Plenty of couples cannot have children, and are allowed to marry. Unless you want to ban infertile heterosexual couples from marrying, this is a bizarre point.

The twisted logic bigots have to apply.

I'm sure many liberals, communists and moderates thought the same thing of the Brown Shirts in late Weimar Germany.

There was a very nasty surprise waiting for them. Once you gain the levers of power, and you are sufficiently motivated and unhinged from any kind of sense of obligation, decorum or constraint, you don't have to be a majority. You just have to be willing to use raw applications of power. Illegal immigrants are not the only people that are going to end up getting sent to Alligator Alcatraz. They're just the test subjects for the inevitable liquidation of all political opposition.

Record player actions. Use randomly-selected other players' systems (from a pool of those who are playing on the same map) to verify those actions which you flag as suspicious during times when they are waiting for other players to join a match or similar.

And even if he does, or doesn't make it until the end, do you actually think his allies and backers, and the Republican Party itself, is ever going to give the Democrats a chance to hold any kind of power again?

And this AC, even if trolling, exemplifies the kind of people that cheer on tyrants, always believing that only the people they hate will be targets.

We had several of them in Santa Cruz county, including a really huge one in Capitola, and a super tiny one in the inland side of the Beach Flats just off Ocean Street. I think there are still two there.

Large #9, two scoops of avo, on wheat. Just absolutely my favorite sandwich anywhere.

"which makes this disgusting to fiscal conservatives with a working brain."

No such though because austerity doesn't work.

The luddites wanted all workers to benefit from increases in productivity, the Republican party wants the opposite of that. So no.

"Physically handicapped players who need custom controllers to be able to play at all can get locked out simply because the manufacturers refuse to make the needed hardware."

It's generally pretty easy to connect your own controls to the official controller's PCB, Don't the people who make such controllers know how to do that?

There is no issue with latency in detection of cheating on the server side, unless you insist on stopping it before it happens. That would be nice as it would prevent cheating, but it is not necessary. As long as you are requiring accounts, then it's good enough to detect it after it happens and ban those accounts. If cheaters had to buy another copy after every time they cheated, it would drive them out of the game.

>"Your PC is not longer yours."

All of mine are, because I run Linux on everything, and always have. Thankfully, I don't want to play that game. But I am worried about other things that could block open systems in the future because they are not "trustworthy."

I am willing to put my money where my mouth is. For example, if my bank pulls something like that (requiring a certain "platform"), I will change banks and loudly let them know why I did. I already did with a credit card company with whom I had a card for decades. Funny how they only REALLY cared about what happened AFTER I cut up their card and went to a competitor because my 100% standards-based browser wasn't what they thought was needed at the time. And another company I left because they forced MFA but only with SMS or phone call, and I refused to comply with that because I don't give out my cell number to companies (they took away Email MFA and had no TOTP option at all). And I made sure to badmouth both to everyone I know, so hopefully they were punished far beyond just little-'ol-me leaving.

Consumers do have quite a bit of power, when they finally start standing up and say "NO" or "ENOUGH".

It's more like "Your purchased game is no longer yours to play, because we said so". Meh. If buying isn't owning, then piracy isn't stealing. And in the old days, DRM might prevent you from playing a legitimate copy because of some hardware issue, the game's copy protection might make you jump through al manner of hoops before it would even start, maybe you lost the required dongle, or whatever. Good reasons to pirate, because it would give you a far better experience. Games have gotten a lot better, but this move sounds like a step in the wrong direction, even if it is more about online cheating than piracy.

Same shit with DVDs and Blu-rays. No format shifting, ads that can't be skipped, random HDCP errors that force me to keep power cycling all devices in my media chain until it somehow starts working again. Here too, the pirated product is better. It's not that I don't want to pay for stuff, I'd love to pay in order to have companies make more enjoyable content. But as a paying customer I don't want to be treated worse than the pirates!

And it's becoming a matter of principle as well. Morally I used to feel compelled to pay, perhaps buying a Blu-ray and only then getting a pirated file (or ripping the disc when possible). But these days? Game companies still have my sympathy, but movie companies have perverted the social contract of Copyright so far beyond its original intent, that I do not feel a single shred of obligation anymore to keep my end of it.

Check out the moderation and you can lose it again :)

I think you have to include Office in the list of things they used to do "right" or at least in a way that supported their business. Notably Excel, which used to be the absolutely most usable spreadsheet that there was. IMO Word peaked with Mac version 5.1, but it used to be pretty good too. Both are now more difficult to use than LibreOffice, and also have more stupid bugs. The one that keeps irritating me with Word lately is saving a document which ends in a list. If and only if you leave the cursor on the last character of a document like that, it will add another (blank) list item AND another paragraph after it when you save. Not sure if this only happens on a quit save or not, I haven't bothered to find out, but either way it's fucking trash.

Anyway, ahem, the point is that Windows and Office had synergy. TBF though, some of that was skullduggery. Specifically, Microsoft was caught using internal functions for Office apps, where the public (published, documented) functions were literally the same functions but with a delay loop. If they had been the same function but with a semaphore they might have had a valid argument about being more familiar with their internals, but that was just obvious anticompetitive fuckery.

It's clearly not due to the content