It was no party. However I wouldn't ever suggest to a female survivor that she somehow had it easier than I did. If anything's a great equalizer that demonstrates the point at which it's meaningless to nitpick over who's worse off, it's rape. It's right on up there with full-body third-degree burns for situations…

I guess I should probably answer the actual intended question if I'm gonna comment. I handle it by getting over it. Not OVER over it, in the sense that it's always there and I'm hardly forgetting it, but over it enough that the topic doesn't have a direct line to an open wound. I've had a good number of years to…

As a male rape survivor, I'm mostly sitting back and smirking. Given that in my state at least it's not legally possible for a man to be raped (the charge is forcible sodomy at worst), I find it great that people are finally waking up to how our law makes a mocker...oh, wait, people still don't care? Welp, guess my…

I regularly tell my customers, "Don't get lazy and neglect on-site backups of your data." Off-site storage is handy to have, but the tradeoff for storage that you can't physically lay hands on is obvious: if it goes missing, or goes on a little stroll into someone else's possession, you can't do a thing about it.

He raises a valid point about how much some religious groups seem hung up on the ritual and the adoration of artifacts rather than the spiritual side of things. Some people doubtless find comfort in the ritual, in a set of familiar routines for worship. Other people doubtless consider it empty. As long as a…

I'm still not clear on the limits of the thing. So far the only things I know for sure are that it can play the music you uploaded to Google's music cloud, and can play Youtube videos on your TV. If that's the entirety of what it can do, then definitely gonna hafta pass on it, as that basically makes it inferior to…

The FDA's conundrum is that our understanding of the workings of biology is so incomplete that research is akin to searching for a needle in a pile of needles in a pitch-black room, and there's no easy way to tell whether something is a miracle cure or the extinction of our species. If something gets by the FDA then…

There are 23 chromosomal pairs, of which X and Y are only one. It's likely that the mutation is not on the sex-dependant pair in which case boys and girls are equally vulnerable.

Typical US houses have one central heating/cooling unit that's set to heat in winter and cool in summer.

Humans also tend not to drop straight down by twenty or more feet at a time, which is why you don't see many people in a position to pull off a landing like that. And any such landing would then be followed by rolling around on the ground crying like a baby after both kneecaps and probably several other bones…

How would I protect millions of people? Simple. Fire the screeners and install a sturdy locked door on the cockpit of all the planes. Money and time are now saved!

We are building a fighting force... of extraordinary magnitude.

Cast-iron tea set, huh? Do I detect the sound of someone who got scammed a couple hundred bucks by Teavana with their made-up pitch about the benefits of their $200 cast-iron teapots?

Yeah, I'm gonna go with Fox here and suggest that you get someone to talk to about that. The games aren't going to help you with your problems, and neither will internet people. Making friends can be learned, but just plopping yourself in a club may not be the best first step towards that.

Sure can. Player A did not receive his stuff back. Player A is still alive today. That's 100% evidence that he in fact did not kill himself 4 realz if he didn't get his stuff back.

Ugh, Jesus. You people are supposed to be gamers, I shouldn't have to spell this out for you. THERE WAS NEVER A REAL SUICIDE THREAT. IT WAS A CON. I will now explain in the easiest possible manner that I can think of.

Okay, no. This guy didn't run in front of the group of people and tell them that he was depressed only to be met with laughter. His in-game text messages where he contacted the person who blew up his ship and took the cargo were displayed to the crowd, in which he threatened to kill himself if the other person…

No, what was shown was a player sending a whine about how having their virtual spaceship blown up was going to make them kill themselves. While playing a game where virtual spaceships blow each other up. This is not a new phenomenon in online PvP games, ever since Ultima Online and maybe even before, you'd find…

No, he's right. The bottoms of sleeping bags don't perform as well. I was camping on snow once with scouts as a teenager, and the snow under most of the tents was melted in the morning, in patches that corresponded to the sleeping bag placements inside the tents. The only one who hadn't done so was one scout who,…

Yeah, if you don't have an ipad already the new one looks dandy. But if you already owned the ipad 2, it's more of a sidegrade than upgrade; you pay in size and weight for the boosted screen resolution.