Recent content by frekk

Not true! There were many in fact. The Mississipians/Hopewells/Cahokians built large fortified towns, centered around artificial hilltop temples, and controlled a coast-to-coast trading empire, which broke down before the Europeans arrived. The Iroquios were organized as a nation - with a...

Steam is not about piracy ... thats just a boogeyman they trot out to get people to use it out of fear of even more restrictive (and equally useless) DRMs. What it is about is expanding their share of distribution and, at the same time, gaining free marketing information on your buying...

They certainly did have concepts of property ownership, just not European concepts of private property ownership. Tribes held land and defended it to the death - they understood collective ownership quite well. Usufructory right to property was also understood. A family that had been...

Sorry but this is an incorrect criticism .... one manufactured by Steam to dampen criticism, no doubt. I loved the way Civ5 looked until Steam came into the picture. Seems part of their marketing strategy is to demonize people who won't buy their particular product. Lovely company. Maybe other...

Quote -"Behavioral economics suggests that a rational decision-making process by individuals fully aware of tobacco's hazards might still lead to overconsumption through the psychological tendency to favor immediate gratification over future harm."...

I'm still praying that there are enough others like me - who won't buy because of Steam - that, a year or so after release, they'll realize there's a bunch of sales to be had by issuing a non-Steam version. I'm not putting up with yet another layer of things that can and will go wrong, which...

Buy two copies? This is a commercial product. If it needs charity to survive, then obviously it's a bad deal for the consumer.

False advertising is making a false claim, it doesn't generally apply to touching up photos. See here for example: http://www.whatyoureallyget.com/ None of that ever gets charged with false advertising.

What Mise said, might be called a fixed deposit or term deposit or GIC or something where you are. If you have no interest in growing the money and just want to preserve the purchasing power, there's no sense in taking any risk (especially if you can't afford to lose any).

Things rarely look like they really do in the photos anyway, even if they're not manipulating them. Caveat emptor and all that. You really shouldn't go by the pictures much, and you can't seriously expect sellers to show up the flaws . . . nobody selling anything else ever does, unless it's the...

It really depends alot on where you're applying, especially when we're talking about part-time and minimum wage jobs. I once worked for this hardass British guy, and whenever some polite, eager young person (no shortage of those in Canada) showed up to an interview, he'd literally walk out of...

Also, crime among middle income groups has been surging worldwide, across both the First World and the developing world, for the past decade or so. For example: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/alarm-at-rise-of-middleclass-crack-houses-539387.html...

I would rather start a religion around peanut butter. The Holy Truth of peanut butter can be easily demonstrated because it kills unbelievers, sorta like holy water.

Hah! I'm in Kingston. We've got most of Ontario's recently released convicts to keep us entertained.

Uh .... what? No. That's ridiculous. That's not why he's famous at all. He reported specific things, he wasn't writing an academic dissertation or anything. He reported on Pearl Harbour and Barbarossa before they happened, and that's what he's famous for. I'm not sure he even once wrote home to...