I think you're missing the point. If I run a red light, it depends on who catches you (camera vs. actual cop) that determines the final outcome; same crime in both situations, different punishments. You are arguing about something that only exists in one of those situations. I'm pretty sure if I borrow your car and…

I see that you're hitting in the mid 20 MhZ zone, John, keep squeezing!

Dude. Whenever members of this group (from an IRC channel, of course) got together, it was implied someone would have acid, shrooms or a combination thereof, and tripping will be had; and the Sci Org (specifically the "Celebrity Centre" in Dallas) was just one of a thousand. It was standard operating procedure .. if…

Yes, I fully understand that's why. But then by them making it a civil action it's not a moving violation anymore, now is it? (Thankfully, we don't have those blasted points here..)

That is a patently insane attitude .. So I loan my neighbor my car, they run two red lights, I get stuck with the bill three weeks later and they and get off scot free? Whereas if they were pulled over by a cop they would be handed a ticket right away no matter who owns the car.

When I received a red light cam ticket, my argument was that the owner of the car is cited as a civil offense, yet, if you were to get pulled over by a cop by running a red light, the vehicle operator is the one who gets and deserves the ticket regardless of the owner of the vehicle. So, if the cam didn't capture my…

In the early 2000s my online druggie friends and I spent far too many hours making fun of the treasure trove of shit out there, culminating at a field trip in 2003 where we all met in Dallas and went to the local Org full-on tripping. This was before the hilarity of Scientology was fully picked up by the mainstream,…

In the early 2000s my online druggie friends and I spent far too many hours making fun of the treasure trove of shit out there, culminating at a field trip in 2003 where we all met in Dallas and went to the local Org full-on tripping. This was before the hilarity of Scientology was fully picked up by the mainstream,…

Would his pregnant wife and kid be better off with him behind bars for an undetermined amount of time? Or do they for some reason not have the option of following him up to Canada?

My one major gripe about Kinja is that they've stripped away the ability for commenters to private-message each other (I think they were afraid of everyone banding together to form a revolt!) .. Though I'm working on something along those lines you might be interested in... How might I get in touch with you?

"that includes place settings by Roberto Cavalli at a cost of $3,700 each."

I first discovered the joys of the photostrobic effect while at a bowling alley in the 90s where they had oldschool CRTs mounted to the ceiling for the score displays. I was eating tortilla chips and every time I crunched down on a chip, all the screens in the distance would do this weird Degauss-looking "whuuuump"…

Bill Burr had a bit specifically about a guy screaming (like a girl, as he put it) while on a scary twin-engine. Of course, in Bill Burr's style, he dismantles the guy for being a pussy, but nonetheless...

At the end of the call after sonny-boy's been humbled a little bit about the autistic grandson comment:

All true — 'cept for the retooled Wheel of Fortune theme song, which several of us in the hardcore game show dork circles see as ambiguous public-domain-styled generic jazz hold-music. Other wise, he's kept both shows top quality.

The package includes a power supply (AC-MC800G) and all the necessary accessories.

Hah. Be careful making predictions a decade ahead of time! When I was in high school ('92-ish, heyy-o!), they were ditching my precious QBasic in favor of Pascal, the language of the future, and I was duly warned that knowledge of BASIC would amount to shit, and Pascal would run the world. I hated Pascal so much…

Hm. Javascript alone does not do this, as you first need to connect to the users table and verify the name is available. Perhaps JS would be used to then alert the user that the name is taken, but the actual hitting-the-database-and -checking would be performed by something else; in a JS world, likely jQuery...

Sad Fact O' The Day: "Wordpress runs on 19% of the websites on the Internet"

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