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    At PAX South, gamers gather to protest Trump

    I'm just watching what's going on and I'm a bit scared, I have to say. To be honest, I am more worried about people like Bannon who have a direct line to the president and who seem to be pulling the strings from the shadows than of Trump himself. But anyway, as you said, games are fun, let's...
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    At PAX South, gamers gather to protest Trump

    Give it time, it's only been a week. Hitler also took a couple of years to fully seize power, so it's not surprising that the President Bannon, sorry I mean President Trump hasn't gotten around to all of it yet. But they did say that they consider the media to be "an opposition party", so the...
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    At PAX South, gamers gather to protest Trump

    That is actually pretty optimistic of you to think that a person with his kind of personality would ever allow anybody else to take his position... USA is not sliding into Nazi Germany territory, it's already there and the orange turd has only been in power for about one week so far.
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    Verizon approached Charter about megamerger, WSJ says

    It exactly like Ajit Pai said, they want to aim to increase competition and provide more customer benefits. With that in mind, I have no doubt this merger will be approved without further deliberation. I am not American nor do I live there, but I sure hope you guys still have an actual country...
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    “Self-censoring” fears swirl as CDC abruptly nixes climate and health summit

    True story: it's the very best option when you can actually get people to start self-censoring, in fear of what might happen to them. Just ask Hitler, it worked a treat for him too. I'm sure Spicer or Conway will have for us some 'alternative facts' about climate change soon. Fuck that orange...
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    Google is threatening to throw me off its G+ service, but won’t tell me why

    This is very typical behaviour from Google. They will close your account for some arbitrary/unclear reason and provide no recourse. What makes it worse is that their perceived "violation" in one of their services will normally result in the closure of your entire account, so you will immediately...
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    UK schoolkid data shared to “create hostility” against illegal migrants

    You misunderstood me. I made my comment in response to what looks like is your perception that the immigrant children are taking away space from "your" children in schools--so you feel that the issues you have would be fixed by removing the immigrants so that there is more space for "British"...
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    UK schoolkid data shared to “create hostility” against illegal migrants

    I would like to introduce you to the concept known as Lebensraum (living space), that was very popular in Nazi Germany in the years before World War II.
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    Late Shift, the world’s first interactive cinema movie, reviewed

    It sounds interesting, however, I feel like I would be annoyed with the situation where where what I want the protagonist to do is overriden by the rest of the viewers. Namely, it seems like your experience with this movie would depend in large part of what kind of crowd is around you on that...
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    Enter for a chance to win consoles, games, and more in the 2016 Ars Charity Drive

    Also, the lawyer makes sure that the sentence about contest being void in Quebec is included in the rules (no need to explain, I know why this is ;) ).
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    Trump thrash tweet slashes £1.6 billion off Lockheed Martin’s stock

    He may be a president-elect, but the probability of him becoming an actual president is decreasing fast. Daily angry Twitter rants definitely won't help, but he is in much bigger problems than that.
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    Trump thrash tweet slashes £1.6 billion off Lockheed Martin’s stock

    Do you also consider it an insult when Trump and his GOP friends refer to their opponents as "liberals"? Nah, didn't think so.
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    Super Mario Run is online-only to combat piracy, says Nintendo guru

    I don't remember exactly, but I am sure Iwata did say this at some point. Iwata, however, hasn't been with us since about a year and a half, so unfortunately while this may have come to pass under his regime, it doesn't mean that it will pass now. We'll see, no reason to abandon hope just yet.
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    Super Mario Run is online-only to combat piracy, says Nintendo guru

    Eh. That's Nintendo for you, nobody should be surprised. In other news, I'm fully expecting Switch to be region locked as tightly as possible which makes it an automatic no-buy from me. The fact that they are being coy about it all but confirms it.
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    British ISPs could be forced to block porn sites that flout age checks

    Also, detecting people accessing their servers via a VPN is certainly not an issue for Netflix, for example. So just imagine what an NSA or GCHQ could do with the amount of resurces THEY have!
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    British ISPs could be forced to block porn sites that flout age checks

    Speaking of which, whenever there is a (usually from UK) an article like this, somebody will typically say something along the lines of "well, I'll just use a VPN then". I have mentioned this before, but to me saying something like that is exactly the equivalent of the old "well, they haven't...
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    EU-US trade deal “not realistic” under Trump presidency, says Germany

    My preference is for shitty US laws to not spread over into the EU (where I live). So I consider this a positive. And by this I mean that I am sorry for our US friends to have deal with them, but let's face it, as long as Disney Corp. exists the copyright/trademark/whatever term extensions will...
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    China threatens to end iPhone sales if Trump imposes stiff tariffs

    Also, never forget that Trump is a sociopathic narcissist and feeds on being the center of attention. Which means, whatever keeps him in that position, goes. It doesn't matter what it is, as long as whole world is looking at him and as long as everything depends on his decisions. So if there is...
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    AT&T zero-rating of DirecTV data may violate net neutrality, FCC says

    No worries, president Trump will soon be taking care of this little problem. Here is what the Internet will soon look like in the US--this picture is from a few years ago, but it looks like it's finally about to come true, to the immense delight of internet providers: