No, I took a full-time position over at How-To Geek a few months ago (along with several former Android Police and Gawker/Lifehacker editors/writers, as a matter of fact). I even got to write an article broadly on the paper-thin defenses for crappy microtransactions, as featured in Shadow of War. I did spend several…

After your little hissy-fit in the original article, I knew you’d jump in here to defend a company shilling DLC instead of simply donating to a worthy memorial. Are you connected to the developers or publishers in some way, or do you just get a kick out of playing a white knight for giant corporations who live and…

Heather, I think you’ve been misled in the credit for your header article. I used the same image for an article I wrote earlier this year, but I found it at Graphicstock and attributed it as such. The Flickr link was uploaded years later and it appears to be placed specifically to try and advertise some scummy SEO…

That’s some really shitty “satire.” They’re basically making exactly the same kind of “fake news” stories that propaganda artists do, without any humor or absurdity, and passing it off as real. As smart as they pretend to be, they should have known that plenty of Trump supporters are prepared to believe this crap…

So you literally cannot see how branding works. That’s an impressive level of ignorance you’re showing off.

And there are other Confederacies besides the CSA in the Civil War. Yet when I say “Luftwaffe,” you immediately think I’m referring to the specific air force of WWII-era Germany. See how branding works?

That’s an interesting solution. I don’t think Trump or even his team of advisers would ever consider it - it looks too much like China “winning” and therefore us “losing” - but it might be possible to achieve it without any kind of American intervention at all. I imagine North Korea would never expect an invasion from…

Imagine naming your new premium drone company “Luftwaffe Aeronautics.” Missed branding opportunities wouldn’t be the half of it.

I answered comments with what I know about implied medical consent because of my knowledge as a certified EMT. I never said there was probable cause to investigate the truck driver, you’re putting words in my mouth. And when it turned out assumptions I made were wrong, I said so. I never once defended this cop’s…

What loophole? I was trying to understand why he would do what he did. It doesn’t make his actions any less illegal. And indeed, he’s being punished for them, insomuch as police ever seem to be punished for exceeding their authority.

Cheap shot, jackass. I’m no police cheerleader, I’m just trying to look at this situation dispassionately. I honestly hope that the cop in the video is fired and charged with assault.

I see. If that’s the case, then yeah, my idea would be a bust.

to treat that sample differently from all others, singling it out for future consent.

Taking the blood sample for medical treatment isn’t a violation of the patient’s rights. The concept of implied consent (implied because the patient is unable to give a positive or negative answer) covers any medical treatment that has an immediate benefit, and they would have needed that data for blood transfusions…

She couldn’t take it for the purpose of evidence. If he went into the OR - and it sounds like he almost certainly did - they’d have to take a sample for hospital records and administering the correct transfusions. Implied consent for unconscious patients covers pretty much all medical procedures, but it doesn’t give…

For you non-sportsball people: JJ Watt is just a generally awesome guy. He’s one of the best defensive players in the entire league, but he seems to spend almost a full-time job’s worth of time volunteering for various hospitals and charities and managing his foundation.

I’m sure a lot of police departments don’t hire criminals under any circumstances... but others are more flexible. There was a minor scandal in Colorado while I was living there, where officers with domestic violence and drug convictions would bounce from department to department with no real repercussions.

Okay, amphetamines makes sense, if only because they’re the stereotypical “trucker” drug. Everyone said this guy was hoping for a dirty test, but alcohol or weed in the middle of a CDL workday seemed very unlikely to me.

Hoping to find a licensed CDL driver drunk in broad daylight, who just happened to be hit by the guy you were chasing, seems pretty unlikely to me. I assume he already got a sample from the guy they were chasing since running from the police gives probable cause (did the guy who swerved even survive?).

Unfortunately there’s no legal mechanism for permanently keeping someone from getting another job in law enforcement. He can just move to the next town down the road and sign on with another department. Even in states where felons and disgraced police officers are barred from service, there’s nothing stopping them…