Which one was that?

That was used to dupe all these people again?

It does happen

Yet another corollary:

Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day.

Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

One of my favorite comedies ever.

Robin Williams 'recycles' other people's jokes. The people he steals from don't seem to mind much, maybe because he does it better than Mencia.

Blah blah blah, intel cpus are the best, blah blah blah. Reads like one giant intel advertisement

I was one of the first ones on headstart (-2 days before actual launch). There was no gold spamming to speak of until about a week later. Not only is the spam in the LFG channel and whispers, they will also send you spam in your mailbox entitled "sorry to bother". The worst part is that you get a indicator on your GUI for new mail when this happens. Banning the spammers is in ncsoft's best interest, they'll just buy another $50 copy of Aion and continue spamming. The good news is blocking the several new ones that popup when you login usually cures the problem for the couple hours you're logged in.

Maybe, Blockland but mmo? http://www.blockland.us/index.asp
Check out the video!
(Disclaimer: I don't work for them, just like the sandbox type game).

This is exactly what happened to me about two years ago now. One too many cycle of "I need this beta video driver to play game X, but game Y won't load with it" and "I have two hours to play a game, why am I spending an hour updating my OS, my video drivers, and my game?" Not to mention the various "WTF, this plays smooth on the original XBox, why is my P4/Radeon x1600 system struggling?!" types of hardware upgrade treadmill issues.

On my consoles, I pop the game in and it goes, nothing to it.

Ironically, gaming was the only thing keeping my on XP at home, too; my wife and I are using Mac laptops now instead. So, PC gaming's target audience shrank a bit, and so did the Windows "ecosystem".

Even if you're not ready/willing to drop Windows as your "doing things" OS, there's hardly any reason to play games on it anymore. So much more comfy playing on my couch infront of the 1080p monitor than at my desk.

I've bought several games for Mac OS X, too, but nothing for the PC since BioShock was released.

Yes and since each of those companies has a monopoly on cars (thus the influence to be a trust) they are obviously undermining the market and abusing that trust so antitrust law applies.

I'll consider taking your advice on economics when you understand the meaning of all the words you use. Seriously, learn what 'antitrust' means before presuming to advise people about laws regarding trusts.

Chess is not exactly what you would call a "value altering" experience. While weed very well is. Schools like we mostly have them right now don't train anyone to think for themselves, at least not where I'm from. They teach you to stick to rules, to believe what authorities tell you and that you need a piece of paper declaring your abilities. Books by themselves don't make you smart or rebellious, the people who ban books usually have to read them first and does it affect them in any way? None of that makes for independent thinking.

Say about Weed what you will. Once you've smoked it for a while your opinion about things changes. Not in that lanky stoner "I don't give a fuck" way or any other ridiculous stereotype but re-evaluated like "Why the hell am I doing this job that I hate so much but never thought about". Trust me, I ... uhm ... conducted experiments.

these DTV coupons seem like a daft idea anyway, they are keeping the cost of converter boxes high, if the coupons didn't exist the box prices would have dropped by now. Here in Britain we are converting to digital and have no assistance scheme like this (except for the elderly) and a converter box can be picked up from a supermarket for £15 (~$20).

.hack//Sign?

Guy makes MMO, uploads his memory to the game, and dies. Leaving a bunch of code that takes on a life of it's own and puts children in a coma.

Files by aXxo come to mind. And any other legit files that usually come in 700mb, 4.4gb or 7.8gb ;)