Exactly - it's not that complicated. It's the same reason they don't allow passengers to fill empty first/business class seats. It's like going to restaurant right before closing and saying, "Can me and my friends have all the food you've made but it's too late to serve, for the price of nachos?"

Once the doors are closed, the airline no longer has the opportunity to sell that seat to a new passenger.

Not my experience at all. In the last 7-8 years, planes have been rejiggered to create special rows - econ plus or what have you. This includes all exit rows, bulkhead rows, and certain other rows where they've moved the seats a little further apart. You cannot move to these without paying.

CEO's are not like 16-armed 10,000-IQ braniacs capable of managing $10Bil businesses by their lonesome. They mostly sit around listening to proposals from those under them, probably penned by those 1-2 steps below them. Then they fly around a lot, shake a lot of hands, and have corporate lawyers do all the…

Is it pronounced "Dah-boe" or "Day-boe" - I'm trying to formulate an opinion, so this would be critical datum.

I love the "Windows 95 desktop teal" color - perfect!

I'm seeing this too. I keep thinking back to Skyrim's plentiful dungeony-type quests and thinking "why do these quests seem more like picking a few flowers".

I don't think the poster was saying "this is the way it is", more like "this is the way it ought to be".

For me, they're all post-doc's and social media experts of some kind.

I tried Tinder for a month, and found the same thing. There's so little investment and information, I'm surprised that anyone actually makes a real connection from it.

Right, and if both people have skin in the game, they'll only agree to go if they're genuinely interested, rather than "I've nothing better to do, and at least it will probably won't cost me anything."

I actually put on my okc profile, that members should only contact woman if they agree with the idea of going dutch on the first date. I figured it would weed out a certain swath of people I'd be better off not knowing.

I can't say I disagree with anything you wrote. I was more commenting on the game being bad juju, not that it should be wiped from the earth.

There are problems with this - for one: kids will play this. There are loads of pathetically irresponsible, lazy parents out there who will put the controls in the hands of those who still don't have as firm a grasp on the distinction. And I'm pretty forgiving and think that a well-adjusted 10 year old can handle…

If I were a gaming exec, I'd be looking at the lack of female "core" gamers as an untapped market (there are already plenty of female "casual/phone" gamers), and would be hiring women like crazy to help me design. create, and market games might satisfy that segment. Or to adjust certain games to make them more…

It's actually a smart move - the job security just isn't there. Every executive has a motivational poster on his/her wall "How many engineering jobs did you move overseas this week?" The other fields have held onto their relative job security over the years.

It's the national pastime on tumblr to post the stupid/disgusting/strange things straight men post on dating sites. Perhaps the reason I find that hilarious (stuff like "Y U No in my pants?") is due to straight privilege - but maybe also because it's hilarious.

I had a women explain how she had an eff-buddy on the side while on our first date. I cut the date somewhat short (didn't order another drink, nor apps, and soon got "tired"). I mean, great, have all the eff-buddies you want, but maybe when you're sincere about meeting an actual partner, put the fwb on hold. The…

I'm going to make a scifi movie with zero tropes. It will feature a robot riding on a space train to the moon, using a backscratcher. For the full 93 minutes. Ca-ching!

Perhaps, like me, you just don't see "cultural appropriation" as so inherently wrong that perpetrators must offer constant penance as a counterbalance to their grave sins.