I used the word "sacrament" on purpose (in my post to which you were replying ). The word is not a synonym for "sanctity." If you want to have a discussion with someone it helps to be somewhat precise in your language.

I checked the source article. The sensors record UP TO 2,000 or 20,000 gs, not between those numbers.

Hopefully it’s a routine Gizmodo order-of-magnitude error.

"Sacrament" is a word that means Christian rite. I don't think there was ever polygamous Christian marriages (unless you count Mormonism).

Loving the “/whynotboth.gif” instead of embedding the gif itself. <Insert meme reference here>

Yeah, I guess I get that one could modify the vows, but it just seems weird to me to take an institution (and sacrament for some people) created to celebrate monogamy and leave out the monogamy part.

Totally agree. When you're going over the vows in rehearsal and the preacher says "and I promise to forsake all others" do you ask him to just cut that part because you have no intention of following through?

Jokes are easy to miss when they’re not funny.

I agree with you with respect to most other community sizes (including reservations), it’s just that 300 is so small it is closer to a large family than small town, especially considering the next closest people are a few thousand miles away. Your renters could just leave and go anywhere else in the US (or your…

I think in a 300-person country the economic incentives play out way differently than in a full-sized nation. If everyone has a reasonable shot at using, say, a tennis court, and no one has other more pressing tasks, then they will probably build a tennis court.

You think a capitalist country of 300 people would have done better?

also "it's message"? learn to use the apostrophe.

Allan's dead, bro. Let him RIP.

This dude died three years ago at his house. Good comment, tho.

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Yeah, and Toyota and GM selling cars there makes it hard for local competition to compete. In this case, where lock-in amounts to "use our service or pay for someone else's," my colonialism radar does not go off.

Are we talking about the Philly police? They say the alleged rapist dropped her off at the police station, they interviewed him, and didn't press charges. So chances are they don't take it that seriously, therefore it seems possible they didn't contact Uber for a month.

Getting into a car where the driver is tracked by GPS, known by company, and all the information about the trip is stored in computers seems safer than sticking your hand up and waiting for a cab to pull over, then hoping you remember the medallion number if you get raped...

Yeah, because big city cab drivers are paragons of respectability.

Good point. Godgear.com might be better since it has only seven letters before the ".com"