They... actually do have that disclaimer. Look into the printed box of any Steamworks game. It has a disclaimer with an URL to the full disclaimer / contract.

And it's not the DRM servers going down, it's the servers providing the multiplayer framework. And those do go down for non-Steamworks games too.

Sensationalism? Yes.

News? No.

Steam goes down like this every few weeks - I can count a few instances lasting for several hours at a time this year. Dozens of instances for this happening for several minutes. It means their, uh, servers have crashed and they need to reboot or replace them. This is literally Computers 101 content.

Well, we know why it's broken. Hoarding energy confers a significant survival benefit during times of famine.

What's under investigation now is how it's broken.

Your claim that "99.999%" of fat people are eating processed sugar and fat by the pound.

This is an outrageous claim.

And your claim that weight gain is caused exclusively by diet is not proven either, I'm afraid.

Give us proof rather than petulant attacks on other people.

Outrageous claims require some solid evidence.

Please provide properly peer-reviewed studies supporting your viewpoint.

The problem here is that nobody not on a strictly regimented diet or suffering from an eating disorder only eats as much calories than they need.

Human biology heavily pushes people towards moderate over-consumption. In fact, going under the amount of calories you require will cause significant fatigue and pain.

Calories in, calories out. For a slim person, however, the calories are coming out in their waste, because their body does not digest it the same way it does in fat people. That is, in fact, what the summary said.

We can also try to find a substance that affects said bacteria and nothing else, and then flood the stomach with that.

The danger there is that very few substances we've found affect just the one type of bacteria.

The problem here is that at that point your platform doesn't matter - in fact, companies do get granted injunctions on trademark matters all the time. You might have noticed some more important ones reported on Slashdot - and trust me, this is only the tip of the iceberg.

No, organized religion is an advantage towards group cohesion, and good group cohesion in those times meant it's members were a lot less likely to die early.

Your average Slashdot reader is always in a state of needing to consume caffeine.

Fuck you you little ignorant shit.

I have a very serious, crippling disease. I spend more than half of my day managing medical treatments, and I need frequent surgery to keep me alive and I still can barely walk - and not always even that. It consumes so much of my time I have weeks I can accomplish nothing but keeping the symptoms at bay.

Life as it is doesn't have a level playing field. Society doesn't have a level playing field. I'm a pariah, a joke to people around me - when they bother to acknowledge the hobbling cripple at all. Picking on the cripple is good fun - ignoring the cripple is what people do most of the time.

So take your just world fallacy and shove it up your ass. Life isn't fair.

And to add to that point:

People dying is very bad advertising for new medications, so FDA has an interest in preventing that. However, if someone else can be blamed for the death - or if it causes symptoms that can be treated or reversed - suddenly FDA cares much less.

Because if someone hacks a pacemaker the death can be blamed squarely on the hacker and FDA's hands are clean. Despite letting a dangerous, hackable pacemaker enter the market.

In many ways, FDA approval resembles a brand. And I suppose in that analogy supplements are "offbrand products".

The purpose of the FDA is to keep the profits of the pharmaceutical industry high. And nothing else.

FDA, for example, has entirely skipped on regulating "supplements". No matter their claims or effects, as long as they don't contain restricted substances.

So, reply to small nuisance with an act of terrorism?

I can very well see why you posted anonymously.

Another way you won't have to use Steam to benefit from this: The Steam development effort has already brought a lot of driver patches along, improving mostly 3D performance.