It definitely used to be. When I was younger, broker and stupider, I'd download music, and I ran into quite a few where the song length was correct, but it was really just the first 15 seconds on loop, or whatever. The crazy thing is, for some of the bands, I wasn't quite sure if it was supposed to be like that or not.

I was out to eat at a pretty nice restaurant with my wife, my wife's best friend, and her husband. The husband didn't know what to order, so he asked the waitress what she liked and ordered that. When it came out, he didn't like it and asked to have something else instead. This made my wife and me pretty embarrassed.…

hyphens would have really helped

You're a Lions fan, aren't you? Your life doesn't need to be this way, it really doesn't.

Now lets say 5 customers, go into the store and instead of buying them they do the replication thing you said, the merchandise is still there and the 5 now have the game but someone does losing something, the person who worked on the game missed out on 5 sales and while you have the game the person made no profit.

If you could go into a store, touch something, and an exact copy of it appeared in your hand, meaning the store didn't lose any merchandise, and the thing was something you weren't going to buy anyway, would you really feel that bad walking out with it? How about if the power you had to copy that thing cost you…

Man, my pavivdv is, like $73/hr, you need to show a little initiative here.

My worst roommate was my cousin. I went to college, and after a few months, he followed me. We had been pretty close growing up, but now that he was "on his own" he kind of took a slide.

I have a June birthday. When I went in for kindergarten testing, I was hitting it out of the park, the teachers were all saying how ready I was, but as soon as they saw my birthdate, they wanted to hold me back a year. My parents didn't listen and they put me in school. I was the third youngest in my grade, until one…

I think much of this misperception comes from the fact that men behave the way they do toward women because they think that's the way they would like women to behave toward them. Reading through comments, I've seen a lot of guys saying (and I've been guilty of this at times in my life too) that they wish they would…

I used to watch QI stateside on a website called something life Surf the Channel or something. It had quite a lot of good TV shows on them, both British and American. I quite liked them, but I find I have less time to do that since having a kid and stuff.

For some reasons the kids in rich neighborhoods — despite getting the same funding, ostensibly — don't seem to have the problems we do.

It depends on the school. If you go to a wealthier area, you'll see some amazing schools because the school can afford the innovative stuff, the extra teachers to keep class size small, and the renovations to the building. In poorer areas, there is a huge class size to teacher ratio, there are old/outdated books and…

Same here. When you assume the "No." The only thing that can happen, in your mind, is being hurt or being hurt and embarrassed, so why bother with either? At least if you don't actually ask them out, there is a sliver of hope that maybe they will initiate something.

Being treated like an adult at work is amazing! My previous job was for an outsource company. We were hourly, but didn't have shift work. We were consistently told to "own" the business, know what needed to be done and get it done. But they also felt they needed "metrics" to provide the contracting company, so we were…

I guess it depends on the reason for seeing said art. I wasn't expecting Shakespeare, so it met my expectations. And we like to travel and it gave us a desire to see a whole new region of the world that we hadn't really considered much before. I think that's an incredibly good result from seeing art.

I actually liked Monuments Men. Was it Oscar-worthy amazingness? No. Was it a fun, little-seen aspect of WWII? Yes. And it totally got me and my wife interested in going to see the Ghent altarpiece if we get a chance.

I'm sure if you asked someone if they'd rather spend time in jail or be dead, they'd choose jail every time.

Basically, it comes down to the reason for the penal system. The pro-death penalty crowd seem to think it is about retribution, or some such. Those of us against the death penalty see the penal system as a way of removing dangerous individuals from society, and in a perfect world, helping them get better and re-enter…

Yeah, but any other conviction could be overturned when new evidence shows up. For someone who is executed, all the new evidence in the world won't bring them back.