AirBnB is operating a business that can only survive by skirting local regulations and taxes. So yeah, they are responsible because they only book private residences (not hotels) where the hosts are unlikely to have proper insurance (like Uber). If they booked regular rooms I could see your point.

Not if they can avoid it. We see this all the time; if the company can avoid the licensing/insurance/inspection regime of the traditional business, they do and they claim they are saving the customers money by cutting “unnecessary regulation.” If they were to start doing everything they should as far as customer…

This is a very interesting (and sad) story. Definitely worth reading the whole article. And it’s a point worth remembering; when companies “disrupt” or “disintermediate” they often circumvent rules designed to protect the public, and externalize the costs of their operations on to others. That’s part of the very…

Terra Nova was never, ever going to get good.

Terra Nova could have been SO GOOD. And it bums me out that it wasn’t because what a cool idea.

I have no qualms with them getting out of the pop culture business, I just hope they decide to return to the sports business.

Hillary was a Senator for the state of New York. This symbolizes the New York Jets.

It’s the $25,000 Pyramid.

What do all three have in common? They all got away with “it”.

It’s Laika. She’s back and she’s pissed.

V’Ger looking for its creator?

Oh my god... ! It’s the giant ball of garbage from Futurama!

Repurposed Taco Bell in Novato CA, now a taqueria!

Burneko’s butthurtitude about this is the best thing on the Internet today. The guy who thinks Blood Meridian sucks is the worst.

““Oh, I’m afraid the deflector shield will be quite operational when your friends arrive.”

I know it was rated PG and so the violence had to be toned down, but during the Endor battle, when the Ewoks clothes-lined the Imperial biker scout, that fucker should have been decapitated.

This is some of the best ownage I’ve read in weeks. The original commentary was utter revisionist tripe masquerading as edgy against-the-grain critique when in reality it’s very trendy to hate on Jedi in general and the Ewoks in particular. Long live the original trilogy, all THREE of them!

Well, I think being tortured by Darth Vader and then frozen might leach some of the scoundrel out of a person.

Fucking right, DM. Empire is obviously the best of the trilogy (I do not consider the prequels to be things), but Return of the Jedi is better than Star Wars. Luke is at full badass power, and Jabba the Hut exists and eats spacefrogs!

I love Drew’s writing style. It has the styling of an elite message board poster with surprisingly coherent points throughout the rant.