NZ has a MMP political system where the two centre left/right parties fight for about 65% of the vote, and the rest hang out somewhere else.

It's the two big parties that support this and no one else. They have enough votes to get it over the line so it will most likely happen.

We don't want to.

Part of the explicit points of this, is that anything they've been forced to do becomes visible as well. Hopefully civil rights groups with the FSF will be all over this.

I have PS1 games from the 90s that I can still play on my PS2. I buy games on physical media still hoping that they will still run in 20 years time.

I do hope they reverse this decision.

Ofcom are every po-faced teacher you had when you were 12 that treated every natural instinct you had to laugh and play games and generally be happy as a sign that you are evil incarnate.

Downvote me, I don't care.

Isn't it extraordinary that someone actually thought this was a good idea?

This is why, as far as is reasonably possible, I buy dumb things.

I have old phones that are past end of life, the hardware still works, but the software never will again.

My old video games work fine, so long as I can connect them to something. I'm painfully aware that my newer ones will one day not have servers to connect to and may not work anymore.

I couldn't do that. If I needed to get somewhere that I could using streetcars (trams in my country) then I can't imagine I'd be wanting to arrive sweaty in my normal clothes too. It would save on parking, clearly.

We don't have many here but we used to. I wish we had more. Where they do exist they're considered heritage tourist attractions and not an everyday commuter item.

On the other hand I see allot of so called engineers here in /. that really need to realise they are deluding themselves.

Learning Science/Engineering **should** teach logic and an understanding of fallacies. These are the most subversive skills one can have because few things in society measure up when you can see why they are incomplete or just plain wrong.

Accuracy and precision are two different things. Accuracy is how close you are to being correct. Precision is if you took a number of measurement, how much do they vary.

Yes I saw that one other person said this too, no I don't feel bad for repeating *because* it badly needs to be repeated to drown out the ignorance.

No, Heck no. There are just far to many important steps being taken in quantum mechanics, field theory, general relativity etc etc. Just a few months ago I read a paper describing the experimental verification of quantum state correlation occurring backwards in time! What ever the heck is actually going in the world around us, it is most definitely NOT what we think we see. There is much more to do.

I like anything that I can get the exact raw pixel ADC outputs from. I can process the data myself, it's not hard, and I can produce something other than JPG or tiff.

If the vendors got together and coordinated I'm sure they could devise a nice premium service type arrangement. However this does sound like the sort of thing that regulators jump on quickly as being anti-competitive.