Uber runs criminal background checks on drivers.

I drive for Uber - they DO perform background checks on us. That, plus the fact that drivers have to submit licenses, car registration and insurance info, cell phone number, and get GPS tracked for every ride means that attempting anything like what this guy did is exceptionally stupid.

It was muy bueno...

Why are you replying to a two and a half year old post?

I went to Katsucon last year - on day 3, I woke up with nasty chills, to the point where I was shaking despite a thermal blanket and an assortment of flu meds. The ride back from the con included a stop at Mellow Mushroom, which they'd been looking forward to the entire trip. I went in with them, and faded in and…

I couldn't understand what the senator thought this bill brought to the table, then I read your comment, and the light bulb went on. That's a fairly disgusting and regressive view of gays - "Oh, I know, if we can't stop them from getting married directly, we'll just say that anybody with an STD can't get married! …

Nintendo stated plans to have DLC for Smash, including stages and characters. It's been widely assumed that Mewtwo will be the first of several, so the idea of a second character wasn't wildly outrageous.

And yet, people frequently do things that they have no authority to do.

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."

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…