The WWW didn’t exist when I was in college. The Internet did but it was mainly used for email and FTP, and even that was limited. I would’ve loved to have the web in college.

They didn’t understand that it was the beginning of the Apple Ecosystem, with the $1/song iTunes connecting seamlessly and quickly to the iPod. To be fair, Apple didn’t explain that; they focused, as they should have, on easy-to-understand buyer benefits (see the commercial).

I live in France and it’s hard to believe they’ll phase out diesel because everybody drives a diesel. I don’t know anybody who drives a gasoline-powered car. I’m sure they exist but “Gazole” seems to be the go-to fuel here. The engines are spunky, get great mileage, and run forever (literally; your car’s body falls…

This is a long, boring apologist piece. Nobody knows the sex or race of an author except to the extent that the author wants it known.

Jail is the normal response for contempt though that’s probably because most people held in contempt are people able but refusing to pay child support, so fining them would just be taking money away from the recipient parent. There’s no time limit; they stay there until they cure the contempt. That is, this can go on…

I have no idea who Tyler is but I hate hate hate censorship.

My wife was an escort. That’s not how we met but that, along with another low-stress job that helped her drum up high net-worth non-psycho disease free clients, is how she got by for years before meeting me. She’s blurry about when she stopped because I know it was sometime after we met but it’s been a long time. She…

Better solution:

Just to clarify something my wife asked me, no ... they haven’t been expelled. In fact, nothing — besides these worthless condemnations — has happened.

The female programmer looks delighted ... not. Then again, most of her male colleagues don’t looked thrilled either.

Another family law attorney here and that one is spot-on. It’s not about which parent did what: it’s about what is best for the children given their current circumstances. My understanding in this case is that by living with him, in Europe, both parents can have timesharing (access) whereas by living with her, in the…

My wife married me with my more than $100K student loan debt and I had no “real” job, just a business I was working on. She took a big risk I guess. I built and sold that business, paid off the student loans (and all my other debt), and we had lots left over. Then I built and sold two more businesses. I tried retiring…

This happened to me. I was on a flight from Germany to the U.S. next to a German woman coming to visit her boyfriend. She was scared flying so I lent her my noise canceling headphones. She leaned on my shoulder and one thing led to another. She ended up breaking up with the boyfriend. We dated for about a year but the…

Because a few grand is a lot of money for a bakery. $135K is enough money to buy a very nice bakery.

Uh - one of the two major US political parties did nominate her mom for Vice President. Wouldn’t you think people are stupid after that? Aren’t they?

I work in France and there’s nothing NSFW here or in the links. Violent video games, yes, but not this stuff. The worst any of this can do — besides raise the obvious “why aren’t you working” question — is make one’s co-workers laugh.

Same experience here. My now ex-wife liked to fuck other people; one wasn’t enough. She also liked both women and men and I found it was also fun to play with a cock other than my own so we had lots of threesomes. She also had a lot of affairs — fucking without asking or telling me (which is why we eventually split) —…

In the 80’s my girlfriend banged one of the band members of Husker Du but I didn’t care: we weren’t especially serious — more like what people would call FWB’s these days — and she had fun.

Require them to submit a government ID, a fingerprint, have a short video-chat to make sure it's really the person on the ID, then tie that to an SMS to their phone and you'd probably make it very difficult for somebody to play twice (and, yeah, it'd also be a PIA to play even once with that scheme).

I was thinking that. My wife loves Game of War and says there are more women players than any game she's played. I tried to like it but thought it was boring, shallow, and tilted heavily towards people willing to pay. The whole "game" reminded me more of chat-room with a gaming component more than a real game. On the…