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I dunno that it's creepy, I just think it's incredibly stupid and useless for gaming.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Jun 21, 2013 -> 11:29 AM) Im buying a ps4 because my ps3 is getting up there in years and I want to make sure that it stays in good working condition because it is an original and thus is backwards compatible and plays all of my PS1 and PS2 games. I also want to have more wifi/blu ray players, around my house so that I can stream Netflix etc to all tvs as I still have some older ones that arent wifi. Those are pretty good reasons to me, Ill be using the $50 per year I saved not paying for xbox live and basically be getting a new PS4 for $200. We call that being a smart consumer in the business world. But you're missing out on family share man! And all those other amazing things they have planned!

LOL, what a terrible explanation letter. Let me summarize: 1) God dammit people, we had amazing things planned! Amazing things! I could use this opportunity to explain everything that our own people couldn't explain, but I won't. So i'll just remind you that WE HAD AMAZING THINGS PLANNED! 2) Microsoft has morals and one of those morals is to protect the little guys. Used game sales are killing game developers. All we wanted to do was save people from dying of starvation. Come on people! 3) Family sharing is basically demo access. Sony already has this as part of its Playstation Plus program, but I'll conveniently ignore that, call Sony crappy, and pretend like this is innovative even though it's not. 4) Social media social media social media social media!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 5) Microsoft pwns Sony. What a joke.

I think history has shown that when leaders say doing X means you'll be safe, generally they're lying out of their ass.

Balta you must really fear death. We can't have guns because you're afraid of being caught in the inevitable shoot out cross fire. The government should be able to infringe all of our rights because, well, we might be killed by terrorists if they don't. Might as well start the 1984 soundtrack right now.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 21, 2013 -> 09:22 AM) The argument for the government doing this is that the benefit is "you stay alive". But, as I keep saying, the difference with your other points is, I know when I get a coupon cashed in what the original price was, I know I'm still alive, but I have no ability to evaluate whether or not that would be the case if this program didn't exist. Oh bulls***. The odds of me dying in a car crash are better than me dying because of a terrorist attack. If that's your justification, the government should implant us all with chips right now.

Lol: http://deadspin.com/espn-cuts-off-bill-sim...ddres-527260514 Think ESPN has an agenda with Lebron?

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jun 20, 2013 -> 09:52 PM) In my previous post to the one above, I went over the irresponsibility of releasing information that he himself doesn't fully understand. But, I get your point. It's started a conversation, which I should be happy about since it's a conversation I've been trying to have with people for a long time, only to be dismissed as paranoid. After everything we've seen/done to ourselves over the past decade, I guess my disappointment in all of this stems from the question, "Is this what it takes to get people to notice what's been going on around them? And furthermore, will it stick, or just be the latest in a string of forgotten examples of personal security breaches?" The NSA is just one of many, as a society over the past ten years, we've come to allow companies who's products we buy to spy on us easier than we allow the federal government to do so. All they have to do is offer a free application, or worse, have us pay for it and data mine everything we do, even things that have nothing to do with their needs. And then when they come up with excuses, we dismiss it and say, "oh, ok, no big deal.", and a few weeks later it's long forgotten. We've had numerous examples of companies both large and small stealing our location data, our personal information, our address books, etc. And nobody cares. Just like when Google "accidentally" data-mined WiFi SSID's and data payloads with their street cars. Right, that was an accident. And you accidentally kept doing it until caught. And when they were caught, they were given less than a slap on the wrist...and in most countries were allowed to keep the f***ing data. And nobody cared. There is no way that was an accident, either, they would have noticed the massive difference in space the collectors were gathering as the difference in collecting an SSID name and a data payload isn't something you can overlook, unless you're doing it on purpose. Apple did it too, storing location and identifier information in an unencrypted text file on everyone's cellular phones for who knows how long until they were caught doing so...and whoopsie, our bad! And those were just two off the top of my head that we found out about...how many more are doing this right now? It seems disingenuous for most people to pretend they care about their privacy when it comes to the government or from the companies they freely hand it too, when everything they do flies in the face of that. The reason I don't care about private companies "invading" my privacy is that they (generally) track my habits in order to provide me services in a better way. I'm fine with that. A grocery chain wants to track my spending habits? Fine. I get personalized coupons or I get beer next to the diapers instead of all the way across the store. Google wants to know my location and search history so it can offer me better search results? Fine. That's helping me as a consumer. Now if you have a situation like Google or Apple where they're just downloading data just to have it, then yes, I agree they should get fined a ton of money for it and the people at the top should be held accountable. But the government doing it is entirely different. The ONLY reason they should ever look into my private life is absolute necessity. Anything beyond that and it's just snooping or downright invasion of privacy. There is no end benefit to me for that lack of privacy. I don't get anything out of it. I didn't even consent to it. So yes, we should all be upset about this. I totally understand the national security need to perhaps tap a phone when it's imperative and getting a warrant from a court isn't feasible. Those things happen and i'm glad that they do. But again, grabbing up data on my 90 year old grandma serves no purpose other than the government invading privacy just for the sake of doing it.

If god loves the nba this'll go OT

Ugh duncan...

Gonna be an epic last 3 minutes if spurs can play some defense

I hope bosh enjoys his last 7 minutes in miami

Ugh manu. This is over

Good call

f*** battier. Least likeable team in nba history

Ugh, well a miracle shot notwithstanding a good quarter for the spurs

Man, the spurs ability to answer is so impressive

Nice clear out by Lebron

QUOTE (MexSoxFan#1 @ Jun 20, 2013 -> 09:36 PM) When is the last time a visiting team won a 7th game in the Finals? when was the last time a team came back from down 5 with 28 seconds left? s*** happens, thats why you play the games.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jun 20, 2013 -> 09:05 PM) Spurs hanging around. All you can ask as the road team in a game 7. But this just feels like they're going to eventually run out of gas. or Battier and Wade stop hitting these jumpshots well above their averages.

Poor Leonard. Fouled about 8 times, no call

Pace/style favor Spurs so far. Would be nice if Green hit a couple shots

Lets do this Spurs

Gumballhead rules all. My drink of choice during sporting events is the classic Jack-n-Diet. Get hammered by halftime, 3rd drink in the third quarter, water in the 4th and I don't feel like crap the next morning.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jun 20, 2013 -> 03:25 PM) why do two of them specifically mention something about their pets? weird. Because people with pets are awesome? I have no idea.