Actually, no, it's Clem's cousin from New York City who wants to try to pretend to be southern but isn't really. If he was, he'd know it's "y'all" and not "ya'll".

I'm not convinced that even this will be enough - they fired Matt Lauer immediately, with no evidence. You could shut yourself up in a room and have 0 contact with women and STILL find yourself fired for "inappropriate sexual behavior".

That's what always makes me uncomfortable about censorship - especially this particular kind. Somebody says, "this was inappropriate content, we've removed it from your sight because it's inappropriate and you shouldn't be looking at it." Of course, since I can't look at it to judge for myself what they consider "inappropriate", I'll never know if they were right or wrong - or what else they might be censoring.

This will just spur BitTorrent developers into developing something even harder to stop. I see this as a bump in the road to a truly uncensorable internet.

I should have read a book cover to cover when I was college...

I read a lot of blog posts and things for entertainment, but for actual education I actually prefer book books. I read a lot of technical books; almost anything O'Reilly or Addison Wesley. I still haven't found that the content online is as well put together as the dead tree equivalents.

My wife is obsessed with using this. I hate it. Half the time I call the number and it rings for ten minutes and nobody picks up. I end up walking over to the door (which is 100 yards from the parking space) and knocking on it to get some pimple-faced teenager's attention.

The US is the only country that would actually have to do anything under the Paris Climate Deal.

Dad?

Actually I distrust Facebook so much that I'm pretty sure they already have a few gigabytes of naked pictures of everybody, so uploading another one won't make much difference.

Well, I thought it was really just that easy until I realized that the reason nobody had ever taken a naked picture of me was because I was ugly.

I swear I'm only storing the hash code. Honest.

While I admire his faith in humanity, this seems like a pipe dream. The job market is flooded with so many educated people right now that there's an implicit ranking:

1. Graduated from a "top" university with a hard science degree
2. Gradauted from a less-than-top university with a hard science degree
3. Graduated from anywhere with any other degree
4. Didn't graduate from anywhere except high school

If you're not in the first category, you're fighting for scraps right now without post-AI scarcity. Do you really think adding a fifth category is the solution? There just ain't enough work to go around.

Coffee reverses this, though, right?

Remember when reading comic books and listening to rock and roll music made us all worship Satan? Good times.