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Not just you - no dyslexia here, but I still parsed the title as "Time Travel" - so I was expecting some sort of animation on how the Tube map has evolved over the years.

> human powered vehicles

Does anyone have an idea why bicycles would be a problem?

Okay, I'll bite - why did you have 12 cans of sardines in carry on?

Because they are then subject to the private rules that the landowner enforces, without realising it, as is pointed out multiple times in the article

Amazon, not Apple

Pretty much, yes.

I think we have 2 plausible options:

1) UK trying to curry favour with the USG 2) There's some concrete intelligence here, which is being shared and acted on

I would counter if the bug has been there for 10 years, and they still have plenty paying customers, it is hardly an "essential feature"

Well, I was attempting to frame it in the context of the current, free-for-all situation.

So, more "who wants to wade through potentially piles of garbage unity-based asset flips made by one guy in his garage, while potentially stumbling across a couple of commercially viable games"

Steam's startup time is completely reasonable.

What would a reasonable time for startup be in your eyes beyond 5-10 minutes before you play your games once a month? 1 minute? Instant?

I think the author wants to suggest a solution where anyone can submit a game, but there is still some sort of quality check before it goes on sale.

Currently, we have floods of garbage hitting Steam, with no curation at all. Pre-Greenlight, Steam was a closed shop that was hard to get into.

What is needed is a healthy balance, that doesn't have zero chances for an indie game to be seen because it's buried under all the AAA titles, yet doesn't allow trash like Slaughtering Grounds to be sold.

The article suggests getting Valve employees to playtest any submission - however, I feel this still wouldn't work due to Valve's 2 main issues. Their flat structure, where people work on what they want - who wants to look after content curation? Secondly, they take a cut of every game sold - regardless of how awful it is. They are financially incentivised to keep subpar (or even scammy) games on the store.

I'm not going to pretend I have a solution, but I feel all the issues with the Steam store currently are issues of Valve's own making - the problem is, they don't (seem to, at the very least) care.

A pretext for what exactly?

I have no issue with the existence of a military cooperation agreement to defend each other in the event of war breaking out, and fail to see how it would be a bad idea.

Well, when the monkey gets older it can use tools to defend itself, as well as keep itself alive. However, I would perhaps suggest teaching it abstinence, sterlilisation if it has one of the particularly debilitating genetic diseases

"He was held for an hour after customs agents saw in his diplomatic passport that he had been to Iran in 2014"

He had a diplomatic passport.

As a slight counter argument, could we not argue someone carrying triplets is more pregnant than someone pregnant with a single child?

> The only people who use birth control are women

Condoms

If the first 2 requirements have been met, clarifying the intent of the person wanting to die, then surely the physical assistance at this point shouldn't be an issue in that situation?

All very well in theory, but I'm sure it will suffer the same fate as ordinary nutrition labels - the general populace just doesn't care/isn't motivated enough to care

As a non-German: Please do explain the etymology here

And to be honest, so are any commuters on lines where drivers strike

Which human right would that be? The right not to be made fun of?

Generally out of liking animals to be stunned and not to suffer when they are slaughtered

> since most computer games are FPS

I definitely would like to see some evidence to support this - if you have any.

Yes, FPS is massively popular, but there is also a massive amount of less known titles that are not FPS games

>the only lawn they have is the mandated patch

There's a law that says they have to have a patch of grass?

If you want background noise and many sources, what's wrong with radio?

And this is why the EU PDO is useful. If you have a product with such a designation, you know some of it's qualities.

If i pick up feta, I know that it's made from sheep or goat milk, but if I buy Greek salad cheese or Feta-style, I have no such guarantees.

Admittedly, some of the designations are a bit off, such as not being able to make Stilton cheese in the village of Stilton.

I'd be really interesting the see that graph extended to to left - what was the traffic like before the 3 paws "bug" was first introduced.

I definitely feel that a significant amount of the drive to use the 3rd party services was due to the fact that you couldn't realistically hunt down any of the pokemon that show up on your radar.

"So this is how liberty dies... with thunderous applause."

> I'm registered as a "No Party Preference" (NPP) vote-by-mail

Could you explain this to a Brit? I'm interpreting your statement as when you register to vote that you have to indicate which party you prefer - is this really true?

If so, are you allowed to vote for the other party?

Is there any change here, or is this just the fairly common repost of this?