Check out this great essay (under the "Money Is Not Wealth" section). About the best explanation I have seen.

Why get annoyed at human nature? That seems ... self-defeating to me.

Piracy is a fact of life. If you don't want your game to be pirated, make it solely multiplayer through servers you control - but even then, bright people will crack your server protocol's and create their own implementations of them.

Really - if you don't want to get pirated, don't create copyright works!

I don't get why people single out THIS as a flaw like it won't be broken within a week of the game being released, and after that it's effectively as if it had ALWAYS had it!

Basically .. yes. The necessity for court proceedings means too many people know, and if it happened to a public figure it is too profitable for media outlets to ignore. Sad reality of the world we live in.

Because, when they're outside the kids are under direct supervision of said parent. Not necessarily the same for online experiences.

The trouble is - Valve have a history of putting out really really awesome games. They do this by meticulously honing every single detail to perfection. By forcing them to change the game, our censors have forced us to play a game that isn't as good as Valve tried to make it.

The sheer fucking ARROGANCE of the concept of a ratings board playing a game and then banning it is what I find the most disgusting. I don't want to play a 95% version of L4D2 because some people in my country decided that, while THEY weren't harmed from playing it, would DEFINITELY cause harm to others who can't help themselves.

It's not just bloodthirst - purely from a gameplay perspective, to have a good FPS you NEED a good visual response to a hit in order to be able to move to the next target. It's all part of that large bag of things that make a FPS "feel" right, along with things like acceleration speed and jump height. If you get the little details wrong, everything feels wrong.

Though, even if it WAS pure bloodthirst that made me want the game left as-is, why would that mean anyone in the country stop me from playing whatever the fuck I want? Leave me the fuck alone.

It seems like you're contradicting yourself here - if you're getting more than 50/50 right, why won't it give you harder questions?

But they aren't tracking criminals, they are tracking their own car - if a criminal happens to steal it, well, that's really nothing to do with the police is it

From my training, you regulate your BREATHING but not your pulse rate - I find it hard to believe that it would even register, compared to your normal error.

Maybe instead of having to use one of those ridiculous child leashes, they could now be replaced by a watch? When you take your kid to a crowded festival, you could enjoy the whole day rather than spending it panicking for 2 hours when your kid follows some other parent by mistake? I'm sure I can imagine other non-ridiculous benefits of this

Does this mean that ... FINALLY ... we too will know what it is like to have uncapped internet?!

If only we could do that in Australia

The best thing I find about touch typing is not the speed, it's that you don't have to look away! Lots of the time I'll find myself not even reading what I'm writing, but looking ahead, thinking of the next part of the code or whatever. Not to mention, it's so much easier to be able to pick up errors and just ^H them straightaway - I can't stand watching my friends who have to write a whole sentence (slowly) and then go back and fix up typos! It's ridiculously frustrating.

If it hurts you, just don't watch/listen to it!

Fundamentally, I believe there are 2 basic human rights

The right to free speech

The right not to listen

Any laws that infringe on either on them are fundamentally corrupt.