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90%+ of consumers no longer prefer traditional glass cooler doors
Fortunately we don't have them where I live but they seem like a truly horrible idea.
I wonder if the survey question was something misleading like "Do you prefer to spend time looking through cooler doors or at an LCD TV with programming for you?"
They are talking about the security council, not the UN. The way members in the security council holds a veto to every decision paralyzes it. You should automatically lose your veto/seat in the council if you invade another country.
The already limited authority of the UNSC is almost meaningless without the consensus of the great powers. An UNSC with only (pro-)Western powers sanctioned US intervention in the Korean War, did it make any difference beyond the use of the UN flag?
Last I looked there were more than two members in the council, and also USSR hasn't been a member since 1991 if I recall correctly. Anyway here's the current list for you convenience: https://www.un.org/securitycouncil/content/current-members
If the bylaws of the security council contained the risk of exclusion or at the very least loss of veto, I think both the US and Russia would more carefully contemplate the cost of the invasions they are guilty of.
Yeah, while that is technically true [0], the difference of being gay in Israel vs gay in Palestine seem to be more about, you know, a life and death situation [1]:
> Gay Palestinians frequently seek refuge in Israel fearing for their lives, especially fearing death from members of their own families.
If you still pirate games in 2023 then it's because free is more important to you than anything else. But back when Steam launched it was much more of a hassle to get a game:
First you needed to go to a physical store miles away and once you got there the game you wanted may have been sold out. And then there was seldom any sales, except the box of mixed five-year-old games no one wanted by the counter (only $1.99) that you could rummage through and hopefully find a gem. "Darn, they were out of Half-Life[1] but maybe this copy of Strike Squad[2] will be fun while I wait for two weeks for the next batch of Half-Life?"
Also note that while a five-year-old game today will barely look dated, back in those days it's the difference between [1] and [3].
Then when you came home to finally install the game, the CD was scratched and the game wouldn't install. And typically the installer didn't notice this until it had reached 95% after 45 minutes of waiting. The StarCraft CDs were notoriously bad in this respect and you needed to treat them like delicate flower petals. "Eh, my StarCraft CD no longer works, can I borrow yours? NOO!"
So for those of us, who pirated StarCraft after the third authentic CD had broken down, Steam was a godsend.
Maybe you can't play the same game (I haven't tried) but it is definitely possible to let your kid play other games. I have this very setup with my son and it works. An other advantage to this setup is that you can select which of your games to let your kid play.
I don't know, we've been doing it for years. Maybe it's a regional thing? One account for me and one for my kid. I authorize the use of my games for his account on his machine (I need to login with my account on his machine to authorize his machine, I did it just the other day as the machine authorization only seems to last for a while). Then he can install and play any game of mine I allow (or all) once he logs back in with his account.
I discovered that I could actually add many of the games I bought on physical media in Steam and/or other services by using the serial key inside the case. Still it doesn't help if you can't find the case either... and not all games could be activated this way.
Hmm - that's handy. After a move, I'm sure I have the disc somewhere ... it's just in some box somewhere. I will have to give that a try when I find it.
Some years ago I was at a vineyard in Burgundy harvesting grapes that were sent to Champagne to be turned into Champagne (the sparkling wine). It's interesting how the labeling law can be misused when it suites the champions of the specific label...
