Why do I need to know someone else's opinion about a game when I can play a demo myself or read a one-man-blog who reviews it? Or watch a preview video on Youtube?

Nonsense.
If I build a TV station and I decide I don't want to broadcast your crap, it's not censorship. You are guaranteed a right to speak, not a right to be heard.

If there was some tie in to emotional maturity,patience, wisdom, or even raw intelligence, that would better validate the value of VG more than just changes in the shape of the brain - which is quiet common among those engaged in repetitive mental behavior just like muscle develops according to to repetitive physical behavior.

What do you think the "C" in "LLC" stands for, genius?

Meat from cows is made of molecules.

Meat from a lab can be made from the same molecules.

If your tongue and your stomach can't tell the difference, what does it matter? *shrug*

I'm going to stab at your ignorant meme.

Bankers paid back all of the money from TARP with interest. It netted the US treasury a profit to spend on Pell Grants, food safety, and whatever other benevolent things you think government does.

The portion of TARP that did loose money was that which was invested in GM and Chrysler. Many billions lost - but that was solely to bail out the unions, not the companies. If they had gone into bankruptcy, they would have shed their union obligations and continued making cars.

It was comrade Obama's venture socialism in 'green jobs' that cost taxpayers.

Stop pretending you speak for the 99%. Get a job, anonymous coward freak.

There was a line from comedian Richard Pryor where he said he knew he had a cocaine problem when he chose the cocaine over the, er, woman.

Your post reminded me of this.

We are clearly going to get a big bunch of amateur economists commenting on this one.

I see you are getting this trend started. I would add that there still would be secure government debt to purchase for a long time - though not as much of it. States, municipalities, school boards, etc. are always participating in the bond market for special projects. There are also foreign government's that run deficits but whose debt is more secure than the US's (Thailand, etc.)

This is why many places that accept credit cards require minimum transaction amounts to use them.

Which is a violation of their merchant agreement and, if you notify the credit card company, will result in them being told to either drop the minimum or stop taking cards.

IThey are not allowed to have minimum transactions for cards and they are not allowed to charge a premium for card-using customers. They are, however, allowed to give cash discounts.

/merchant account reseller for the last 5 years.

No.

You buy that equipment with an understanding that there are restrictions on how you use it.

Do you buy a lunch buffet carrying a set of Tupperware?

I have an Asus G73JH-A1 with one of the HD's upgraded to a SSD from http://www.xoticpc.com/.
It has a better processor and cost $1000 or so less.

Let me show you something.

Mr. Fake Lawyer: Why are you defending a squatter?

It's not as if the site is currently a home-brew fan site where people share pictures of their atari's.

It's a squater trying to sell it for money. And it's pretty standard procedure that when you take a protected name as a URL and try to SELL it, the owner of the name gets to take it away from you.

In the long term, it is not Ray Casting or Ray tracing that will win out, but Ray Charles because you got the right one baby!