In this instance, you can: Nothing is outlawed because it is "obscene". If you don't like something, don't look at it. If someone is forcing you to watch, that's different - but the availability of something shouldn't be denied because some people don't like it. (Note: that works for drugs too)

How is it racist? Merely pointing out a statistical bias towards one race among a group does not imply a moral judgement!

In Australia, we effectively have this. You grade the candidates in your preference order. They then basically pick the least hated candidate. They look at everyone's first preference and discard whichever candidate got the lowest. All the people who voted #1 for them then have their #2 preference allocated to each candidates total and repeat the process until there is only 1 left, and that's who is voted in. I think it solves these problems very elegantly. You rank candidates in your actual preference order, and you don't have to worry about "wasting" a vote.

More than that .. why would they need to attack again? They've already been amazingly effective with just the few attacks they've actually performed.

Same reason you could theoretically grow all your crops and never have to pay for them, but it's too much effort and people just end up going to the shops.

We may be half the size of California, but as a country we're one of only a very small handful European English-speaking countries (and I find Canada and the US hard to differentiate, and to be honest, NZ is extremely similar to us in all practical respects). This means that we are similar enough that our differences are cherished instead of feared as they are when they are TOO different in most other cases.

It's not surprising - you'd need to have a bulletproof case before you actually challenged a case in court and ran up the huge associated cost. For everything else you'd just settle.

I find your sig quite ironic in this context.

Because Steam has a lot of benefits to me. It's very easy and simple, and takes care of things like patching and installing for me. Cracking is harder work - not by much, but enough that I consider Steam to be a very acceptable trade.

FTFY, given that web apps can perform any task that native apps can perform

What's stopping them?

The only thing I can think of is cross-site scripting restrictions, but there are workarounds for that

I haven't had the same experience unfortunately. Most of my non-technical friends actually support it, due to "omg those pedophiles must be stopped!" mentality.

Why can't people think rationally as soon as children become involved?

So don't watch channels that do that! How do so many people not understand that just because something exists doesn't imply that you'll be forced to see it!

Seriously, there are a LOT of adults with young kids in the world. There is a very large demand for kid-friendly material, and that demand will be met! Stop fucking worrying about the evil porn monster jumping out and randomly slapping your kids in the face - any channel that did that would never get another viewer or ad dollar ever again!

So because some people don't/can't understand it, the argument has merit? I'd hope we were going for a higher level of reasoning than lowest-common denominator consensus.

To be honest, most of the gamers in that mindset are moving to the consoles, and I really don't have a problem with that. I have been enjoying the recent round of indy-style games immensely, and hope the trend continue.

Some of my favourite, non-graphically intense recent games:

• Alien Swarm
• World of Goo
• Braid
• Osmosis
• And Yet It Moves
• Plants Vs. Zombies

For 3d games, Half-Life 2's Source engine is the sweet spot. From then on, graphics have been good enough, and what makes a game "good" is the gameplay.