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Comment The point is also - end of life/ end of company pr (Score 3, Insightful) 53

Download only games mean when the company decides it is too expensive to support or too old - 2 weeks or 3 years from now, their choice, no new downloads. Maybe even no playing at all That is IF the company does not go BK or merge with another company that loses interest in providing the game. And if you think you are safe because you DO have it downloaded, what happens when you have a bad drive. Failed system requires install, or get a second system for another room or home? No game for you. You will own nothing and be happy

Comment Re: All for this (Score 2) 406

What is terrible about the reasoning? A giant corporation has unprecedented privilege that most would agree was acquired and extended in shady ways. They have continuously overstepped their corporate charter by using size and power to shape society. Whether you agree with the shaping they are doing, this should not happen. A good first step is reigning in exceptions to laws that give them unnecessary and unwarranted competitive advantage. Maybe they will spend time competing in the marketplace vs social engineering projects

Comment It is almost like actually owning media is better (Score 5, Insightful) 67

It is almost like actually owning media is better for the environment (cloud never stops burning energy) company (physical media does not need constant updates and security enhancements) posterity (it is there until you get rid of it) Your financial security (buy once and it is yours) Your sanity (it is yours to use until you choose not to, not at the whim of others) Your sanity

Comment Re: Fourth Amendment (Score 1) 391

Logic fails you. I said that one has to be obtuse. No name calling unless you choose to crown yourself obtuse. If the crown fits, enjoy. Did he want to provide info that they cannot get without his cooperation. Then he is forced, you might even say coerced. Coerced to provide them with info that without cooperation they can not extract. His private thought not accessible without coercion If you donâ(TM)t understand, no one can help you. Congrats you win. The law is on your side. Truth and common sense ARE NOT It happens all the time, but you are lying to yourself through leaps of logic

Comment Re: Fourth Amendment (Score 1) 391

Your thoughts / words can only be used against you if you are forced to do something to make them available to someone that means to use them against you. It is pretty obvious to people that are not intentionally being obtuse. Legal does not equal right. The law apparently agrees with you but incorrect in spirit and intent of the 1st fourth and fifth amendments

Comment Re: Not unusual (Score 1) 391

The law has it wrong on the fifth. Absolutely fucking dead WRONG. They can have the info but I do not have to make that possible and cannot be coerced to testifying. Thatâ(TM)s the point of the law. If the judges fucked that up by jerrymandering an interpretation and defeated the spirit of the law. They are WRONG

Comment Re: I know what happened. (Score 1) 109

Donâ(TM)t be pendant if. Cool you are very biased against religion, but you let that hate blind you. Genesis = Jewish Mary+Joseph Saga = Judaism rewritten into Christianity. Not all Christians literally interpret the ascension into heaven one where your physical form flies up in the air. Jews donâ(TM)t have the book of revelations and they owned Genesis. Iâ(TM)ll leave it to people that were dead 5000 years ago to believe it meant what it meant, and people of today to reinterpret as their religion(s) evolved.

Comment Re: I know what happened. (Score 1) 109

Reading genesis like an old man in the ether formed the universe with his bare hands in six actual 24hr days is not going to stand up to current scientific beliefs. But the creation story in the Bible is a relatable explanation of the origin of the universe from an unexplainable force (god). They couldnâ(TM)t produce a scientific paper that would meet your criteria of accurate for todayâ(TM)s science. People would just give a wtf? You are crazy! Even if they could translate what happened to geek speak. I find that the collection of Jewish origin stories and history from 5000+ years ago to a written word that tracks with the scientific, natural and behavioral structures that they could observe provides a roadmap to a sustainable culture in many ways. I see it as documenting how they got there and how they continue pretty nicely - with reverence to a mysterious creator. For you scientists, what came before the Big Bang? Who set up the rule sets and materials? How did the energy get stored for the previous 1,2,3 big bangs if that is your angle? Natural laws either are God or made by one. Why split hairs?

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