The wrong track thing surprises me. I haven’t lived there in about 4 years now, but I never remember finding trains on the wrong track. After taking NYC’s system and ending up on the wrong train because it was running on the wrong track, I vowed never to complain about DC’s system again because at least you never…

Come on, that’s not fair. On many levels. A friend of mine worked there after we graduated law school for some time because it was the only way she could get health insurance. A lot of the baristas at my local store are putting themselves through school and they have some serious hustle by networking with customers.…

I’d ordinarily agree if it weren’t for the fact one of my aunts went to a boarding school not because my grandmother didn’t want her around the house, but because she knew she’d receive a poor education at the local high school and likely end up pregnant at 15 like most of the other girls in the area. She also took…

The only thing I thought I heard at the end was “It’s an excuse to take away our freedoms!” But it’s hard to make out.

Cersei and Jaime being Targaryens rather than Lannisters is a fairly popular theory, at least with book readers. I’ve always kind of liked it because it adds some poignancy to Tyrion and Tywin’s relationship as Tyrion may in fact be Tywin’s only legitimate child.

I somehow managed to survive my mom refusing to buy me an SNES because my NES still worked perfectly fine. This kid will be fine, too.

Yeah I work for a much smaller company than this, and I get an email in this style at least once a week from the execs.

I restarted about 4 times, as well, trying to get a character model I actually liked once in game. I’m happy with the final result of my last try, but man, that whole system could have used more time in the oven.

I think where you went wrong was saying such parents are lazy or money obsessed. And stupid a few posts down. Sounds a lot like blaming them for what happened to their child.

Well, there’s more than those two items on the list of factors to determining whether someone is actually an independent contractor for IRS/DOL purposes or not. I’ve had to go through those in the past to give some on advice on classifying workers as independent contractors versus employees. The decisions in the case…

Damn, and I thought I was jaded! I can’t really see what others might have said other than brinylon (I assume you dismissed or they are all greys?), so maybe they were all worse than brinylon’s comment. I was surprised to see that all you had to say was “what a cliche” about a guy that intervened and put his life in…

I want to know but I am afraid to Google it.

I’m sitting in the middle of the blizzard right now, and while its wild out there and I don’t recommend anyone go out on the roads at the moment, this is far from the worst storm I’ve lived through in my relatively short time on this planet. Hell, we don’t even have any major outages at the moment despite the wind.…

I’ve had people say that to me as well about my father, and I have the same reaction. I am entirely certain that I will not regret it. I think people with great parents just can’t get it.

Yeah, that was a bad argument and the DOJ attorneys involved knew it. They didn’t have anything else to bring—the balance was squarely with the complainants for a preliminary injunction.

Looks like she is working pretty damn hard right now.

The one that always gets me is when people use “Keep on Rocking in the Free World” as a “woo, america!” song, clearly unaware of any of the other lyrics.

It’s really important to analyze failure and what went wrong. I’m quite interested in where Hillary thinks they went wrong now that she’s had a chance to reflect in the aftermath. Analyzing history and what went wrong when and where is how we learn and hopefully identify what not to do.

I think bad unions do harm. On the other hand, my brother is union and just got fired for a dumb reason and all his coworkers have rallied behind him and then union to file a grievance and put pressure on mangement. I can see why management hates it—my bosses don’t love it when our union grieves stuff—but good for…

At my office, part of the workforce is unionized and part is not. I’m a non-union corporate employee but see some benefits from the union’s collective bargaining because after our employer agrees to something for the union, they might look and say “well shit, it’s going to be more expensive to have two different plans…