The individual mandate is required for insurance to work. Insurance works by creating a big risk pool where there are many people paying into it that don’t use it much, or at all, which offsets the sick people who are using it a lot. Without the mandate, people would wait till they were sick and then sign up. That…

It’s not unusual for the surviving spouse from a long-term marriage to feel lost and alone. So much so that it’s not terribly unusual for the surviving spouse to die not long afterward. (They basically give up on life.) It sounds like he wasn’t ready to die, but didn’t know how to handle the huge hole in his life, and…

Japan in general has gotten better about releasing some things quickly, but (and this a HUGE but) it took westerners to get them to this point. It was Crunchyroll, now the anime streaming powerhouse, to get the simulcast streaming started. Nowadays you have Funimation and others doing it too, but Crunchyroll was the…

The trucks aren’t hitting the bridge itself, but a crash bar the railroad installed to protect the bridge. So the bridge itself isn’t being damaged, and at worst the crash bar has to be replaced.

They’ve already done that and it hasn’t stopped it.

Pretty much. Not like I expect the GOP to answer it, much less honestly.

Funny, the GOP never seems to have a problem when SCOTUS rules in their favor. Why is it okay then if it’s not okay at other times?

It’d explain why she’s friends with Donkey Kong even though he keeps kidnapping her too.

Cheating was possible on consoles at least as far back as the NES and Genesis. Gaming magazines would publish cheat codes for use in the various cheating devices (such as the Game Genie) or built-in codes (things like the Konami code). Even Nintendo Power published cheat codes. Not to mention simple hacks you could…

Only is there’s a hair follicle attached. Hair outside the scalp has no recoverable DNA in it:

I think I’d switch to just making food for the kid, and screw the idiot parents getting free brownies.

I remember the Laputa dub on the DVD release being so bad that my mother asked me to switch to subs. She has trouble reading the subs quickly enough, so she never does this. That dub of Laptua was basically an entirely different movie, and nowhere near as good as the original.

I’ve been watching mostly subs for years now, and I rarely have trouble focusing on both. I do read quite fast, which helps, but most sub lines aren’t very long (if done correctly) and there’s ample time to read them then view the art. And for the few times there isn’t, you can pause it, or rewind and rewatch that…

I’m not going to defend the pirates, but Denuvo doesn’t come out of this looking good. The developers say there is a performance hit, albeit a small one. Denuvo claims there’s no performance hit at all. Obviously the developers are correct, as there’s going to be some kind of hit, even if it’s too small to be…

I would include 5) It allows marketing to work on marketing campaigns with a set date to have the campaigns culminate.

Probably at signs held up that say “Laugh,” not the content necessarily.

I suspect there wasn’t much thinking going on, possibly not even before the wreck.

That sounds like a good time to switch games. Pick one that’s easier to play and get in a victory to calm down your nerves.

Yeah, my S4 is fine still. It gets hot sometimes when used a lot, but I don’t play games on it really and mostly just browse the web/read mail. But I also don’t use it outside the house much and don’t even get or make many phones calls. Plus, when I’m out I keep it plugged in in the car, so it rarely discharges past…

I’m at the three year mark and since my Galaxy S4 is still doing fine, it’ll be at least four before I’d replace it. (Probably longer.) Did have to replace my first smartphone, a Galaxy S2 after two years, as it was so slow as to be unusable at that point. That was probably due to the version of Android it was stuck…