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Commented on College students arrested for not tipping
Either it's a gratuity or it's a service charge. If it's a gratuity, then they have the option to not pay it. If it's a service charge, then the restaurant is obligated to deliver the service. If they didn't, they...
Commented on T-Mobile aggressively rolling out 21Mbps wireless broadband
There's something very wrong when wireless speeds are exceeding wired speeds....
Commented on Can you tell if people are dangerous by looking at their face?
If you're looking at a human, they're dangerous. Remember our position in the food chain; we didn't get there by being nice as a species - even to our own kind....
Commented on Author Michael Stackpole: I don't worry about pirates
"People downloading my stories from the big torrent sites were never going to buy them anyway. It's no money out of my pocket." I've never understood why people who create books, movies and music worry about this. Do they worry...
Commented on Milk: The Gateway Drug
Robert Mueller's response should simply have been that his organization is charged with enforcing the laws that Congress makes. If Tennessee Congressman Steve Cohen thinks the law regarding marijuana is wrong, HE is the one that is charged constitutionally with...
Commented on Massachusetts wants to imprison people for 10 years if they take a nude photo of their over-60 spouse, even with spouse's consent
When can we get a law that locks up legislators for proposing unconstitutional laws? As a legislator, job one is knowing the constitutions of of your country and state. Failing at that should be gross criminal neglect....
Commented on Author's Guild claims text-to-speech software is illegal
You aren't reading that book with both eyes are you? You were only authorized for single copy use! Seriously, I think that absurd claims like this are a good start. It's the only way that people will realize how broken...
Commented on HOWTO Put a hidden radio-prompter on Sarah Palin during the debate
Radio is too easily discovered. Use multiple ultrasonic transducers around the hall to create audio frequency interference that only she can hear. There's no equipment for her to wear, no radio to be picked up on scanners, no frame-by-frame analysis...
Commented on Microsoft’s “I’m a PC” Ads - made on a Mac
You know they do this intentionally to cause the ad to be spread, right? It's like an intentional exploit of the Streisand Effect....
Commented on Funny new Apelad shirt $10 including shipping
This would be a good shirt for Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Anya) fans too. :)...
Commented on Paramount silencing portions of Indiana Jones in theaters?
How does this method do anything except maybe identify at what theater the piracy was accomplished? Actually it doesn't even do that. The pirates are apparently smarter than the studios; they just combine the audio from several theaters to get...
Commented on Special license plates shield officials from traffic tickets
The new organized crime. Now with databases!...
Commented on Logo carved onto human hair
Shades of Blade Runner....
Commented on Ted Turner: global warming could lead to cannibalism
Actually, Ted is probably right. At least for most people in the U.S., if the grocery closed people would starve to death. They have no idea where food comes from or how to prepare (grow or kill/clean) it. In urban...
Commented on Creepily lifelike CGI woman
The eyes (when blinking) and the mouth (when smiling, parted) are not right. I suspect that those are the only actual CGI portion of these images....
Commented on Air Force lawyers send DMCA notice to YouTube
Intentional Streisand Effect?...
Commented on FCC may do-over Comcast Net Neutrality hearing due to presence of paid Comcastards
"If you're going to meddle in politics, do it skillfully enough not to get caught." With no penalty, there's no disincentive for misbehaving. There actually an incentive, as there's nothing to lose. If all the FCC does is a "do...
Commented on CERN photos in Nat'l. Geo: The God Particle
The thing that struck me as I looked at these photos, is that science fiction devices, like starships, seem trivially simple compared to the reality of these complex machines. They're beautiful!...
Commented on Pew report on the demographics of the old net hands
Before the Internet, I used was various BBS. There was as much creation as there was consumption. I'd say a much higher ratio than today. BBS started interconnecting (FIDO). Not long after that, "the Internet" started to become generally available...
Commented on Re-lensing glasses by mail
We've been buying our glasses from Zenni Optical (5 pair now). They are cheap, fast, and our optician says the prescription is correct. In fact, he said as long as we were willing to wait a little longer to get...
Commented on Name that "blast the satellite out of the sky" mil op
OOPS Orbital Object Pulverizer for Satellites...
Commented on UK mall bans grandparents for trying to photo their grandkids
People still shop at malls? Why? Is it the decor? The junk food court? Paying 50% more for everything? Chased out of the mall by a security guard? It's for your own good....
Commented on Woman gropes mall Santa
RugerRedhawk: OK, you're sexist. The only reason you see a difference, is because you've been culturally trained to consider women the weaker sex. As a result, inappropriate sexual behavior by women can be ignored; after all, they're just women. Men...
Commented on Standalone hard-disk eraser: Wiebetech eRazer
I use this handy device: http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16812232002 However, popping the cover off the drive and bending the platters with a plier work for those that won't be recycled (old sub-2GB drives)....
Commented on MLB rips off fans who bought DRM videos
DRM is the snake oil of the 21st century. It simply takes advantage of those that don't know any better. It should be illegal, but since most legislators are also local snake oil distributors......

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Piers W commented on College students arrested for not tipping
I would guess that GraemeM is speaking from the UK, and from the northern bit, where people are careful with their money. Until recently in Britain ten percent was considered a perfectly reasonable tip in restaurants. I'd say twelve and a half these days. It's often added to the bill because the likes of GraemeM don't bother. Sometimes this is so subtly done you can end up tipping twice. In Italy I have observed parties of Italians leaving less than one euro in spare change on the table, although I have never dared do this myself. In the UK you...
das memsen commented on College students arrested for not tipping
I guess the discrepancy here is that you really believe that tips/service fees/whatever are some kind of mandatory thing, which they're not. Though I wasn't born in the US, perhaps the country has rubbed off on me enough that I definitely resent any business or government telling me what to do in areas they have no business telling me. I give a tip because i WANT to, not because i HAVE to. If I choose to pay 18% more, that's my choice, not anyone else's. This is not just a semantic difference- it's a philosophical one, and one that remains...
missjoyce commented on College students arrested for not tipping
i always thought you gave the tip because you wanted to and not because it is mandatory. what if the service is poor,do i still tip? you can not add tips to my bill. the bill is for the service of the establishment. the tip should only come if i want it to. if the establishment paid a livable wage this would not be a big issue....
DizzyFSeiei commented on College students arrested for not tipping
I work in a restaurant, we charge 10% service charge for a party of over 10 people. We did have a customer complaining about the service charge itself and had to refund it to her. But other than that we don't really expect to have tips, it's the customers' choice. Tips just reflects on the good service the customer receives....
billrafferty commented on College students arrested for not tipping
If the service is excellent, it's a comparable tip. If the service is passable, it's about 15% standard for the wife and I. If the service is poor it drops to about 10%. If the service really sucks then we pay cash TO THE PENNY. No tip. I have been to restaurants where a gratuity was added for large groups of my friends and I and if we didn't feel that the 18% was appropriate we simply didn't pay it. We didn't not pay the check, that's stupid. The customer decides what the gratuity is, not the business....

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