The ribbon and metro were undoubtedly the work of 'UX' people. I've long held that these people have no place in our industry and just make everything fucking suck for everyone else.

so that the society becomes wealthy due to absence of government in free market capitalistic economy

I nearly fell off my chair laughing. The 1800s called, they want their ideals back.

Now to ensure that every high-school age child in America gets one!

The original question (in my filtered view) was asking whether you'd be happy with China demanding information stored on US Microsoft servers.

If you're saying that question is hypothetical because China isn't the US then I disagree. Microsoft does business in China. The Chinese government could assert that its control over that data also extends to the US, in exactly the same way as has occurred here.

I don't think people would be anywhere near as comfortable with that.

That's right, because in 1994 law enforcement was infallible.

That's a stupid response. The child most likely didn't give consent to be shot either.

Then again if this story is from the US, 90% of your kids get shot before reaching adulthood, don't they? :-P

Thanks guys but would you fucking stop now? First you decide locked-in un-upgradeably consoles are cool. Then you decide DRM-laden games are cool.

Now you're going to make the industry think we all want to rent games ad-inifinitum. For fuck's sake STOP!!!

I sometimes like to play my games from 10 years ago. Will you be able to do that? FFS...

Hahahah laughing at you so hard now it hurts. I for one welcome "Jobi".

Copyright is not only stealing, it's terrorism. Do try to keep up.

Something to do with that period where Google+ thought it could upload my photos without asking. Google+ is just distancing itself from what is now no-doubt the largest repository of kiddy porn on the internet.

Did they happen to rule on whether Nigerian princes who use cloud services in the US would be covered by the same thing?

Of course. The USA is the USA, all those other places, they're just countries.

I do agree with you on that, but you can't have it both ways. It either raised no money and wasn't effective, or it was hurting people in exactly the right way.

The point of raising people's power bills wasn't to make them hot in summer, it was to make them consider new tech such as the air-conditioners that the power company can turn off suburb by suburb 10 minutes at a time to manage peak load. This stuff is coming thankfully and it should help end gold plating.

I guess I must concede the point that it wasn't effective, because the pressure should have been put on suppliers to make these changes, not allowed to be passed straight to struggling families.

Hoping that you're staying on top of your power bills,

Aaron.

Yeah yeah. It was that horrible tax that was sucking heaps of money out of our economy. The one that was so hopeless it wasn't even sucking any money out of the economy.

Make up your mind.

It's funny what some people consider an unavoidable expense.

My mother recently looked into this, it was $3000 per eye for laser surgery, which she was going to do until she heard that they can now replace your lenses whollus-bollus for $800 an eye.

It was an even scarier procedure, but it worked a charm and she can now read (which she does a lot) without glasses and is basically 20/20.