Considering the US still doesn't have a budget profit defaulting on loans like that will not be good for the financials, the US needs the loans. Default on loans on purpose and you won't get new loans, no new loans means your only way of covering the government budget is the Weimar approach and that would demolish your economy. Whether the Chinese pull or you default the result will be pretty much the same and without its economic might the US will not be able to support that military superiority, ending up like the defeated USSR.
You have to agree to a legally binding contract that gives Steam the right to revoke your "purchase" at any time.
Every single EULA includes that term so if you are living in a jurisdiction that recognizes EULAs as enforceable any of your games can legally be taken from you.
Interesting that you mention Starcraft since that has a spawn install so you don't need more than one copy for LAN multiplayer (there's some trick to getting it to work with Brood Wars too). Back in that time it was common to require only one in n players to have a disc (some were one for any number of players but others demanded more discs for certain numbers of players, e.g. TA had 1 disc for 1-3, 2 discs for 4-6 and 3 discs for 7-10), for some reason that went away again. On a LAN your game either has single copy multiplayer or people will use a pirated version because you can be damn sure that there will be some people who don't own it and aren't going to run out to buy it before they got to play it (they might decide to buy it AFTER the LAN because the multiplayer matches tend to be good at selling someone on a game). If you make people pirate the game to go multiplayer they might just decide to keep the pirated copy instead of buying their own, with a spawn install or similar their copy would become useless after the LAN and they'd have incentive to buy it.
I got it for the same price, it works for me and I'd say you'd still regret it even if it didn't throw that error.
Bigger annoyance is that classic Atari game collection thing I bought off Steam that comes with a frontend that won't work on anything later than Windows XP. Fortunately there are raw ROM files in there so I can play the games I bought with a third party emulator but that's not really what I expect from a paid download.
The thing about that counter-terror stuff is that it worked just fine before all this theatre got introduced. We aren't risking a total breakdown of anti-terror operations if we just rolled the laws back to pre-9/11 levels. The few terror attacks that would happen more would not be that bad compared to the impact of these laws.
Dictator orders launch, second in command tells him "you're fired". If the guy's too insane to be responsible with nukes he probably has some other people doing the hard thinking for him (or the thinkers would already have gotten rid of him some way or another).
That's small comfort. Part of the point of missile defense is to give the President another option besides "kill them all". If North Korea nukes an American city then our choice is to accept it (thus negating the concept of deterrence) or respond in kind and kill millions of people.
TBH I'd rather keep it without the "shrug it off" option because that option would also remain in an attack scenario rather than defense and having one country sidestep MAD, being able to initiate nuclear strikes without fear of return fire would be catastrophic for the world.
I think more modern phones still don't have a problem with that, my Nokia 6070 can last for weeks in standby (depending on how much tower switching is going on, e.g. if I got it on during a longer road trip the battery will take a hit). Of course it's not a smart phone either, there's some kind of web browsing feature but I never tried it.
Hell, an iPod Touch will run out of battery in a few hours of gaming if the games are demanding (and run quite hot too), I heard the iPhone is even worse in that respect. My DSi can run that long on one bar of the battery indicator.
I'd rather have my smartphone usable even after I did a gaming session instead of having its battery die soon after. I've got an iPod Touch and a separate phone for that reason.
Not dizzyness but that can grow into something else and there have been lawsuits over epileptic seizures already (apparently a big warning on the first page of the manual and a large warning on the box are not enough for US courts).
My eye alignment is so bad I can't even see 3D. Was really fun during the military fitness tests, the 3D vision tester didn't accept "can't see shit" as an answer.
My iPod does most of the things the iPad does, for the board game stuff it's indeed cheaper to go with real board games considering you can't buy that many anyway without ending up never playing them since you need multiple people.
Even Agricola with its insane amount of material was about 40€ IIRC (may have been 30), what exactly are you buying, gold plated Monopoly? Some game with a novelty electronic thing like a card thrower?
Speaking of Agricola, I don't think that'd work well on the iPad if you wanted more than one player on the device.
And God help you if you're playing a multiplayer game and you lose connection to Ubisoft but not to the server you're playing on; forget blaming lag, you can just blame the fact that your game was paused for 30 seconds while it re-established a connection to Ubi.
If it's like Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 it'll just kick you back to the game lobby whenever it loses connection to the DRM server for a moment.
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They can revoke the license and since you agreed to it you are required to destroy the copy.
Considering the US still doesn't have a budget profit defaulting on loans like that will not be good for the financials, the US needs the loans. Default on loans on purpose and you won't get new loans, no new loans means your only way of covering the government budget is the Weimar approach and that would demolish your economy. Whether the Chinese pull or you default the result will be pretty much the same and without its economic might the US will not be able to support that military superiority, ending up like the defeated USSR.
