Sure, you wouldn't want to wait ten years to buy the book. But suppose the publisher waits ten years to publish a book, so they don't have to pay the author anything? Without any way aside from publishers to get books, that could be a real problem.

So if someone set up a new church in the middle of the area to guide the lost sheep, would they all be forced to move again?

You are missing at least a couple possibilities, the possibility that the cops who were arrested are simply scapegoats. Arrested when the court of public opinion won't let things pass with no one reprimanded.
Like in organized crime, the arrested person does the time instead of a higher up, and come out a made man or something of that sort. Or the flip side, the arrested cop is innocent, and simply wouldn't go along with whatever scheme the rest were up to. Therefore they were gotten rid of / taught a lesson. Not saying those are the only possibilities or that your possibility was wrong though.

Ignore the fact that it's monotheistic. Those '3' religions are all similarly awful not because of the number of gods, but the specific god, as they're all Abrahamic religions. They all worship the same god.

Are you in orbit? The site says:
"Who: FREE to anyone on the planet"

Since when has it been a human right to not be offended?

I always preferred the nose-wiggling image of the divine.

Ah, you must not be familiar with the subfamily know as the American-Engrish dialect.

Loose could feasibly be used in this context in the same sense that you loose the dogs of war, and are letting go of the grammar nazi act.

Don't tell that to Micheal Jackson.

Freedom scanners?

Well, if you go back to the days of slavery, neither slaves nor women were real people.
I was under the impression it was rather common for slave owners to rape and abuse their slaves. I also seem to recall it wasn't (isn't?) rape if a husband did it to their wife legally speaking.
So I imagine the rape and molestation have at times been widespread, because they were being done to non-people.
Now, I have no citations for any of this but I'm sure it would be easy enough to find, as that is a side effect of dehumanizing, or making certain groups property. The banality of evil and all that.
That said, if a person makes a song and people just take it, I don't know that it's treating them as less of a person or in any way evil.
If you think an idea is property and a person has the right to sue you for using their idea, well that's another thing. There are different balances between the idea maker and the idea user.
I'm sure that some people out there would like to charge every time you hear a song, read a book or watch a movie debited directly from your bank account upon consuming the media, as determined by an implanted system on a chip, and if you don't want to pay or can't pay your sensory input is hijacked, but that's a little too far one way on the balance.

Would you reject them before or after they're downloaded such that you can determine they're only a single pixel?

That aside, a lot of web designers would use single pixel transparent gifs scaled to different sizes to effect changes in the layout such as shifting things over or down so many pixels. While this practice isn't ideal, blocking single pixel images would break this as well.

Unless they're hiring for the CEO position.

Most people who believe in God/god(s) also don't believe in God/god(s). It's just the atheists are more thorough in their disbelief.

Christians/Muslims/Jews don't believe in Odin, Zeus, Ra or Shiva. Atheists don't either, they just add one more god to the list of gods they don't believe in. Which, if you think about it what's the difference in not believing in 1000 vs 1001 gods. If the first thousand don't exist, why would you believe in the thousand and first.