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Laughing gas.

Except it also made me feel ambivalent, as I am now significantly poorer.

People usually thank the bus drive around here (Sydney) on the free bus routes that are there for the universities (but get used by anyone looking to get anywhere along the loop)

Plus with socialised health care, you can just chose not to have government health care and go with a private provider. It's not like its one of the other.

I am surprised no one brought up the death panels in the UK

Someone didn't read the thread

I must be the only person on the planet that didn't have an issue with Vista...

Frequently, when pressured into this very rare confluence of circumstances, he becomes the third type of thief I mentioned-- the kind that defeats locks because he hates the very existence of locks. It incentivizes him to become better at breaking locks, for the sole goal of breaking locks.

I think for most pirates (who will be mostly content pirates), this consists of going to TPB and grumbling when there is no download, then either just buying it (because they actually really wanted it), or just forgetting about it (because they were only kind of curious). Most pirates just want the software, and software is just not very expensive.

I think at this point, most people realise, at least tentatively, that piracy is bad, and generally don't go around rebelling against the concept of a lock after making a genuine attempt at breaking in. Either that or their rebellion consists of ineffectually complaining about it on Reddit or something, than possibly purchasing it anyway. So I dispute this "frequently" part.



It's completely sensible not to purchase a game with online DRM if you have no internet connection, obviously, as you won't be able to play it. There are heaps of PC games though, physical stores may not stock much due to the huge popularity of online distribution, and the fact that PC gaming has formed it's own unique niche, as not just a "superior console".

I don't even know if we need an ethical standard IMO. To me, a robot is just a tool, and all the same ethics would apply. e.g. someone building and using a robot to kill is just someone building a homemade weapon to kill. A malfunction robot that injures someone is just a faulty tool. If it's found to be the result of gross negligence on behalf of the creators, I would expect the creators to be charged with manslaughter. It it's the result of abuse/neglect/unreasonable-use/modification by the owner, it would be the owners fault.

It seems reasonable there would be some legal regulations concerning the construction/sale/etc of robots though (like there are with specific tools/weapons etc.)

Strange, I have done several in-home upgrades, (CPU, GPU, RAM, HDD->SSD) and never had a licencing problem. When I reinstalled the OS from the ISO you can download, I didn't even have to input a product key, and it was able to activate itself. I suppose the experience varies between people, but I have had quite a smooth experience with Windows activation.

The person next to me at the moment using Ubuntu is currently dealing with this problem where their gedit window has a large transparent gap around it between the program, and the edge of the window. So I don't get the impression that it's any less buggy than windows. Which is unfortunate, because W10 is certainly been a quirky experience for me.

Maybe my next computer will be a Mac...

That's strange, I have unsigned drivers for my RTL-SDR dongle, and all I had to do was push yes to a warning during install and its worked fine.

IIRC there is a developer mode you can enable that might let you install these USB3 drivers. I went to check if it was enabled on my computer, but then settings window froze. Even after closing it I can't open the settings window at all Win8 may have had an awful GUI, but at least it was stable.