As we go bankrupt ...

[writerspleasure.livejournal.com]

... highlights from “Wastebook 2011” for Federal spending: • $75,000 to promote awareness about the role Michigan plays in producing Christmas trees & poinsettias. • $15.3 million for one of the infamous Bridges to Nowhere in Alaska. • $113,227 for video game preservation center in New York. • $550,000 for a documentary about how rock music contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Union. • $48,700 for 2nd annual Hawaii Chocolate Festival, to promote Hawaii’s chocolate industry. • $350,000 to support an International Art Exhibition in Venice, Italy. • $10 million for a remake of “Sesame Street” for Pakistan. • $35 million allocated for political party conventions in 2012. • $765,828 to subsidize “pancakes for yuppies” in the nation’s capital. • $764,825 to study how college students use mobile devices for social networking. http://www.coburn.senate.gov/public/6946d43b-bccf-4579-990e-15a763532b40.html

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[jacobs-muse.livejournal.com]

All of that is either useless, or should have been done at local or private levels. It's a state's job to promote their own commerce. And the video game industry can certainly afford to preserve their own work, what with the highest selling games doing billions of business. Etcetera etcetera...

[farchivist.livejournal.com]

And the video game industry can certainly afford to preserve their own work, what with the highest selling games doing billions of business.

Except they rarely bother doing so, which is why abandonware has become so important. It's quite sad to see the number of video/computer games that are completely lost now and totally irretrievable.