I worked 10 years at a data center, all that water is recycled - it is very carefully chemically balanced so as to not corrode the pipes and pumps, no they do not use it once and dump it out.

You buy a game. Every time you start the game it phones home for permission. The company decides to shut down the server that gives permission. You can’t play the game anymore. If this is like other initiatives in the same vein it won’t stop the game maker from shutting down the server, but it will mandate that they either open source the server so you can run your own, or build the game in such a way that you can still play it (maybe single player only) after the server is gone.

Help a non-European understand… So, if you get enough signatures, it becomes law? Direct democracy?

And Fry’s waaa. The service was usually bad but if you know what you need they had it. One time thought we got help from a sales lady who was all about "oh that is just right over here… The wife and I bought his-n-hers laptops in the days of windows 98.

I live in Sacramento, but I drive to San Jose for Central Computers or now MicroCenter to buy gear… I buy nothing mail order, porch pirates are bad enough, but when the driver himself is the thief, that is just it.