I don't know, perhaps it's how you measure it.

The difference between the fellow's withdrawals and your scenarios is the fact that his withdrawals left an electronic trail. Someone diving into a pallet of money or stealing cookies from an unattended jar are less likely to get caught, than a guy taking money using his name.

If you went to a regular ATM, there would be a limit to how much you can withdraw. I assume the fact that he was using the card at casinos is how he got so much. Of course, he probably could have bought gold, diamonds or something tangible, but I don't see how you could pull that much money out of regular old machines.

I'm sure the dude may have flirted with her on the plane or had been very friendly because they were going to be sitting beside each other for some time — you say that similar things have happened to you — but what I don't get is why the blogosphere is so obsessed with the story. I'm sure there's a guy having a flirty…

I could only take about four minutes and there definitely should be a language warning, but what I saw looked like a couple sitting in their living room watching television, putting it on mute and talking about what they have to do tomorrow and what they should eat.

Good point. It'd be a pain if the couple's financing fell through.

The comment four spots before mine said they had discussed this study in class and while they felt he had some interesting points about race, there were issues with his methodology.

I'm finished with this conversation. I made a comment to a blogpost three days ago and obviously I'm of one opinion and you think you're of another, so nothing will change.

I understand how he may have come up with his theory, but I don't think you can say how many votes a person should have had, if something was different because lots of things can be different. For example in my Virginia Beach example, the 2008 Republican candidate for the House received 3000 more votes than the 2004…

The host's complaint about his arms getting tired goes along with my question in another thread. Of course I'm sure a soldier is stronger, but I can see how it'd be hard on the arms.

I've said that when it's possible for me to get over without slowing — a time when I'm more likely to be in the right lane anyway (unless the right lane is torn to bits by all the traffic) — I'll usually get over out of a faster driver's way and sometimes I'll increase my speed a mph or so, where I can get to the next…

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Thanks. Now, I see. The green lines are operating his feet like a marionette. Cool.

Congrats to OSU and all, but I'm curious as to how the weight is distributed. It doesn't really look like the soldier is hanging from his arms and though there's something on his feet, they don't look like vacuum pads. I know the fellow is strong, but even chin-ups are more dangly.

There's never been any question whether people prejudiced against African-Americans voted for Obama or if fewer of them had voted, he would have done better.

I appreciate the pointer to Stephens-Davidowitz's op-ed, but as I read the piece, he starts from the fallacy that Obama's election may have proved "prejudice was not a major factor against a black presidential candidate in modern America", then he calculated how many votes the President should have gotten and…

We did a lot of "attachment parenting" with both of our kids. My wife is a feminist and though I'm male, I've been a feminist my whole life. I agree with what you've said.

I had to use IMDB to place Jason Ritter's familiar-sounding voice, but Kristen Schaal definitely has the voice for cartoons. If she wanted, she could be the another Cree Summer and judging from her IMDB, she could be on her way.

If a driver causes death and dismemberment, they're doing something wrong.

If I'm driving faster than those on the right and there's no one behind me, I'm not causing congestion, I'm just using the legal left lane and where this whole thread started is when I said that those driving in the left lane are the faster drivers and the ones this graphic wants to get out of the way are the cars…