Carbon, not lithium!
You have to agree to a legally binding contract that gives Steam the right to revoke your "purchase" at any time.
Every single EULA includes that term so if you are living in a jurisdiction that recognizes EULAs as enforceable any of your games can legally be taken from you.
Interesting that you mention Starcraft since that has a spawn install so you don't need more than one copy for LAN multiplayer (there's some trick to getting it to work with Brood Wars too). Back in that time it was common to require only one in n players to have a disc (some were one for any number of players but others demanded more discs for certain numbers of players, e.g. TA had 1 disc for 1-3, 2 discs for 4-6 and 3 discs for 7-10), for some reason that went away again. On a LAN your game either has single copy multiplayer or people will use a pirated version because you can be damn sure that there will be some people who don't own it and aren't going to run out to buy it before they got to play it (they might decide to buy it AFTER the LAN because the multiplayer matches tend to be good at selling someone on a game). If you make people pirate the game to go multiplayer they might just decide to keep the pirated copy instead of buying their own, with a spawn install or similar their copy would become useless after the LAN and they'd have incentive to buy it.
I got it for the same price, it works for me and I'd say you'd still regret it even if it didn't throw that error.
Bigger annoyance is that classic Atari game collection thing I bought off Steam that comes with a frontend that won't work on anything later than Windows XP. Fortunately there are raw ROM files in there so I can play the games I bought with a third party emulator but that's not really what I expect from a paid download.
The thing about that counter-terror stuff is that it worked just fine before all this theatre got introduced. We aren't risking a total breakdown of anti-terror operations if we just rolled the laws back to pre-9/11 levels. The few terror attacks that would happen more would not be that bad compared to the impact of these laws.
Dictator orders launch, second in command tells him "you're fired". If the guy's too insane to be responsible with nukes he probably has some other people doing the hard thinking for him (or the thinkers would already have gotten rid of him some way or another).
Or smuggle a stolen US warhead into Russia, for that matter.
How about China? That's a major nuclear power that is using its size to force politics.
Iran is unlikely to possess the ability to strike the US, they're more likely going to aim for Israel which is more of a direct threat to them anyway.
That's small comfort. Part of the point of missile defense is to give the President another option besides "kill them all". If North Korea nukes an American city then our choice is to accept it (thus negating the concept of deterrence) or respond in kind and kill millions of people.
TBH I'd rather keep it without the "shrug it off" option because that option would also remain in an attack scenario rather than defense and having one country sidestep MAD, being able to initiate nuclear strikes without fear of return fire would be catastrophic for the world.
Probably SNES, that thing's got a difficult sound chip.
I think more modern phones still don't have a problem with that, my Nokia 6070 can last for weeks in standby (depending on how much tower switching is going on, e.g. if I got it on during a longer road trip the battery will take a hit). Of course it's not a smart phone either, there's some kind of web browsing feature but I never tried it.
Hell, an iPod Touch will run out of battery in a few hours of gaming if the games are demanding (and run quite hot too), I heard the iPhone is even worse in that respect. My DSi can run that long on one bar of the battery indicator.
I'd rather have my smartphone usable even after I did a gaming session instead of having its battery die soon after. I've got an iPod Touch and a separate phone for that reason.
That does constitute evidence of WMDs though.
Not dizzyness but that can grow into something else and there have been lawsuits over epileptic seizures already (apparently a big warning on the first page of the manual and a large warning on the box are not enough for US courts).
What *you* do at certain points can determines exactly what happens in the movie!
Tilt head to not die!
Gonna be fun for the tetrachromatics.
My eye alignment is so bad I can't even see 3D. Was really fun during the military fitness tests, the 3D vision tester didn't accept "can't see shit" as an answer.
My iPod does most of the things the iPad does, for the board game stuff it's indeed cheaper to go with real board games considering you can't buy that many anyway without ending up never playing them since you need multiple people.
Even Agricola with its insane amount of material was about 40€ IIRC (may have been 30), what exactly are you buying, gold plated Monopoly? Some game with a novelty electronic thing like a card thrower?
Speaking of Agricola, I don't think that'd work well on the iPad if you wanted more than one player on the device.
And God help you if you're playing a multiplayer game and you lose connection to Ubisoft but not to the server you're playing on; forget blaming lag, you can just blame the fact that your game was paused for 30 seconds while it re-established a connection to Ubi.
If it's like Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 it'll just kick you back to the game lobby whenever it loses connection to the DRM server for a moment.
Not your software however, software is licensed.
Yeah but it increasingly acts like it owns your whole computer by inserting bullshit into your OS to lock everything down.