Yes, cheaper phone calls are why they're doing this. And with all that extra money you'll save, I have this great bridge in Brooklyn you should really check out.

You're protecting the freedom of the poor bastard who downloaded it by mistake and didn't nuke his hard drive from orbit.

If the problem is BIOS-related, or a legacy of DOS, or both, does this mean it will work fine on Mac OS X? All new Macs use EFI, and OS X Snow Leopard is a 64-bit OS.

That's not the way Apple works. It adopted USB when there was exactly ONE USB printer on the market. It dropped floppies while they were still in common usage. It's been pushing FireWire when nobody else is.

Apple decides when to deprecate technology on their own devices. If you don't like it, buy something else.

That's kind of the whole point. Jobs admits that Apple has a closed system, when Adobe is claiming theirs is open. When he talks about open, he's referring to HTML5/CSS/JavaScript, which you DO NOT need to submit to the app store.

Every time news like this comes out, the Western companies act all shocked. OF COURSE they're working in crappy conditions for low pay - how else do they make products so cheaply?

In summary: "I'm SHOCKED to find gambling going on in this casino!!"

Where are these multi-touch Macs, and where can I buy one?

Like most emergency powers, it requires the President to report to Congress within 48 hours.

It doesn't seem, though, to give Congress power to stop the emergency action if it feels that it's not really an emergency.

We'll see what the House does with it.

Isn't "not my fault, I have a serious illness" the first of the 12 Steps?

But eating junk food produces a high, a euphoric feeling sometimes. I suppose that's why some foods are called "comfort food".

I can't compare to drug addiction, because I've never experienced that, but a high is definitely present.

Sometimes, with my tinfoil hat on, I've wondered if Taco Bell was slipping something addictive into the food that makes me keep coming back.

They pay a copying tax every time they buy media. It seems to me this implies copying is then legal.

However, with common sense and government, only occasionally do the two meet.

Isn't this the backstory to the Lizard? He tries to regrow his arm using amphibian DNA, and whoops - he turns into a Lizard.

Hm, it sounds really stupid now that I've typed it out.

It's profitable NOW - hence UPS, FedEx, etc. It wasn't in 1789.

Tell that to the NRA.

Amen. This is why the Federal Government is mandated to run the Post Office. At the dawn of the Republic, no intelligent businessman would operate such a money-losing enterprise. However, it is a necessary and needed service.

Rural electrification and rural broadband, in my opinion, also merit Government intervention.