Probably one of the most brilliant people of the century who we lost due to bigotry.

Sadly, one of so many. Recently found out my best friend in highschool had suicided likely because he had been outed as gay. All I can think of is he should have told me, I'd have supported him, he's hadly the only gay friend I ever had. And in retrospect it should have been bleedingly obvious, the man would practically run from any woman who showed him affection, and he was pretty dandy. Singing in a hair metal band and being kinda..... camp with all the frizzed hair and leather tassles and shit. Think motley crue or poison or whatever. But it was the 1980s and people where pretty brutal to young gay people back then.

Even if I go back to the 1990s and boxed retail software, you were never actually buying the software, your purchase was for the license to use it.
The real issue here is the gamers being sold software whose functionality is tied to third-party servers and denied first sale doctrine (the ability to transfer/resell their license if they want to someone else).

Thats always been a gross simplification of the rights generally involved with a software sale. While yes, technically its a license to use software, rather than the software itself, license sales have always had a series of expectations associated with them in law, common law and in user expectations. And those expectations matter in a courtroom.

Most of the world consumer law is very clear that if you give a license to use something, and its sold as "buy" rather than "rent" or "time limited" , its not revokable and its subject to the same sort of consumer protection laws buying a toaster or a car has. Most importantly that it remains fit for purpose for the natural lifetime of the product, and that term "lifetime" is absolutely not "until we tire of letting you use that thing you paid for" but rather "How long would a reasonable consumer believe they can use this before its basically bitrot". To simplify that, assume it means "as long as the physical software is capable of running without a rewrite" and NOT "until we send the kill-command to the DRM".

The tension here is that software is attempting to move to a service model whilst trying to retain the language of a product model. You dont purchase a pool cleaning man, you hire a pool cleaning man. Well, unless your in a southern state during a terrible time in history, I suppose.

And thats where cases like this the complainant stands a good chance of winning. Because if California law has strong protections (A lot of america *doesnt* , but europe* and australia but apparently not canada for reasons that are mystifying to me, have strong protections) then if it can be shown that at the point of purchase it was not made clear that this product was time limited or was going to be made unavailable to people who purchased it, then the complainants have a strong case for deceptive advertising.

* I am aware europe just voted down a 'stop killing games' law. I am surprised by that, because honestly, it should have been the default anyway. I smell the acrid stench of industry lobbyists foul deeds

Well, you can call me a liar, but that doesn't change the facts.

It's a cycle. New baby comes, income goes up a bit. Mom gets tired of taking care of the new baby, it goes to foster care, Mom's income goes back down. Mom has new baby to get the income back again.

I suggest you go to your nearest Salvation Army center (or other inner city charity of your choice) and volunteer. It will both be a rewarding experience, and it will open your eyes.

Or you can sit in your nice house typing stuff into your nice computer, about things you know nothing about.

Every human drive does stupid stuff *sometimes.* Even accidentally wander into a construction zone.

Maybe they're just sending out a recall notice. That's what all the other car companies do.

Perhaps there are coffee snobs who actually like that muddy flavor.

Yep, I've had percolator coffee. Because it steeps so long, the process extracts a lot of unwanted flavors from the grounds into the water, giving it a "muddy" flavor. The percolator was from an era when there was just...coffee, and the stuff diners served was good enough.

The difference is that it's not mass transit. It arguably should have been regulated more though, because and only because it cost The People money to chase after the dead.

Yes, I agree freeze-dried coffee is great for camping. But while camping, exceptional taste is not a priority!

If you like your French press, you might want to try AeroPress. https://www.amazon.com/AeroPre... It's a similar concept and inexpensive, but you don't get as much of the bitterness and "muddiness" that you get with the French press. It allows you to get a richer, stronger flavor, without the unwanted parts of the flavor profile.

Go down the list and it perfectly aligns with christian conservatives.

Trump is the useful idiot to AIPAC, Stephen Miller, and Putin.

For sure! Just like the blind test done, comparing sound quality between Monster cables and coat hangers! https://gizmodo.com/audiophile...

100% accurate. Today the strait is closed again because Israel won’t stop attacking Lebanon.

Gulf War 3.0 baby!

I did french press for a while and then switched to pour over because it requires less cleaning.

Trump could waive student debt and the republicans would stand up with tears in the eyes yelling bravo sir! Biden tried it and was immediately stopped by the courts.