They're keeping the offsite backup distributed around the Internet, using the World-Wide Web to store it in real time.

I heard that sometimes the backup even gets updated BEFORE the proper archive? As much as two months before!

Whats up with that?

I swear to god, if IANALBIHBAJ becomes a new internet slang, it will be the greatest day ever.

except it doesnt really work like that, does it?

after saving 2 minutes a day, five days a week for a year, you'd have saved 520 minutes, or nearly nine hours.

But you could only use those hours in one block if you were now leaving and arriving home from work nine hours earlier than you had been before.

You're more likely to just waste that extra minute in minutae at the beginning / end of the day.

If it were up to me, the right to anonymous free speech would greatly outweigh the right to sue someone for libel.

Except, you dont have a right to ANONYMOUS free speech, do you? I'm not American, but I thought the constitution protected free speech, not anonymous free speech. Therefore, if you have something you want to say, you better be willing to back it up...

The average person only has one email address, their work email address

[Citation needed]

picks up where the live-action movie leaves off, allowing players to re-create and re-live the greatest moments from the film

Make up your mind, does it pick up after the movie, or is it set during the movie?

Most people don't know how to copy a CD, so the presumption that I'm returning a Jonas Brothers CD (christmas gift), because I illegally copied it is a minority assumption. Instead of presuming guilt, the stores should presume innocent dissatisfaction, because in 95-99% of cases that's true.

Citation needed.

In any case, since I was not allowed to return the Jonas Brothers CD, I'm now stuck with 15 wasted dollars and a coffee coaster. In what possible way is that fair to the customer? Answer: It isn't. It's pisspoor customer service.

Did the store promise it was going to be the best cd you ever had, or even listenable? No. You may have an expectation that you can return something just because you didnt like it, but thats never been the case with music. Did you ask to listen to the cd in store? Many stores will allow you to do that now.

And you can stop comparing music to food now. The industry is different, the business model is different, the method of production is different, the costs are different and the method of consumption is different.

Precisely. Even the food industry says "return the unused portion for a refund" on their packages. They guarantee satisfaction of their products. Why can't CD and DVD manufacturers do the same?

Because you cant make a copy of a piece of food, then return it and get a completely different piece of food, and thus have two pieces of food despite only having paid for one.

apples and oranges.

Who are these people? Because Ive got a fair bit of experience playing halo with a controller, so if you sat someone down at a comp with limited experience playing fps' Id cream them, keyboard or no.

On the other hand, put someone down who is a master at it, and they'd cream me.

So what you're really saying is put down two people who have an absolutely identical amount of experience playing with their controller of choice, and the keyboard person will cream them. Which I dont think is necessarily true, but if you find the two people who have absolutely identical experience, i'd be glad to find out.

Im so sick of this, every time the whole fps-keyboard-vs-gamepad argument pops up, someone has to say "a person with a keyboard would cream a person with a gamepad, just because!"

it's bullshit, meaningless bullshit.

really? i dont have the same first name and middle initial as my brother...