TL;DR: 2-8% of rape allegations being rare is not a low rate.

So you wish this show was a different show?

I think kids today are so obsessed about being part of a social movement (many of which are little more than memes) that they will just bandwagon onto anything.

I’ve always found the consistent casual natural of the violence is just part of the world they live in. You’re assuming that the violence is supposed to excite you, when its really just how the world works. It’s like getting bored by all the spells in Harry Potter. You’re not supposed to be thrilled by casual killing…

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I’m pretty sure the point of the scene was to explain Theon’s eventual tuning on Ramsey to protect Sansa. Sansa has always had male protectors (Sandor, Tyrion, Littlefinger) and the scene was about Theon, not about Sansa (she’s already been utterly broken down, and this is hardly the worst thing Ramsey has done). This…

Are we writing long articles again about how you don’t like a thing? This reaction is as boring as it is predictable. The purpose of what you call “exploitation” in media is to evoke emotional responses in the viewer. The reason they show nudity/rape/blood/poop/dismemberment etc. is to make you feel horny/grossed…

Schmeiser lost his case because he knowingly an willingly replanted seed that wasn’t his.

This story is bogus and has been bogus for a while.

I agree that any big company is going to exploit the advantages that come with size. It seems though that technology is making this more and more difficult. Apple and Samsung’s size advantages are based on the fact that it used to be very hard to get a thing made. You needed lots and lots of smart people to design and…

The only reason Schmeiser was prosecuted is because he knowingly and willfully propagated this seed. If some patented material ends up in your field and you harvest it, no one will sue you. If you know that some of that seed (which Schmeiser did) is patented and you willfully collect it with the intention of using it,…

Schmeiser? Really? He knowingly and willfully propagated Monsanto’s seeds and used them without paying for them. It turns out this is against the law. Just like if I found a copy of Windows 95 in the gutter and copied the disk and installed it on all my computers without paying for it. The fact that this is illegal is …

Your choices are only constrained though by your original choice to participate. You can absolutely not buy any Apple products. If you truely need a smartphone though, you have at least 4 reasonable options (Apple, Android, Windows, and Blackberry, not to mention Amazon and Tizen and all that).

In fact, you can do the…

The big companies use market leverage and patent law to bully farmers into doing things their way.

“Unsanctioned” my ass. Make it illegal. If I were a councilperson I’d be leading a parade to enact this law immediately. “Failure to safely restrain a handcuffed arrestee during transport is a crime which will be punished by no less than 30 days in jail, no less than a $10,000 file, and ineligibility for city…

You sound horrible. Being a whiner about getting married when your partner clearly doesn't want to is terribly unattractive.

We got a new band teacher in HS. He was 24ish and his wife was 19. Pretty young but ok. Then we learned she was from the same HS he used to teach at. A HS he left under mysterious circumstances.

I wonder if "having a six-pack" ever made it into someone's obit.

In Florida it’s illegal to touch manatees.

PEOPLE FALLING OUTSIDE THE GUIDELINES WILL BE SUPPRESSED.