So... they're not monolithic, but they are monolithic? Can't have that both ways.

By the by, yeah, conservatives are a wide and varied group, just like progressives are.

Last I checked, the conservative crowd was kicked off Reddit (they even went out and built their own, with blackjack and hookers), so I doubt it's them.

Also, without examples of this alleged racism, it's hard to say if it's actual Kluxer-speak, or if it's just stuff that gets said which hurt some poor flower's feelings. If the former, there's also no indication if it's just the usual bullshit trolling that every website forum on the planet has to put up with (we see it here with the GNAA bullshit), or...?

Pretty certain that the blind are going to have a very hard time playing the First-Person shooter games (or anything requiring visual acumen, really)... only so far you can go to accommodate, campers... sorry about that. I think it would be cool if someone innovated a means to let the blind actually get in on the action in such games, though.

Also, I don't get the 'limited time' angle. Isn't that what save-points are for? As long as you're not requiring a player to grind through, say, two hours of gameplay at average speed before hitting a save-point, what's the issue? These things were not crafted as some smartphone time-waster.

I was thinking something similar... I get that someone driving a $70k 4x4 truck with a steel grille guard would be more tempted to go full asshole when it comes to pedestrians, I drive a far less expensive truck and the temptation is strong under the right circumstances (especially when it comes to those chumps that step out from hiding behind a parked car at the last second w/o looking). However, I sincerely doubt that someone in a $70k Porsche (let alone driving something way out-there like a $3m Konigsegg) is going to risk damaging their car by colliding with someone in it.

The sad part is, it's hard to tell** if the government prodded it, or if Hotstar pre-emptively dumped the episode. It's one thing if you see a company forced to take something down due to an external force. It's another if it did so on its own, because you never know if it was done out of fear, or out of a sycophantic desire to get favors.

** to tell for certain anyway. After all, lies abound, as does the fact that in big bureaucracies one minion (even the lead one) may not know what others in the same org has done or said...

If I'm going to have to do all my own bagging and ringing-up, I'd damned well better be compensated for it.

Yes, that sounds entitled, but in all honesty, if I can get that courtesy elsewhere for the same price, I'll go get that courtesy elsewhere.

Some breeds do that. Most dachshunds are smart enough that you can free-feed them without too much issue, though they will still get obese over time if you let it happen.

I travel quite a bit for work, but my wife (and before they grew up, the kids) usually feeds the animals. Nowadays, if I take the missus along with me (which I do once in awhile so that we can go play tourist), then I make use of a kennel. For $25/day, the kennel has someone walk the dog, play with the dog, let it run around with other dogs its size, and they even bathe and groom the critter for me. $125 or so later, and I come home to a happy critter.

We do that maybe two times a year... $250 seems like a pretty good investment compared to some dorky contraption that requires an internet connection(!) just to feed the dog.

Now if you travel more than 20% of the time (e.g. a couple days a week, each week), you should not have a dog. Seriously.

I never thought I would utter the catch-phrase "Certificate-Industrial Complex."

How dare you!

(No, really... I like it - what's it take to rename a virus?)

In other news, (while it won't ameliorate your situation), Vietnam, Indonesia, Taiwan, Philippines... all of these and more are going balls-to-the-wall to build-out factories, court offshore manufacturing contracts...

One of the good things from all this is that a lot of the Third World (at least in Asia) stands ready to get a big boost out of poverty. One of the bad things from all this is that pollution and human misery is about to spread pretty far and wide...

True indeed... and one would think that the lessons of the dot-bust (see also the once high and holy MCSE cert) would have at least enough staying power to sink in - if not to the kids, at least to their parents?

I wanted to do something similar with an RV when I worked at Intel, but I figured my wife and kids would get kinda bitchy about it. ;)

But, for someone single, young, able to show some fiscal discipline, and willing to put up with a small bit of deprivation? It's an excellent way to save up enough in 3-5 years to buy a house with cash. Well, after moving the hell back out of California and getting a more local tech job back East or in the Midwest, but it'll put you head and shoulders above everyone in the town you move back to.

(My youngest is doing something similar in the oilfields by living in a van and not spending money on anything that isn't necessary to sustain life. I figure he's two years away from buying his own house outright, and working as a welder for a decent income once he moves back to town.)

Maybe stick it somewhere between the 3rd and 5th amendments? Seems like a good place to put it...

Won't matter - your state's Bureau of Labor will likely fine the employer so damned hard (and enforce it via seizure if necessary) that you'll likely not have to look for another job for at least 1-2 years off the proceeds, if not longer. I suspect that your boss' management will be on their knees at your door begging you to come back, and said boss (unless he's the proprietor) will likely end up blackballed.

Seriously - the State of Oregon's BOLI (Bureau of Labor and Industry) fined a bakery $150k just for turning down a lesbian's couple's wedding cake order a few years back. They must have had one hell of a honeymoon, since the money was directly turned over to them.