A few dozen people are saving a few dollars! Better spend 10 million to stop it!

Except that it is not well intentioned. What they are doing is per-filtering people and anyone that says they would rate 5, they direct them to the rating site. Anyone that does not want to rate 5 they direct away from the rating site. Regardless what they may or may not do with user feed back, they are still artificially inflating their games score by hiding the rating site from anyone that doesn't want to give full ratings.

Those two are probably related. Statistics show crime drops as the temperature drops.

Goes to show the lawyer mentality. All that matters is that Edward gets a guilty plea. He gets that and it shows that he was right. Another mark in the victory column. The reality is only a complete idiot would even consider the offer made for more than a moment. It's basically the equivalent of being held at gun point and telling the gunman, "If you give me your gun now, I'll consider not shooting you."

Age discrimination is legal for many instances. We discriminate based on age for when you can get a drivers license, when you can consume alcohol, when you can vote and when you can have sex. Many places offer senior discounts that the young are not eligible for and if I was selling an adult product, I want to be damn sure that only adults will see my offers.

People have tried forcing people to buy their services before but you can't charge for a service someone didn't ask for. Well you can try but there is no legal power behind it. Things must be getting desperate over there.

No they are not, that would require change and as we all know, Americans fear change.

The boat license in Canada is mostly useless. It's a weak attempt to teach boaters some water rules and is a cash grab mostly. Once the license is issued, it's of little value. It lasts forever and has minimal identifying information so you can borrow a friends license if you don't have one. The police can ask if you have one but have no way to confirm that the license you present is yours.

Which is why the EU needs to tell the US to go fuck them selves when the US demands longer copyright terms.

Sure on paper it was a success, but take away the problems, the online boy cots, the bad press, add reviewers telling everyone how awesome this game is and you should buy it now. How many more copies would it have sold? Also, how many of those 2 million customers think that Simcity 2014 or what ever the next version will be called, is going to be worth the same hassles?

I'm gona throw in a nomination for EA and the launch of Sim City. While probably not the largest screw up, I would say they had the most warning. With security breaches or even building a new Health care website, there are unknowns. You can't predict when someone is going to steal your data or how they are going to do it outside of a few tech guys that know how their systems work and whos warnings go unheard. EA had everyone screaming at them to not use DRM but they did anyway. They were warned that if they did use DRM that servers would be maxed out on launch day. They claimed that they were prepared for it but obviously they were not. They were warned and people begged for them to listen but they didn't and come launch day, everything they were warned about happened. It wasn't a minor hiccup either as it took a month for everything to be sorted out.

If that's not a screw up, I don't know what is.

I've never had any sympathy for business that screw up just because they want to save money. Business run entirely by young, barley trained teenagers because the owner doesn't want to pay any more for some experienced help or spend some time actually training it's staff. Then you find out your untrained employees are not charging enough or giving out too much change and you're loosing money, well what the hell did you expect.

Now things are online but not much has changed. Now they pay the lowest wage they can to programers to get the website ready for now, but they don't want to spend money for quality control. Sites go live with little testing and zero monitoring. My opinion is if you want a computer running your business, you make damn sure that it is doing it correctly and if it's not, that is your own fault and you need to suffer the consequences that go with that.

Many discounts are not properly advertised such as manufacture discounts, 2 for 1 sales or x% off after spending $y. Many price reductions are applied at the register so items will still have a $50 sticker on them when on sale for $40 so when scanned they show up for less. It is not uncommon for people to be surprised that items cost come to less than they expect when they find out something is on sale they were unaware of.

They ignore every other right granted by it so why not?

Oh, so they took care of that 16 billion dollar loss and fixed everything. My bad. Business as usual then. I'm sure the USPS won't have any more problems in the near future.