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The article insectosaurus posted may explain the hesitation you're getting from the attorneys you've called. It makes it sound like California code speaks out of both sides of its mouth on the issue ("The court of appeal in the case discussed… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - Over five years ago

The lack of indents or special spacing between paragraphs is a European thing. Or, at any rate, I see it fairly often in German books, like the complete editions from Suhrkamp Taschenbuch. You get used to it, and it's only a challenge for the English… [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

Justified is used more for text books, but it is not one of our favorites because it is fundamentally contrived. What? Fundamentally contrived? By fundamentally contrived do they mean, as old as the history of type? It's true that… [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

This is a pretty trivial app. I'd suggest doing it in plain javascript so you wouldn't need any server-side support (using php might require more computer wizardry at the front end than you are prepared to tackle, while with javascript all you need… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - Over five years ago

should have a few guns and bibles One thing I think this group is trying to do is remain entirely neutral about political issues and just point to the rotten core of the democratic process itself. Which is legit: American politics is deeply… [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

Augh! The baby elephant cries and the parent-elephant roars. This broke my heart a million times. [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

I guess I'm just liberal scum but my jaw is just hanging there watching this. [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

And yet, despite this, the central premise of the piece, she's totally okay with making up a just-so story about Mark's home life where his wife and he took a recent visit to Stepford or something. You're the champ, Mark. What? No. You have… [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

One note about the selfies and picture taking at the Kara Walker exihibit. When I visited A Subtlety in late May, signage at the exhibit explicitly encouraged the taking of photographs for "social media" distribution. And if social… [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

BUT WHAT ABOUT THE MEN? [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

Cheney's Burger Shack Where every meal is like a shotgun blast to the face. [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

What's the point of being a human if you don't have art? Point taken. But when the latest auction of a Bacon tryptich brings more cash than the entire yearly budget of the National Endowment for the Arts, you know things are out of wack… [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

I achieved a perfect score on the verbal section of the GRE using this ONE STUPID TRICK: vocabulary flashcards with Anki. Just add in about 3000-5000 "college" words and churn through them. You should give yourself about 4 months to learn… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - Over five years ago

Your argument actually is self-refuting because the fact of the fantastical elements in the story should argue that all the more familiar elements (which is most of it) are out-of-place and don't make sense. My point isn't that the… [more]
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FanFare comment - Over five years ago

A little late on this, but, re: forks in GoT. Come on, really? My WikiFu tells me that forks are ancient, just not widely used as dining utensils in northern Europe until the 18th century (they were essential to southern european cuisine, i.e.,… [more]
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FanFare comment - Over five years ago

I love this tiering business all too much. When it comes to pure murder skills, it makes sense to put H'ghar number 1, but I dunno if that's the same as swordfighting skills. I mean, if one indulges me in a show-universe-cross hypothetical here,… [more]
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FanFare comment - Over five years ago

Even if none of Tywin's kids could inherit, there are still others in the family. We saw a nephew at one point. There is also Tywin's brother, Kevan Lannister, who I think last showed up when Arya was Tywin's serving girl at Harrenhall. [more]
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FanFare comment - Over five years ago

If you really want to stick to MARTA alone, I'd take the red/gold line (the line from the airport) up to Lenox Square mall and go to Wolf Camera at the mall. I'd call them first to make sure they carry the lens. There are better camera shops but… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - Over five years ago

Fortran's suggestion of tracing it back to the mathematical discovers of the equations in question is probably on point. Descartes' La Géométrie, in which we can see analytic geometry's invention, may hold the answer. I suspect that… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - Over five years ago

Graduate admissions in the humanities are not like college admissions to the, say, Ivy League. That is, they don't care too much about whether you're a super-well-rounded potential Rhodes Scholar who can play Olympic Handball and also has a ton of… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - Over five years ago

Best title ever It of course refers to this classic Chris Farley sketch. [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

Interesting guy. Heartwarming. But, isn't it just called retirement? Apparently this has become so rare today that it warrants a special nytimes piece. [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

The Bloor Viaduct in Toronto was the #2 suicide bridge in North America. It's not anymore, but the instances of suicide by jumping in Toronto haven't decreased at all. People just go somewhere else now. The article cited in the Wikipedia… [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

Oh, he's from Florida, where Republicanism is a reflex because any other position would mean the End of All That Is Florida. Now it all makes sense. I hope Carl Hiaasen incorporates a version of this guy into his next novel. [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

