Yeah, some kind of EULA situation, like basically outlawing for-pay Minecraft services including hosting, selling packages of items, etc. In short, making most of the best MC servers illegal. The fact that he has nothing to do with it any more suggests that he should indeed uninvolve himself.

He's still a hypocrite given his explosion of hate over Oculus Rift, especially after this statement. He deserves our derision, and he's getting it.

Reverse osmosis, which uses water pressure both to push water through a plastic membrane (the osmosis part) but also to back-flush the filter. An "efficient" RO filter wastes about 10 parts of water for each 1 part filtered, but we have a well and a septic system so no harm done really.

You know how frustrating it is when your computer downloads updates while you're trying to watch a video? Now combine that with the potential to accidentally hear a U2 song while you're trying to listen to something that someone would program intentionally and you'll get the picture.

People aren't complaining about free music. They're complaining about automatic download of shitty music. If they wanted that, they could have signed up for it. There's whole websites based around the idea.

He found a "solution" which may lead to him becoming a shuffling zombie. It's in no one's best interest to defend that.

Well, the only key resource we're actually in danger of running out of is phosphorous. Anything else we have lots of, can recycle, or can substitute for.

Or if something serious happens, like a wheel falls off. Keep both hands on the wheel.

Once you successfully stick them with driving while using a cellphone, you have the basis to also slap them with driving while distracted, if they're speeding reckless endangerment as well...

That doesn't even make any sense as an interpretation of what I said, given what it was in response to.

The same inadequate reasoning that makes people think their could be meaning to the universe is the same lack of reasoning that causes smart people to be religious.

You make the mistake of categorizing all religion into one big bin. Thinking about our place in the universe is a religious activity, but also a very human one. Deciding we have no place in the universe, or the universe has no meaning is also in that same category. By seeking to escape religion, you're only being ensared by it.

No, as per TFS it bears load at the joints, where it's going to put more strain is on the skeletal system.

If you are expecting them to give you the same experience as using a mouse, then they are quite rubbish. But they can be enjoyable, so long as they aren't trying to be both things. On the other hand, aside from the thorny issue of whether to mix PC and console players in multi (answer: no) it's often possible just to ratchet up the default difficulty for the PC. Halo was certainly a doddle by comparison on the PC, aside from segments driving vehicles where I found the difference to be negligible, but that didn't make it any more or less exciting (or the levels near the end any less boring.)

A console is a fine place to present a shooter that's heavy on story. And if you don't like those games, you can just avoid console shooters and spare yourself a lot of wasted time- wasting.

Either it's a HOV or it's a protected-for-protected-classes-and-fuck-the-public-interest lane.

No. There are not. We don't have safety inspections here. Just smog inspections. That's because they don't care about our safety, just looking like they're doing something about air quality.

More than a legal precedent this needs solid regulations with teeth. I suspect that if you walk into whatever the Italian equivalent of Best Buy waving this judgement around and demanding a refund that they will just have security escort you out. But if refusal to even offer a Windows free machine was worthy of a fine, let alone not removing it, then windows free machines would be widely available.

I've spent some time living and working in Italy. I'd be very, very careful before I simply apply US and Canadian ideas and norms onto Italy. Italy isn't filled with big box stores. I don't know that there's an equivalent mass retailer that sells everything from PCs to appliances in Italy. Rome at least is more filled with smaller retailers rather than enormous mega-retailer stores like in the US. There's some big retailers to be sure, but there's a lot more smaller ones.

But the one thing you should be VERY wary of is applying the rule of law to Italy. The normal rules of fines, and governments imposing restrictions on things doesn't always apply. Italian courts are a mess, and regularly change verdicts. So I wouldn't just naturally expect Italian retailers to suddenly start offering Windows free machines available for sale. Italy isn't like the US, or even the rest of the EU.