I hope you're being disingenuous, because what I was saying is far from difficult to comprehend. Why don't you explain to me where I said Russia is concerned about its citizens's personal privacy? I'm saying they are concerned about surveillance of their citizens by foreign powers.

...then access to the Internet no longer looks like "free speech" or an economic stimulant. It now simply looks like foreign surveillance of my citizens, who are ignorant to how they're being harvested and used for the interest of external powers. If life were a game of Civ, and I was playing as Russia, I'd cut off the Internet too.

Ah. Now I'm with you. I had the pronoun "they" in what you said referring to customers and not EA, and I did see chattel as cattle. Anyway, I found something to eat since then. I agree. They see us as their chattel, and that's why it's highly unlikely that I would ever buy anything from them. Take a look at this sampling of the crap they are planting on Gamefaqs: http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards....

Quake 3 was a game people really did build a system for. Good times.

Agreed. Yes, I have noticed many patterns of genre preferences in others. The most common pattern I've noticed is the homophobic a person is, the more they love macho-seeming movies, and more likely to be secretly doubting their own sexuality. What does that have to do with disagreeing with me?

Also correct. What does that have to do with the fact that I am truly, utterly agnostic to genre preferences?

It sounds to me like it's time for a John Ford deep dive for you. Maybe a little Sam Peckinpah. It's totally worth it, and will inform your views on other genres.

The sports movie thing may come over time. They certainly aren't all good, but sample the boxing subgenre (The Set-up, Rocky, Raging Bull) before writing the entire genre off. Personally, I love a good formula sports movie as an easily-accessible bit of pastime that can be shared with others. Hoosiers, Rudy, and and The Worlds Fastest Indian come to mind as movies that have served to entertain the whole room in recent years at my house.

Again, let me assert, arbitrary genre preferences are a burden to YOURSELF and others. Especially true for those of you thinking about being filmmakers.

I don't think "paper eliminates itself over time" is valid as a criticism of its archival value. What was your reason for saying this?

You forget, comrade, that paper books are much harder to alter after publication than electronic ones. How will we control history if we let the literate middle class continue to hold us accountable for the past? We must encourage the elimination of paper as quickly as possible. Then the people will be free from the burdensome moral responsibility of keeping track of their rulers and histories, and therefore, happier.

Wait a minute...are you saying we can eat EA? What does EA taste like? This sounds like a good plan, and is making me hungry.

Therefore, the Milky Way's mass is less than zero. What a difference an "-ly" makes. They should have sent their words to Lolly's.

I see. So, people are stupid, and therefore it's right for EA and Microsoft to resurrect their cancelled non-virtual credit cards from the dead and continue to charge against them? I'm aware that I'm putting words into your mouth, but turnabout's fair. I think your friends and family's foolishnesses are darling, too.

I agree, that does appear to solve the problem. If I want to play any of the games they're offering on a DRM basis, that's the way I will do it.

I am ignorant about many things. My ass is ignorant to just about everything. However, my response to the other poster needs an answer. You may still be ignorant to that response's contents, but you can remedy that by reading it. Your ass, however, will remain ignorant, as mine does.

I agree. As soon as Chrome lists the standard Java updater as malware too, I will believe this point as an argument against my point.

Sign up to give EA money on a subscription basis? There is nothing in the world that will make me authorize them to charge my account at will. EA has established itself as a company that views customers as the enemy.

Still? Amongst the folks I work with, Chrome is dead. Listing uTorrent as malware was the straw that broke the camel's back. So, Adblock Plus FTW!