If they cast Bruce Willis to play MLK, I’d be prejudging it, too.

Those are my thoughts. He’s a thief, but he mostly stole IP (as in, scarcity-free objects) and provided a way for people just scraping by to enjoy entertainment and culture they otherwise couldn’t afford (a must for the social clout that drives, say, making personal network connections or achieving the “cultural fit”…

That’s a lot of extrapolation from little actual data. This is less of a reasoned discussion about the realities of the subject of the article directly implies (even a high-level one), and more of a rant. Like writing about how industrialization would affect the power dynamics of societies from the viewpoint of a…

At this point, the only time I see an anime character and have any sort of cognitive dissonance is when they’re straight-up blonde-haired-blue-eyed but have a Japanese name (or, actually, if they’re brown-skinned and not explicitly shown to be African/Indian/MENA/etc.). For everyone else, I perceive them as Japanese…

Because this is about an American film actively avoiding casting an actress from a demographic that often gets passed over for roles for bullshit reasons, even though the source material called for an actress specifically from that demographic.

Secure generally means classified IME...

I’m speaking from experience WITH the military. If you were allowed to bring a phone in, you weren’t in a secure area. Maybe one with sensitive info, but not classified. The main exceptions are high level officials carrying gov’t issued devices. Everything else is assumed to be compromised and restricted.

Well, you’ll be happy to know that most of the secure environments I’ve encountered (including at the Pentagon) forbid cell phones. So I’m not sure where you’ve been, but they must not take security too seriously.

Just because it happens doesn’t mean it’s correct or optimal.

Well, no, since it still has a microphone.

Black people can get tans.

My Obama near-sighting story: I was at Howard in 2009, and a bunch of students decided to get together and march from campus at about 5am to go to the inaugaration. We get to the crowd at the 7th Street entrance to the mall, and wait there in sub-freezing temps for 3 hours. About 30 minutes in, I realize I have to…

As a kid, I always got that mixed up with The Green Mile. I imagined they must be about similar things, though of varying thickness and hue.

“It’s not like you can ask YouTube to take the video down.”

The government can mandate that it do things like prefund its retirement benefits for the next 70 years (which they did, which makes it look insolvent on paper for a dumb, impossible-to-overcome reason).

It seems like it has less of a problem to do with USPS and just with the business of shipping valuables in general. I’ve always had the fewest problems with them and the most (oh, god, so many) with UPS, principally because they shadowbanned my address from receiving packages without a signature and, of course, are…

It took me a second to see it, but I had a good laugh when I did.

They tried. They really did. There was a pointwhere the 360 seemed to have more JRPGs than the PS3. Last Remnant, Lost Odyssey, Tales of Vesperia, Infinite Undiscovery, Enchanted Arms, Blue Dragon, and then True Fantasy Live Online in development. I wonder how the bottom fell out (Japanese weren’t buying 360s,…

And Jar Jar Binks was just a simple alien amphibian whosa talky de funny way. [Insert shuck and jive here]

It’s all relative, I suppose. Here we are having an aneurysm about transgender people and restrooms, when many countries (including Japan) have unisex restrooms. (I hear there are less than there used to be, but they do exist. When we encountered one while out in the boonies, we ended up having all the girls go first,…