I’m not about to try visiting the site, but Wikipedia claims their domain is dailystormer [.] name. Looking up the whois info for that shows the registrar used is in Hong Kong, so that’s a bust. (Searching Google for Eranet International Limited returns their address in Hong Kong.)

Assholes filled with assholes to infinity sounds about right. Probably something like this:

My guess is that a Disney PR person told Beth they’d get back to her with a statement, but never did by press time. So they didn’t fail to respond entirely, like AMC and Warner Bros., but they also didn’t provide a reply that answered Beth’s questions, or pointed to a statement.  It’s also possible they will respond…

It also depends a lot on what you’re eating. For example, the liquid content of your meal. Eating a stew or a bowl of soup? Plenty of liquid in that, so drinking less or not at all is quite understandable. Eating something with next to no moisture in it, so dry it acts like a sponge and dries your mouth out? Pretty…

There’s already termination fees in the telco interconnection networks, and it gets abused badly. For example:

Running calls through a Google Voice number helps as well, since that uses the same anti-spam/robocall thing.

I don’t get too many of them (seems to come and go, some weeks I get none, then another week I’ll get 3 in one day), but I found a simple solution: I set my default ringtone as silent, and set custom ringtones for anyone I might need to hear from. (Family, friends, doctor’s offices, pharmacy, I even put a few local…

If it’s done poorly, it can make the customers feel like the server’s trying to get them to leave ASAP, even if they haven’t finished eating everything. What Salty suggests with framing it as checking that they didn’t leave their card should be fine, though. Asking if the customers need anything else at the same time…

Not in most restaurants with table service. I’m not sure how it will work, either, because the norm is for the server to leave your receipt, usually in a little holder thing with a place to put your credit card. You stick your card in there, the server picks it up next time they come by to take it and scan it at…

Part of it could also be the simple fact that it wasn’t something they were expecting to see, so they weren’t looking for it. There was a girl my age who got pregnant the summer between our 6th and 7th grades, but her parents didn’t find out until she was 8 months pregnant. Pretty much the whole school knew she was…

You and others are getting two issues confused here. Issue #1 is that the original chosen contest winner’s entry was disqualified, possibly for a reason that would prevent Uniqlo from commercializing the design. (Only possible, because even in the case Kotaku discovered, the artist still owns the copyright on the…

I certainly appreciate it! I like reading these articles because they’re interesting, but I’ve never worked on a car and have no desire (or physical ability nowadays) to do so. So explanations for things like that are quite nice to see.

You never know, the ones that own Gizmodo media may decide to fire all the staff and outsource writing to the commenters. That sounds like the type of thing bean counters would think makes perfect sense.

People do care about a few of those, Hobby Lobby has had groups calling for boycotts of the store due in large part of Hobby Lobby fighting to not have to provide all forms of contraception in its insurance plans. This has had enough widespread attention that it’s a store I actively avoid, and have (largely…

I remember pre-ordering the guides along with the games for Xenosaga Episode II and Episode III. It was fun getting them delivered and being able to flip through the guide to see the art I’d be running into over the course of the game.

Have you read the prequel series about the first formic war? It’s co-written with another author and is pretty good, even if some of the tech is a bit on the ridiculous side. Plus it’s fun to finally know exactly what the Formics did to poor China.

I first read it around the same time, and I knew the twist beforehand. It didn’t spoil the series for me, and in fact I’ve re-read the entire series once since then. Some people get so bound up in the revelations that they forget that there’s an entire journey to get to those revelations. Knowing the big twist in Ender…

Another 20 minutes later,

And then you have to play Desert Bus before you go to the next level? That’d be hell to speed run.

This is a TAS run, only in a category with rules requiring the assists be doable by humans. Otherwise you’re correct, and breaking the record at all is impressive. This may also lead to the human record being broken using the same trick.