Thanks you! I appreciate you taking the time to comment.

I'll pass, thanks. Reddit is grotesque.

Yeah, I guess I don't really find someone sexually attractive unless I know something about their personality. There's honestly no amount of beauty that could get me past someone having the personality of a bridge troll. Then again, when I look at the people I've dated, they're all very, very different. And in each…

As a married guy of 45, who's wife just turned 40 - we've been together for 20 years, I can tell you that under no circumstances is my ideal partner today in her 20s. I don't think I could actually stand it. The lack of shared experience and a common frame of reference, and some of the cultural differences would…

Loving the elimination of any sign of "spinsters" or "confirmed bachelors". Hilarious.

There's little or no ramifications for technology service providers or manufacturers failing to do a good job other than damage to their reputations, and they all kind of suck, so there's little incentive. The license and customer agreements pretty much insure you can't sue them over this, at least not easily. Add…

Right, which is why a properly-worded law would pass 1st Amendment muster. The fact that the law is overly broad in a way that violates the 1st Amendment - and it's the only law that they convicted the guy under - is why it was overturned.

That's the way it works - when there's a constitutional challenge, they can't…

The problem is that the law banned any public photography without consent if there was an intent to provide sexual gratification for yourself or another (and how do you prove that?). So you'd better not take a picture of a balloon guy in the park. Because it might be for a balloon fetish site. After all, the poor guy…

There's no way this was legal, it was a waste of everyone's time and money to pass it to begin with. We've got court rulings that say that photography in public places is a protected form of expression. And if it's for artistic or editorial use, you don't even need a release from people in the picture.

Yes, and the ACLU defended the right of the American Nazi Party to march through Skokie, Il. in 1977. And the Supreme Court said that not only could they march, use of the swastika did not constitute "fighting words".

It requires a reinterpretation that will likely never happen in this country. You can fight speech…

But they need to write the law in such a way that it doesn't sound like they're invoking the opening voiceover of The Shadow.

I'm not sure that Cisco's SMB switch line is the way to go to impress. I'd recommend using enterprise-class switches.

And if you want them to think you're a bit of a non-conformist, and maybe you like to live a little, Juniper or Brocade might be a better bet!

And it's really too bad that - while it was never great - it's gotten worse for just that reason. The hedge fund guys probably don't have all the answers, but the current management sounds like a bunch of morons. And, as usual with bad management, they think the answer is "more managers!" Which is almost never the…

You used to be able to throw peanut shells on the floor at The Ground Round as well, plus, in one room they used to project old b&w serials, cartoons and silent movies. Food was very basic, but not shitty.

They went through a rebranding after the franchiser folded and a bunch of the restaurant owners formed a new…

Yup. I've never worked so hard for a B- in my life. At the same time, it was a fantastic class.

Are you from the New York metro area? Because "how many bodies would fit" seems to be the standard way to describe the size of a trunk around here.

I had a professor at a US university that graded percentages this way. Most people who did well got an 80, an 85 was exceptional, and if you got over a 90%, you'd managed to teach him something.

One issue with annulments is that it can depend on "who you are". My cousin got married in the 70's, always wanted kids. After they'd been married for a while, his wife decided she didn't, and she filed for divorce, leaving him. In spite of the fact that 1) your spouse not wanting kids is grounds for an annulment and…

Imagining them dealing with the effects of a norovirus is kind of satisfying.

Wouldn't it be nice if cops seemed to understand that even people they are arresting are members of the public they're supposed to "protect and serve"? Anyone know if the HISD cops are tested for steroid use?

Of course, they'll get away with a slap on the wrist. After all, the public will pay for the lawsuit, and they…