JadedWolf

That's a funny comment I guess, but Turkey has very different reasons for "sitting back". http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/turkish-warplanes-hit-kurdish-rebels-as-tensions-stoked-by-islamic-state-fight/2014/10/14/cca48b44-538a-11e4-ba4b-f6333e2c0453_story.html

Wow, this place got weird while I wasn't watching.

Which of these two do you support? 1) Those spoilt boys are playing games I don't like. I want you to change those games so I like them! /stamp foot Or... 2) Those boys sure are spoiled for games. But I don't have any games I like, can you make me some? Look, I have money. <open wallet> And which of the two do you think will sooner catch the attention of a publisher?

Yeah, I don't think you would want to say that to anyone you actually like. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mulkvisti

I'm sorry Bruce, but I don't think anyone here is convinced. True Neutral's post was well thought out and deserved a response, and you seem to have plenty of time to respond to others.

Well, it's not a TV show, but it's on TV... And it's not like there's a football thread. Watching the Netherlands - Kazakhstan game. What a dreadful display by our guys. Especially by van Persie, I am honestly starting to believe that he is officially a has been.

To be honest this is starting to look like a bunch of people manically beating a horse's skeleton at this point.

Firstly, I think a lot of users don't actually read through the whole user policy, and that's why it's useful that this sort of thing is at least put up for discussion so people can be aware of it and form an opinion on it. What you say is true, and there are many reasons why it's handy for Microsoft to collect this data in order to optimise their software, and it's not necessarily a sign that Microsoft is wanting to spy on individual people. I think what it boils down to whether you trust Microsoft or not. Not just in the sense that they may use the collected data for the wrong purposes (well, they will search history for advertisements, but that is nothing new these days sadly), but also whether you trust them to be able to keep the collected data out of the hands of a third party.

My reason for posting this was to inform people on this board, which I succeeded in doing. Otherwise, my dear, I frankly don't give a damn.

Yes, Escapist claims that if you accept the Windows 10 test version's privacy policy, you are in essence allowing Microsoft to record your every keystroke. http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/137842-Windows-10-Test-Version-Contains-Keylogger

And I bet Geralt would win in a sword fight with either Marx or Adam Smith as well. So I guess we can close this thread.

I think the whole idea that someone might represent a gender's perspective is crazy, period. I'm a man, but I would never claim I could create something that accurately represented the male perspective.

It is indeed a good thing that they will only encounter their "perfect" world in abstract theories.

<Sarcasm> Oh my, time to buy some AMD stock... Intel is obviously going to go bankrupt now. </Sarcasm>

In your grand vision of things, the state would be replaced with all powerful corporations. No thanks.

That really doesn't look like a very realistic budget.

It really depends on how you do it, Bruce.I think it's perfectly reasonable to boycot companies that support causes you don't agree with by funding them with advertisement money. That doesn´t constitute censorship, that´s just using your rights as a consumer. Censorship is if you are crying out to the government to forbid them.

Hypothetichal question. If a women employer only hires men willing to sleep with her, but those men completly concent to the agreement, is that all right? In countries where prostitution is legal you could probably draw up a contract for that, I guess.

No, no, it's true. Gaming affects your mind. Why, ever since I played Hatefol Boyfriend I have been having these strange urges toward pigeons...

Without any of the three main allied powers WW2 might have been won by the axis, and there is no point in claiming one of the three was more important than the others. And don't underestimate the importance of GB - it's easy to look at GB as it is today and to think of GB as a junior partner, but in those days GB was still very much a superpower, and the resources and the men from its colonies made a huge impact. And consider how easy it would have been for Britain to make a quick peace with Germany after they occupied France, in which case Germany could have focused all its attention on Russia. And yet they bravely fought on, even when at times there was very little hope. Remember that GB had to defend itself for a very long time while the U.S. was still not willing to fully commit itself against the Germans. In fact the U.S. never did declare war on the Germans - it was the Germans who declared war on the U.S. due to their alliance with Japan. (Well, technically the U.S. did declare war on Germany, immediately after Germany declared war on them.)