Guess you can't afford the next Xbox then.

But it's not really up to you how serious they are. They're as serious as they want to be. Just because they're not as serious as someone wants them to be doesn't give that someone the right to put them down. That's not fair, and it isn't right. Nobody deserves to be put down. Blaming the victim is wrong.

Is accuracy really that important? You don't get to be a fan if you've got 20 more pounds on you? Who cares? On Halloween, do we knock kids' buckets out of their hands and yell "YOU CALL THIS BATMAN!?" Why is cosplay any different than Halloween?

Welcome to the Internet, where every asshole gets an equal voice.

You don't have to be a feminist to realize that calling people awful names, or touching someone inappropriately is wrong. Male or female, it's simple: it's wrong. Blaming the victim is a very small-minded mentality.

That's the total rate of intentional homicide by any means

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate

Obama is not a "Socialist" (capital S), he is a Democrat. He may employ and support policies that some see as socialist (little s), but he is not part of any Socialist party. Democrats in general lean more toward socialist policies than Republicans, but in general, even Democrats are not very socialist when taking a…

Could be the UK. They have a fantastic record of extremely strict gun control and extremely low gun homicides. The United States sees 40x the number of homicides with a gun per 100,000 people. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics_in_the_United_Kingdom

He's using present tense with a conditional - he means we would never be invaded right now (implied in the foreseeable future).

The crappy part about that is, it sets up a no-lose scenario for trolls. They have no consequence. At least kryptonite hurts Superman. Ignoring a troll just means they'll move on and try to troll more people. There's no way I know of that trolls can actually be made to feel bad about what they're doing, which is…

It depends. I think folks know what trolling is, but then they turn it around by claiming that well-intentioned, but dissenting posts are troll posts. It's a passive aggressive way of trying to invalidate someone's viewpoint. For example, I know that there are people who post stupid things in order to be funny, and…

Bullying has many forms and many weapons. It's basically physical or mental abuse. If you're trolling someone, you're setting up a trap to make someone get upset. That's a minor form of mental abuse - you're intentionally making someone feel 'bad' (upset, angry, shocked). This is often followed by insult and…

Because someone uses bad grammar on internet, they deserve bullying? You have a warped sense of appropriate consequence.

I see you stepped right down in a nice big pile of steaming troll bait

Nope. Housing products sales and manufacturing company. Faucets, cabinets, paint, etc. Like I said, depends on your CIO, some CIOs find value in being ahead of the game, some don't.

I work at a Forbes 500 corporate headquarters of a conglomerate with 17k employees, and we've been on Windows 7 a long time, and we're prototyping Windows 8 with select user groups already. It all depends on your CIO.

Careful - #10 will get you fired, where I work.

I agree with you sort of, except that in a pre-order, they don't take your money until they ship the product, so it's not a loan.

It's not a monopoly - it's vertical integration. But you've got the general idea right.