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That's fair.

There's no need to be defensive or aggressive here, this is nothing more than a conversation. Also, you didn't 'coin' the term assailant. That word existed before you used it.

I don't disagree with you on most of your points, but without knowing any more about the situation, I do think that the home could have still been defended either without shooting, shooting less shots, or by aiming to disable instead of kill.

I would argue that "leaning the other way" is not the extreme- shooting someone is extreme. I read the article you provided, and at no point did it suggest that the lady was actually attacked, just that her home was unlawfully entered. Nobody bothered to question what he was trying to get from the house. Nobody…

I don't really disagree with the individual points you've made, but I still think the overall purpose of what I said was missed. The goal doesn't have to be incapacitation, but rather a deterrent.

I have no idea what "Krav Maga" is. You've also notably defaulted to the term "assailant", where I never explicitly said that the crime being committed involved attacking anyone.

I had a long response to this, but I'm not going to bother, since I've said all of it before, and don't feel like going over it again.

I don't see Windows or OSX ever preventing you from running any random ol' software you want (Steam included). To do so would defeat the purpose of having a full modern operating system, and a step backwards for computing in general. It would alienate far too many potential customers. It makes me sad that it's even…

Discounting every game that uses any form of quick time event is a pretty shallow way to look at those games. The events in games like Heavy Rain, the the Walking Dead are not just timed events, they are choices. The importance is on the fact that you are making a decision that influences the rest of the game, and…

I wasn't sure how to interpret the "other storefronts" at first, but this seems like a brilliant idea.

How would a steam OS be any different than buying your games through current OS's app stores?

+1. I was gonna post this, but you beat me to it.

I'll just leave this here:

800 isn't a whole lot of people... can't be hard to find 800 people who agree or believe just about anything. Any idea how these 800 people were selected?

+ a million. Beat us all to it.

I never disagreed with you. I've said it in tons of other comments on this same subject (feel free to search them out and read them), that I DO tip, and I'm far from against tipping, nor do I think you should not tip as a way to send a message, nor did I suggest that tips aren't some people's living.

I wasn't commenting on the quantity of people who have other options. Simply observing that cases exist where there are options.

The tipping situation is different in Canada. There aren't cases where the workers aren't reasonably compensated for their work. And I do tip. I just think that there do exist some very rare cases where not tipping, or tipping poorly can be justified, even if those cases are few and far between.

I live in a place (Quebec) where the minimum wage for anyone making tips is still $8.75, which is fair compensation as far as I care, given that you can make a lot more than that when you factor those tips into it. I *usually* tip, but I usually get at least satisfactory service. But I don't feel bad not tipping if…