That's an issue of population density and market dynamics. Don't live in bismarck ND if you want better internet access. I'm all for forcing the ISPs to build out but this is their problem more than the rest of the world's.

Illusion of control? They do have control. Democracy promotes revolution from within rather than without. This is why democracies rarely are overthrown without outside government influence.

You're a fucking idiot. 66%/75%? Ludicrous, 49% is a minority and as long as it isn't a right your just SOL. If we had to choose between raising taxes to pay for schools or something else important or not and 49% voted against it means they suck it up and pay the taxes. The people spoke on what they wanted and were well within their right to do so. Nobody is denying a minority a right as DRM while flawed is fundamentally designed to stop pirates. But keep spouting stupidity. I'm sure the others love it.

I doubt the average american has lost intermet for less than 3 days in a year on average anymore. The issue with piracy isn't all that serious but as they switch to x86 the chance to break the OS increases dramatically. I understand their fears.

That doesn't make it ironic. It makes it obtuse perhaps. Irony is going further into the deep southern US in the antebellum period to escape slavery. I measure irony based on the Huckfinn test. The actual takedown of takedowns seems ironic but it is really based on different reasons so it isn't.

We have complete control over our government. Giving away copies of movies, music, and other media is a crime as it atands in the US. It's a crime more or less everywhere where IP is respected. I'm agreeing it shouldn't be a crime but the system is doing what it has to do. As it stands the industry picks their fights carefully so as not to create groundswell in society against them. It's nothing new for them.

They were protecting their proprietary control system. I don't necessarily beliebe that wiping a PS3 and installing over it is an issue like they did but in a world where consoles are sold at a small loss (realistic losses at launch are $50-100) and is recouped through sold games pirated property is an issue. This whole debate feels so much like the pot one. People claim this high-minded appeal when in reality it's just a play to get high or in this case to pirate games.

If you want near absolute control buy a PC. Consoles are closed for a reason and this marginal community is no threat to them.

That being said, I'm ready for the PS4. The small screen in the controllers should be interesting and just about big enough to use for menu and item swapping. It could pan out well for RPGs or Madden with play selection on the controller.

I would out if you're argument about going to war is based on left or right wing values you'll find the line really doesn't apply. This is where things get complicated. Bush and his supporters posited the whole war as a quest to end Saddam's reign of terror and curtail is WMD construction. Colin Powell went to the United Nations with graphs, charts, and pictures detailing supposedly valid evidence. Now the left is known for being pacifist but by no means is the whole left that way and arguably a small portion is pacifist. Thus we were told falsehoods and cornered. This doesn't defend those on the left in media and news who failed but it puts it in context as the war is a bad example to define two groups on as they don't necessarily differ by definition on the subject.

I admit it that's probably closer to the truth but isn't it wonderful when you know on the left the solutions you posit are right? Science and factual evidence back you up and you don't need to demagogue to validate your stance on matters. You never need to wave the bloody flag or threaten one's sexuality. It's a fucking trip on this side.

More subtle? They freely admit that all of their opinion hosts are liberals. Their newscasters during the day freely admit to being liberal. They tend not to blast government for random issues and in general don't act like a conservative. The issue is we're basing bias on the assumption of normal is conservatism when the real normal is more-or-less a center-left ideal of democratic principals based around populism and free access. In other words: MSNBC is more honest in relying on science and economic truths to back up what they say than Fox is about lying through their teeth.

Those damn Kenyan cloths! So soft...so enveloping then BOOM! SOCIALIST CLOTHING AGENDAS! No more rayons and all spandex bigger than a large is sent to a death camp....

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Muslin, Muslim, I laughed.

The idea of getting a conservative to admit that their economic system is utterly flawed and only rewards the rich and their social views are bigoted is about as likely as getting a camel through the eye of a needle.

I agree in an overall way but in the nuanced sense if I gathered a roundtable of liberals and conservatives and they discussed during traditional news hours the topic of the day instead of reading it from a prompter Pew would call that "opinion." But if Fox makes inaccurate appearing to be factual statements or half-truths as we would call them by using single caster and a desk it gets classified as news. It's more an issue of format than anything else. Fox pretends to be news, MSNBC is more openly a discussion news network.

The article is painfully misleading. MSNBC gets put into the opinion category if they are interviewing people. Because they seem to focus a majority of their day on politics on the national level while Fox splits their daily broadcast a bit more evenly but all news skews towards conservative views Pew made a strange judgment call. Which is honestly OK, that's why Pew's research is wonderful but highly bias simply because it is making unquantified calls on such things as interviews and such. Even if the thoughts given in such an interview are truthful or at least honest speculation it moved the bar from "factual" to "opinion" while Fox routinely displays the demagoguery of the right wing.

At this point it's a waste of breath but at least I know why Pew is questionable in their decisions on this particular issue.

I know, technically Doom did make a port to the SNES but one game does not make a genre. We didn't see FPSes as a Genre until really Goldeneye on N64 and then a slew of poorly made ones on the PS1.

Your shooting gallery games are covered in "Shooters W/ or W/O Light Gun" much like Duck Hunt, Hogan's Alley, and a ton of other games. They're distinctly different and if you move they tend to be called "Rail Shooters."

I don't know, back in the NES/Genesis era and then the Dreamcast the 3-man team in your basement was pretty much gone. It was a smaller budget than today's AAA games but the good stuff wasn't programmed on a tiny budget by comparison. I grant the simplicity benefited a limited resource group but it doesn't mean you can't be as innovative on a modern PC or console. I would point to Xbox Arcade, Steam's indie section, and the PS3 store as a perfect example of small innovative games made by a smaller budget team.