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Couple Arrested for Not Paying Tip
Edit: Check out the utter destruction on Yelp!
My favorite is This one, not exactly non-fiction, but I was LMFAHS.
Edit: the photos are pretty sweet too.
How To Appear More Attractive (Than You Are)
Take the last bit about how your partner is more attractive to you than they "actually" are. That's not true, my GF is as attractive to me as she is (to me). Perhaps other people don't find her as attractive, but that's fine with me, I only care how much she turns me on.
Homophobic Christian Whines About Getting Fired
While I do agree that being a dick should not be legally defensible as religious expression, it's unfortunately creates all sorts of gray areas. People can be offended by anything, and allowing employers to decide what public opinions their employees may hold is in direct conflict with the rights of citizens in a society which claims to value freedom of expression. I am content to have it either way, but it should be consistently applied, unfortunately nothing ever is.
The thing that strikes me about this guy is that he is a clear copy-cat of carrie prejean. The argument " you can't hold me responsible for what I say if I invoke god" was her MO, and all her worshipers have fed this absurd notion that claiming to be religious should be a free pass. I don't think anybody in that camp will get how ridiculous this guys whining is.
Undercover At Gun Shows - Exposing The Loophole
So if 30% of illegal guns are "connected" to gun shows...that tells me nothing...how about telling me what percentage of legal guns are "connected" to gun shows, that way I have a baseline.
These are legal transactions with a legal loophole, it's apparently easy enough to find blatantly illegal gun trafficers. I remember a TV news station in Los Angeles a couple of decades ago doing a story where it only took them a couple of days to find someone who would be willing to sell them fully auto submachine guns( illegal to own in that state) cash and carry out of the back of a van.
This country is saturated with guns, if a petty thief wanted one, a simple burglary could turn up a few, so I don't really see any point in this "oh no criminals have guns" hysteria. I would be seriously surprised if closing the legal loophole solved anything.
Homophobic Christian Whines About Getting Fired
Telling your boss s/he is an ignorant fool, or immoral can/does get people fired, just like union organizing gets people fired. There are laws against it because it happens, not because it doesn't.
I will say that as a Christian I am more offended by this guys ravings than anyone.
I'd be willing to wager that the lady who complained about his workplace expression of homophobia to HR and got him fired, who is having her right to marry denied because homophobes are willing to vote away other peoples right, is probably more offended than you are.
Homophobic Christian Whines About Getting Fired
DR. BRONNER'S MAGIC SOAPBOX
I buy 4 gallons of the stuff every year or so, I go with unscented to avoid the tingle. The only thing it's not good for is the dishwasher, but I use it for everything else.
Anyone into document management? (Geek Talk Post)
All the cool programmer kids are using one of these. They are both very popular (lots of support/help available), and very well featured. There are a few advantages to git for folks who are publishing code, but if that is not what you are doing you will not see the difference. They are both free (as in speech and beer), and require no server backend.
Since you are on an MS OS you are probably better off with mercurial, since git has not generally been MS friendly.
These systems allow you to control the contents of folders, or groups of folders, as one unit, commit the current state, add/rename/remove files or folders, and sync them with any number of other copies. Every copy has an entire revision history, so you can grab any version from any copy. Very useful.
I personally use a two teared approach:
1) Everything I edit on my machine is automatically saved by RCS, so whenever I save a file from my editor it commits, I rarely use these versions, but it has saved my ass on occasion when I did something stupid on changes I had not committed to a repository.
2) I manage projects (code/text/latex/tax returns), with mercurial, and then sync them with my server to keep backups, or to publish code/sites.
Google Navigation = Death of GPS Makers
Fans Support Comedian Jimmy Carr Over Troop Joke
...Jimmy Carr apologized for offending people
In all fairness, it was a non-apology apology. Since most reasonably people will agree that no apology is better than a passive-aggressive fake apology, I submit that he did better than not apologizing, by "apologizing".
Rachel Maddow Goes After Liz Cheney
It is my understanding that the bodies of fallen soldiers ALL come back through Dover AFB. Not going to Dover means not even once bothering to receive the dead, of a war he himself started.
Rachel Maddow Goes After Liz Cheney
Maybe I'm showing my ignorance... But what the hell is "American Exceptionalism"?
The assertion that the US is morally/legally justified in applying standards of behavior to other countries which it does not uphold itself.
Example: Iran CAN'T be allowed to have nuclear weapons (but, implicitly it's okay if we do).
French Court Finds Church of Scientology Guilty of Fraud
One actually does things for the community, and society while the other one strong arms people/groups/etc into going away.
Since when was this about food not bombs vs the catholic church?