Uh, but you're buying it, not your mother. So if you want to talk about who's FUNDING the industry, your mother is not a tally in the "adult female" section.

As someone who has been playing games for nearly 30 years, I've seen that gaming has always included adult women playing casually, females under 18 playing ahrdcore, and men over 18 playing hardcore - though yes the number of hardcore men over 18 has grown, as has the number of hardcore women over 18 (since those hardcore females under 18 grew up just as the males did). What's changed is the definition of gamer.

Most of these women (who play a bit of casual games) don't even WANT to be called gamers, so I don't understand the push to call them so.

So does "bear cave" only mean a cave for male bears? Our species IS called man...

Try talking to someone with a family. Comcast doesn't enforce their bandwidth cap... the only other option for us has a 250gb per month limit, with a $10 per 50gb fee after that. We use about 600gb per week.

Or people who want a job bad enough to leave the comfort of their home and go to the local library.

Many companies still use fax machines, btw.

I'm quite fine with having interpersonal problems with people that can't refrain from burning my house down. In fact, I would prefer that such people not be comfortable coming into my house at all.

Not that I'm saying I'm better than people who are wrong. Everyone is wrong sometimes. But, the key is ignorance vs stupidity, and what we are talking about when we say "better". If I tell a person that they can't put cans in the microwave and why, and they learn it because they were just ignorant before, that's different than someone who has already been told multiple times and just can't learn it. The person that can learn it is probably going to be better at a lot of things - self-sufficiency (living alone), being a babysitter, etc. etc. This may not make them a "better person" overall, though; maybe they understand why they shouldn't put cans in the microwave, but do it anyway in an attempt to purposely burn the house down. I would say, in that case, they are morally a worse person.

That's not true at all, an adult can choose to surround themselves with only not-normal people, and use self-checkouts, online ordering etc. to avoid interacting with normal people.

But if you want to eat something that goes in the microwave, and you therefore decide to cook that spam by putting the can in the microwave, then you become wrong. And it is necessary to point out that you are wrong, not to make you look dumb, but so that you don't burn the house down.

He said laid off, not quit.

Personally, if I quit (or otherwise left) on good terms, I'd have no problem telling someone how to fix/change such things before I left.
If they laid me off, I wouldn't care about being sloppy.

It could possibly be trademarked. But unlike copyright, trademark is not automatic. They would have to specifically register (and be granted trademark protection; it could - and likely would - be denied) and maintain the trademark for each code.

In this case, though, this is not what happened though because the email specifically says:

Which to me seems like a purposely confusing way of saying the article is telling people how to violate copyright... but that isn't even copyright violation.

This is a big part of the reason why I refuse to work an hourly-paid job...

Unless they copy/pasted (or typed word-for-word) exactly what was in the instruction manual, it's not a copyright violation. It is not a copyright violation to read instructions and re-write them in your own words.

Nevermind, I just realized the reason - because the card could be fake. I suppose they ARE actually calling their bank who then checks it against a list.

The 1 single time I've been asked for ID when using a credit card, the card wasn't even in my name, it was in my husband's name. They still let me use it.