(apologies to facebook)

Games are a reflection of cultural stereotypes because stereotypes are easy to understand and therefore facilitate the important thing -- the game play. The goal of game play/design is not "to reflect cultural diversity." Is there any profit in adopting this secondary goal? ----- "I should like balls infinitely better," she replied, "if they were carried on in a different manner; but there is something insufferably tedious in the usual process of such a meeting. It would surely be much more rational if conversation instead of dancing were made the order of the day." "Much more rational, my dear Caroline, I dare say, but it would not be near so much like a ball."

Good law, good ruling. Maybe penalty is too small, but it's time to go after RIAA, MPAA, Microsoft and a whole host of others who set up 'authorities' to say what they want said, and then quote from them as if they were independent voices. As earlier reported on slashdot --- http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4079/125/

This whole thing interests me greatly. What is it about humanity, that we create societies in which the underlying rules are so often radically different from what is written down?

The US has a real problem recognizing anything outside its borders while demanding that everyone else in the world recognize them. But slowly, slowly, humility will come. It has to. The cure for pride is already here. It's name is trillions in DEBT!

This is such a clear case of if you can't win on your own merits, try FUD!!! I have watched the quality of Symantec Antivirus products steadily decline in quality while rising in price ever since the first Norton Antivirus (I'd be upset if I were Peter Norton, to have my name dragged through the mud like that). It's a trend I've seen among service tech's out there. "Problems on your PC? Oh, let's start by removing Norton..."

Ignatieff thinks he's a strong leader and wants to be the strong leader of Canada. He's disqualified on that basis, no matter what he says about net neutrality, I'm still waiting for a politician to be clear that that the electorate is the leader and the government is the management that we, the leaders, have hired. Now Harper used to behave like that, but may have forgotten. Ignatieff is not an option.

I'm less concerned that governments have a database on me, than that 1) their information might be faulty or 2) someone might change it as a way of exerting control over me or my family. Will people ever be able to get a certified backup of their private records? No? then Governments stay out.

Microsoft's ethics are obviously at the core... of a memo to the publicity department.