I’ve seen a number of trolls using their real names on local news sites. It doesn’t always help (especially when the troll view is common). I was born in and still live in a suburb of Flint, MI. When the water issues first came to light the number of people who, even when they had to use their real names, claimed…

Course Packs used to be considered a fair-use exemption to copyright but then, someone sued Kinko’s about making a profit off of professors using their service to create them and won. So now, they have to be sold rather than just given away in class.

Even if you are married, if a vehicle is only in one name things can get bad. My mother lost a car she and my father had been making payments on after my father died even though she kept making the payments after his death. They wouldn’t allow her to simply continue the auto loan.

I watched Madoka Magica just after it finished airing since I heard that it was a deconstruction of the Magical Girl genre. As you may be able to tell from my username, I was really into that genre when I was younger so, I decided to check it out. While it did terrify me, I’m still glad I did it.

Definitely. That’s one I need to watch again.

I know it’s a joke but, a six-year-old is too young to be considered a millennial.

So, has there been any recent push to get the ERA passed more recently? It sounds like something that would be hard to argue against in the twenty-first century.

It’s never good to take balls to the face.

Hmm...91 including manga, graphic novels, and light novels. 53 not including books with pictures. The last six were America One by T.I. Wade, The Rho Agenda trilogy by Richard Phillips, Seeker by Arwen Elys Dayton, and Mars, Inc. by Ben Bova. There are a few larger books I’m looking forward to this month but, I tend…

Electricity became a ‘thing’ before globalization did. Everyone developed their own system and, at this point, is too entrenched to change. That’s similar to the reason that some places use 110 V AC @ 60 Hz while others use 220 V AC @ 50 Hz for mains power. I do wonder what circuit breaker amperage limits are common…

Don’t joke too much, we’re not too far from the intersection of VR and weak AI that would make it possible to actually ‘date’ a Vocaloid. I would be surprised if there’s not already a full VR Vocaloid dating sim in the works already.

It happened 17 years ago. There are high school seniors alive who were born after those shootings. When should people be allowed to make jokes about things that happened in the past?

Does this include my Galaxy Nexus running OmniROM 6.0.1? Probably not, unless I get my hands on an apk to test it out myself.

I was at a restaurant a couple weeks ago that charged ~3% extra for paying with a credit or debit card. The fee was added at the POS and was an after-tax addition.

Well, Ash was 10 and I was 12 so if you feel old....

Really? I wish I knew that before! I’ll probably do that the next time it comes up.

At this point, he’d be at least 29. The series started in April of 1997. I think that’s why they switch protagonists in the games even though they don’t in the animé.

The idea of fairness comes into play when you discuss why sports are split by gender in the first place. Sports are split by gender so that the most physically capable females can compete separately from the most physically capable males for the sake of fairness. If a woman with testosterone producing male gonads is…

That depends on where you make the cutoff. You’d have to have been born before January 16, 1982, to run for President of the United States in this election (you have to be 35 before being sworn in on the third Monday of January 2017). Most groups put the cutoff for millennials between 1984 and 1986 but I’ve seen at…

The problem isn’t so much the original structure it’s, as the article notes, the variations that occur based on local conditions.