Since we’re talking Dave Barry, I think it’s only fair that we clarify that Beth was “not making this up.”
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No, no, you’re absolutely correct. There is nothing factually incorrect. The verbiage makes it seem like something shady happened. He secretly funded... led to bankruptcy.... It just comes across as really whiny - “infamous venture capitalist” and “billionaire PayPal co-founder” in close proximity to a company…
I did not know that. So, obviously, yeah, that changes things a bit. What I had read was that he was “outed” and took that to mean what it usually means when someone “comes out of the closet” - that they published some previously-unknown private information.
If you mean, “it set the precedent that a billionaire can choose to spend his money on a lawsuit that would help him exact revenge against a company who he believes wronged him,” then, yeah, I guess it’s a bad precedent. My point is this: no matter what you think about Thiel himself, he has the same basic right to…
We’ll have to agree to disagree here. It’s a personal belief of mine that ad hominem attacks or exposure of private information (truly private, like sexual orientation) against a person are no substitute for substantial proof of misdeeds. I believe that your argument boils down to “exposing him as gay was necessary to…
I disagree with this argument in this instance because “Hulk Hogan” is not a real person - it’s an act of performance art. Conflating the two doesn’t give anyone a right to publicize the actor’s actual life.
Thiel has his problems, Lord knows, and the state of San Francisco and the entire Bay Area is indeed out of control insofar as rents and mortgages are concerned, but this:
I believe, and I think Dave Barry would back me up, that “Diarrhea Cloud” would make an excellent band name.
Okay, but now I want to see Star Trek: The One With The Whales done by Wes Anderson. Damn, do I want to see that movie!
The Death Star I had a secret weakness literally designed into it by Galen Erso. Think about this: if he went so far as to design in that weakness, and hide it from any kind of engineering review, he’d have to smoke-screen the shit out of that. So forget about toilets that were designed without room for their wax…
Yeah, I always kind of saw them as Star Wars’ answer to the Orion Slave Girl from Star Trek - “if she’s green-skinned, it won’t be filthy!” - only this one is, “if she’s got, like, tentacles... sticking out of her... head... then it won’t be filthy!”
Oh, and just because he’s so awesome, of course he topped this list.
Informed Delivery is nice. I got in at the beta stage, so now I’m getting two identical emails, because, you know, they have to screw something up.
Nah, UPS seems fine. Amazon used them in the past, and I don’t recall a single issue. Other retailers use them as well, and I never worry about deliveries with them. Same with DHL, though to be fair, I have a very small sample size with them. I don’t think I’ve ever received anything through TNT. There’s also couple…
I have dual, inexplicable, problems at my place, which, for the record, is smack-dab in the middle of a VAST urban expanse that has no trouble getting all manner of fancy app-based services from pretty much every tech company on the planet.
APC item is showing $50, not $30. Is there a code I missed?
APC item is showing $50, not $30. Is there a code I missed?
No one starred this yet? WTF? You get a star!
“Dear Lord. You think we’re intelligent enough to... suppose... what if this thing were used where life already exists?”
Jesus. This makes me incredibly sad and angry, and I cannot but think of being in the position of these victims’ parents. That Nassar made it to trial is a testament to the restraint of so many mothers and fathers.