I had semi-boycotted Sony since the CD Rootkit and PS3 other-OS fiascos; I had 'grandfathered' in EQ, because I had already invested too much time and money into one MMO, and wasn't going to switch.

Not sure how I feel about Russian oil/mineral conglomerates.

I've read that Sony makes most of it's income from Insurance in Japan...

Did the payouts from the 2011 Earthquake/Tsunami/Meltdown have much of an impact?

They still keep updating the engine tho,

January 21, 2015 update included: "- Made an adjustment to the way that NPC character models created prior to the Omens of War expansion are loaded and displayed. This change coincides with a number of graphical updates and fixes to these models."

It's slow, but still progressing.

In the USA, we have bears, cougars, wolves, etc. Guns are essential in rural areas, and we don't (yet) have border checkpoints at the cities (except Manhattan I think)

in AUS, you have spiders, jellyfish, koalas, etc. Not even a bazooka will help you against them.

I don't have a Windows key, you insensitive clod.

(IBM Model M keyboard from 1996)

Well, does 'car accident' include pedestrians being hit by a car?

Fire makes everything better.

Be a real shame if a recording of that were to leak.

Static electricity?

Because the school locker is School property, but Facebook isn't?

However, shitting your own pants is sure to make the interview more interesting.

Plea Bargains save everyone time and money; as long a prosecutorial discretion exists, plea bargains will be possible. The alternative is the prosecutors office being required to pursue every single case. 5-17 year old took a nude picture of herself? Child Porn charges. kill in clear self defense? Murder charges. transpose two digits on your tax return? Tax Fraud charges.

There wouldn't be enough people to serve on the juries for the people that missed jury duty!

If it's an emergency, they can call 911.

It's easy for us in the US to decry China building massive projects, when we already have our transcontinental rail, interstate highways, panama canal, etc. which would require so much 'environmental review' today, (just look at the difficulty of building modern nuclear power plants.)

Ook.