That's right.

than. FFS.

Nope, I'm not under that impression. I'm under the impression that if Microsoft acquires Mojang, they acquire their assets and obligations.

If I was mislead before entering into a purchase agreement, that comes under multiple fair trading laws. One is the Australian Trade Practices Act (1974). Another is the New South Wales Fair Trading Act (1987).

The Fair Trading Commission has been very heavy handed in the past. The fines are not about loss of value to the consumer, but about making deceptive conduct uneconomic.

I'd be happy with that.

And I'm not sure they'd end up with the most popular fork. The Minecraft community is pretty big

Australian law is pretty generous with finding "misleading conduct". The standard is if it would lead an ordinary member of the public to be influenced by it into error. The courts look at the likely audience and judge by the standards of persons who are not stupid, but are perhaps of less than average intelligence and background knowledge in that audience.

Also, it is sufficient that the conduct in question has the potential to mislead or to deceive. No intent to mislead or deceive is required.

The question is "could a reasonable person have believed him?", not "Is a reasonable person dumb as fuck"?

Oh, hard luck Microsoft, you've just run afoul of my country's fair trading act.

Part of my purchase decision was that Minecraft would be released open source or public domain.

You've just purchased some very high punitive fines.

Once sales start dying and a minimum time has passed, I will release the game source code as some kind of open source. I'm not very happy with the draconian nature of (L)GPL, nor do I believe the other licenses have much merit other than to boost the egos of the original authors, so I might just possibly release it all as public domain.

... is the more salient question.

Hollywood has turned against scientists again, and the anti-science hacks of antivax and climate change denial and creationism/intelligent design and alt-med are getting more and more air time.

Uneducated intuition and magical thinking seem to be the respected characteristics in pop fiction, and well respected heroes like Sagan and David Attenborough have given way to more niche respected heroes like Hawkings, Cox and Tyson.

So in terms of simplicity to configure and also in terms of getting good performance you would recommend either MYSQL or Postgre?

What is the better choice?

That's interesting. Do you have the study?

This can be studied by survey.

I'd be interested to read your statistics on this claim.

If you've got more recent data, please post it. Or if you've got evidence of a trend in these sorts of attacks please post that. Or any justification for this objection.

Certainly an important limitation of the data. Note that those stats are for rape, which according to CDC means does not include being forced to penetrate, but requires being penetrated. Females forcing sex on males, as being discussed in this thread occurs later in the piece under "being made to penetrate".

No one, to my knowledge. Your claim was that the CDC data disagrees with me. It does not. It shows about 6 times as many male rapes of females as female forced penetration of males.

The figures are further down:

For female rape victims, 98.1% reported only male perpetrators. Additionally, 92.5% of female victims of sexual violence other than rape reported only male perpetrators. For male victims, the sex of the perpetrator varied by the type of sexual violence experienced. The majority of male rape victims (93.3%) reported only male perpetrators. For three of the other forms of sexual violence, a majority of male victims reported only female perpetrators: being made to penetrate (79.2%), sexual coercion (83.6%), and unwanted sexual contact (53.1%).

So Females forcing males to penetrate them is 0.792*3.8% = 3.0% of the US population, Males raping females is 0.933* 18.3% = 17.1%, or 5.7 times as many.

Yep.

* Across all types of violence, the majority of female victims reported that their perpetrators were male.

* Male rape victims and male victims of non-contact unwanted sexual experiences reported predominantly male perpetrators. Nearly half of stalking victimizations against males were also perpetrated by males. Perpetrators of other forms of violence against males were mostly female.