Venice to Prague is about 500 miles, in 1403 that’s a distance that some merchants regularly traveled; one example from historical records: that Jacob Fugger had processed metals sent from the region to Venice to defeat a rival merchant. You are correct that Moor doesn’t necessarily mean “black”, but most Moors were…

Most do, but not all. Always check what ports are open on a new firewall.

The answer is that it depends. For a webserver? Probably yes. But port 11211 is a valid port for data transfers in some setups, particularly those serving certain legacy applications, and setting an incoming rate limit could slow down certain communications. As a note, it’s very possible your “IT guy” blocked this…

Agreed. And it’s worth noting that Ryder and Reeves were basically studio decisions, shoved in because they were big names at the time.

I’m going to somewhat disagree. It’s visually gorgeous and it’s over the top in some really fun ways. Perhaps more significantly, it made it so monsters in movies were no longer considered to be just for campy, low-budget movies. Without Dracula, we probably don’t get The Shape of Water, or really just about anything…

Violence, or at least the threat of it, is lurking in the background of every so-called “peaceful” protest movement. We lionize MLK, but Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam, as well as similar groups, scared the shit out of white Americans by openly stating that black people should defend themselves. Politics and the…

I suppose all those sexually abusive priests were atheists too then. This has pretty much nothing to do with him being atheist, and everything to do with him being a man in a position of power who used that to abuse women; the same as all of the other sexual predators. As far as political leanings, the vast majority…

Fun story, this idea has also been beaten multiple times in court. So if this passes, Rhode Island is just flushing money down the toilet.

Ladies of Deaspin, I have one question: why?

I didn’t mind them myself. It was more of a joke that, obviously, the doll doesn’t have that feature.

But does it come with impaling action?

Brings new meaning to the term “ankle breaker”.

None of these lists include “getting hit by a bus”, I am disappointed in you Deadspin!

Quite frankly, at many hospitals it is absolutely true. As someone who works with doctors behind the scenes, the ones at major hospitals who make the big money tend to be complete assholes. The broeist, pickiest, jerkiest people I’ve ever met were specialty doctors; they simply do not care. I saw a doctor have his…

All is despair, everything is ash in my mouth. US Soccer has decided, in the face of overwhelming problems that could absolutely destroy the men’s soccer program, to stay the fucking course. US Soccer has told every single fan out there “hey fuck you, your opinion doesn’t matter, fuck off and buy our shit like a good…

Fair enough that he revised the story/modified it. I have to admit I don’t know the series well enough to pass judgement entirely. Getting back to the original idea though, if Rian Johnson started out with that conceptual moment, it’s not a bad one to have; and it does become the springboard for the second half of the…

Let’s start with the claim that fossil fuels made slaves unnecessary, while it’s certainly true that fossil fuels helped, the initial uses for steam power were fairly basic; they couldn’t do delicate work. Steam engines, therefore, mostly replaced oxen, horses, donkeys and other animals in areas where they were…

I mean, that sounds like the writer of Sword Art Online is just a bad writer then. I mean, I can think up a few reasons off the top of my head why an antagonist would want to trap people within an MMO, everything from the insane (want to watch people really take this game seriously or it amuses me to see a game become…

*Ahem* Fuck off.