in return from their bible thumping ozark supporters?

Picked my way through the 2nd sentence, appreciate the detail and the absolute dumbing down of your statement for us laypeople without a degree in microbio. ;-)

Odd, I generally offload my impure thoughts to a Kleenex, does wonders for my productivity.

If this comes to pass I can just see the 'splash' screen of just about every male on the planet, and it sure as *hell* ain't gonna be a 'fighting game'.

Old News, it's already been done :P

and I'd guess between real video games, and the casual facebook fare, I'll put in between 2-3 hours a night on average. Lately it's been rough to find decent stuff to play. The xbox 360 I bought last year on a whim on super sale rarely gets use anymore except as a karaoke and kinect machine when friends are over. I use my PC for all my gaming, and lately there just hasn't been anything that thrills me, save for the Guild Wars 2 Beta Weekend 2 weeks ago. I have a feeling when that comes out my gaming hours are going to elevate substantially. I have a wife and daughter. The daughter is also a Guild Wars player. Wifey? Sometimes. Think it helps when the family plays together.

I have an amazingly easy solution for this. It's called, having only 1 child, because that's all I can easily afford on my salary. ;-)

So now I'll have "blood" hard drives whose innards come from a lump of carbon, mined by wage slaves in Angola? Like I need more guilt.


Plus one geek cred to anyone who knows the quote sans marks :D

If he had already "here'd" it, he wouldn't have to buy one ;-)

That's exactly the way I read it. I'm sure it wasn't just you. I thought this was going to be another story about hardware lockdowns.

My 2nd computer was a Timex Sinclair 1000. absolutely hated it compared to my first computer (a Vic-20) because you couldn't just *type* your program, every key was a shortcut for a basic command, drove me up the wall :)

I had heard this was going to be coming out soon and was thinking about picking it up for her. Looks like we can scratch that. Cityville already requires a constant connection and makes you reload and lose all your shit when it drops for a few seconds. Why on earth do they think I want to pay 60 bucks for that same privilege? I assume they think we're made of money AND stupid?

No, the reason there are so many sponsors of this sort of crap, is that its ripe for (ab)use by our elected officials to silence critical voices. In other words, they are drooling over this because it will help them stay in their cushy jobs that we pay for with absolutely no checks and balances or voices to tell us what they are up to.

If we could just get this same judge, who obviously has some common sense and a critical eye for detail, to rule on a few other copyright cases, we might be able to right this severely listing ship....