MS is probably offering dealer incentives to push live subscriptions after Christmas. Lot's of new xbox owners might not have bought a subscription, and a lot of subscriptions need renewal around christmas.
More importantly, we have a trustworthy spy over at the Amazon warehouse. :)
Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
— Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire
