So what you really have is fear monger lying for more police state jackboot power grabby bullshit. I don't think it was an accident that Orwell was English.

Class action.

I hope it's in the billions.

I've seen people install the Google toolbar because they thought that was how to use Google... I've removed it a lot as well.

Uhm... Yea, they do care what you smoke and kill people for drug crimes .

It worked flawlessly because VLC is fucking amazing and one of the best FOSS projects around.

numerous times to Steam because some game had some extra bullshit requirement like GFWL that wasn't listed on the store page.

I was very surprised - and after reading the entire ToS update - delighted when I opened Steam when I got home from work last night. I'm anti-drm but Steam does have some benefits and I've had an account for over a decade with hundreds of games and only a handful of problems.

I'm glad they're doing this and frankly it should have been their stance from the beginning, they've been notoriously tight-assed about refunds.

If anyone knows why they suddenly changed their very old and anti-consumer policy to this far better one I'd love to hear it.

I'd settle for one that didn't randomly completely lock up and force me to kill it from an alternate tty... however Mint is pretty decent over all.. typing this from a several months old Rebecca Mint box...

buying/selling used PC games more than 10 years ago. This might be good for them but will definitely be bad for Thinkgeek which has been coming up with some of their own products some of which are quite good (I'm not affiliated with them in any way but g/f has told me that the LeVar Burton Star Trek TNG/Reading Rainbow joke t-shirt I got her has gotten her more compliments than anything else and that was/is an exclusive).

Their prices are high but they do have some cool stuff. I wonder how badly GameStop will ruin them. Sad to see.

are carefully selected by corporate money/the rich who own them then there is no real change since it's the same hand up the ass of both party puppets.

I can see Microsoft calling their buddy Intel and saying "Wanna make this required for Windows 11 and we split the profits?" PS, you get the foot the electric bill =)

I'm sure the rest will follow with phone versions... I don't see these being used to sell you a "free" or "reduced cost" device just pure cash for them with a microscopic subtext in a license/EULA/ToS somewhere.

Because local monopolies. Fuck you Comcast!! =)

of pride is pretty much automatically going to be some of the worst shit imaginable (having not read either the article nor the bill).

The university officials are taking money to let the NSA fish the campus for possible dick pic thieves that they can hire.

"But if you cross a line beyond which most people would say it's objectionable content"

No. I don't. I think that Germans will put you in jail for giving a Nazi salute is fucking offensive to freedom of speech and expression but they aren't Americans.

If you're offended that's your fucking problem not mine. What's interesting to me is how everyone is trying to twist the law in to their own personal beliefs, religious or otherwise, and so if you're cognizant of that fact you should be erring hard on the side of liberty for all (unless you don't mind being an unethical hypocritical douchebag, I guess).

I agree. While the rest of the US thinks of us as hillbillies in a fly over state most here don't have banjos or corn fields. This won't get far because a lot of the big businesses in the city support rights movements.

The thing is there are still a lot of religious elderly voters and this is a traditionally red state - he's trying to appeal to what he thinks is his base for his no-chance-in-hell presidential run.

Here he is in 2010 joining with Michelle Bachmann's Tea Party Caucus.

That's probably all you need to know.