"in US fewer and fewer games are banned (as a percent of all video games). This is because the number of avenues for games publishing is mushrooming"

Are those same avenues not available EVERYWHERE?

Lie. Call the 1st level support and tell them it won't power up. Tell them you've tried 3 different plugs and connected it straight into the wall, otherwise they'll have you do it. Then they are out of options and the only thing they can do is send you another one. If someone comes to install the new one and sees the old one powers up, shrug your shoulders and say the spouse put the call in.

Unless you put a post-it over the camera (assuming you have one)

"MS-Windows is perhaps more than a thousand times more prone to malware than Linux in the real world"

Perhaps because it is 1000 times more likely to be user in the real world?

"if this wasn't illegal, I don't know what is"

How about murder, rape, embezzlement, child abuse, Arby's?

"Gee, maybe you should have hired someone who knows his trade"

Wherever you go, there are things you don't know. At the least, no matter how smart a person is, they occasionally have to ask where the bathroom is.

"Bit like making the condemned sharpen the guillotine before they step up"

If it were your head, wouldn't you want a nice clean quick cut? Or, would you rather have them drop the blade 4-5 times before your head came off?

"a third-world shithole where barter in the form of chickens and blowjobs is ...accepted "

When is the next flight to this place?

But you can't easily detect that a device is receiving a signal, only that it is sending one. Plus, even if you could detect it, there are thousands of phones, cabs, and other vehicles constantly moving at a high speed that receive GPS all the time How can you differentiate them from an evil drone? Plus, someone could program a phone to drive the drone, which would look like ... wait.... a phone.

Don't forget, the world is only about 25% land. We could build platforms on the water to live and/or farm on. That could open all kinds of nice temperate living space.

"What job are you going to give to a person who can only live for 80+ years when you can hire an immortal who's going to be around alot longer,"

Garbage man
Toll booth operator
Street cop
Taco Bell burrito maker
ditch digger
iPhone builder
hotel maid ...

Not to be mean, but most people aren't that bright, imaginative, creative, insightful, or motivated. I suspect most would churn away at the same jobs for decades or centuries. Money would have to change also. We couldn't have everyone retiring at 65 and lounging around 800 years waiting for an accident to take them out. That would drive the cost of living way up because there would be more competition for resources.

100 years ago the same argument would have been made about flying in jets around the world and all the 10s of thousands of gallons of fuel it would take just for one flight. Yet today, there are thousands of flights daily, many of which go half way around the world.

"123k is a low salary"

According to (http://www.whatsmypercent.com/), 123k puts you down in the 97% range. If it weren't for H1B peeps, maybe you'd be making 150k. While 27k is a lot, someone who makes more than 97% of the nation can't complain too much.

"You pioneer a new way of life, and there's a good chance of your name going down in history books."

Unless you're first, you're last. Twelve people have walked on the moon. How many can you name?