I can confirm that HDMI connection from a cheap crappy AMD "powered" laptop to my TV does work, but it's not plug and play by any stretch of the imagination. With NVIDIA, it just seems to work, with AMD, I have to tweak.

I think there are more men (and boys) who already respect and will always continue to respect women/girls than these pieces of filth who just so happend to be born male but they are not men. Not to worry, they will wish they could be drugged themselves when they're getting gang raped in prison, except that the guards…

No wonder obesity and diabetes is quickly becoming an epidemic in China as well. Wonder why the government there didn't kick McFat out of China, the way they did Google.

I'm not trying to be that guy, but isn't that something that can seriously harm the little fellow? This is coming from a guy who killed a gerbil after feeding her with chocolate (as per my ignorance).

Oh, I know, that's why I wrote that it's just PR. They like to put on shows for the citizens to remind them that it's all about them, even though they all know it has nothing to do about them.

I'd love a smart person who is actually knowledgeable about this to comment. I bet this is the Chinese communist version of PR. I doubt one heck maybe even fifty of these could have a beneficial impact, especially considering that they're not trying to remove static pollution, to say nothing of the fact that "acid…

I have tried, and tried and tried (yes, three times) to get into it, starting from the beginning, getting up to around the 4th chapter then I remember this thought that I had the first time I picked up the book: the constant name-dropping. Martin drops a new name in nearly every single sentence. By about chapter 4 I…

The issue is that you clearly have a job that permits that. I reference a part-time job I had while I returned to school where I clearly told my manager that I do not check work e-mails unless I am at work getting paid. I didn't mean it in a standoffish way, just a fact. She did not agree, and so even though I…

Simple, but effective. Another thing that is great to do is on the way home from work, think about the worst thing that happened that day, analyze it objectively and think about how you could have handled it more effectively. Doing this will mentally prepare you to "close the door" on work before you get home, and…

I'm curious how you're doing lately? It has been a little over 2 years that you wrote this.

Lucky!

The Chinese did have an ingenious way to get rid of feces long before the West did. But, I do hope that this exhibit gives credit where credit is due.

The longer I watch it the funnier it gets!

Enemy, hero - good, bad - yes, these are perspectives. But there is truth in inherent goodness and inherent evil that's not subjective. If you have ever experienced fear, and then being saved, then you know what is good and what is evil.

Nah, don't go down this path. You have good points, and I think many are misunderstanding your pragmatism or cynicism. These are often good values because they point out the ugly in us all, and we all have "ugly" in us. Sounds like you have some stories you don't want to share, but maybe you should instead of…

...and yet we have progressed beyond trusting the holy man who stood on top of grand structures and told us that if we sacrifice this or that then the rain will come. That happened because there were people who likely, silently first, then out loud, expressed their skepticism. Human progress, that is, social,…

Thanks for the recommendation! Have you read George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I? Definitely worth a read, and yeah, it's crystal clear that W wasn't evil, in fact, very close the point of no return he was close to going mad over regrets and fears that he miscalculated, but…

I think this is more embarrassing, no?

"(the equivalent today would be like having a major politician — like a John Kerry — killed by a terrorist group)"