It's gender identity - sexual identity is who you sleep with/are romantically attracted to, gender identity is what gender you are.

Zero is still a figure.

Fatalities from riots in the US, I can't find anything since the 1992 LA riots. That said, successful efforts to prevent violence tend to get less publicity than when they fail.

No, no police have been seriously injured or killed. The fact that there's an overwhelming amount of them, with riot gear and semi-automatic weapons, with backup from the National Guard, probably didn't hurt to keep that figure down.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that if people are willing to burn down a dozen buildings, torch police cars, and discharge weapons as a result of this man not being put on trial, there's an outside chance that a person/group of people might get the idea to take the law into their own hands. Yeah,…

You mean despite the articles that get published every year that say Black Friday 'deals' are really either horrible crap manufactured specifically for that day, old stock that had to be moved out at low price anyway, discounts on prices that were jacked up prior to the sale just so they could advertise as "XX% off",…

I've said it before, I'll say it again - no school should have their own board/tribunal/informal hearing/etc for handling criminal acts by students. Attempting to substitute a private school hearing for arrest and trial is obstruction of justice, plain and simple, and should result in arrests for such.

"That's not to say that we should all give The Sims 4 a pass because its predecessors weren't so hot themselves."

I'm still not seeing the argument for a smart-watch over or in addition to a smartphone, and Apple's hasn't done anything here to convince me otherwise. A clickwheel feels like a functional step backwards for a mobile device, and there's not really anything else in the device that isn't on my phone right now. Even…

Then don't vote for her. I'm liberal, and am almost certainly going to vote third party. I won't vote for a Republican candidate, whose platform will be anti-gay, anti-women, and anti-poor. But I can't swallow voting for Hillary, who was a Wal-Mart board member and obviously anti-labor, supports an increase in H-1B…

I've never understood why, if they're so insistent that gay donors present a higher risk, that the various agencies couldn't simply accept them and require recipients to sign a waiver informing them of the higher "risk". Don't sign the waiver? You stay on the regular donor list until something else comes up.

When you think about it, it's not terribly different from anything else we eat. We happily consume the juices of a cow, -curdled- cow juice, animal organs, lobsters (which look like gigantic bugs, and typically still have some feces inside), frogs, squids, myriad plants and fungi... not to mention the synthetic…

Hey, Virginia lawyer here, too!

I am an attorney - the short version is that the merger doctrine takes crimes that share the same elements, and combines them into the larger charge. However, that doctrine doesn't apply to crimes that have different elements, or multiple crimes committed in sequence - so public indecency, aggravated assault, and…

I dislike the tactic of indicting on every possible crime available to create threats of double or triple-digit sentences. It's an intimidation tactic frequently used to force plea agreements - REGARDLESS of guilt or innocence. Very few defendants want to run the risk of spending the rest of their life in prison,…

I'm perfectly okay with this kid not using or entering anything his parents have used to fuck. However, he'd damn well better be consistent about this rule - which probably means no more going into his parents' bedroom, the kitchen, family/living room, backyard, car, bathrooms, and possibly his own bedroom.

So, your argument is that Alito was swayed to reverse from a position he researched for months in the space of a few days based on an argument from another justice that hasn't been made public? The simplest explanation is frequently the most likely one.

And this change happened because...? Again, please point to what's changed in the less than 5 days since he issued his opinion. Also, since his reasoning that opt-outs were legal was the majority opinion, and I don't believe any of the judges in the minority had any reason to consider them illegal, that would mean…

Judges make decisions based off of available evidence, prior legal precedent, and interpretation of statutes and constitutional law. I have no objection to judges reaching different conclusions with new data, but please tell me which of the things I mentioned changed in the few days between his issuing the ruling,…

He handed down a decision that explicitly said "We're ruling this way because (in part) this opt-out is an example of how this situation can be resolved legally." In less than a week, he contradicted his own ruling and said "nope, opt-outs aren't legal either". Regardless of agenda, that's pretty much the textbook…

I've been wanting to play this game for ages, but the only device I have that's compatible is Android - where I have NOT been able to find this game. Is there somewhere in particular to find it for Android outside of PSP emulators?