Books are not plays. What words you read don't really have an effect on what words others read from the same book.

Though this would affect grade schoolers' English classes reading from books out loud. I wonder how many kids will get falsely diagnosed with dyslexia because they were reading "Jim and Steve" when everyone else's books read "Steve and Jim".

My understanding is that that's pretty much SOP for any hosting provider (and possibly even the required action by the DMCA) and that it's illegal to DMCA something that you don't own the copyright to, or something that doesn't violate the copyright.

Of course, we're dealing with large companies and rich people here, who as we all know are immune to laws.

This is precisely how Win8 works, too.

You don't need a store account to install and use the OS.

I know for a fact the Japanese version has prize money too.

I'm pretty sure they have competitions for qualifying beforehand, too. They just don't air that part on TV.

I like it. And I like Top Gear UK too.

Season 1 was pretty bad, specifically because they tried to mimic the UK version, which they couldn't because the just didn't have the rapport of the UK cast.

The latter seasons are much more watchable because they've now went and put a more American spin on it. It's pretty much weighted more heavily towards the cheap car challenges and the studios are nothing more than a backdrop. While there are still segments that I fast forward through (the SIARPC, for instance, which I skip on the UK version too), overall I think it's on par with, if not better than, the recent Top Gear UK episodes (although the last UK series was actually fantastic).

Overall, when you recreate a show internationally, you'll have to "Americanize" some of it to get it to stick. The relatively small cultural gap between the UK and US requires this, let alone an immense one like there is between the US and Japan.

While ANW isn't great, I understand some of the Americanizations that were done to it. Carrying it over wholesale from Japan, format and all, would have made it so much worse.

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The current administration is nowhere near "Liberal". It's probably closer to conservative than it is to liberal.

Things have changed significantly on that front - the raid size is smaller (10 or 25 players) and the bosses drop more loot, plus bosses give points you can spend at a vendor to get more raid-level loot.

The burnout's still there, but it's more in the opposite direction now- a new raid comes out and the players are getting geared so fast that they have nothing to do afterwards.

IIRC those 5 mans were instances that were planned for launch and weren't ready for release. Not instances added as new content.

I mostly agree with what you're saying here, but your 3rd point is a tad disingenuous.

- Naxx was more or less recycled, but to me this is okay because very little of their population saw it when it was relevant.
- Onyxia wasn't really "content" for the last expansion that was supposed to mean anything. It was literally a bonus raid added in celebration of their 5th anniversary.
- The two (yes, only two) 5 mans that got "recycled" are only the same instance in name and layout only. The content inside the dungeon (you know, the part that counts) is completely different. The bosses are completely different, the drops are completely different, the trash is completely different. They are effectively brand new instances.
- Likewise, the 5 man Zul'Gurub is literally nothing like the Vanilla Zul'Gurub raid. Zul'aman is pretty much the same though. However, these two instances were patched into the game. The 4 instances added in WoLK after the expansion's release weren't exactly shining examples of creativity, either. Before that? In TBC and Vanilla you simply did not get new 5 man instances patched into the game.

Most games in the 80's and 90's were horrible too. Your expectations have just changed.

I for one hope that Watson's text-to-speech engine fails miserably and he starts mispronouncing category names like "The Pen Is Mightier".

Jeopardy is syndicated. It will show on different networks and at different times depending on where you live.

Simple answer to that- outlaw unions, throw them in jail, then they can repair all the buildings they want.

So you've never played most of their games and are surprised that you weren't able to extract fun out of the games you never bought, played, heard of, or know anything about?