Nah you forget, we’re in the great United States, where something can only be obscene if there’s a nipple in there, like a picture of women breastfeeding, or natives walking around in loin cloths.

He wasn’t in that car, nor was he driving it.

Well yes, my point being, whatever gripes IT people have about hacking being done by made typing, I’m sure cops for example, notice far more inaccuracies with the whole “CSI” part of the show.

Uber’s right.

I think Uber is clearly in the right here. Passenger’s trip took longer 10 minutes longer than usual, Uber refunded the cost of that 10 minutes.

That’s not that special though or unique to IT work. Every profession, from doctors/lawyers/bankers to grocery store workers and waiters are probably misrepresented on TV, because TV writers and actors are not doctors/lawyers/waiters. Probably the only accurate portrayals is if there is a show about screenwriters…

Filing separately doesn’t change the higher tax brackets. Filing separately doesn’t let you use the individual tax brackets, but just half of the married one. So for example, if both spouses made $75,000, even filing separately, they are in the 28% bracket, whereas if not married they would be in the 25% bracket.

Actually, couples only get a “tax break” if one person makes significantly more than the other - i.e. single primary breadwinner situations. If both couples make similar amounts then marriage actually significantly increases the tax burden, and there is a tax burden on marriage.

But part of it is that with limited resources, you end up having to compromise in at least one area or another. Second-hand clothing stores are less common, and thus less convenient than standard retail stores - so that takes more time, as are making your own clothes. So generally something has to give. Maybe you…

The same way we know the dealer wasn’t “just fucking lazy” and couldn’t be bothered to remove the sticker after specifically instructing the customer not to remove it, and promising to remove it himself, and trying to avoid having to take responsibility in this responsiblity-shirking country. We have a jury decide…

The last time that was needed (the civil war), history tells us the vast majority of soldiers are willing to fight against insurgents and rebels who are threatening the country they swore to protect.

So does NATO, i.e. the U.S. itself. Actually, that’s the ultimate military-industrial complex scheme! Get the U.S. military to invade NATO countries, where they’ll then have to fight themselves! Fighting themselves is pretty much the only justification to spend as much as the rest of the world combined.

Yep, France may object, but the Germans never cared too much about that.

Well, the Germans might not object to troops landing in Normandy again (France might, but Germany probably isn’t too concerned with that).

In which case, it won’t matter to you if it breaks right?

Well considering these new technologies provide a 360 degree view, aren’t affected by blindspots, car pillars, etc. unless you have 10 eyes spaced equidistantly around your head, that also have x-ray vision, I’d say you actually have pretty pedestrian detection and blindspot warning systems.

Yes, because believe it or not, science holds itself to a very high standard, and as the article says, “that’s a correlation, not a causation,” and “And that’s partly because a scientific random study — in which one group of people had guns or permissive gun laws, and another group didn’t — isn’t possible.”

Except there’s no fluke, because States with lax gun control laws have higher homicide rates, and States that have strict gun control laws have lower homicide rates. (same goes for cities)

Anyone notice German banks are not involved?

Ah I see the logic of the arguments. But it’s basically the same thing right? We both agree that we need to shift towards cost-effective alternative energy sources. You want to artificially push up the price of oil, so that the market would develop the sources, while I was advocating direct funding of research and…