

Comment Re:Hmm (Score 2, Insightful) 692

by SadielCuentas on Sunday April 04, 2010 @06:43AM (#31722814) Attached to: Science Attempts To Explain Heaven

How did they explain the out-of-body visions experienced by people who were born blind (and then actually saw things when their heart stopped beating)?

They didn't. They just explained the heaven visions. Not explaining apparent extrasensory perceptions does not invalidate the ketamine thing.

Comment The best outcome might be... (Score 1) 119

by SadielCuentas on Saturday February 06, 2010 @10:44AM (#31045450) Attached to: UK's Anti-File-Sharing Bill Could "Breach Human Rights"

... if this bill pass as it is right now. Then the UK Pirate Party would get some more voters love!

Politicians Worldwide Asking Questions About ACTA 101

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday January 09, 2010 @09:11AM from the must-have-heard-about-the-death-panels dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Legislators around the world are demanding more information on the secret Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. US Senator Ron Wyden demanded answers in a letter to the USTR (PDF) this week, ACTA arose in the UK House of Commons yesterday, and French Deputy Nicolas Dupont-Aignan raised ACTA questions in the National Assembly late last year. All of this comes on top of earlier efforts from Swedish Member of the European Parliament Jens Holm, as well as New Zealand MP Clare Curran, who has repeatedly raised concerns about ACTA, and NDP MP Charlie Angus, who posed questions about ACTA in the Canadian House of Commons late last year."

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