So other comcast customers can stroll through and leech my bandwidth, that I pay for? Good thing I don't use a comcast wifi router.

This was happening to me 2 years ago. How is this just now becoming "news"?

When you've got billions of dollars in the bank, who cares if what you're doing is illegal. The worst that will happen to large corporations is some fines numbering in the millions which is peanuts to them. Now if you or I did this, we'd be out of business.

Self-cleaning sounds a whole lot cooler and is a better marketing term, but it's not really self-cleaning, it just repels things. Not really the same thing.

New violins don't have cool names like Stradivarius though. That name is so epic, it could make anything look or sound high brow and expensive. Stradivarius Coffee, home of the $75 latte. Stradivarius Bounce House, let your kids bounce around for only $125/hr. Stradivarius Water, Anything less, will dehydrate you, only $49.99 per 8oz bottle made out of the finest Stradivarius plastics. With a name like that, people will pay anything.

He insists that since scientists just attribute whatever they can't explain to "random chance" (Can't recall ever hearing one actually utter those words) there must be an intelligent designer. Yeah, I'm dropping the class and complaining to the department head. 'Merica.

I read the title and thought they'd actually found water, only to find out it was hundreds of millions of years ago that it was there.

Middlemen aside, everyone always seems to forget that you have to price a product at what the customers are willing to pay for it while still making a profit for yourself after paying royalties, salaries, etc.... If the artists feel they aren't getting paid enough through this medium, they need to branch out to other mediums and find other ways to make money on their product. They can't just say "I want X amount of dollars each month or X amount for each play" and expect any sane businessperson to take them seriously without factoring in the costs associated with offering the service.

That is all.

Shutting down interstate travel, social distancing, sequestration. Seems like I may need to start stockpiling that water, food and ammo.

As a business owner, you are correct. Every business lies, we just sugar coat it by calling it "control of information."

Using the governments ability to threaten violence in order to protect your job security. 'Merica.

Why do dev companies even need publishers? Serious question, what do publishers bring to the table?

I pay ~$45/year for a VPN service that doesn't keep logs of anything it's users do on top of a DNS encryption service which is free. Privacy restored.

Are one of the reasons I don't use ISP hosted email. Main reason is portability.