Right, but there's an order of magnitude more consoles and gaming PCs out there to sell those units to.

And saying the price point hasn't risen is disingenuous. Sort of like saying airline tickets and cable bills haven't risen without noting the astronomical rise in hidden fees. If a game had a $15-20 expansion at all ten years ago, it was another 20 hours of gameplay content. Nowadays, you're paying that to get an alternative skin to show off your poor impulse control to others in multiplayer. What used to be a season pass getting you all subsequent DLCs and expansion now gets you a one year VIP subscription to the micro-transaction currency treadmill.

If anything, the cost pressure on the initial buy-in on the game is dropping rather than rising because so much more money is made after the initial sale. Talk to mobile developers and they will tell you something like "we have 16 players that spend more than a million dollars a year in micro-transactions on our title. we know them all by name, and we custom design expansion content around their interests to entice them into buying it." They see their whales as their customer, and everyone else as glorified bots/fodder so that their big spenders can feel powerful by destroying them.

That they sent a couple of bit.ly links that got clicked on a couple of times isn't surprising. The source claiming it's all the Russians is the same NSA source that perjured himself in front of congress.

Podesta uses the same password across every service he's on, and didn't even start changing it once his emails started pouring to the public by the thousands. It was likely exposed by a dozen other hacks.

I've spent about half of my life in Texas. I've lived in Houston, Dallas, and Austin. I've also lived in Silicon Valley, Seattle, and Southern California.

Every conversation about living in Texas I've had with a West Coaster:
"How can you stand living in Texas. Everyone is so bigoted and prejudicial?"
"Oh really, have you ever been there?"
"No."
"..."

They're third. Exxon pays more than double what Apple pays, and Chevron beats them by a comfortable margin as well.

What better way to encourage him to create new works?

Privoxy works very well for me.

Mexican cokes are bottled with real sugar and can be found almost anywhere, although you may need to go to a Hispanic grocer to find them.

Because by bashing one and not the other you're committing the same offense you're accusing them of doing.

Would you like to forward your packets directly to Homeland security/the fbi/the nsa/your local police department directly or would you like them to at least pretend you're just sending them straight to your peers?

Constantly.

They murder people not just for informing on them, but for having the audacity of taking charity hand outs, farm equipment, and the like. They want to completely cut off the civilian populace from any positive contact with the Americans, and they're willing to murder anyone who crosses the line - all so they can show that the Americans cannot protect them.

You can now undock with PLEX. The player didn't buy them with real money - he was the direction of an alliance and was using the alliance's pocketbooks for a "get rich quick" market speculation.

Of course, undocking with an active wardec going on with hostiles present in the local system and no defenses are chance at getting out...

The vast majority of what they sell at amazon's prices are used books. For their new books they aren't really cheaper than any other brick and mortar store.

China is already involved in copper mining in Afghanistan, but its policy is non-interference cash and carry.

Of course, it's able to do so because there's US troops there defending their miners.

Exactly. Because looking at the areas where the population density is almost nothing in the US (like the desert) is totally comparable to the 24 million people in that very small area.

Citizen,

The computer has detected a potentially treasonous level of discontent upon recent examination of your facial expressions. Report immediately to your Happiness Officer for re-education.