People ask me about sports all the time and I just respond that I'm not interested in watching. The conversation typically goes like this:

"Why don't you like sports?"
"It's not that I don't like sports, in fact I like playing some of them. It's just that I don't enjoy watching them."
"Why? They're so exciting!"
"Would you like to watch me play a video game?"
"No."
"Why?"
"That's boring."
"Now you know how I feel about watching someone I don't know play a game on a field. Intersperse that with hundreds of advertisements, comments about how much money these guys are being paid because they were lucky enough to be born with the physical qualities that make them good at this game, and therefore how much more important they are than say, a group of scientists who's names you will never know that working on a cure for Parkinson's or leukemia."

The commercial aspect and obscene amounts of money and resources poured into "professional" sports is actually a major turn-off to me and turns it from something I'm merely "not interested in" to something I actually resent. I would have enjoyed Hockey back in the 50's or 60's when it was just a bunch of regular Joe's with day-jobs who played the game for the love of it, not because they're some prima-donnas who're demanding they get an extra million or they won't play. Go watch the movie BASEketBall to see this.

I never thought any PM in Canada could top mulroney for the title of "worst". I'm still reeling from the outcome, but Harper proved me wrong.

"We can also amend ourselves hte ability to not be able to amend our constitution further,"

Actually, you can't really do that, because if enough people in the future agree to change it, it will simply be changed, regardless of what is written. As hard as you try, short of destroying everyone, you cannot remove the ability of future generations to change the rules.

Did they actually sign a declaration of war, then? Or was it another one of those end-runs around the rules they like to pull, where it's declared anything other than war, such as an engagement, or police action?

Just like this woman's apparent outrage. It's probably all part of the plan. Fake some outrage to get people to think that companies like google and apple actually have decent encryption that will protect your data, then have people jump all over it "encrypting" their juiciest data. Meanwhile they have a backdoor deal right out of the gate.

Didn't SH3 have starforce? That was a pretty invasive copy protection despite it not having an online component.

Torrent seed box.

The good news is that there are tens of thousands of games already out there that are not subject to this ball & chain. Those of us who refuse to put up with the nonsense of Ubi and other have plenty of choice already.

"if you buy in place A at price X and sell in place B at price Y, those who are selling in B are competing with an unfair disadvantage probably related to differences in taxes."

I see. Once again it's bad if the common man does this, but if big companies and governments do it, A-OK!

There is a much greater chance of the poor getting away with stealing from other poor. If you steal from the rich, there will be actual investigative work done to track you down.

We should try that though. Maybe there will be some feedback effect and the rich will get their investment back tenfold! Yeah, that's it, we'll call it "trickle up".

And just like they do with our money, if it doesn't work out, we can claim it was because we didn't take enough, and we'll need to take more next year.

"They" invested a bunch of money in SACD, which was totally unnecessary, so that's a meaningless metric.

I've seen 4k displays at electronics stores. Meh. I can tell the difference, but I wouldn't upgrade unless there was a noticeable problem with what I already had, which there isn't. I only upgraded from DVD when I got a large screen LCD that made some of them look pretty poor. On the other hand, many of my DVDs still look good on a 50" screen, and the upscalers have gotten better.

ipadm is pretty good once you get used to it.

I still don't care for the move of nearly everything in /etc into the SMF though. That's just annoying to modify, and I don't see any added benefit to it.

Yeah, this is poorly worded. It's more like contraction violation, or perhaps fraud. Theft doesn't fit here.

If the US had a president with any backbone, he'd tell Zuckerberg to fuck off and move his company and himself to India if he doesn't want to hire Americans. Again, these clowns want all the protections a first-world country can offer, but they don't give anything in return.

Why anybody even deals with facebook is a mystery to me. It's nothing but a giant data-mining operation, just like google. It seems almost all of the "web 2.0" companies are about personal information siphoning under the guise of some other shoddy crap. The only "talent" these companies need are psychologists who can tell them how best to fool people into giving up even more info, and how each group is susceptible to a given form of advertising. Any web programmer can do the rest.