The actual language training is often done at the Defense Language Institute at the Presidio of Monterey... and as highly regarded as that facility is, a few weeks with Rosetta Stone would be more effective than a year at that place.

(Source: I trained in Chinese linguistics there. Their classes are just a…

I don't know how they do language school at the DLI in Monterey now, but when I was in (2001) their "elite" language training methods were almost identical to those used in high school... but at a firehose pace, and for 6-8 hours a day. It's ineffective, the material is dated as hell (for instance: we were taught to…

I don't know why, but my initial obvservation is that caps lock seems to be disproportionately popular with racing fans. I have a few friends into racing on my Facebook - nearly every post is caps, and all his nascar/racing friends type in all caps too.

Telling businesses they can't discriminate is a world of difference from telling people they can't carry around point-n-click death devices that have no discernible other purpose.

People don't want libertarianism because most of the tenets of their ideology apply to privatizing our public infrastructure while promoting the "freedom" of large businesses to do whatever they want, which mostly includes being able to lie on packaging and polluting the shit out of the environment without…

Except that 90% of the time their religions don't actually say what they're claiming and they're just using it as a mask for bigotry that makes them uncomfortable around certain people. For instance, the bible says a lot more about giving all your money to the poor than it does anything that could be implied to…

To be fair, I'd trust the car to drive before I'd let an idiot like that behind the wheel again.

Tesla Model S. No matter how hard I look, I can't find the damn carburetor!

Ah, there's your problem. You're out of horn fluid.

Bag of milk... That's a canadian thing, right?

This is fun and all, but I really think there's more important things I could be reading about. I'm going to go over to Gizmodo and see if there's any news on the new Dargon capsule.

Do you even know Rule 34?

GTA online is now mostly just 12-year-old COD rejects running around shooting each other and screaming racial/homophobic slurs in a squeaky, prepubescent voice. I've tried to sign in and play missions, but since no one wants to do anything but scream and pretend it's Call of Duty, it's pointless.

So IE doesn't suck anymore? When did this happen?

Oh yes, but last time I checked there weren't a whole lot, and the ones that were there sucked. I gave up and went to Netflix. I also have a Hulu account, though I'm still not sure how I feel about paying 8 bucks a month to be advertised to every 6 minutes.

That being said, a neurotic, mentally damaged and deranged dog that goes nuts at everything is probably not what a robber wants to deal with!

(But seriously folks, be kind to animals)

I actually thought that a "Prime" membership was supposed to give you access to unlimited free videos. What ever happened to that?

It's been banned ever since Harley-Davidson riders gained equal protection under civil rights laws.

...Isn't the world just a beautiful place? (I'm not even sure what a few of these refer to)

And when was that?