Ripping (copying or transcoding) a CD or DVD you own, strictly for your own personal use, is a Fair Use exemption to the DMCA. Even the RIAA is forced to admit as such on their own website: (though they obviously word it in a roundabout way, so as to avoid committing to this position in case they can change the law…

Unless I’ve missed something, the recording industry has been able to enforce (to some degree) that even ripping CDs and DVDs is illegal (and a violation of the DMCA if they had copy protection in any way). So while Google lets you upload music, the MPAA could, theoretically, criminalize you for your actions.

$10 a month for almost anything I can think of vs. $10 for a single new album? I know what I prefer.

Childless implies a loss. For those of us who never want children, trust me: we’re not sitting here agonizing over it. It’s no loss.

Hey! We take people absconding with our booze feckin’ serious!

or I Fought the Weed and the Weed Won.

Or that America uses the month/day/year format when most of the world uses either the day/month/year format or year/month/day format (more common in Asia).

Worth noting that the turn signal and wiper stalks are different in UK cars and JDM cars. JDM the indicator stalk is closest to the door, UK is the same as the US layout.

Right? “Some woman” please step forward and claim your prize.

Won’t the baby boomer die off include a HUGE tanking of car evaluations, as collections are dispatched by sons and daughters with zero interest in maintaining a collection of cars, or even cars themselves? I imagine an influx of a massive amount of vehicles into the markets in the next decade. Hell, the most recent…

Why would ANYONE want to marry someone who can dispose of a lifetime commitment when it becomes inconvenient for someone else?

Naaaaaaw, Chief. When you take on a pet, you take on a responsibility for that pet for its LIFE. You don’t bail on a pet when it’s sick or sad or inconvenient. You spend money and time and love on it. Any pet - dog, cat, iguana, llama.

Yeah, seriously. “She won’t get rid of her two dogs she loves, she has a dog addiction.” Buddy.

You can pry my dogs from my cold, dead arms. Like hell they’re staying outside during evenings, disrupting the neighborhood by barking at the door endlessly— they’re pack animals and need their people. Nor would I lob them off indefinitely onto someone else while this dude works through his shit. It’s way too easy for…

In other news: water is wet, grass is green, rural folks are bored and have nothing better to do than fuck.

What the fuck are you talking about? No, it’s not.

Also the Leptospirosis virus can kill your dogs, often caused by drinking infected water.

I once thought my dog hated water until I let her out on a 30 foot horse lead on a beach on Lake Superior. She ran up and down the waterline chasing the waves and drinking them for about 30 mins, then I found out what raging pit bull diarrhea was.

Came to see straight/cis people unduly upset about being very mildly inconvenienced, was not disappointed.

Just fucking quit Facebook. It’s not as earth-shaking or impossible as you think it is. I 100% nuked my account back in May and I feel fantastic.