Politicians have to cater to low-info voters to survive. Likewise, sleazy marketers cater to low-info consumers.

They often want chaos. How do you convince anarchists that chaos is bad?

I tried to get into PoP but it was kind frustrating. I think a lot of games from that era were very hard and needed a lot of effort putting into them. Of course back then we were kids and had the time to play then over and over.

In that sense early games are often more instantly gratifying and more suited to short sessions. PoP is from the middle era of gaming when home computers ruled and long games were popular, but you really had to have played the game at the time or put in a lot of effort now to really enjoy them today.

If they are anything like Facebook then deactivation is meaningless. Facebook keeps all your personal data and history on file. Changing your details doesn't help, they keep a full history of every name you ever used, every date of birth, every status update. When the site finally goes under and they sell off your data that info will be in there.

Apple needed an engineer to go in and manually delete most of my account. I imagine the situation here will be the same; someone has to remove all the historical data etc. by hand. It creates work for a free to use site and the danger of breaking something is high, so they will be very reluctant to do it.

Be prepared to spend a long time on the phone though, and even then they often won't really delete your account. I tried this with Apple recently as I had an ancient account from back when I had an early iPod a decade ago. It took half an hour on the phone, I had to listen to endless dire warnings about losing all the data on "my" iCloud account that they made for me without my knowledge or ever agreeing to the terms and conditions. Endless stuff about how all my iTunes purchases with DRM would commit suicide (I never made any) and how all my devices would stop working (battery died years ago, can't be bothered to pry the thing open to replace it, if you can even buy 3rd gen iPod batteries any more).

After all that they finally agreed to delete the account, but added that I would never be able to sign up with the same email address again... So they were not really deleting it. My personal details are still on file somewhere. In the new year I'm going to write to them to demand they expunge everything.

Long story short, we need that EU right to be forgotten and some strong enforcement.

You can get some insane but legitimate deals this way. For example home insurance with a discount code, new customer bonus, no claims bonus, cash back website and cash back credit card was about 95% discounted one year (£20). Occasionally Tesco pay you to take stuff away with their point card system. It happens.

The problem is that now some professor had demonstrated it every prosecution that lacks real evidence but "knows" the guy is scum and really wants to nail him will have another kind of dubious but impressive forensic evidence to use. Juries love this CSI shit, because science can't be wrong, right?

As someone who knows a few ppl that are mentally ill, it's often acute. You're normal one day and crazy as a loon the next. It's a brain chemistry thing, but since it's not obviously visible it's tough to get it classified as a disability unless you're crazy all the time. If Club Fed's as nice as everyone on this thread is saying he's probably mentally ill and had an episode. If that's the case by the time he comes to his senses (3 months? A year?) the damage will be done, but he'll be lucid again so he won't be able to claim insanity. And "Temporary Insanity" goes over with judges about as well as you'd expect...

If that's the case I feel sorry for him. He'll spend the rest of his life in and out of trouble with the law. It's damn near impossible to meet parole conditions when you freak the hell out every few years...

If you're just being sarcastic, you should know that there's a patch available.

It's $9275 in dog money.

That has little to do with American culture though. It's just the newspapers got more aggressive as TV news and the internet made them largely redundant for reporting actual news. They switched to opinion and more specifically in the case of most of the hatred and anger inducing stories. The unemployed are an easy target because there is an endless supply of inarticulate and poorly educated people to focus on and rail against. Of course they attack other weak targets like the disabled and immigrants, but the unemployed are particularly attractive as an object of hate.

It would be more like the Chinese invade to overthrow the corrupt US government and install a Chinese style democracy. The US citizens welcome them as liberators and all is well again.

EA kinda did it with one of the C&C games (Red Alert 2?). You could play as the Chinese, blow up the Whitehouse etc.i liked that game.

Ironically both the Chinese and Koreans can pronounce the 'L' sound. It's a part of their languages. It is the Japanese who pronounce 'L' about half way between an 'L' and an 'R' sound.

But hay, they are all slitty eyed funny little men right?

That might not help. SSDs do a lot of background processing. Flushing caches, moving things around, rewriting sectors that have not been touched for a while. There is no way for the SSD controller to know that power has failed so it will just carry on doing all that stuff, rather than an emergency shutdown.

Are you saying that they only last 4 years or that you keep buying newer/bigger/better ones?