This borders on oxymoron almost as much as 'Gaming Laptop'.

Don't forget Toady making $16,104 in a month just by releasing a new version.

Indeed, its a 'donation' system, but thats about as close as you get to 'Pay what you want' without the same words.

I'm going to stick my neck out and say that I pirate games I don't want to pay for because generally too expensive to purchase. If I could pay $10 for each of a dozen games that I've pirated in the past year instead of $120 for two, I probably would.

In my case, they are losing a sale to fixing the price too high for too long, especially in this age of Price != Quality. On the flipside, I'll buy titles on Steam for $9 on-sale and secondary to that reason never have to worry about losing access to it because of some shady DRM scheme.

I think a lot of pirating of games is for the same reason as pirating of movies still in theatres: They simply cost too f*cking much to access legitimately on a regular basis.

Curse the ubiquity of BBCode.

Except we've been waiting for this 'Rocket Racing League' to [i]take off[/i], pun or not, for the last [b]six years[/b]. It is the Duke Nukem Forever of motor^H^H^H^Hsports.

Being within 860 miles puts it 8 degrees above the horizon. This is where Seattle will catch it on the first possible attempt, but if it goes to the second attempt it will be much more overhead at a 50 degree angle.

Similar to this, my dad thought he was being smart by buying an $85 power cable with a keyed 'on-off' switch in it. The failing, however, was that we were very much a computer operating household and had dozens of regular power cables lying about. I switched a regular one in, left it there when I was done for my brother to use. Sometimes the keyed power cable would be back in place, and we'd just swap it out again. It was rather insultingly naive, and eventually it was thrown over the fence out back.

pointless government bureaucracy

This is redundant in three different ways.

Funnily enough theres a literature example of that. Persons with nanotechnologic eye implants in The Diamond Age are frequently hacked to show spam and advertisements at all waking hours, even when trying to sleep. Its cited as the biggest reason they aren't very popular.

I suppose contact lenses with much the same function wouldn't be so hard to be rid of in such a case though.

The real tricky bit is going to be proving that it isn't flying once it gets up to speed.

Or how about.. you know.. a multipurpose rotary switch in easy reach just forward of the steering wheel that can be rotated to the 'off' position?

Sticks and Stones man. If these words could kill it'd be another issue. Explicatives and slang have now become casual english.

It still takes the same amount of care and discretion as applying salt to food; everyone has their own tastes. California could try to ban salt, even with true health concerns, but that won't stop anyone from cooking with it.

Ignorance is solvable in some cases.

Its an excuse for Linux users to brag about how much RAM they're not using. In the age of 'zomgz, Vista uses >1Gb or ram!!' I loaded up some video editing, piled in as much media as possible until the system was strained to breaking, and then killed the process: Vista was using 297Mb.