92BuickLeSabre commented on To Catch an Xbox Live Predator

"@Jacksonville12: Not long ago, it was shockingly difficult to prosecute a crime against a 13-16 y.o."

92BuickLeSabre commented on Why It's Better to Pretend You Don't Know Anything About Computers

"It's the holidays. Why do you want me to cry?"

92BuickLeSabre commented on Check Your Receipts When You Exit Radio Shack

"@PN - gooapplesoft: When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, the pursuit of Happiness, and not letting some punk kid Donate a dollar to cancer research Without Permission."

92BuickLeSabre commented on Check Your Receipts When You Exit Radio Shack

"@PN - gooapplesoft: Your apparent belief that the two things are analogous is pretty much my point in a nutshell."

92BuickLeSabre commented on Check Your Receipts When You Exit Radio Shack

"@PN - gooapplesoft: One could argue that such black and white thinking (and failure to place cost benefit above pride) is equally immature. Perhaps the most mature is to acknowledge it's not right, realize it's just a dollar and went to a good cause, maybe make one call as a civic duty, and move on with one's life."

92BuickLeSabre commented on The Grass Is Greener On the Other Side, China Edition

"@Red_Flag: While I was colloquially referring to peoples, nonetheless, what can I say: Well played. *doffs cap*"

92BuickLeSabre commented on "The Road" Leads to a Sentimental Post-Apocalypse

"@crashedpc - Haifisch: This is why I brought someone with me to the last io9 meet-up in NYC and pretended she was my wife."

92BuickLeSabre commented on "The Road" Leads to a Sentimental Post-Apocalypse

"Counter-point: My wife [Edit: Not a big SF'er] loved the book and really fell in love with not just the story but the way the sparse yet poetic use of the writing itself conveyed meaning, emotion, setting, tension, etc."

92BuickLeSabre commented on The Grass Is Greener On the Other Side, China Edition

"@Red_Flag: Nope."

92BuickLeSabre commented on The Grass Is Greener On the Other Side, China Edition

"@Noobs-R-Us: Only two quibbles. (1) There were plenty of pinnacles of civilization across Asia during the times when Europeans were flicking bugs - not just China."