PC devs are notoriously lazy and incompetent by console-dev standards and prone to underestimate console audiences.
Some of the games are made by the same studios. Some quick googling shows launch day patches for both consoles and titles. Witcher 3 day one patch, Halo Collection 20gb launch day patch. Evolve, GTAV the same thing... so this reeks of a No True Scotsman falacy with "good developers", as if the developers run the show. It's a business that's all about cranking titles out as fast as possible while papering over with hype. Just for the record what are some developers that you consider good? Constraints: They can't develop for the PC and can't have any launch day patches.
There are these things called external music players like WMP, itunes, Winamp, etc etc. And also things like Spotify. Sure you'd miss out on whatever intros to songs, public service announcements, and news whatever Three Dog/Mr. Vegas analog in F4 will do, but you could have all the music you want.
Or perhaps they can just allow players to play their files through the game? "Oh you like music? Just turn on your radio!" This was a feature request, not a half baked community suggestion request to be answered by someone's mom.
By stopping subsidies for oil and in fact, raising the gas/diesel taxes so that they support the roads properly, it will encourage Americans to move off ICE.
I'm all for getting off of oil. As far as raising taxes, all that will do is push the cost to consumers. The vast majority of the road wear is due to trucks, who regardless of oil/ICE will continue damaging the roads disproportionately to commuter vehicles because of the weights involved. One 18 wheeler does as much damage as 9600 cars. As far as raising fuel taxes to support the roads appropriately, this operates under the faulty assumption that not enough taxes are collected, which just isn't the case. Road funds are raided and spent by local governments (do a search for transportation tax misappropriation, example). In essence you're arguing that people aren't paying enough in taxes. We pay plenty, how about not diverting money explicitly collected for one thing and using it elsewhere?
Half
From my original post: "Forty-two percent of women obtaining abortions have incomes below 100% of the federal poverty level ($10,830 for a single woman with no children)." Half of whatever number of something is a high figure.
I have no idea where your numbers come from or how they define abortion
I provided the source. Also, they're not my numbers, just some selected from the Guttmacher page since people don't usually follow links. Why the Guttmacher page? I just googled "abortions by race" and it was about the 4th result which featured easy to digest graphs instead of census style tables.
That should be the most compelling point: you can outlaw abortion, but it is still going to happen. Would we rather have it happen safely or unsafely?
??? Apparently by citing facts about it being mostly poor young women who have abortions, I'm for outlawing it? Why are there so many abortions in the first place? Depending on the age groups, teens, it's massive irresponsibility and poor use of contraception. The arguments seem to boil down to convenience.
All this misleading and conclusory claim (on what basis do you deem any particular number "high," by the way?) demonstrates is your own lack of attention to this issue.
I consider about half to be high. It's definitely not a super majority but I suppose that could be reached if the income constraints were altered. I don't consider $20,000/year a very comfortable living, not to mention $10,000 but that depends on the area.
And save your moralizing about diverse perspectives (omg some women want to give birth and others don't? WHAAAT?!) for your weekly anti-choice circlejerk. That "women," just like regular people(!), are not some kind of emotional monolith surprises no actual grown-ups.
What are you going on about? I don't have any dogs in this race. Guttmacher is just one of the sites that came up when I did a search for some numbers, Bloomberg references them in this article. I was specifically looking for a breakdown by race and area. Besides your selective quotes and emotional language you also curiously use counties instead of states so you can get a sensational figure, with emphasis added no less. It might be more significant if each state had an even distribution of counties, which they don't, skewing things for example is Texas which has 254 counties. As of 2008 all states have abortion clinics, since you have an affinity for percentages, that's 100%. This issue overwhelmingly involves young women and poverty. US teen pregnancy is highest in the developed world. Apparently abortions aren't convenient enough?
I think the main problem of today is that there is no need for being a "hacker" anymore.
Progress?
We're also at the point where anything big can only be done with a LOT of manpower behind it
I realize this most likely isn't your intent, it sounds curiously like statements made in the late 1800s when there was a sentiment that there wasn't much left for science to discover. This seems to fly in the face of productivity as well, the tools get better and more can be done with fewer.
I suppose it comes down to what "big" is. Minecraft didn't have a lot of people behind it, and look at the impact it had. There are other examples. As technology progresses things become accessible that wouldn't have otherwise, look at the appearance of the iPhone, a result of a combination of the touch screen and processor speeds both byproducts of progress and mass processes.
NO knowledge, no information, for everything there is a "wizard". Our kids aren't learning anything anymore, and I could hardly blame them.
Convenience is king, I doubt you make your own clothes and grow the cotton, processing it into textiles, by hand, in the snow. Many of these things can be done without the wizard, depends on the platform, although for most purposes it's a PITA and there for the curious or those with need. With regard to the computer I don't miss IRQ settings, long live plug n play.
According to the latest official figures, 43% of all statistics are totally worthless.