The theory is not so much, pirate a game, go buy the game. The theory is pirate a single mp3 track, go buy the album. The initial piracy triggers (in theory) a response along the lines of “hmm, I like this band / singer that I’ve never heard before, and now I want more ... I guess I’ll go order it offa iTunes/Amazon…

Just want to point out that discussing the technical specifics of Star Trek transporters in the first place this is not any kind of reality based discussion. But as to the argument of what the Star Trek transporters technically do, I can say for certain that the original Star Trek show strongly suggested if not…

The college story is one of a lot of misinformation, I’ll grant you that. I get so tired of hearing people whine and moan about “crushing student debt”. Perhaps they were naive and thought this was the right thing to do, perhaps they were simply self-deluded self-entitled pompous little pricks and princesses that…

I’m of the generation that remembers the roads being full of land-leviathans like the Caprice wagon and others of that ilk. I also recall the fading glory, fading interest, and fading livability of those giants. I agree mostly with your timeline except that I don’t think that conversion vans were ever really part of…

Good find ... my google-fu is weak, and I was relying on something I read a year or two ago. But that being said ... 0.8 inches is not anywhere near what the typical “rise” of a modern day car is. Consider that if you look at (for example) midsize sedans from 10 years ago, the hood line will be substantially lower but…

Regarding the “higher hood” point ... from what I recall, the Eurozone-only requirement (not required at all in the U.S. by the way) is there must be 5 millimeters clearance between the hood and any hard parts underneath. That’s like 1/8th of an inch. I have absolutely NO understanding how that results in hoods that…

That’s leopard print, not cheetah ... too form-fitting to be satin, probably rayon or polyester.

While Jeremy did say “watch how far I can actually drive before the engine realizes there’s no key”, note that he stopped and turned off the car intentionally ... it didn’t just shut down by itself. I’m pretty sure that the car would have kept running for as far as he wished to drive it as long as he did not turn it…

“thanks to lazy stupid people and greedy lazy car manufacturers” ... fixed that for ya

Please explain where you get this "171 feet tall" idea from. The statue (so far) is just a head. There is no body. As anybody with eyes and intelligence greater than a retarded muskrat can obviously see, that head is most certainly NOT 171 feet tall.

Looks like the author apparently just doesn't like staged photos. The picture itself is not a fake, it's a real photograph of a real person, untouched, unmodified as far as any evidence provided or written provenance has indicated.

Just wanted to reiterate an important part of your statement ... the California restrictions regarding blades is all about CARRY not simple possession. You can own and possess all those blades, just can't carry certain of them on your person *** in public *** or any of them in certain facilities (generally schools and…

Your brother was being hassled by the cops because maybe they didn't like him, maybe they had some other real reason, and the knife thing was simply a cheap excuse to rattle his cage. Cops don't really care about legal justification to hassle people in case you weren't up on what cops do every day every where in this…

Swords are illegal in Texas? WTF? You can walk around brandishing an assault rifle, but can't own a sword? Don't they have Renaissance Fairs there? I'm very confused by this.

Thing I’ll never ever understand about users of smallish tablets and netbooks ... how can ppl stand to look at those teeny tiny screens for hours on end? I mean, it’s one thing to play a cheesy mobile app game that’s designed for the small screen, but it’s totally different to try to read web pages or (god forbid) do…

"non Hispanic Catholics believe in evolution at higher rates than General population"

I know ... that's why I think it's so silly that people pine for Latin Mass even though (A) they can't understand it and (B) Latin is not the language of Jesus, or even the original church.

I bought some Lucky Buddha a couple years ago ... stumbled across it in the local Target store, never seen it before, thought the bottle was kitschy and fairly unique so I picked up a six pack (a kitschy or otherwise unique bottle / label has often influenced my beer purchases). I honestly thought it was supposed to…

Funny cute, yet at the same time weird stupid.

I was raised Catholic, now technically apostate. The Catholic church, as far as official Rome-approved dogma is concerned, has advanced by leaps and bounds in the last half century, but no matter how much it is true that the Vatican officially recognizes evolution as fact, you will find that most devout Catholics will…