Imagine going into your work every day with a big sign hanging in the lobby that read: "Gingers will always be outsiders here." Maybe the current management didn't put it up - maybe it was put up in the 1980s. It doesn't bother anybody else besides you, because they're all different hair colors. But you do have…

"Logically it just doesn't make sense to be "diverse" when you're tackling a subject crafted by a culture that had no idea what diversity was..."

"Idris as Heimdall just doesn't work, not because "oh he's black!" it's that the mythos behind Thor makes it pretty clear that there were literally zero PoCs in it. I know the comics have taken their liberties by introducing adventurers and warriors that weren't lilly-white folk who rule over Asgard, but Heimdall…

I intend to set up Google Voice on the phone, so minutes will only be necessary in places where I don't have wi-fi. Plus, I don't need to make that many calls to begin with.

http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/monthly-4g-plans - Keep trying to link this, not sure why it's not staying put - spam filter maybe? Look for the big "$30". =p

It varies from location to location. It's definitely not as good as Verizon's, but they cover pretty much every major city and highway. Unless you're very rural, you ought to have some signal.

Too little, too late. I've been desperately looking for an option that would keep me with Verizon, because I prefer their network coverage. And I can't justify it - T-Mobile's plan is simply SO much cheaper and effective. For comparison (these are the 2-year figures I came up with while looking at new phones,…

As others have said, not everybody has a stable internet connection, and your ability to play is dependent upon EA's servers still being active, whether due to temporary downtime or closing the servers because they're "no longer economical to run".

Occam's razor - among competing hypotheses, the one that makes the fewest assumptions should be selected.

"The Los Angeles Times says what Newman is doing isn't illegal..."

More the former than the latter, because the former would be more effective at actually preventing crimes.

Negligence under the law means that you've breached your duty to avoid causing harm that a reasonable person would/should have taken. Your examples would fall outside that, since a reasonable person is going to take measures to keep people from stealing their gun (gun safe, training). If you report your gun being…

I'm fine with not publishing the information of who owns a gun - a database like that should be restricted to law enforcement. And I don't have issue with people whose guns are stolen through no fault of their own.

That would also be a plus.

"expanding background checks, strengthening gun-trafficking laws" - These two, I have no issue with, other than needing an accompanying mental health system that can be easily accessed.

Just because there's no outright dishonesty doesn't mean the game's worth purchasing, or that potential buyers shouldn't get a heads up about precisely how the game operates. It's a review about a game that has several qualities that many gamers will dislike. You seem to be arguing Kotaku should simply not review…

So, being able to search through hundreds of Bible-related apps is okay, but when someone decides to make an app criticizing religion, that's "going out of your way to be a huge, pseudo-intellectual ass hole"? That seems a bit one sided to me.

Constitutional non-starter. Video games are constitutionally protected speech, according to the Supreme Court. Imposing content regulations in the form of taxes on particular kinds of "video game speech" is a gigantic no-no. It'll be lucky to make it out of committee, and if it goes farther, it'll be shut down hard…

I'd hesitate to call any emergent technology useless. It might not be cost effective at the moment, certainly, but it could be a starting point for low power/green monitors, complex (or emergency) underwater displays, or possibly even a unique holographic display, if you could condense the camera and stack a row of…

You can always supply him with information about all the other religions out there, so he can get a more balanced view on what Jesus means to other religions, or how he's completely absent from a great many of them.