Run some offline apps and edit a text document (that it later syncs up with Google drive).

I have a Chromebook. It is just a browser.

Do you know how to make Ubuntu overwrite the default OS? I thought you had to do something tricky basically everytime you booted up if you want to run Ubuntu on a Chromebook.

Do you have a Chromebook? I do. It's fine at what it does but it's just the Chrome web browser and whatever apps you can get for the Chrome web browser.

I say not so bad because his 'dumb' line of responses points out the inherent phoniness in TV news. She wanted a news stereotype that would amplify her faux concern over this story — her theme being that 'fire is scary,' no shit, news — instead she got a high-as-shit dude full of non-sequiters / inappropriate…

I thought he was basically trolling her and the TV news about how silly they are during disasters. She wanted him to act like a stock disaster witness and say "oh my God, I'm so worried..." — but instead she gets an answer that undermines her whole faux concern story.

Good point. As Hamilton Nolan might point out, $55 million could buy a shitload of malaria bed nets. (It was Hamilton Nolan who went all aggro about bed nets, right?)

It says the net contracts around a jumper to trap them.

There is a dedicated telephone installed beneath it.

Twenty feet out seems like plenty to me — I don't think many people can jump 20 feet horizontal from a standing start.

Then you would have a lifetime to think about it while the rest of your family enjoyed not having you around.

They aren't. This incident is an aberration in a country of over 300 million people. Also in past generations a 17 year old could lie about his age and sign up for a job blasting Germans with machine guns.

Great, a library where kids are running and screaming on the roof. Nothing absolutely idiotic about that idea.

I should add that I think in practice most every coffee shop, waterpark etc will throw a person out for taking photos of strangers, especially if the business caters to children. And I personally think that throwing out / permanently barring people in that kind of situation is fair.

I think that having taken a photo in a semi-public place like a business is not legally objectionable (in that the photo would not itself be evidence of some sort of violation), but any business is free to throw you out for taking photos. But I'm not an expert on these issues — I come at it from a media law standpoint.

Under our (Canadian / US) system, people in public places don't have a right to "privacy." Privacy is for people who are in private, and if you can be seen in a public place, your photograph can be taken. Which makes sense, since it would be very difficult to police the quadrillions of people with cameras who have a…

I don't, actually. But I went to look at the Reddit itself and it seems to be just photos of people wearing clothes in public, ie pap photos of regular people.

Doesn't Jezebel's own "DirtBag" regularly feature candid shots of celebs? Or is that okay because they are famous?

I think she died because her drunk driver drove her car into a supporting column at something like 105 km/h.