I don't think anyone in this thread chain is saying it can be fixed. The analogy was contaminated heroin needles. The analogous "solution" would be use clean needles or abstain. Since abstention seems out of the question for many the alternative is tightly controlling what you share thus limiting the potential impact on yourself and the people who's information you are sharing.

"It's her life and her choice."

I don't use Facebook, but friends and family do. I try to make my feelings clear about the matter but I don't have any control over what they post about me. Not claiming I know a fix for that either. I'm only thankful that I'm old enough that my entire childhood wasn't documented online.

Selective enforcement.

If that is the case I'd say they should block the header in all cases except if the domain matches the domain the request is for.

Why is this a problem that needs legislation to solve? As a kid I never had access to my parents credit card or accounts. If I wanted something I had to mow a lawn and decide if that was worth blowing on Magic the Gathering cards. If you don't want to spend money on games don't associate your credit card with them. If the game is honestly worth playing then let the whales pay for development and just leech off the F2P content.

And really, is the person who needs the drop rate on Malibu Darth Vader honestly going to; a) be surprised that it is abysmally small b) do anything differently with that information?

As a hobbyist, the sky is the limit with free software. In a hobby it is less about how much time a task takes and more about learning and personal development.

In a company, time is money. If I prepare doc files in Libre Office and they don't look the same when opened in MS Word then not only was my effort wasted but the person who had to fight with opening my document. Time spent compensating for a missing feature quickly adds up to the cost of a software subscription or support contract. As long as companies can be more productive and more profitable using proprietary software they will continue to do so and they'd be foolish to do otherwise. Yes, there is risk involved in that if the software companies get too greedy it will impact the bottom line, but until then productivity will trump idealism.

Agree about using Word over LO. I tried to switch a few years back and while I was impressed by LO the formatting was always screwed up if you opened the document in Word. It drives me nuts that Office has added little that I care about since the late 90s and gotten by selling a repeatedly re-skinned product but there just isn't a viable substitute.

In their words as well as actions they are limiting (not preventing) purchases in light of the shortage in hopes that more cards fall into gamers hands. Miners can still buy cards, and likely will just make multiple purchases if they want to bypass the limit. Reading any more beyond that is just groundless speculation and needless panic.

"Reading anything other than that into it is nothing more than misrepresenting translations."

I could say the same for implying that they are going to grill buyers on "gaming culture" to validate their purchases. Go to their actual webpage it says "Limit 2 per customer". The vendor part is just a request, the vendor doesn't have to comply.

"Nvidia asks retailers to only let shoppers buy two graphics cards at once, rather than selling them everything they have."

That's all. They aren't asking what you are doing with them, they only ask that vendors limit how many can be bought in an order to improve the chances that more people will be able to obtain them. Their hope is that this makes it easier for their core audience to obtain cards, but they aren't screening for gamers with "gaming culture" quizzes.

Maybe it's like how Dale Gribble lets John Redcorn teach his son Joseph about Native American stuff. John Redcorn has expertise in that area and Dale can respect that.

I just wear my clothes until they break down naturally and are shed in the next molting cycle.

I could see calling it successful on the basis of being a hobby or toy language. If you are speaking Esperanto with someone, odds are it's because you were looking for an Esperanto speaker and not because you needed to have a useful conversation or even ask where the bathroom was and Esperanto happened to be the shared language between you and the person you were asking.

One of my first supervisors was super religious and it never even occurred to me until almost 9 years later when he resigned and had some private conversations with me. At the office he did his job and didn't evangelize his personal beliefs even as important as they were to him. Entirely possible that 95% of the office was in agreement with him but he still had the discipline to keep that separation.

Do your own thing after you clock out. Till then; keep the peace.

Many machines already have such features for preventing damage to the system or for user safety. Even purely mechanical systems have such safeties; an automatic transmission will prevent the user from trying to put the vehicle into reverse from drive or leave park without the brakes applied. Washing machines and microwaves have interlocks to prevent operation while they are open. If a machine stops you from doing something it's because a human designed it to.

I feel like upbringing must have something to do with simply being happier with less.

Growing up I always found it strange how many families who weren't as well off often spent much more on luxuries than my family. We had basic cable, ate out on special occasions, only got toys for Christmas / birth days, and went to the movies rarely. Families I knew who lived paycheck to paycheck none-the-less spent money on HBO, ate out frequently, bought toys / video games regularly, smoked and/or drank, and just generally made more impulse purchases.