It was easy to see this coming. They already said that LAN play was axed from Diablo 3, and we saw direct TCP/IP axed even as far back as Warcraft 3 (requiring tunnels like Hamachi to play across the 'net but not battle.net). Blizzard fans/apologists will lap it up, nonetheless.
Martial law/internal checkpoints - The last time I used Greyhound, I was accosted both boarding and exiting by Immigration. Mind you, I'm in Pennsylvania and white as can be. By the way, have you flown since 2001? I didn't think so... Did you notice how ever increasingly Coast Guard/Reserves/etc have been used for domestic policing lately, such as in Louisiana? (Remember that state militias were, unfortunately, federalized long ago.)
National loyalty oaths - So many places across the country *require* school children to recite "The Pledge", or at the very least allocate time for it...
Military conscription - Selective Service is still around and active. It just hasn't been utilized. Before you can get a student loan in the US, you must sign away that you're on the list, as well as some other certain things...
National communications filtering - FCC yields extreme power over broadcast TV, and are trying to exercise even more over non-broadcast TV, too. The government of NY (a state, not even federal!) basically caused the death of Usenet in the US...
You must not be too familiar with schools. Time and time again the schools around where I grew up, real educational funds were slashed in favor of building a new gymnasium, funding an entirely new sport, sending the teams to beach trips, and all other sorts of athletics pandering. Meanwhile, it took decades of tooth-and-nail fighting to get a renovation (not even new) auditorium and stage for music and drama, the arts were always scrounging for supplies, science events were always short-changed and trips cut, and math texts were so ragged they were useless.
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No one accepted these arguments of "just doing my job" in the Nuremberg trials -- why should we now? (Sorry, Godwin.)
EA's probably patented that (referring to C&C4).
Have you forgotten about all of the private servers available for most of the major MMOs, including WoW?
It was easy to see this coming. They already said that LAN play was axed from Diablo 3, and we saw direct TCP/IP axed even as far back as Warcraft 3 (requiring tunnels like Hamachi to play across the 'net but not battle.net). Blizzard fans/apologists will lap it up, nonetheless.
Off topic, but I can't for the life of me get the input to put line breaks into my posts. Do I have to use BR tags or something?
Martial law/internal checkpoints - The last time I used Greyhound, I was accosted both boarding and exiting by Immigration. Mind you, I'm in Pennsylvania and white as can be. By the way, have you flown since 2001? I didn't think so... Did you notice how ever increasingly Coast Guard/Reserves/etc have been used for domestic policing lately, such as in Louisiana? (Remember that state militias were, unfortunately, federalized long ago.) National loyalty oaths - So many places across the country *require* school children to recite "The Pledge", or at the very least allocate time for it... Military conscription - Selective Service is still around and active. It just hasn't been utilized. Before you can get a student loan in the US, you must sign away that you're on the list, as well as some other certain things... National communications filtering - FCC yields extreme power over broadcast TV, and are trying to exercise even more over non-broadcast TV, too. The government of NY (a state, not even federal!) basically caused the death of Usenet in the US...
The government is not the people. It is (supposed to be) a representative of the people.
You must not be too familiar with schools. Time and time again the schools around where I grew up, real educational funds were slashed in favor of building a new gymnasium, funding an entirely new sport, sending the teams to beach trips, and all other sorts of athletics pandering. Meanwhile, it took decades of tooth-and-nail fighting to get a renovation (not even new) auditorium and stage for music and drama, the arts were always scrounging for supplies, science events were always short-changed and trips cut, and math texts were so ragged they were useless.
As we've had the discussion many threads before: that's non-binding, and extremely unlikely that any creditors would allow it.
And thus, as easily pointed out in the blurb ("would-be competitors..."), this patent will hamper progress.