Wow. That tumblr is the most consummate performative expression of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl I've ever seen. I'm simultaneously repulsed and attracted in equal amounts. [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

A lot of this is predicated on an outdated, Romantic theory of art — something that implicitly plays into the desiccated notions of high and low, where low comes with commerce. I confess my debt to Lessing, Herder, Kant and Hegel. I am not… [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

Well this is utter nonsense. Can I not desire an encounter? And isn't an encounter in fact the most disposable thing of all? It doesn't persist beyond the moment, except in memory. A consumer product exists relationally in exactly the same manner… [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

capitalism is just that, an effective tool... Except it's not. It's neither effective, nor something that can be thought of merely as a tool. It's not very effective: without state controls, which are fundamentally anti-capitalist (being… [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

It sounds like there's a good chance he's suffering from some serious anxiety related to something traumatic that happened once or happens regularly at school that he's afraid will happen again. Maybe this is no more than the trauma of having new… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - Over five years ago

The 10th Regiment of Foot makes an important point: in capitalism society is not just divided into classes, but also stratified into countless other groups. In the end, capitalist society is one in which every individual is set in opposition… [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

Did you intend to put "just" into that sentence? Well sure. "Just" as a limiting expression in general. Morally speaking, both acts are reprehensible. But the Italians seem to regard the prostitution as the morally (and… [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

So, raping young girls, OK; tax fraud, not OK? I'm unfamiliar with Italian attitudes about this, but in France I found people to have a shockingly lax attitude when it came to older men having sex with young girls (note, Berlusconi's crime… [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

As much as my deepseated feminism wants Shakespeare to have been a woman, the absurd prattle of the Shakespeare authorship debate has gone on long enough. Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare, not Francis Bacon, not Amelia Bassano. Why, on God's… [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

I mean, just consider this chaos: I mean, really! [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

I've never heard of a buyback, but I've had many a lagniappe. Also, outside of the Mississippi Delta, I think it's just called a free drink. [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

I had that exact haircut in 1996. [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

The notion that contemporary anglo-american philosophy is some order of magnitude more rigorous than philosophy's previous incarnations is just patently, totally, and completely absurd. Especially when were talking about Aristotle, not to mention… [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

Welp. That took a turn for the worst. Someone's been watching Breaking Bad? [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

Sounds like you got a standard PFO letter (please fuck off). It means nothing, except that out of the 100+ applications they got, for some random reason or another they had to remove you from the list. Assuming the hiring committee is the same hiring… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - Over five years ago

National Security Letter? More like Lettre de cachet. [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

How does a millenial pay for cancer, in Florida, without insurance?
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Ask MeFi post - Over five years ago

I'm going to go against the crowd here and say that I don't think this guy's position is a case of total and pure assholery. There never is a good time to break up with someone, but there certainly are better and worse times, and just before a… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - Over five years ago

Why not try out John Barth's The Sot-weed Factor. [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - Over five years ago

You can roast it like any other roast. I'd suggest marinating it in wine, celery, carrots and onions overnight, searing it in a bit of oil on the rangetop and then sticking it in the oven for about 2 hours at 250 or so in a covered casserole dish… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - Over five years ago

Nobody has mentioned Marilyn Robinson's Housekeeping. I also have infinitely good things to say about Zadie Smith, whose fiction keeps changing and never for the worse. Toni Morrison should be in the running for greatest American novelist of… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - Over five years ago

At a giant company like unilever, it's likely that the Dove and Axe people never talk to each other, so the Axe-objection doesn't really hold much water. Not that that should matter, since both of them are just trying to sell us soap, and would make… [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

I don't get it. Why should we be concerned about this? Really. I'm trying to see why my indifference here is morally problematic on any level. I can go buy a eucharist and nobody cares. What's the difference? [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

These arguments are silly. If we traced the history of property and weighed it all on the scales of justice, everyone of us would have to be condemned. And yes, I don't see why one person's religious beliefs should matter here. What isn't stolen?… [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

Ditto to the smarty pants above. I score remarkably high on all sorts of tests (including a perfect score on the GRE) and all I seem to get from it is bad life decisions (like graduate school) and the uncanny ability to be marked almost immediately… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - Over five years ago

ATL is pretty queer; definitely the best place in the south besides Austin or Asheville to be gay. But the south is the south. Once you wander out of midtown or decatur and into the greater Atlanta area I'd be genuinely afraid to hold hands in public… [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

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