http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-14-187_en.htm?locale...

The actual issue is "Often consumers are not fully aware that they are spending money because their credit cards get charged by default." - so it's not an issue of people disliking paywalls in free games, it's an issue of people not realizing they're handing over real cash in games which are marked free.

The EU also has't said they want Free/IAP games to not be marked as free, but what they said is 'Games advertised as “free” should not mislead consumers about the true costs involved' (i.e IAP should be made more explicit).

“There are many of us at AT&T who are disturbed by what we’ve been hearing about the N.S.A.,” this person said. “But when you see that,” he said, pointing to the T-shirts, “a conversation becomes impossible.”

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The conversation became impossible when your company decided to willingly give up everything and anything about its customers for a fee. Were it not for customer apathy, I'd like to think your entire shitty company would have been fucked out of existence by now for what they continue to do. But not really, because your company probably would have just been given a bailout for failing at everything but sucking government dick.

Fuck you nameless executive. I wish I could request anonymity as easily as you can. Your shitty company brought this upon itself and there is nothing to discuss until it stops being the NSA's bitch.

He quietly put out the word,pretty quickly got approached by a hiring manager at another company - things were going swimmingly.

Then the Hiring manager put in the Req to HR - a V.P. called him personally and but confirmed this "no poaching" B.S. The wage hike would have been considerable for my friend (you can guess the two companies - Arrogant vs Top Payer) & he was pretty upset to learn that the real reason was Jobs being a Huge Asshole and bullying everybody into such a blatantly illegal pact.

So this is a very real "wage theft" collusion case. Unfortunately most of the parties involved had the "good" sense to NOT document it officially so the Smoking Gun might be hard to prove conclusively.

There was even a "no hire" list at one of these companies tacked on the wall of a HR Manager with the Caption "If you hire from there, we will fire (u) from here."

Maybe the question is instead; why the hell do we need comments (and loosening of t he syntax, etc) in the first place?

Are we seriously going to keep insisting on json as a configuration format?

As Stormbrew already pointed out, we already have a format that is ideal for configurations (and sure, data exchange, why not), and it is called yaml.

yaml have comments

yaml makes it easy to enter multiline strings

and most if all; yaml is very very easy to write!

tl;dr: Just use a format suited for your needs instead of trying to change something that doesn't. Oh, and a couple of smiley faces thrown in there to ensure people don't read this in the wrong tone. People do that.. Like, all the time.. damn, now my tl;dr is too damn long! i have to add another.

tl;dr;tl;dr YAML BITCHES! (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ (but also, a puppy: http://i.imgur.com/kuDsS0i.jpg )

The next time someone trots out the tired old "companies are legally obligated to maximize profits/shareholder value" to explain away crappy corporate behavior, I'm linking to this.

And kudos to Cook for telling NCPPR to take a figurative hike.

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