Could it be because nobody is buying their stupid new subscription-only version of Photoshop, and this is a desperate attempt to make it tempting again?

Yeah, that's probably it.

Yes, in fact, I do. Political will tends to fade pretty quickly on the wrong end of a gun barrel.

I'm no expert in EU politics, but I know they meets in Brussels (Belgium), Luxembourg and Strasbourg (France), per Wikipedia. I also know, despite being a dumb amerikkkan, that none of those places are in Russia. Snowden will absolutely be captured if he appears in any of these places and would be a great fool to testify there.

YOU could, maybe. Most people can't.

I have my own VPS, and I'm not even sure I can.

NSA has dirt on Judge William Pauley.

Call me back when Roku finally adds support for uPNP and/or DLNA.

When SOPA was a looming thing, I was in the market to move from shared hosting to a VPS, and so I made it a point to chose a VPS that was in another country.

Sadly, I chose the Netherlands, who are NSA collaborators. I'm just waiting for a specific piece of software to be released, and I'm out of there and on to a new server in a new country - I'm thinking Switzerland right now. Iceland is too expensive.

This is not a new phenomena. There was an anime OVA called To-Y that, on the open market, usually went for around $700. It was only printed once and didn't sell well, but has a strong cult following.

Yes, I own one. Mine has been autographed by key animator Yuzo Sato, and as such I have no idea how much it will sell for after I die (since it will only be pried out of my cold dead hands).

Sure, if you want an insanely dull and boring life.

Like, if I never want to meet people, make friend, get a girlfriend? I think I might need to get out now and again just to get to their homes.

Concerts. Restaurants. Bars. Sporting events. Hell, shopping! I can buy literally anything online right now, today. But I sometimes I want to see and touch and feel what I'm buying.

And yet you continue to use it. Therefore, you do, in fact, accept it.

I needed to switch providers during the whole SOPA debacle, and decided it was a primo opportunity to move to an overseas VPS. I made sure to pick one that has no presense in North America. And now I'm glad I did.

Carnivores, such as my dog, however, will be more than happy to eat your leather shoes.

In fact, quite a few of them exist:

http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-6-stupidest-video-game-school-commercials/

Quite a few of the linked videos are gone, but you get the idea.

I'm not planning to update my PC anytime soon, but for my next PC, I plan to get a CPU with as many cores as I can obtain (today, an AMD FX 8-core) and install Linux as my main OS. Any gaming I can't do with WINE I will run through a VM running Windows 7.