The Supreme Court interprets our laws- generally, they are the only institution anyone needs to quote in any legal case within the US.

One section of laws the court interprets, happens to deal with the 1st Amendment. What is considered protected speech under that amendment, how it is protected and when, within the US;…

To paraphrase the Supreme Court: You have a right to say whatever you want about your employer, but you have no constitutional right to your job afterwards.

Your understanding of basic consumer protection laws and obligations is so laughably incomplete that it amounts to straight up trolling. Why some people feel an irresistible urge to ride to the defense of dev teams & major corporate retailers, no matter how contorted or insane their argument has to be in order to do…

So... in response to what is pretty standard artistic criticism, legions of little boys are throwing temper tantrums and threatening people with violence and rape? Because someone dared to have a conflicting/complex opinion about their little toys? For real?

Any and all of which get abused by cops- along with tasers, rubber bullets, flashbangs, gas canisters, service weapons, their cars, and their meaty fists. The main difference is that this thing can deliver maximum amounts of pain with little to no physical evidence. And if it's one thing our domestic security forces…

That tends to be the exact attitude of people who never need to deal with the ugly side of humanity, beyond needing to block/avoid a couple of moderate trolls a year. And yeah, it needs to be "dealt with"- but moderation tools, whether they be user based ones or dev based ones, are the most efficient method of doing…

Yeah he's pissing himself. Torn equally between impotent rage and terror. They think they're allowed to do anything in the name of "officer safety," which is especially a problem since they're mortally terrified of their own shadow.

And it shows exactly how much help these cop commandos would be in an actual,…

Because the *best* place to be if you're a sniper countering possibly armed opponents is sitting upright, on a truck roof, in the middle of a street.

Now, if you were intending on just pointing a rifle at people to scare the f*ck of out them, knowing full well that it wasn't a real tactical situation, then it makes a…

Yeah, the one guy with over 7,000 hours has spent nearly a full year of his life playing one game. That seems like it crosses a line into something unhealthy, unless he's playing it professionally- and even then...

For influenza you would be right, although breathing through your nose in that case would be basically useless. Otherwise, no, simply being in the plane would not be sufficient to contract Ebola. It's a virus that obeys defined natural laws, that has a specific size, threshold required for infection, and survivability…

The lifespan of this virus outside of a host- is very short. The list of environmental things that will kill a small number of virus particles floating in a clear droplet of fluid is very long.

While it is technically possible for the virus to live inside a droplet of fluid expelled during a sneeze, long enough to…

Simply claiming the game was based on the 90% metacritic score title, when it was a port of the 60-something % metacritic phone game, along with the very carefully constructed artifice of intentionally misleading information is probably enough to fall under false advertising. Or one of its related regulations.…

There are positive aspects to war or violence- challenge, teamwork, problem solving, adrenalin fueled excitement- but they are all massively and justifiably dwarfed by the much longer list of horrific aspects that come with killing and having others try to kill you. These sorts of games strip out the negative and…

I think it was Christopher McKay whose list of reasons for finding/preserving possible life on Mars and elsewhere ended with: "Also, it might be tasty."

*looks up at lab* *looks at pic*

I see what happened, they had Top Gun playing in the pilot break room. All the signs are there.

Plus, you DO realize that this is also a major research location? Aside from all the many people who drive around as park rangers- rescuing hikers, checking on forest health, etc etc, it's also a massive volcanic research and monitoring project. No one is going to hike to every buried sensor or measuring point and…

The issue is of adequate informed consent for human experimentation. The specific example, in this case, involves Facebook and the easiest potential harm- in this case- involves the experiment's impact on vulnerable people. One of the requirements of human experimentation is to anticipate, minimize and correct your…

There was no informed consent. A TOS agreement is a contract of adhesion which is the legal, philosophical and practical opposite of an informed consent agreement. Otherwise universities would just toss a blanket human experimentation waiver into your undergrad admission forms. This basically violates every ethical,…

Customizing an immersive entertainment product to include a representative of 45-50% of the population isn't exactly an unreasonable request. And the temper tantrums coming from guys who're apparently mortally threatened by the specter of diverse characters in a video game doesn't reflect well on gamers, gaming, or…