Steam Sharing
This is a brilliant piece of marketing. It allows you to designate friends and family members as sharers of your Steam library. As long as you're not actively playing a game in your library, any of the people on your list may do so.
While the console companies are wielding lawyers like battleaxes in an attempt to cut their customers off at the knees by preventing them from selling used games (that won't end well, by the way), Gabe Newell has once again yanked the carpet out from underneath the greedy fools. You can treat your customers like honest people or you can treat them like thieves. Guess which one will work out better for your balance sheet?
I stand by my assertion that most of the evil in modern Western society originates with lawyers.
While the console companies are wielding lawyers like battleaxes in an attempt to cut their customers off at the knees by preventing them from selling used games (that won't end well, by the way), Gabe Newell has once again yanked the carpet out from underneath the greedy fools. You can treat your customers like honest people or you can treat them like thieves. Guess which one will work out better for your balance sheet?
I stand by my assertion that most of the evil in modern Western society originates with lawyers.
posted by Jar(egg)head at 15:12
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This is off topic, but...My rant on lawyers:
Being a small cog in the justice system, I have had many occasions to deal with many, many lawyers. The majority of them are very nice people who you would not mind hanging around, or going out to have a beer with, or play golf or whatever other sport. Good people in general, except for one minor flaw, they are lazy, greedy, self centered bastards when it comes to their job.
99% of the work is done by paralegals, and office staff who put together the information for them. They then show up for five minutes in court, talk to the judge and run through the cases they have and back out the door. This is how traffic and simple criminal court works. For this action a person pays several hundreds of dollars for, not legal counsel, but access. You see they all know each other. The DA's, the defense attorneys, the judges. They all hang out together after work.The ADA's are handling between 200 to 300 cases a DAY, so if one of their buddies comes up and asks for something they will usually get it. Otherwise explain to me how 102 in a 55 can be plead down to improper equipment.
Which brings me to the whole justice system itself. Since it is run by lawyers and they really don't care what happens to the person, but like to see who can be the most clever and knows more, the arguments are no longer about the law, but who can find the "loophole". Most of the arguments for actual guilt or innocence no longer happen. The defense attorney's know their client is guilty, so it comes down to if they can find a new and unique way to get the case thrown out. Here in NC you now only have to have one working brake light. Some lawyer somewhere found a 1920 something law and now one brake light and your good. Was the case really about brake lights? No. It was really about drugs, but he found a clever way to get the stop thrown out and thus all actions after are null.
Is the Justice system really about Justice anymore? I'm not sure. I watch people who violate probation, get more probation. Someone with hundreds of arrests on their record spend only one or two days in jail as long as they plead guilty. Seen lawyers who judge shop to find the nice one. A limited driving privilege that allows habitual drunk drivers to keep driving so they can "go to work". I could sit here and write a hundred more examples where things were done to clear the case load, or expedite a case for a plea, or the case continued until the lawyer was paid in full. However, every once in awhile, I will see a glimmer of that old lady justice. She is as elusive as Bigfoot these days, but she does show her head on occasion.
I sleep at night, though, knowing that I am at least doing my job, and console myself with the fact that if they did hire a lawyer, they are at least "paying" for their crime in some way.
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