It's adorasturbing. I think it's important to know that the cat died a natural death and that the decision was made afterward. Now the cat can continue to chase birds after death. And the determined look on its face is rather awesome.

What about Japanese? A very common verb conjugation is "-shite", if you use the most common (for westerners) romaji transliteration.

My favorite still has to be the newspaper story about the Enola Homosexual that dropped an atom bomb on Tokyo.

Silhouetted. In front of glowing giant maps of the world. Clearly they are evil overlords.

So anyhow, two layers of cardboard stuck together, and little bits of plastic windows with tab edges stuck between. I've seen that a couple of times. Definitely worse for tidy returns than just cutting off the edges of clamshell plastic with scissors and taping it closed again.

You may want them to have better reliability, but do the manufacturers? Easily scratched discs are good for a planned obsolescence business model.

But many of those who do pay the $60 do so with the knowledge that they will be able to sell it back to Game Stop (or a pawn shop, etc.) and get some of that money back to buy other games. If that part of the "food chain" is interrupted, then the $60 business model could be in for trouble.

It'll be a real bitch when MS "accidentally" revokes your key. Oops! Sorry about that!

The best part is that the revocation will probably only happen to newly manufactured motherboards, so you might not even know about it until one random day you start hearing about people unable to install your OS in their new PC.

...except on ARM, where they require that there be no way to disable secure boot.

Want to run Linux on that shiny ARM Win 8 tablet? Tough luck.

Also, what's to stop them from changing their minds a few years later require the same for PC hardware when Win 9 comes around?

I have more of a problem with MS being in charge of all this, than with the basic idea by itself. It's very much a case of the fox guarding the henhouse.

Arthur Dent? Arthur Philip Dent?

You're a jerk. A complete kneebiter.

...also, your lip movements must not match your speaking.

They wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for that ugly wart tacked to the top of them that makes them higher than typical privacy fences. BTs boxes are a bit large, but at least they aren't Pontiac Aztek ugly like those Australian boxes. In fact, BTs boxes look better than what we got when SBC started the UVerse service in Texas: the pre-existing wiring breakout box, a DSLAM box about 2/3 the size of the B-box, and a third 9"x12"x4 foot pedestal for power connections.

BT might get a better public reaction if they painted them blue and scribbled "Police Box" on them. Yes, I'm joking.

It wasn't always such a wimp, but then it got caught doing steroids, so it had to have an asterisk after its name.