Pizza delivery places don't take the delivery charge out of the tip. That's in addition to the tip. If Uber added the "10% of fare" and "$1 booking fee" directly to the pre-tip amount owed by the passenger, then that would be fair. Making the cab driver pay for the privilidge of having the service target his company is inappropriate.

If someone was using your name to sell their product, doesn't that imply that you support or endorse their product? Someone must ask for permission to legally (legitimately?) make the claim that you support or endorse their product. The vast majority of people believe this, and the law revolves around what "reasonable people" would understand.

In this case, even though the name was stripped out, the player is still clearly and obviously identifiable in the game. Someone who played the game before watching the sport would see the player in real life and think "Hey, that's the guy from my game!" This is EA very obviously overreaching, and we should not try to justify bad habits by big businesses.

Not so. An order by the military is not an order from Obama. This may come as a shock, but the the military occasionally acts without Obama's direct knowledge. If the first sentence is true, then Obama said "Bomb this place." The second sentence can happen entirely without that scenario.

Speaking as a Canadian, if a telemarketer from the US calls a Canadian phone, they have to abide by Canadian laws regarding the phone call as should be described in our trade agreements for doing cross-border business. Sign up for the Canadian Do Not Call Registry. It works.

"I'm not a billionaire, but..." I'm not a billionaire, so I don't care what happens to them.
"I don't have a uterus, but..." I have a body, and I support a person's choice how to treat their own body.
"I'm not gay, but..." I can make choices, so I support a person's choice.
"I'll never be under-age again, but..." Haha! You're old! (me too, but meh. Get off my lawn and I'll get off yours.)

Stop telling people what they should value. Either they're smart enough to figure it out, or your high-and-mighty attitude is going to antagonize them into the position opposite of yours. Or they just won't change because they just don't care.

If you're going to play semantics, "Mass Destruction" is not equivalent to "Mass Murder". Hell, you don't even need 1 dead person for destruction to happen.

Something tells me the US Military is well aware of what they drop on people and what they were accusing Saddam Hussein of possessing. It wasn't merely that he was alleged to have them, but that he was alleged to have them in contravention of some treaty, wasn't it? The issue wasn't about the items, but about the treaty or punishment or whatever not being followed.

Two words: Technological familiarity. Just because a person managed to get a degree and some experience doesn't mean they are good at what they do. Using more "tech" shows greater ability to adapt and learn. To a strong degree, it can also be a stronger indicator of personality traits which may help the job and also show those traits which could hurt the job. After all, someone who tweets and posts pictures about getting hammered at work (or any other imaginable bad practices) probably isn't the applicant you're looking for. It's not mentioned in the summary what kind of engineering position the submitter is looking for, so this is the best I can guess.

Really? Apple cloned Angry Birds?! Where can I get my Apple-branded Angry Birds? Quick! Before it becomes cool!

Right. Because Sony would neeeever do something like change restrictions on their software after point-of-sale. *coughother-oscoughps2-game-compatibilitycough* Damn. I think i need to see a doctor.

If TV has taught me anything, it's that women don't bomb--they poison

Godwin's law says nothing of the validity of an argument--merely that the longer a debate rages, the more likely one side is to compare the other to Nazis or Hitler.

It's not the preferring the same gender that is the problem in Christianity; it's the sex-making act. Incidentally, that act is also forbidden to be practiced by any heterosexual couple unless they have been married (some more restrictions may apply; consult your local repressive representative for details).

Wouldn't the Pope prefer UNIX, then? The Distro from which the many forks of Linux were forked?

I'm curious. Who put VLC on the Apple App Store? Was it not the other developers or some subset of them? So when the developers lack concensus, Apple is to blame? This is interesting. I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.