You are putting your current mindset into the period in which you are talking. This is incorrect.

Before the 1700s if you asked somebody what's lightning, I am very certain the "proper" answer would have been God did it, not "I don't know". Heck there are people today where even though you can use science to explain lightning and thunder, they will still say, "God did it".

I met a Christian Engineer (some sort baptist I think) and she believed that Rainbows were simply the will of g(G)od and had nothing to do with the refraction of light on moisture in the atmosphere, and she was a bloody Environmental Engineer. Even after roughly explaining the concept, it was still a matter of "Ok, but God still causes it to happen".

Actually, the company still received revenue from 4.5 million copies.

5 million playing the game (500k were pirates so they were copies of legitimate purchases)

However those 1 million used copies were new at one point.

So it was 4.5 million new, and 1 million old for a total of 5.5 million users (6 if you include the pirates).

Which reminds me,

I never see those awesome "all"-metal Tonka trucks anymore. All the ones I have seen appear to cheap plastic, probably made in China.
Do they make those metal ones anymore, or are they considered too dangerous and unsafe for our children these days?

She was the crazy sister of the doctor on Firefly.

I've used Stardock's Impulse a little bit and while I can't comment on all games on it, the 3 I have it works quite well. You can tie a license key to an account, however I have installed and played 2 of the 3 offline never connecting to the internet to play or install, simply by entering the license key in the normal installation. Then I can then tie it to Stardock Impulse which will automatically tell me about updates and help me install them. To register it with Impulse I simply entered the license key again with the online component. In fact Impulse recognized that I had the game installed and asked me if I wanted to add it into the system.

Also, I can then log into stardock impulse on any other computer and it will allows me to re-download and install the game on that one as well. Well I've only done it for one so far, Sins of a Solar Empire, so again I can't comment for all games.

In fact, I play offline all the time and only fire up Impulse (I haven't needed to run it to play the games) when I check for updates.

Unfortunately you are anonymous, but in case you read this:

http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/games/7eaa/

Is this the game? I just chose an online retailer, there are probably brick and mortar stores.

This is the company that makes the above one:

http://www.khet.com/

I don't think so.

Even if fined or charged by a federal/state/provincial body I think the victims are still allowed to attempt civil charges against the company (please correct me if I am wrong).

Although that $50 million fine will probably "wipe out" all their assets so they have nothing left to pay the victims.

They didn't buy it for him.

He bought it himself and when they found out they tried to take it away, and he killed them for it.
At least that is what I remember from the initial story on Slashdot a little bit ago.

Personally I hope you never succeed or at least not with the way general smoking laws are now. I wish they would ban all smoking in public places, including sidewalks. You want to smoke in your house, fine, I don't care, but when you're smoking on the street and the wind blows into me I get a massive migraine and my throat starts closing up, almost immediately. Pot smoke is even worse, I get violently ill and nauseous and pretty much upchuck or get dry heaves right there. Make self-contained smoking bubbles for around your head or whatnot, I don't care, just don't let it get to me.