Seems like vaporware to me, it seems to take every precaution they can think to survive the trip but no mention of the actual energy required to make a safe landing form that altitude. Jet boots need fuel and no parachute is mentioned.

The difference is in the distribution part. Analogue distribution of digital media is still analogue distribution. So you are the first geek to wrongfully spot that one :)

Does the Emperor really have clothes this time?

I believe the emperror is fully clothed this time...only in the sense the cloth being a half thorn thong!

That is why they couldn't fix it for four years, no one thought that could be possible!

Why is this tagged funny? it is both insightful and horrific instead!

There is a reason "Military Intelligence" is considered an oxymoron.

what happens where there is more than one "creator" as well as even finding out when someone dies (especially if they used a alias).

Simple, we make co-creators expire with them. We can even supply them with toll free suicide booths, or hunt them, charge them with hunting fee, then expire them should they not choose to use our patent pending boots.

I will have to disagree with ou on the first paragraph. People will pay for games they completed for free if the game has a semblance of a replay value, and stardock games are a dying breed trying to have that replay value. In fact this aspect is the most important reason why current game releases and business model is crap. In order not to compete with themselves, or out of sheer incompetence, most companies release short, play and forget games. As a result even though game costs rise and game prices remain steady, the value offered constantly declines. Add in the ease of torrenting a game and the low value you gain by buying an overpriced item, copyright infringement runs rampant naturally.

Ok, we can agree it is not censorship, only redaction of their own work. And they do not violate their contract with authors since you are pretty sure it is in their contract with authors. Still there is another contract they violate. They have an unwritten agreement with their customers that those listings reflect sales of the books on the site, that users can make an informed decision based on behaviour of other customers like themselves. And IANAL, but i am pretty sure unwritten contracts are as binding as written ones.

Yes there is, but they are not making the final decision are they? They are not in a position to say "screw you two big parties, we are appointing our nominee". What they have is ability choose one of the candidates that already has a large support base, and maybe a chance to gain a little leverage on some unrelated matters.

That %4 party having a say in the matter is what seperates democracy from tyranny of majority.

I agree, my money is on nuclear powered high energy weapons. If only we could mount these on fast, nimble naval platforms...Sharks maybe?

Salt water is though, as with any ion saturated material in existence.