Up until a few months ago, my father. :(

USA isn't as bad as X, therefore USA is good?
I hit my wife with an open hand...it's okay, 'though, because this guy I know hits his wife with a baton and at least I'm better than that.

I am an American and I live in the USA. Don't forget that "the courts" are also part of the government. The federal government often and egregiously oversteps the specific privileges granted to it by the constitution; the courts, supreme and otherwise, often allow this to happen. Our government, the judicial part of it included, have made great strides in the restriction of personal freedom, including the field of censorship.

Don't get me wrong, the USA is pretty cool, and our government is definitely an open-handed beater, but just because Iran's government sucks more, that doesn't mean that our government doesn't suck quite a bit on its own.

You must be new to /. As you stay here and become part of the community, you'll find that we're almost universally willing to help out a person in need.
Enjoy your stay.

The beauty of 40-man raids was that you could have a half-dozen casuals and as long as they understood the mechanics of what was going on (i.e.: they didn't do stupid stuff) there's still a sizable group of folks to pick up the slack.

Yes, space herpes are problematic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-me2inj1nNw

If you can be replaced by a robot, get a better job. (Perhaps you might like a job designing robots?)

Speaking as a seasoned Scrabble player, I think you mean "definately."

Yeah, anyone still around here is obviously a real loser.

I'll be the first to coin "free (as in freedom) surface."

Then this change is perfect for you. You now have a choice to not purchase streaming while purchasing the disc rentals that you loved in the first place.

I'm more concerned about "rounding error", at least for the USD market.
Most people probably use a rough "point = penny" heuristic in their head and call a, say, 1000 point game "about ten bucks". In reality it's about 12.50 though, so they consistently underestimate the cost of everything by about 20%...

it's to videogames what the "and 9/10 of a cent" is to gas... maybe a little more weasle-ish than that.

Well said.

If I had to pick one, it would probably have to be the laptop, mostly because of the recreational programmer. Luckily I make a decent wage and having both just isn't that much of a financial burden.

The Not Getting It on both sides of the argument is pretty amazing.

False. Alcohol doesn't adversely affect short-term performance.

In what way do manned space missions contribute to "national security?"

I made a similar thing in 2002, but even more limited because it used the one line of a grey pushbutton as both the input and the output of the game!
http://kirkjerk.com/features/gb.html