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I'm so confused. First there was cake, then it turns out the whole cake thing was just shattered dreams and broken promises, but now there is this...

Paypal shouldn't have to take on the risk themselves— that's not their business— unless that was part of the merchant agreement in place between them and the Skullgirls folks. That said, what is the risky part here? If the project has been funded and the "donation" period ended, then your money is gone and there's no…

As a society and a race, we need to get past this idea of people being either all good, or all bad, or all of whatever area of the spectrum they're on in between. Some people are real dicks about some things, and saints about others. Gates was ruthless as a business man and corporate leader. He doesn't need to have…

If you're going for the most beer for your buck and only coming up with 4 @ $5 then you're god damned lazy. That's not even as good as most happy-hour bar prices with $1 drafts. Most any decent sized liquor store, not to mention discount outlets, will have some option that works out to about 12 beers for $5.

Was she a cam whore? Is that how she earned her money? I bet she was a cam whore.

wha.... U ANAL ? kinda private. and irrelevant to this.

I'm not sure I can really blame Gizmodo for reporting on this since someone actually created this, but does basic division really deserve any attention? What's next, "How much would your house be worth if it were worth a MILLION DOLLARS?!?!"

You said, "First, they have to note you move, which takes a moment for the eye to register with the brain, then it takes a moment to adjust, which then takes that 1/5 to 1/7th of a second to do," but that is not correct: "reaction time" is in fact the time it takes for the eye to register with the brain, to adjust,…

Average reaction time is about 1/5 of a second. In professional athletes, this is more like 1/6 or 1/7th of a second. A little googling around on neural synapse speeds and signal processing time from finger to brain comes up with a minimum of about 30ms to perform the act of pulling the trigger. So, a highly…

Average reaction time is about 1/5 of a second. In professional athletes, this is more like 1/6 or 1/7th of a second. A little googling around on neural synapse speeds and signal processing time from finger to brain comes up with a minimum of about 30ms to perform the act of pulling the trigger. So, a highly…

I think you're probably right about a lot of what you say here, but without specifics & concrete examples of the phenomena you mention, it just sounds like a lot of vague generalizations that kinda want to agree with, but can't see any reason why this is the actual situation rather than your own vague impressions of…

Understood! It's been a big topic here in the US for decades. A video like this is likely to get a fair bit of attention in the US whenever it's posted, but I'm not sure that means it's the reason it was posted to begin with. Likely to get hits does not mean it isn't asking a relevant question or making a relevant…

You said, "but hey, easy page views" which is a sort of round about way of implying that they are taking a non-issue and whipping up controversy for page views. Maybe they are, maybe they aren't, but either way if you hold that view, it is one that transgresses the subjective line of your own thoughts on the morality…

don't care; delicious!

yep, deep in that uncanny valley there

I would think that he might have avoided capture of any sort by ditching the chopsticks. The more traditional bump-distraction & pickpocket would be harder to catch on tape, looking much more natural.

I believe they fell a bit out of use due to patent issues, with Unisys threatening lawsuits to anyone who made programs that could work with gifs without paying royalties. The relevant patents have since expired, and so cheap/free gif manipulations tools have become much more commonplace, and lead to a revival of the…

I watched this interview, and it seemed as though PrezBillyJeff was, at least through the first half, going out of his way to make things a little awkward. I got the impression that his ego wouldn't allow someone else (Colbert) to have center stage, even for a little bit. After Colbert stroked his ego a little bit, he…

I really don't enjoy this new headline trend of "X <insert adjective> things for whatever" Why not? Because it smacks of the SEO nonsense/fluff farm writing for spammy sites and "1 crazy secret trick for losing weight" ads.