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Salaried employees don't get overtime. Employees not on salary get paid for overtime. It's a law. There really isn't anything up for debate here.

Down the rabbit hole we go. Are we arguing about tense now? I think it's probably because you come off as believing that it just isn't as important as when women get raped, or is somehow less of a pressing issue, or, you know, that even when a woman rapes a man it's somehow "THE...

Cobra: Not going to do the point-by-point quoting, too much effort for too little return, but I will attempt to reply in summary. Your first sentence is completely irrelevant, since we are already only discussing the limited cases of vaginismus resulting from forced sexual penetration...

To the first paragraph: It's possible for a medical professional to tell the difference between rough sex and rape, typically because of something called vaginismus. There's a difference between being "handled roughly" and being "handled roughly against your will." Since I didn't provide a...

If reported immediately, a rape is actually strikingly easy to prove. Semen deposits (or even oil/powder residue from a condom) plus vaginal tearing + any kind of defensive wounds is pretty much a slam dunk. Without the defensive wounds, it gets a bit trickier (it is possible to threaten a...

Pretty much this. With all the traffic, these forums could really be a force for good in the gaming community. Too bad the staff doesn't really know what to do with all the attention Yahtzee brought them (snagging that guy was a stroke of genius, but it seems like they haven't been able to...

Emphasis mine. I wish that were true, Hipster. It might help to remember that when a woman needs protection from a rapist, much more often than not it's a man that provides it. Painting us all with one brush is not necessarily the best strategic option for women.

The ideas that all men support rape, are "potential" rapists, or are all colluding to create some kind of patriarchal "rape culture" is silly, insulting, wildly inaccurate, and based on pure speculation. Such attempts to turn the sexes against each other wholesale set the entire "feminist"...

The outfit is not objectionable. The little girl is not a prostitute. There are no razors in the Halloween candy. The Children!(TM) are safe. See the post above for why everyone is wildly overreacting. P.S. Yes, the show is still terrible.

Silly rabbit, it would only take one. ;)

Welcome to the internet. Even here at the Escapist you can have action taken against you on the forums for rules that are only hinted at in the ToS (remember kids, you can discuss piracy here but only if you bash it).

What bait? The Lulsec incident is funny. Things can indeed be tragic and funny at the same time. For those who don't understand that, the world must be a bland place indeed. captcha: Resolution shotld (no really!)

If anything, Lulsec are white-hat hackers (they currently espouse full disclosure, grey-hats and black-hats do not). The shade-based hacker classification system (tm) is more complicated than white=good, black=bad, grey=somewhere in between. EDIT: In fact, among the more old-school hacking...

Soylent... green... is... PEOPLE! Captcha: ascending ublare

Just a tidbit for the anthropologically challenged: Humans used pack tactics and what's known as "persistence hunting" to become the planet's apex predators long before we picked up tool use. My money's still on the lion, of course, but there's been a lot of comments to the effect of "human...