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Because they look awesome? Seriously, I miss my gas fireplace so much, it was super relaxing to sit in front of the fake fire.

I believe there are ways around this as a business, by the way. If your religious convictions are so strong, then turn your bakery into a non-profit religious organization and restrict your business to local churches. Every state has different ways of handling this, but it is very possible, for the same reasons a Catholic Church can turn away any non-Catholics from getting married. Religious organizations have separate protections under Federal and State law. It might not be the best business plan, but don't expect to run a public for profit business on commercial property and get a choice of who you do business with.

How is that not saying we don't serve your kind here? They are asking for the same cake that any straight couple can get from the bakery. The crazy thing is part of the evidence used against him in the court case showed that he took an order to make a cake for a wedding between two dogs. The jail time is also a bit sketchy. He is saying he would rather go to jail. The courts are saying he needs to serve cakes to everyone and educate his staff, and document who he refuses service to. Now if he continues to discriminate and run his business, he could face fines and a very unlikely jail sentence. It's more likely he will be fined and lose his business license, but that will depend on the judge. It's actually more reasonable than the Oregon baker, who got hit with a bunch of legal fees over $100k.

As an aside, as someone who is trying to start a business, the anti-discrimination laws are the least of my worries when it comes to dealing with government entities. The taxes and licensing fees are way more problematic.

Owning a business does not give you carte blanche to do whatever you want. You have Federal, State, County, and City restrictions to follow in order to keep your license. That may not make you and Vall happy, but that is reality.

These are businesses, not individuals. As an individual you can be as bigoted as you want. You can keep people off your personal property for whatever reasons you want. Businesses do not have the same rights. Why should they?

I do want to bring up another point about running a business. You can appeal to a certain audience. You can limit your inventory, or only offer to do certain types of cakes. This woman in Oregon shot herself in the foot because she made it very clear that she was refusing to do business with this couple because they were gay. She has to offer them the same service she does any other customer, and she refused to do that. That is open discrimination. You can feel free to discriminate in the services you offer, but when you pick and choose your customers based on race, gender, or anything else, you are putting yourself in a bad position.

Heh, I know GD well enough to know that scenario is not going to win him over. That's why I used a bar in my hypothetical scenario!

Courts protecting the rights of minorities against the tyranny of the majority is an extremely important function. It is nice that society has been slowly shifting towards tolerance, but it shouldn't be the only way minorities gain more rights. What is the non-religious justification for denying gay couples the right to marry? I do agree that the best case would be the government getting out of the marriage business. But that is simply not realistic, there isn't enough support for such a movement.

When you run a business, you are subject to non-discrimination laws. Religious organizations can get around this, but I fail to see how a for profit business deserves a free pass here. Would it be fair for your local bar to only serve white people?

We should really just treat reviews like trade magazines do. Reviews tell us if the product is functional, how it runs, what components it has, and the rest is subjective opinion.

I've been getting about 10-12k for every quest for awhile now. Once I hit 70, it dropped in the Outlands, but once I went to Northrend it was back to the big xp rewards. It's been moving pretty fast.

Sure. But if the series keeps demonstrating that it can't hold his interest long enough to finish the game off, it seems he should aim to save cash and do what he does partly anyway (Youtube) or try to pay an percentage in line with the amount he will play. Or he could just finish the games. Why do I need to finish a game to find it enjoyable? I've never finished a single Elder Scrolls game either. Really the only games I tend to finish are Obsidian and Bioware ones. Usually I wouldn't even bother with watching the ending on youtube, but the AssCreed games are a bit of a guilty pleasure when it comes to the story. It's terrible, but I can't help myself.

Then I just don't understand why are you still spending money on these games O.o 30 hours of entertainment is a great exchange for my money. I'm not sure why that is hard to understand. Now I do tend to wait for them to go on sale, because I'm not really a fan of the yearly release model. But that's because I simply don't have time to devote to one franchise, particularly one that is good but not great.

That sounds like a fantastic business opportunity for Polygamygon. How could you possibly turn down $750,000 as a small gaming website?

So I tried to play AC: Black Flag, but it does not run well. I tried a few fixes, but I'm not happy yet. AC3 ran great, so I'm surprised. Kinda wish I had it on the PS4 instead.

I'm still confused about the idea that anyone takes gaming websites seriously when it comes to reviews. That just boggles my mind.

Hope that you don't have gamer OCD I definitely do. I prefer games in the 20 hour range, that's the only way I'll finish them regularly.

One nice thing to know is you can pay your registration and avoid late fees without getting the smog done, they just send you a letter saying they won't send the tags until the smog is done. Since I don't drive the RV regularly, I sat on it for a couple months until I had the time and the money to fix anything big. I got lucky that it was small. Obviously this won't work for a primary vehicle.

I thought you had a job in the gaming industry? Aren't you always going to conventions and stuff?

I actually just installed AC4 Black Flag after sitting on it for a year. AC3 burnt me out pretty good. I also never finish these things. I just get about halfway through and watch the movie on youtube to get the rest. They really turn into a grind around hour 30.

I finally figured out why my RV was not passing smog. It was the gas cap, it was not sealing properly and was causing a fail on the evaporation test. Ah well, nice to have that mystery solved. Only cost $20 and the price of the smog test.

Why kill the goose when it still lays eggs? But there's now that thing with twitter and Women against Media where it seems like they are giving carte blanche to the feminists to "protect themselves from harassment". With the wake of this new wave of Twitter bans on prominent pro-GG speakers is beginning to seems as if Twitter might have chosen a side or is going to be caught in the middle of this whole thing. It is interesting to see how social media companies will police this stuff. Maybe Jlaw has the right idea just staying off social media.

Has Sarkeesian attempted to pass legislation against games?