The people who think and act like they own 'us', the regular people, don't care how we act. They are going to do whatever it is they are going to without any regard to input from the rest of us. Go ahead and act selfish. It will not make a difference. Go ahead and try to conserve what we still have. It will not make any difference. The industries need to change, not the people. The people will go wherever they are led.

Nonsense. 1/3 of ANY population can be manipulated with propaganda to get whatever result is desired. The USA is not unique in this regard. This has nothing to do with the general population, rather, it has to do with intentional bad actors that have entirely subverted American Democracy. Laugh all you want, it has happened to other countries previously, with Germany being quite notable.

WTF is wrong with you?

This wouldn't be so difficult to deal with if security patches were not intermingled with new feature patches. WTF?

You have a really low opinion of kids. I feel sorry for your kids. My kids were educated about the dangers. They knew they could talk to me and get straight answers, so any weird situations they found themselves in, they declined until they could speak with me. My children are now fully functional adults. I am betting yours are crippled by the lies you fed them.

You protect your kids by teaching them to protect themselves. YOU do not protect them, they protect themselves. Kids will not be kids forever, so taking learning experiences away from them by sheltering them is ill-advisable.

An interesting theory; however, nobody has been arrested and nobody will be arrested... so your theory already fails. Maybe once we start holding people accountable in this country again, your theory will prevail. I am not holding out any hope. We are completely fucked. The Rule of Law is utterly meaningless except as a punishment regime for everyone who is not in power.

Sure, but the predatory interests are the people who want you identified no matter where you go. Nobody gives a fuck about the health of kids; otherwise, there would be free school lunches and such.

Hard disagree. It is good to positively support kids. It is evil to protect them. How will they ever become adults if they are always protected? There is nothing to learn if there is nothing to lose.

Only the faithful disagree; however, electing Harris would not have cleansed the Republican party, so the delay would have been just that, a delay to what is occurring right now. Better to go through it earlier rather than later. All of this was inevitable since at least the 1970s.

There are about 10,000 people who matter. They are neither Democrat or Republican. They want money and power. All of the money and power. They will get it as they lose it. What a miserable fucking timeline. So fucking one dimensional. At least they are having some fun, but the frustration of not quite getting what you want despite having everything must be quite annoying.

It is possible, but it is not easy, to create a reliable model. Which means, of course, that it is impossible because almost nobody does anything hard. They want everything for free or less. The scams are endless and the integrity is nonexistent.

That is so last century. Stop being naive. Copyright exists to generate as much profit as possible. The Constitution is irrelevant now. Over 2 centuries of law being created to subvert the original intentions has created the opposite of what is written. There is nothing to be done about it but let the evil people do whatever the fuck they want. The rest of humanity just doesn't care enough anymore to resist and resisting by yourself is just a pointless death. The USA is over. I nominate the name of "The Kleptocracy" for the new nation. Seems perfect. We can all be proud of being exploited by it.

Welcome to the United State of America my friend. The land of broken promises, lies, and theft. You should take a peek at our current president to get a better view of what it is all about.

The national debt jumping from 1 trillion to 2 trillion to 8 trillion to 30 trillion is the literal looting of the treasury. It has been happening for a very long time now. This side-corruption bullshit is minor in comparison, but it is more vulgar.

That was true back in 2006. Every disc bought since then would not actually let you play the game, you had to connect to the internet and download gigabytes more.

I was in the middle of nowhere, had a PS3 and an unopened copy of Need for Speed. I popped the disc in and was excited to play the new game. Yeah, that didn't happen. It insisted that I connect to the internet and download gigabytes of data. I couldn't download because I was in the middle of nowhere. I did not ever purchase another console after that experience.

Long story short, the current status is not really a change. At least they are not misleading you anymore.