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Complicated question, but the short answer is: Publishers provide a useful service in the form of marketing, PR, distribution, deals with retailers, and other stuff we don’t often hear about because it’s all done behind the scenes. The big guys like Activision and EA get a bad rap — usually for very valid reasons! —

Give the quarterback a fucking gun.

If NFL teams want better QB development, maybe they should stop being such cheap asswipes and fund a real minor league instead of relying on a bunch of petty tyrant college coaches that don’t even care about the long term development of their unpaid players

They have a system for bad QBs. It's called I-formation, aka run the football every goddamn play.

And yet we can be surprised over and over by how often produced software/UX design (I didn’t say good software/UX) doesn’t seem to have utilized that...

I’ve chosen my hill to die on.

Winter is 9 months of the year here.

If the foremost public intellectual of our day agrees with me on the superiority of Fall, I AM VINDICATED

And how dare they actually care about public health and the environment.

The law is not ambiguous, there is no question here. This is from a letter from the EPA to truck manufacturers from 1998. It is the EPA’s interpretation not legislation, but has been upheld in court (affirming that interpretation unless overridden legislatively.) It applies to this article and the current VW thing. In

how dare they enforce the law.

These government bodies would RATHER you not comply, so they can make money

I’m pretty sure that is the $83 million civil penalty mentioned in Orlove's article. That reddit comment has no sources whatsoever to back it up.

You are literally one of the people I am referring to. It’s not hard to see that manipulating the output of something you are trying to measure for a test to produce data that doesn’t exist for anything other than passing said test is unethical.

Like we used to say back in the ‘70’s...

Lots of purported Libertarians are still developmentally stunted vis-a-vis sharing, honesty, and the applicability of rules to themselves.

It’s only imaginary

A critical story in the libertarian-minded policy journal The Independent Reviewdetailed the case just as it had been settled, elaborating the ‘absurdity’ of the EPA suing engine producers for making engines that technically passed all of their tests.