Mine expired in December and I just renewed it. Meh.

It's the internet. An idiot filter is the first step.

Probably, once you see your friends get blown up or see what you just did to the enemy? I think very few people walk away from that laughing, more likely they either develop a very dark, dry and cynical sense of humour to cope with the images or they just completely go the other way. Can't say *I* blame them.

The problem is although you are right for many kids that is not that easy to do. The ads and games are targeted towards teenagers mostly. IF they watch the news they will see very little of the consequences of going to war, if anything they see a third world country where people are killing each other and these days…

The link gives me a 404 for some reason....

Well, I would be pissed, but I wouldn't expect that the internet takes down the entire company, that'll be the most certain way for me not to get my controller(s).

Well, I put a disclaimer out on that.

Well, more than not having it there I would presume.

Are you surprised? They stand to sell way more to able gamers than to disabled once, just a matter of numbers.

A buddy of mine's sales guy seems to be cut from the same cloth. I am not quite what it is about middle management in large companies and sales / marketing position that seem to attract these things like flies.

From my understanding "The company" is mostly one guy who invented it to help one of his students (he's a teacher), and I guess he got a bit overwhelmed with the whole thing. Not surprising if you're not really a business person.

"The real victim here appears to be The Avenger controller, a product, that while slightly over-priced, was both an interesting new way to game and a solution for some disabled gamers."

From Gabe's post:

What amazes me about this is that you would figure by now marketing people have heard of the "Streisand Effect" and the Internet, especially in geeky circles, and how little it tolerates stuff like that.

Actually that's a preemtive move by Amazon. They are the biggest ebook reseller in the US right now, if you want, you could call it a monopoly. By allowing other readers on it they will try to avoid any attention from the FTC.

My point was more why they still tied their HBO Go offer to a specific cable provider / subscriber instead of offering it directly.

I thought Warner still owned HBO (Not talking about Time Warner Cable here)?

I doubt Saab will come back, which bums me. I was searching for a first gen 900 actually.

As scary as that was I don't think it would have ended in complete carnage for him. The other truck was still a few lengths ahead of him and would have caught the trailer first probably slowing it down enough to total the car but not kill the driver / passenger.

10 would be "painful" because it is only one channel and you wouldn't get all the movies they are showing, just their own content.