All this will do is force the file sharers to start encrypting everything. Give me access to the content I want, when I want it (I live outside the USA) and I will gladly pay. Until then, I will gladly pirate what I want, when I want it.

Sometimes, it's okay to just do a check twice
No, it's not. Because now if you need to change the check (or more likely someone else) you have to make sure you do it in both places. If the other person does not even look for the second check then you now have broken code. If you have to copy paste your own code with minimal or no changes then you are doing it wrong and it's time to refactor.

Yeah, they regulated it so well it plunged, the world into financial chaos.

Great, just great, where I live the rules of the road are treated as a "guide" line. A million ass hats experience of bad driving here will outweigh the few who actually driver responsibly, so I will end up with computers tailgating me and going through red lights.

My experience with GoFuckYourselfDaddy was also not pleasant. Had a VM with them which they arbitrarily shutdown due to "unusual traffic" took them a month to respond and restart the server, not even sure what the "unusual traffic" was since I was barely using it except for some ftp's. Maybe the "unusual traffic" was due to the fact that there was barely any traffic. Also it was slow, I think they have horribly oversold their services.

Stopped playing battlefield and cod ages ago, I don't play online anymore, so for such a short single player campaign it's just not worth it. Been digging into the indie games on steam - some real gems in there - like "This war of mine", depressing as fuck - but still an awesome game.

Please, I am relying on other search engines more and more.
I go looking for a review of a movie and half of the google results are
In response to a complaint we received under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed 1 result(s) from this page. If you wish, you may read the DMCA complaint that caused the removal(s)
The automated DMCA removal requests are turning google search into a joke.

Well that's one way of getting rid of any UK /. members.

Talking CPU, dude.
And yes, buying 4 PC's which can play any game currently on the market is not cheap, so the initial PC's were AMD because of the cost involved. When I was upgrading them the difference between AMD and Intel (cost and performance) was such that I found it cheaper to go Intel. I use "upgrade" rather loosely here, since we all know that after a couple years an "upgrade" means "buying another computer".

Yeah but in South Africa they are not working - much like the majority of the population.

Same here, if you have heard it a few dozen times it's no longer a distraction (as long as you like the song) have hot keyed next song etc. to keys in my normal typing position so I don't even have to move my hands to the media keys. I listen to music to drown the rest of the office out, in todays open plan fvcken office it's too easy to get distracted by something. I miss out on some of the scuttlebutt, but I generally catch up on that during my lunch break so no great loss.

I used to be a rabid AMD supporter, until about ~5 years ago when I needed to upgrade the families PC's, did some research and picked Intel. AMD have really fallen behind, and I am sure the only reason the next gen console makers picked AMD is because AMD offered them bulk prices that they could not ignore.

And yet we have them and they are largely, if not universally, obeyed
What the hell are you smoking? Not even the US follows the Geneva conventions.
Guantanamo bay, water boarding, drone strikes on vehicles with "suspected" terrorists without checking if there are children or other non combatants on board.
I personally think Killer Robot's might be better in the field than some dumb jock with a trigger happy finger, and I don't just lump the US into this category, it's been an on going issue for EVERY army. Friendly fire isn't.

IMO if you bought Lenovo, you didn't give a shit anyway
Couldn't agree more, the only time I ever used a Lenovo was when it was handed to me at work. Look's like a pregnant brick, weight's more than a pregnant brick, and generally suck in all ways considering the pricetag. Besides, I ALWAYS format a new laptop, drivers are usually out of date when it lands in your lap, so you may as well DL the latest ones and make a clean start. Look, what they are doing is wrong, and retarded, when this news goes mainstream a lot of companies that supported them will drop them like a hot... brick. Oh the irony. Almost all of the companies that handed my one for work were financial institutions, they will not be amused with this turn of events, talk about shooting yourself in the foot.

I ALWAYS format a new laptop, don't need or want their stooped recovery partition, waste of space. Can understand how the other 90% of people on the planet love it, but for me it's a waste of space.