Well it’s pretty far from being on the same economic level, and you don’t need to put quotations around bribery, it really is.

In order of questions raised:
1) Because it’s still illegal whether Americans care or not...but mostly money. It cost us some filthy lucre. Maybe we can also needle the Russians a bit. Also we actually look good to rest of the planet, so it’s an easy PR win.

Because the analogy is not comparing scale, body counts, or material costs of destruction. Rather its about questioning why we would expect anyone in a foreign country to alter their behavior at all while they in their homeland when we would never do the same. Better analogies would be Mumbai, Beslan, or tsunamis, but…

Because whether it was an accident or terrorist attack does not matter. It’s question of whether it was a tragic event, which is was, and if Americans care at all, which we don’t. We didn’t stop our lives when Mumbai happened either. That would have been a better analogy. Compared to that this is a poor analogy, but…

It’s a perfectly reasonable analogy. When have Americans ever altered their daily routine due to something that happening in a foreign country? People don’t generally stop living their lives and go into mourning every time something bad happens on earth, regardless of who caused it to happen.

Rather than create the music for each planned installment of the game, it was suggested that O’Donnell compose a score for the entire franchise all at once—music that would span an entire decade of games.

It’s not a Ubisoft game, but it feels like one: Watch Dogs in the desert.

I think you have a point, but the military has become so sacrosanct in general that it’s almost unthinkable to hear a civilian say something like this. Unless of course, you have really funny friends.

You have got be some sort of veteran because that is the kind of dark and funny crap you hear all day in the military.

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No, but they probably should have a human review copyright claims and DMCA strikes, automated or not. It’s evloved from more than just an online video app, people run businesses from it. These businesses make YouTube it’s money. The whole enterprise is not something they’re doing out of the goodness of their hearts;…

Really? No one else will grab this low hanging fruit? Okay.

They’ve found your mom’s dildo.

At that point the officer’s weapon discharged and the suspect was struck by a projectile

To be fair, police get away with way more crap in their own country than soldiers do on a deployment. They have investigation and soldiers actually get convicted. Not saying the miltiary should have carte blanche either, but just how messed up things are domestically.

So cops can just execute you for any violation they see fit? Good to know. Here I was thinking you had to commit a capital offense for the death pentalty and then have jury decide it.

“Time served?” It’s not time served if you end up getting paid, regardless of whose paying, because a judge said that the punishment initial was wrong. That’s compensation for a screw up by authority. I have no idea what a judge will decide on this (although recent history favors labor). However I’m pretty sure he…

Except his sentencing is not in the CBA. Yes, the apparatus is for discipline is there, but there is nothing in there for max suspensions. This seems to be the one area where the NFLPA was smart when they hammered the CBA out; since there is no schedule of punishment for these infractions, and the suspensions amount…

The part about comissioner discipline, Article 43. There are limits to fines, but nowhere is there is a schedule for max punishment involving off the field conduct. It may seem normal for Goodell to haphazardly hand out suspensions, but it’s not in the CBA, at least not for the stuff he’s been in the news for lately.…

Yeah, but to be fair, we are dropping lots of high explosives on those guys, so it evens out.

Out of curiosity, what is your definition of homophobic? If there’s one thing not in dispute about the man, it’s that he’s homophobic.

No such law, really? I remember Gawker running a mechanics with crappy customers mailbag a month or so ago and this very scenario arose and lo and behold, the customer had to get the car towed out because the police wouldn’t let him drive it.