"In the dark future, there is only war" -Warhammer 40000

Ah yes, quite right, I should have added its mostly the detaining part.

The patriot act comes to mind. (Which, btw, did nothing to stop Nidal Hasan from killing people.)

Dear Citizen,

The Patriot Act was infact a great help it stopping Nidal Hasan from killing more people than he did! Infact, if we allow full wiretapping, remove all that paperwork that gets in the way of stopping police from stopping and searching you, as well as any probable cause requirements involved, this would never have happenned! It just turns out the soft liberal types, who are first to defend cartoon depictions of child pornography, obviously direct support for paedophiles I might add, which prevents us from keeping you safe from terrorists (You do remember 9/11 right?).

Our inability to stop and hold suspects without probable cause gives them time to destroy all evidence of there terrorist or paedophilic activities! This is why it is vital to detain them imediately so that such evidence can be found, and justice served! Won't you please think of the children?

Signed, Your bought Politician.

For those interested they can already do this in the UK, US I'm not so sure.

And if Guitar Hero = Radio/Television/Movies/etc

It does not. HTH.

They do not get paid everytime someone pays rock band or guitar hero, because they licensed it, this is not a difficult concept. Guitar Hero!=Radio/Television/Movies etc.

They were payed royalty fees when they licensed the music to the game. ASCAP its just trying to manipulate the meaning of public performance for more money.

You googled ASCAP and failed to find anything? Try looking at anything but the first result maybe? Hell even the third pointing to wikipedia gives it away. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Society_of_Composers,_Authors_and_Publishers#Criticism

Google ASCAP, its just another organisation that operates like the RIAA. So yes, they do apply. I mean, they wanted people to pay for public performances of there work if your ringtone was a song that went off in public.

in order to keep a team large enough to make new free content like maps and other game features we need to increase the amount of BF that people buy

So people have to buy stuff from you to get free content?

Run that by me again?

About 10 years ago (MegaDrive/Genesis Era) I recall games getting 1,2 even a 0 out of 10. These days you give FIFA 2010 4 out of 10 for simply updating the graphics from the previous year and not touching anything else and EA will never send you a prerelease version of any game they have, or will ever have influence over again. Give it a 9/10 with a brief "Could have done more on gameplay" hidden in the review and your best of friends!

My NDS mostly gets used as an ebook reader these days, its far from perfect, but given its an mp3 player, web browser, movie player and gaming machine (last and but not least), its quite handy to have around. For those interested see http://www.ds-xtra.com/ReadMore.

It never took off? I've only ever used firewire for networking once, and that was for the sheer novelty of seeing if it could be done.

Really? ID cards are unpopular, they want to be elected, and oddly, they oppose it, funny that.

I've seen enough elections to know whilst they oppose it now, they'll love it if they get into power, lest the plebs think they matter.