Why not supply the game on a bootable Linux CD for optimal performance. Could run it on Apple machines as well.

Because I want the underlying OS available at the same time for music playing, or web browsing, or any number of tasks I have my computer working on.

Yes, and deservedly so.

No one is claiming ownership of the laptop, but the real problem is this next bit:

Pants-on-head crazy. If you rent/lease an apartment, can your landlord take a shower at night in your bathroom? Can he watch you while you sleep? It's not just creepy-wrong, it's illegal.

Contract law can be a complicated thing, but here's something to know: if a person tells you to do something illegal, in a contract that you sign,
you don't have to do the illegal thing. If a person says that they're going to do something illegal, and you sign the contract, that doesn't absolve them of wrongdoing.

(This is not legal advice, I am not your lawyer, etc)

To quote the person you're responding to (Moryath):

Are you suggesting that marijuana users are lobbying for it to be smokable everywhere cigarettes are/were? I find that they mostly want to smoke at home or around other smokers and NOT GO TO JAIL FOR IT.

Maybe you missed the acronym GSM there. Or are there scads of smaller GSM providers in the US?

You should watch that video again because you missed the interesting part:

If you don't pay people enough money, they won't be motivated. The best use of money as a motivator is to pay people enough to take the issue of money off the table. Pay people enough so that they're not thinking about the money, they're thinking about the work

(mostly quoted from the linked video)

Didn't we see this already when the country Tuvalu and Verisign got together to sell *.tv domain names?

There was a pile of hype at the time but not much came of it.

It's not exceptionally historically accurate...

In other news: FOX News is not exceptionally biased toward the politically conservative.

To be clear: I would say that 300 is about as historically accurate as FOX News is "Fair and Balanced". That is to say: It's true, on occasion, but it's far outweighed by all the times it's not.

The movie 300 wasn't based on history, it needn't be historically accurate. It's a movie from a comic book called 300, by Frank Miller. This comic isn't a historical documentary either; it's a work of fiction to be read primarily for entertainment (imho).

The movie 300 is very faithful to the book it came from, and so is an accurate rendering of it.

In short the two questions at hand are:

What was the film portraying?

How well was the portrayal; how accurate was it to its' base material?

For 300, the film portrayed the comic book (not history), and did a good job of it. The Sin City film adaptation was also accurate in this respect; you can open the comic and see the panels shot on the screen. For FOX, you'd need to answer these same questions... what is it trying to show, and is it giving you an accurate rendition of that? Personally I prefer "journalists" and "reporters" to "news commentators", but you shouldn't listen to anyone without using the old critical thinking...