Some of them are these days. Maybe 1/3 of the product line.

Valve isn't pulling any anticompetitive moves though.

Well, they are allegedly forcing price parity on publishers, so they can't sell cheaper on their own website or some other storefront that takes smaller cuts. That's anticompetitive as shit, and they are being sued over it.

Valve does nothing to suppress competition (it can't really either)

They at least used to have a rule that publishers can't sell cheaper on other platforms (outside of timed sales that is), meaning that consumers can't get a better price on other storefronts even when those platforms would take a smaller cut. That was very much suppressing the competition as them taking smaller cuts can't transfer into cheaper prices if the publisher also wanted to sell on Steam.

Putin will be happy, as now Andersson will be replaced in the finnish parliament by a Putin loyalist Johannes Yrttiaho, as Andersson can't sit on both parliaments by law.

If you didn't know, there are many Putin loyalists in the finnish Left Alliance, working as an internal opposition faction against Andersson's faction.

Surullisinta näiden vaalien lopputuloksessa on se, että kun Vasemmistoliiton kansanedustajat nyt lähtevät mepeiksi, nousee Putinin kätyri Johannes Yrttiaho takaisin eduskuntaan.

Mikä sitten olisi se oikea syy? Yleisesti kuitenkin ihmiset jotka uskovat että länsimaisista demokratioista koostuva EU haluaa vain valvomisen ilosta valvoa kaikkea ihmisten toimintaa eivät ole niitä joilla on vähänkin järkeä päässä, vaan niitä joiden järki on kärähtänyt jo aikapäiviä sitten foliohatun lämmössä. Yleensä kun sitä oikeaa syytä lähtee kyselemään, niin ei kauhean kauaa mene kun on pöydässä new world orderit ja juutalaissalaliitot.

Why base 12 though? Base 16 is even better. And base 60 is even better than that!

If you have to pay for your imprisonment, you should also be able to pick the institution. Check La Catedral for implementation.

Valve hasn't released nothing but tech demos since Artifact, and that was a huge miss. And excluding Artifact, Valve hasn't released nothing but tech demos in over a decade. So you could say Valve hasn't hit the mark in over 10 years.

I wonder how it is secured, or could anyone with a big enough transmitter reprogram it at will...

I'd like to see ranked choice voting or something similar here, there are some smaller parties I've been voting and it seems they seldom have a chance.

Ranked choice voting would make sense maybe in the presidential elections, but otherwise all elections in Finland are D'Hondt method proportional representation, with open lists. Ranked choice would bring nearly zero benefits, and lots of complication to the vote counting process.

Esimerkiksi meillä on edelleen olemassa jumalanpilkkalaki nimellä "uskonrauhan rikkominen", mikä taas omalta osaltaan hankaloittaa uskontojen kritisointia, sillä vastakeskustelija voi vedota ko. lakiin ja yrittää argumentoida, että uskonnon kritiikki onkin uskonrauhan rikkomista, mikä taas rajoittaa yhteiskunnallista keskustelua.

Vastaavsti rasisti voisi sanoa näin:

"Esimerkiksi meillä on edelleen olemassa "kansanryhmää vastaan kiihottaminen", mikä taas omalta osaltaan hankaloittaa monien kulttuurien negatiivisten puolien kritisointia, sillä vastakeskustelija voi vedota ko. lakiin ja yrittää argumentoida, että kulttuurin kritiikki onkin kansanryhmää vastaan kiihottamista, mikä taas rajoittaa yhteiskunnallista keskustelua."

Mielestäni onkin juuri mielenkiintoista, että oma mielipiteeni vaikuttaa siihen miten nämäkin asiat näkee. Koska olen kanssasi samaa mieltä jumalanpilkkalaista, niin tuo esittämäsi kritiikki ja huoli sananvapauden puolesta kuulosta omaan korvaani validilta, mutta koska olen vastaavasti pääasiassa erimieltä tuon fiktiivisen "maahanmuuttokriitikon" kanssa, hänen huolensa ei kuulosta validilta ja sananvpausloukkaus ei niin merkittävältä.

Juuri tämän takia en näkisi että kyselytutkimuksista voi vetää johtopäätöksiä tällä saraa. Jos eletään hyvin konsensuskeskeisessä ja homogeenisessä yhteiskunnassa kuten Suomi, merkittävä valtaosa ei ikinä koe että sananvapautta loukataan heidän yhteisesti jaetusta näkökulmastaan.

The thing is, what constitutes a living wage is based on the home location, and all other wages reflect to that level. Most of the wages go to the cost of living everywhere, especially to housing. There is the leeching class, landowners, leeching the fruit of labor from the workforce, and in the west they are leeching that much more in pure dollars. The sad thing is that wages increasing in India wouldn't go to increasing the value of life of the workforce, but the landowning leeches of that region.

Niin, mitäköhän eroa on velkarahalla jota käytetään tulevaisuuteen investointiin (opiskelu), ja pikavipin ottamisella jotta voi jatkaa kaljan juontia kun kuukauden budjetti on ylitetty. Sitä voi pohtia.

He is typing the letter A, but the comment he leaves has no letter A. This comic is shit.

Take it with a grain of salt, there are lots of pure falsehoods stated there. For example, Spez's first stint in Reddit lasted two years longer than Swartz was involved (2007 for Swartz, 2009 for Spez).

Worthless ports as not a single ship bound to russia will ever get through the Danish straits again if they invade the baltics.

One hit wonder as a director. And that hit is American Graffiti, not Star Wars.

Tässä tapauksessa korvaukset vielä ymmärtää kun tappokäskyn on antanut viranomainen, enemmän hämmästyttää petokorvaukset, jossa valtio korvaa villieläinten tappamia eläimiä (esimerkiksi poroja). Niihin palaa melkein samanmoinen summa parissa vuodessa.

For me, I also served my full time in the Finnish army because I was a coward. Back then, in the year 2000, they still put you in actual prison. (Well, minimum security one where convicts are allowed to work and study outside the facility on weekdays, but still prison). But even bigger deterrent than that was the lie that future employer would not hire you if you did not go through military service. That was a complete lie, it is actually illegal for them to ask about your service, and I haven't included my military service record voluntarily either in my CV since the early 2000s and nobody has cared. And there is also a law which dictates that if you are sentenced as conscientious objector ("totaalikieltäytyminen"), that does not go to your criminal record, so that stays clean as well.

But why I was contemplating refusing military service, and civilian service too, was and is completely ideological. I do wish to protect and fight for the good things in this country (democracy, civil liberties, equality) against outside invader (which would obviously be Russia, and they have none of those things), but the fact that conscription is forced labour without pay just doesn't fit right with me. It's basically slavery, and that should be opposed, always, everywhere.