The crash was 4 miles from my house...

Sorry, as a victim of child abuse myself, fuck the Paternos. People get a handful (at best) of opportunities in our lives to stand up for what's right when it truly counts. You DON'T get to fumble that opportunity and then claim that you are still someone of outstanding character. That title is reserved for people…

In addition, hyper-avoidance of interaction with surfaces that harbor bacteria shows complete ignorance of the human system of immunity.

Needs lens flares.

Been reading gawker for a while now and part of this post confuses me. You see, I thought being pious was bad. Based on the posts and comments, being religious makes you ignorant, racist, stupid, foolish, and barbaric.

You're right, but you're forgetting that not everyone thinks like you, and that doesn't make them wrong. The simple truth is that there are people that find the use of that language in their presence to be offensive. You can't change that, you can only react to it.

And racist words are just words. This is the problem—no one gets to decide whether other people are allowed to be offended by something. Dan Snyder doesn't get to decide whether his team's name is offensive, you don't get to ignore whether other people are offended by vulgar language, you don't get to decide other…

PLAINCLOTHES cops, not undercover cops. They would not be identifying themselves as police officers and pulling people over if they were UC.

They don't, but they do have something to do with his ability to be a critical part of a team. And whether anyone likes it or not, in the absence of direct experience (having played for you before), human beings use certain behaviors and proxies and indicators of other behaviors to make judgments about whether to…

Ah, agreed. And I'm not defending it—just saying that I think long ago this was intended to be a valuable experience that over time (or even very quickly), through ignorance, and "tradition", devolved into a meaningless abusive activity that no one ever questioned ala the Milgram experiments.

Well... I can give you my perspective. The reason you are confused is that willful harm for the sake of doing it was never the point. Hazing is *supposed* to be about shared experience and shared achievement. In other words, the idea is to promote close relationships by going through "hell" together. Consider boot…

By that logic, attempted murder isn't a crime. Nor is doing anything that is reckless or puts others in danger. Awesome! From now on, all the police have to do is ask, "Was there any ACTUAL harm done? No? Case closed."

Ah, ok.

Huh? I've been using automatic offline mode on all my PCs for months (last fall). Or do you mean just for Google-type documents?

Because I want to:

Yeah, I know—it is difficult sometimes to reconcile the needs of journalism with respect for privacy and culture. There is one view, which treats it all clinically and the other that is humanist. I don't pretend to know the right answer—I just wish we could more consistently take people's need for privacy into…

I see both sides, certainly. I personally don't see much chance of impacts from confusion or misinformation, but that's me. I'm not dismissing journalistic value.

Her parents have asked repeatedly that her name not be exposed in the media. Any reason not to honor that?

Only if you are Catholic or some related branch. Protestants don't really make that distinction, FWIW.

I'm going to be honest... I really have no desire to try it. I enjoy my current balance of Facebook (a few times/day) versus non-Facebook time (99.9% of my day). It helps me stay in touch with my friends, but I don't need (or want) it to dominate my user interface experiences.