The apology of a company willing to engage in such shitty business practices means nothing to me. You're so greedy for the holiday cash that you rush an unfinished game out the door with full knowledge it's unfinished, banking on pre-orders and preventing people from publishing reviews until everyone has already bought the broken game? And you expect that an offer for *more* of your shitty products is going to make amends?

Hey Ubisoft: Fuck. You.

You want to make amends? Give everyone who bought the game a full refund. Can't afford to do that? Then you can't afford to pull the kind of BS you pulled with this release.

OCD. Every time I see a program I don't use under my list of programs my blood pressure rises a few points. Go figure.

I wonder when countries are going to start outlawing VPNs. "Conspiracy to commit cybercrime" or some bullshit like that.

I'm still going to uninstall Media Player as soon as I buy a new Windows box or upgrade to 10. I haven't used Media Player in probably 10 years now. Shit, even Winamp is outdated and no longer being developed but it still handles everything better than Media Player -- including FLAC.

So "copyrite" is when I see my neighbor sacrificing goats to a pagan god, and I do the same?

A utility for getting all my photos out of iPhoto, and all my data out of Time Machine?

On the surface, maybe. But Democrats still widely support the NSA data collection programs, for example. Any differences you see in policy are going to be superficial in nature.

Cue even more millions of lobbying dollars for Republicans to block NN at all costs.

(Of course the roles would be reversed if it was a Republican president and Democratic congress.)

Luckily some brilliant person put two minutes of him laughing up on Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

If you can get through that video without at least cracking a smile, there is something wrong with you.

RIP Tom.

Poorly worded, maybe. Perhaps better phrased "are consistently convinced to vote for things that benefit neither themselves nor their fellow citizens, but rather benefit a small group of already powerful/wealthy people trying to further cement their own interests."

Here in the US, our infotainment industry has been in full swing for decades now convincing us to care, and care deeply and personally, about things that really don't matter in the grand scheme of things. At this point people are so goddamned confused about the state of our country and world that they consistently vote against their own best interests, and do so with pride and a sense of superiority.

Anyway, "liberal" and "conservative" seem to me entirely artificial concepts these days. The traditional (real) definitions of those terms are so divorced from their modern political manifestations (for example, can you really call yourself "conservative" if you support mass surveillance?) that they are for all intents and purposes meaningless. The only thing they demonstrate is how bamboozled you are by FOX News or MSNBC.

As if people weren't vanishing into their phones enough already, now you don't even have to take the phone out of your pocket to get distracted, ignore your surroundings, and generally be a rude cunt.

Actually, I have a Macbook Pro, and iPad 2, and I used to have an iPhone 3G. Shit, I had a Mac Classic all throughout middle school and high school.

I'm just tired of the breakneck product upgrade cycle. I wouldn't mind if the new updates didn't completely cripple my older hardware, but unfortunately that's exactly what they tend to do.

'Twas a work purchase. That's sort of the point, though -- it's an effing *Dell* and it's powering along just fine, with an OS four generations ahead of the one it was designed for.

There's a difference between supporting something in name and having it actually be usable.