This is my own original take on this, for which I deserve millions of dollars: Wow... reading the comments on this makes me really angry and sad. People attack Glenn Brown furiously just because of the fact that he copied someone else's work (it's done a lot in the art world, and it used to be a thing before the…

They're not getting sued for making a broken game. They're getting sued for telling shareholders that it was a working game.

Tyrion did really stink up the restroom. His dad helped.

It's not weird or awesome that this is the second straight Batman movie with a football scene in it. It's lazy. It's incredibly lazy. It's bringing back Khan for STiD level lazy. It's "Anakin made C3PO" level lazy. It's Snyder looking at Dark Knight Rises, which people liked and had football in it, and deciding to put…

Similarly, Parker's webbing in the comics and in the new movies would be one of the most important advances in material science in a long time. Lots of scientists are currently working on the same thing. Parker would save vastly more lives - and be a lot richer - by patenting and selling his webbing.

It can't have been that long, since the current Tardis looks more like the Tardis for Doctors 1-7 than for any of the new Doctors.

Look at the international box office: http://boxofficemojo.com/intl/

Now ask yourself if the problem is really just American audiences being different. The issue is that the movies from foreign markets that you're likely to watch are probably of a fairly high quality. The movies that people in foreign markets actually…

Supercessionism has been repeatedly formally rejected. You may as well say that arianism is a central tenet of the church.

There are ample records of women religious and nuns. The absence of records of lesbian unions does not reflect an overall absence of records about important women.

It's not anything as sinister as propaganda. It's just someone looking in the record for gay marriage and misconstruing evidence. It's what happens when you ask medieval documents what they say about some contemporary issue, rather than asking what they say in their own terms.

What's amazing to me is how a ground breaking study can fail to generate any research either confirming or debunking it in twenty years.

I assume (hope) that by "allow" what was meant is that something like this won't happen without considerable government activity, especially eminent domain.

Juries are bound by the reasonable doubt standard, and can put people in prison. Commenters on io9 aren't, and can't.

People get imprisoned for self-defense. Even in Florida.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-5…

I could walk through a lot of evidence as to how prosecutorial overreach is common and how our system is comically stacked in favor of prosecutors. I won't, because it's an argument on the internet where your first instinct is to go to tin foil hats (which don't even work; there was an article on io9 a while back…

If you want to skip ahead to defenses, start here: http://thecriminallawyer.tumblr.com/post/189513958…

I wish I could live in a world where prosecutorial overreach is rare.

Justification is a broader category than self-defense. There are justifications and excuses (conceptually different) for property crimes, most likely, necessity and duress. The key element to most justifications and excuses, however, is imminence. I can't imagine a fact pattern occurring where robbing a bank is…

Maybe you need to read the books more closely, which do not describe the Dornishmen as all looking the same, but looking either white, olive, or brown. 2 of Oberyn's daughters are described as being pale or fair.

Moreover, real near easterners often have the same or similar skin tone as Pascal.

Additionally, you can…

Average male expectancy in the US is 76. It's less for fat people. Martin started ASoIaF in 1991. It's taken 22 years to produce 5 books. He has 2 books left. No one should be surprised if he dies before he finishes.