I was speaking to the general case of "when internet behavior fully flows over into real life behavior", not specifically to reviews of services/businesses. The fact is, most people who are complete douchebags on the Internet would never say the things they say on the Internet to people in the real world, because they…

It never will, because in the real world there are social consequences for your behavior. Most of the people who spout off on the Internet only do so because they are mostly anonymous. Almost never happens in meatspace.

Maybe he wanted to return the food.

Don't forget the obligatory #youhavemcdiedofmcdysentery

The 35% US corporate tax rate is one of the highest in the world. Companies who make their money elsewhere (or who can legally book the money elsewhere) do so, and pay whatever the corporate tax rate is in whatever country they book the revenue.

I often wonder what the next 30 years of Frucci's job interviews are going to be like.

Creedance Meatwater Revival?

Perhaps a better example would be if you created your own cipher and had a diary that only you knew how to read. Do you have to turn over the diary to the court? Yes. Are you required to tell them how to read it? I'm going to say "no". Let them figure it out if it's that important to them.

That particular commencement speech is widely considered to be the greatest commencement speech of all time. You really should watch it.

These photos were actually taken in the future, by a time traveler to 2050, when sharia law is implemented everywhere because the West refused to acknowledge the threat of such a thing happening in order to be politically correct and culturally sensitive.

You're fired.

The must be happi*er* than the general pop.

Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes.

Holy shit, the electronic locks fail closed instead of failing open? Regardless of the captain's individual and unauthorized actions in damaging the boat and causing it to sink, the cruise line and the shipbuilder are going to be sued out of existence with wrongful death lawsuits for installing locks that fail closed.

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How many more than 45 would be dead if they were wherever they were before they started working at Foxconn? You do realize that the suicide rate per 100,000 at Foxconn is actually lower than the suicide rate per 100,000 in the general Chinese population, right?

It's China. They're only allowed to have one.

The doctor is in.

Foxconn is only awful compared to Western work standards. You know what's worse than Foxconn? Trying to eke out a living in rural China, which is the alternative that these Foxconn workers are trying to get away from.

This should surprise no one, especially anybody who has read the Steve Jobs biography. Woz has always had a hacker ethos and prefers open systems over closed systems. He is also an ubergeek for whom the ability to tinker under the hood is an important feature (and he obviously has the skills and knowledge to do so).…