People seem to equate heavy with durable... That's at least what I have to caution myself against when I do something like pick up the iPhone ("this feels really nice... but it's probably less durable than plastic because it's glass.")

I've already told you, I have no use for dogma. You're not discussing, you're preaching. You've made broad generalizations about people (people I agree with are good, honest people; people I disagree with are slovenly and dangerous) and aren't interested in challenging your own ideas. So I have no use for you. I'll…

Really? "Virtually every OWS rally in the country?" You must not be paying attention to anything I say, because you can't pull something like that out of your ass without a citation to prove it. Now, I could talk about issues of socioeconomic status if you like - that sit-in rallies where people are giving away free…

It's hard to look hip when you refer to a "Tablet" running "Android," as though those words are foreign and weird to you. Better luck next time, Your Popeness!

Logos, a bible software company improbably located in my city, has that covered. And they're giving it away for free! You know Bible-reading Christians will give up money for religion! Why would you do that?

I don't know. I didn't go down to the Tea Party protests because their ideas for solving the issues they see in the country and my ideas are light years apart. I saw plenty of other crazy people at Tea Party events. Birthers, racists, people from separatist militias, etc. Which isn't to say it was a majority, but it…

The two are not mutually exclusive. We can do both.

What a lot of the research has shown us is that young girls who come from good families most often do talk to their parents, even if they're not required to. The problem is that this action limits options for girls who come from abusive homes. What is a 16-year-old girl in an abusive home to do when getting help means…

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo box set is actually floating near it's high price on Amazon, at least as far back as September. Not that it changes much - it has a low of just under $33, so it only varies by $1-2 over the last two and a half months.

To be fair, I don't think your interpretation of Hobbes' social contract is wrong (and hopefully you don't think mine is either). Once you accept that society is a compact between individuals to give up rights to share in the mutual benefits afforded by society you're still left with the question of where to draw the…

I have the same thing when people ask me about my TouchPad. "You mean an iPad?" ...sure, kid, now leave me alone.

OMG, Butters didn't LMS. FML :(

Well, I guess you weren't kidding!

You're a Libra asshole? I'm sorry to hear that. You can't change your sign, but you can work on not being an asshole! :-)

This seems to be the new "I'm going to edit your apostrophes/spelling." It's like the internet as a whole just discovered initialisms (I've seen this criticism all over the place recently). No one cares, though. I get irritated when people can't figure out which homonym of "there" to use, or "your," but I find this…

Me either! We're so alike!

I appreciate Scott's position as a film maker, but as a fan, how he wanted the film to be seen is irrelevant. I want to see movies how I want to see them, not how he wants me to see them. So Netflix works just great for me. I appreciate not having to store media, not having to go and get media, the convenience of…

I don't like the ads because they're ambiguous in a way that I think is more negative towards women than they're intended. On second reading I think the goal is to encourage people to be actively involved in moderating the consumption of their friends. I'm not sure how effective this is (probably in opposite…

I appreciate that the slogan is misleading, but then I hardly think that's a problem of OWS alone. I'm even positive that you could probably find hardcore communists in there. I can only describe for you my own experience, much as you've explained yours. Maybe Occupy Portland is different than OWS. Here, people talk…

Regarding the stereotype thing, I'm not sure your rebuttal added much. The Greek root στερεός can mean either "firm" or "solid," because it refers to physical objects (that is, it's analogous to words that denote sturdiness, that resist pressure, etc). But τύπος refers to an impression, like a dent. So a stereotype is…