"pledge of elegance" - Rofl!

Besides, I pledge my allegiance to my country, not some fucking imaginary friend invented by someone else's power trip.

Does that mean you can give her a Perl necklace?

Why the heck would I want to pay an extra $50 for online play on XBL, when I have the same thing for free on PSN?

Just ask one to spell Britain!

But that doesn't screw over the gamer!

There's no way they'd actually do this.

As far as I know, Ms Thomas did not "distribute" any song files to anyone. If anything, MediaSentry knowingly committed copyright infringement by downloading files from a shared folder.

The #1 reason for American doctors PUSHING circumcision is that they get YOU to pay extra.

#2 is that Americans generally don't even question it.

What the ?

If you are on crunch, you have absolutely ZERO time to innovate!

All you have time for is implement, quick test, check in. Then later on someobody else has to fix your crappy rush job because you created a dozen other bugs.

Crunch times cause more problems than just trying to get a product out on time, plain and simple.

What likely happened is he was one of the unlucky ~30%. Then he gets shipped somebody else's badly refurbished RROD. This process then continues until he is lucky enough to get shipped a brand new console. Good luck.

For my anecdotal story. I have all 3 current gen consoles. My 360 gives me read errors. When a game comes out that is for both 360 and PS3, I always buy the PS3 version as I get a flawless play experience. Shame on MS for producing such a shoddy console.

What part of the 360 scratching disks WHEN IT HAS NOT BEEN MOVED did you not understand?