In America, 300 years is a long time.
In Europe, 300 miles is a long way.

Everyone knows that hookers only pretend, and yet they're still in business.

As long as they sell fleshlights, sexbots have a market.

"That leaves Google Wallet as a payment solution for Google Play."

No, it leaves Google Wallet is a valid payment option everywhere that there's an NFC-enabled POS terminal, and, frankly, everywhere that takes a regular old swipe card, since you can get a physical Google card too.
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0% market share -- you know, except every NFC enabled POS terminal, vending machine, or electric car charger.

Most grocery stores, many chain convenience stores, nearly every Coke machine with a credit card reader...

Nobody commenting that this is simply for the purchase of DIGITAL goods? Your shitty eZine has to get paid for some other way.

Real goods can continue to use Google Wallet.

There is no line between religion and insanity.

I'm not sure any of those were bad games. The only real downside to ME3 was that people didn't get the ending that they wanted. The story didn't end on their terms. You can argue that it was just most of the same, but it was supposed to be more of the same.

I feel the same way about Dragon Age, and I'm still quite on board for the new one coming out, uh, now.

Or, yes, it will, or might. If we're speculating.

How about, "If Taxis were better and cheaper, would more people use them over public transportation?" That seems obvious.

There are already people in, say, New York who take some trips by Taxi and some trips by subway/bus. Let's call it a 50-50 split. If Taxis got cheaper and more convenient for them (a la Uber and Lyft), it might become a 60-40 split. Fewer people, immediately, on public transportation - although it might rebound.

It's certainly less impactful in, say, LA, where people either (a) always drive, or (b) always take public transportation, because they can't afford to drive. Taxis in LA are for people going to clubs or to airports, and Uber and Lyft just cut into the taxi market, not the bus market. Some people, not as many as in NYC, might reach the bus-to-Uber tipping point there too, but I doubt it'd be as drastic.

Except people don't care who the publisher is if the developer or franchise is good enough.

Dragon Age is Bioware, the same development company that brought us SWOTR, Mass Effect and Baldur's gate.

I DNGAF who publishes their software as long as was made by Bioware.

If Bioware goes to shit, so be it...

It's sort of like asking why I need something other than your credit card to make purchases. It's no problem for small purchases, but voting for our elected officials is (or should be) a big deal.

There's no problem with making sure that people don't fraudulently vote. I don't think that voter fraud is a big problem, mind you, and I think "voter fraud' are just scare words mostly used to drive republican voters out to the polls to make sure their voice isn't drowned out by all the terrible "fraud" being perpetuated by the evil, evil, democrats and their zombie army of illegal aliens.

Presenting a valid state or federally recognized ID when voting should be the only thing you need. Compare to list of registered voters (or those automatically registered by having current valid ID) and done. But if you're going to do that, put simple services in to allow people to get or update their IDs.

That's great (though not what I'd call "conservative"), but it doesn't address sales tax, which is a state and local level issue, and was only being considered federally (with this bill) because so many states were pissed about it. They need to just dump sales tax altogether (i.e., ban it at the federal level), and if a consumption tax really is necessary, then levy it at the federal level only as a VAT just like every other first-world country does. A single VAT (payable to a single governmental entitiy) would be fairly simple for internet merchants to deal with, and would eliminate all the avoidance of use taxes. But if they're going to keep their crazy and arcane scheme of sales taxes with 10,000 jurisdictions, forget it. And the idea of requiring merchants to use a third-party processor to handle sales taxes is wrong too, since 1) that processor won't know what is and isn't taxable except for some general things (i.e. shipping), and 2) requiring people to use particular for-profit businesses is fascism.

The problem is solved on all sides by announcing ID restrictions that go into effect at the next major election, and providing state ID services at this one.

I mean, if you wanted to solve the problem, and not just keep poor voters from the polls.

So you prefer fucking over poorer people with regressive sales taxes, and letting the rich off easy, and somehow the poorer classes should be the ones doing all the sacrificing? Got it.

Every time I hear "big Ag," I assume we're discussing a large silver deposit.

Unless you've got some of the magic seeds that grow as well as Dupont's seeds but don't genertically break down and are free, then you've provided a false choice.

Stable hybrids are tough. Their seeds aren't so much crippled by default as they're nigh impossible to make if any useful gene is recessive.