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Comment on gps with sprint Compass 597 broadband card by EVDOinfo

EVDOinfo — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:53:49 +0000

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Comment on DIY - How to Make a Pan Tilt Airsoft Gun! by betamerica

betamerica — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:07:38 +0000

wow, coool gadget!!!!

Comment on Sony Bravia E4000 is a TV-cum-Digital Picture Frame for Home Decor Freaks [TVs] by Ultram vs. tramadol

Ultram vs. tramadol — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:19:47 +0000

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Comment on Nokia 7310 SuperNova available in Taiwan and China by iPhone Blog

iPhone Blog — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 02:25:56 +0000

iPhone Blog…

It will not be surprising if any user gets confused while choosing the mobile phone he should buy. The market is fraught with manufacturers of high repute, each one supplying mobile phones with dazzling designs and multiple……

Comment on Motorcycle/Trike for Handicapped! by Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 03:51:45 +0000

$8500 conversion on top of the price of the bike…pretty xpenisve…but nice

Comment on Volkswagen prepping a plug-in “Twin Drive” hybrid for 2010 by Mann-e

Mann-e — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:21:40 +0000

Only 31 miles, quite disappointing. I would hope 80 to 100 miles all electric.

Comment on FAKE: Uncontacted Amazon Tribe A Hoax by Jim B

Jim B — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:05:26 +0000

It’s all there now, see my earlier comment. I don’t know what happened, but I saw my comment posted, then went back to the page later and it was gone for an hour or more. If it was just a hiccup or a glitch, I apologize. Thanks. JB

Comment on FAKE: Uncontacted Amazon Tribe A Hoax by admin

admin — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 22:27:25 +0000

we didn’t delete any post, could you provide the information?

Comment on FAKE: Uncontacted Amazon Tribe A Hoax by Jim B

Jim B — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:45:24 +0000

What gives? I posted a detailed comment that included information, links and reliable sources proving that this item is false and based on faulty information, and now my comment is gone. Are you deliberately trying to spread an untrue rumor, even after you know it’s not true? JB

Comment on FAKE: Uncontacted Amazon Tribe A Hoax by Jim B

Jim B — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:20:38 +0000

The Yahoo! Buzz item you link to is completely mistaken (it doesn’t even get the guy’s name right: it’s Jose Carlos Meirelles). The story is NOT a hoax, NOTHING was faked, there was NO deception, but there WAS some lazy, sloppy reporting by some new outlets, and then a lot of people spreading a false hoax rumor. No one has “come clean” or “admitted” andything, Meirelles never claimed it was a “discovery” but rather evidence to prove the tribe existed. Why was this proof necessary? Recently the president of Peru and officials of Peru’s largest oil company have publicly questioned the existence of “uncontacted” tribes — even comparing them to the Loch Ness Monster — in order to justify oil & gas exploration and logging in the Amazon. So Meirelles (a Brazilian government official, NOT an environmental or anti-logging activist as he has sometimes been called) arranged the flight to try to get pictures of this tribe to PROVE they existed so their habitat would be protected. While it took him three days of flights to get the pictures, he never said they were “lost” or “undiscovered”. Don’t take my word for it, check out the original May 30 article in The Guardian: (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/may/30/brazil.conservation), and understand the difference between “uncontacted” versus “lost” or “undiscovered” or “unknown” or any of the other words that were NEVER used by Meirelles’ in the original story. The story was misreported and embellished by some news outlets, but there was nothing about the photos or the statements of those involved that was faked or misleading in any way; there was only bad reporting in some cases. The whole “hoax” rumor was started by a very misleading June 22 article in The Sunday Observer (The Guardian’s sister paper) by Peter Beaumont (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/21/amazon) Notice the link in the first paragraph of Beaumont’s article? It leads to the earlier Guardian article, which article proves that most of what Beaumont says is misleading or just plain wrong. I have been told The Observer will be publishing a correction to Beaumont’s article on Sunday 6/29, but the damage is already done. Other news sources and weblogs picked up on his inaccurate story, and soon people were using the word “hoax” or calling it a publicity stunt, which could not be further from the truth. You are compounding the error with this false item. It should be corrected or deleted and any link to the completely false Yahoo! Buzz item should be deleted. It is demonstrably untrue, as the 5/30/08 Guardian story proves. JB