That's a moving goal post. "Less people" is a dramatically different bar than "practically a wasteland." Yes, the West coast has fewer people, but it still has a lot of people, including the #1 and #13 most highly populated states. 50 million people live on the West coast. If you want to find a "wasteland," you need…

We must disagree on what his point is, since I'm sure we can both see that the most highly-populated state in the Union is on the West coast, and that WA is on the upper end of the scale (13th most populated state). If he were going to designate states which "might as well be a wasteland," he should look at that…

Yeah, if it's a story about people getting pepper sprayed over an Xbox, or trampled in a Walmart, or eating a homeless man's face, then it's Florida. If it involves crazy unsafe vehicles or doing ridiculously dangerous things in the snow and ice, it's Russia.

This map seems to disagree with you...

So what you're saying is if I start stealing iPhones I just need to post a sign blaming it on the nearest cell tower and steal enough of them all at once that I can pretend the sheer number supports my claim? Got it.

Depends where you live, and obviously how many allergies you have. When I was in college I rented a house with a girlfriend on a lake. I probably wrote half my papers out on the deck looking out over the water. And that was in the rainy pacific northwest. I even bought one of those clay fire pit things so I could sit…

You had me at really, really quick.

But it's precisely the way the term is used that makes it stupid, sexist, and (frankly) lazy. If guys used the term inoffensively, such as, "Guess she's not into me like that, I'm just in the friend zone," then it wouldn't be ridiculed. The reason it's mocked is because it's used to convey an image of the guy as being…

It still sounds like whoever uses the term is appealing to a sense of victimization, for two reasons. First, as the video points out, the most likely answer is that if you're in the "friend zone" it's probably because she's not into you. Thus, you probably weren't going to end up anywhere else no matter what (whether…

Show more people? Show no people. Text only. Robots. Animals. A map. A cup of coffee. Steve Carell's head on a stack of pancakes. People peering out from inside John Malkovich's head. The Fellowship of the Ring staring out at you from above a bunch of Nazgul riding horses. What can't you do with a poster?

So is your first amendment right to free speech, but you can still be charged with a crime for libelous speech, hate speech, lying under oath, impeding an investigation (lying to the police), inciting violence... having a right to a thing doesn't mean that it's guaranteed to be hands-off by the government, nor should…

Can anyone tell me why she would own two 28mm lenses, an f1.8 and an f2.8? I love reading tips from professional photographers.

You must not watch her stuff, then. She also talks about her family, religion, society... you know, the same stuff as every other comedian.

Ah, that might be a worthwhile line of thought, but that didn't seem to be the argument people were making. They seemed to be saying what Greenpeace should be doing right now (buy a tanker truck, buy a horse and cart, etc - see the various replies to my various comments). Which seemed counterproductive in the face of…

That still brings me back to the question of why it's inefficient to use resources you already have, rather than spending a bunch of money to acquire new resources. Horses cost less than tanker trucks, I assume, but they already own the solar truck. The lack of efficiency should have been a consideration when they…

I guess I'm just not clear on how that's better. On the one hand, they have a truck that can provide electricity. I'm being told they should ignore that resource and spend a bunch of money to buy other resources that are more efficient... but doesn't that seem inefficient, given that they already own a solar truck?…

Does Greenpeace have a tanker truck filled with fuel? The article says they built the solar powered truck 10 years ago, and apparently they drive it around a bit to chat up what they see as the virtues of solar power. So the upfront cost for this free electricity seems relatively small compared to buying or renting a…

That seems to be making assumptions about how they would get the fuel there. The truck is, as far as I can tell, stationary. So it's not currently consuming fuel. If that's true (I have no idea) then the fuel it consumed to get there wasn't available to emergency vehicles or generators in New York anyway, so it never…

This seems like an odd standard. Either write about every creepy app or don't write about any? Does that apply to fun games? There are thousands of fun games in the app store, do they have some moral obligation to review all of them if they review any? I guess I just don't understand why there's anything wrong with…

Fair enough, but there's a major gas shortage in New York right now, on top of the half a million people without power, so if the choice is between inefficient power and no power...? It's not like they're claiming to be powering the state. They're powering one building, and are letting people charge their phones for…