When did this site start auto-playing videos with sound? A couple of days ago? I’m hanging onto this site by a thread. WTF. Splinter is gone. Any writer with a decent sense of journalistic integrity seems to be fleeing. When Hamilton Nolan goes, this place will have nothing left for me. That’s sad. Gawker was so…

Also, best press conference ever:

Imagine, the butt-chugging!  This is going to make the problem so much worse!  Imagine what the carnage this will cause in our nations fraternities!

I can’t imagine why Columbia would not want to spend money to fund this...*eyeroll***

So far as the “Skyfall” name goes, it’s probably not a reference to the James Bond film (which has nothing at all to do with this sort of thing), but more likely a reference to a relatively obscure science fiction novel called “Skyfall” written by Henry Harrison and published in 1990.

This is fun for testing my computer. I got Chrome to load 200(with all ad-blocking tools and things turned off) tabs and my 32GB of ram appears to have hit 80%, but everything is still running fine.

That’s not the same thing, and you know it. This isn’t some kind of digital technology. It’s sound generated by physically moving air with a speaker.

All of that fancy engineering is just going to color and distort the sound quality.  Just buy speakers.  The technology has existed for a long time.  Don’t try to fancy it up, it just ends up sounding like Bose....

LOL, I hadn’t looked at it that closely, I just skipped to the bottom.  My point was just that they weren’t so stupid as to make a defamation claim, just contract claims.

OK, skimmed the complaint. I was right, it’s for breach of contract and for breach of implied warranty of good faith and fair dealing. Not one word about defamation. Meaning, whether or not this guy’s concept is a total joke is irrelevant to his complaint.

You’re right about most of this, but I don’t think he’s suing for defamation. The way I read the article above (and I haven’t read the complaint), it sounds like the company is suing for breach of contract, in that they paid $115,000 for a space at the convention, and with that contract came an opportunity to put on a…

I can’t give this enough stars!  Perfect!

This is going to turn out to be another example of trying to solve today’s problem with a solution to yesterday’s problem.

Unless you have a job where your wages will keep place with inflation (criminal defense lawyer, self employed), and you’ve got an enormous amount of debt (student loans!!!! and a mortgage, locked in at a low fixed rate (if the rate of inflation increases over the rate of my debt, I win!)...I would fucking kill for…

I’ve never understood these “sound bars”. If you want good sound, you’ve simply got to connect your audio source to a quality amplifier and that amp to speakers. I spend much more time listening to music than watching TV or movies, so I just use 2 speakers.

Wait, are you telling me I can buy stamps for less than face value? Forever stamps are worth 55 cents. And there is a 10% discount.

Wait, are you telling me I can buy stamps for less than face value? Forever stamps are worth 55 cents. And there is…

Are you serious? That is completely improper. Where did that happen? You may want to consider contacting your state Bar Association and letting them know.

Interesting...

Goose Creek is a city in Berkeley County, South Carolina. They have a police department called the Goose Creek Police Department.

This was the first thing I thought of when I read this.  Don’t tell me it isn’t animated!  It’s just really impressive CGI instead of more traditional animation.  I really liked the original (and Hamlet).  This is just a stupid cash grab on top of a bed of LIES.