Muscles wouldn't make the wheel obsolete. Unless you would have to drag it up a high slope, you could pull at least your own weight in groceries today with a cart.

Exactly. They should also make sure that a command to open the pod bay doors can't be overridden by the AI, especially if it's on a mission to Jupiter.

For the people who keep playing daily for years, yes. But there are plenty of people who play an MMO until they have gotten as far as they can without having to follow a schedule to get further.

I played WoW for the game, and I especially liked the economy aspect of it, but I only really enjoyed WoW until I couldn't get much further without having to spend hours studying every dungeon and then courting a decent guild. WoW has little to offer the gamers who don't want to make commitments to a guild, yet want to keep playing instead of spending ages finding the final player the group need in order to finish an instance once some random guy drops out, then spending even more time finding another player again when someone else has to leave a while later. Also, spending 10 minutes running back to an instance after a wipe is not my idea of a good time, and it didn't really increase my satisfaction when I finally finished the instance, it just motivated me to study instances in advance, which really killed the suspense and immersion I felt when I was in an area I knew nothing about.

However, the reason I finally stopped playing was because my ignore list maxed out during the Dirge scourge. (Dirge is a very rare but underpowered weapon that trolls spammed the trade channel with a link to in order to piss people off. Whenever someone linked it, ten more people would follow suit, filling the trade channel with [Dirge] lines, so you couldn't read the legitimate trade banter.) If there are a thousand trolls on my shard, I'd like the ability to ignore them permanently whenever they make themselves known, thank you very much. Since Blizzard chose to tolerate disruptive retards who were obviously acting out of order, they didn't really supply the game experience the ToS claimed to offer.

In my opinion Blizzard lost profit in the long run by not doing enough to save face when a small minority repeatedly disrespected them. If I'm in a pub plagued by unruly drunks being a nuisance, I leave and go to one that does ban disorderly patrons. Really, a couple of thousand bans and a few notices reminding people of the ToS would have stopped the spam that some really immature "rebels" thought was hysterically funny since they could break rules and annoy people without any consequences whatsoever. They choose to keep the idiots around, so they lose the people who do expect disruptive players to get banned.

Exactly. Until a court admits the evidence presented, no one can say if the evidence is good enough. An ISP can't be expected to act on "evidence" without a court order. You want to sue John Doe, you take them to court - end of story.

If they can provide evidence that the transfer has taken place, then they should take it to court. An ISP should have no hand in judging if evidence is legit. They are a service provider and their responsibilities are like those of a power company. Only if a court orders them to divulge the information from a murder suspect's smart electricity reader are they allowed to do so. You wouldn't call the power or water company to give them your statement and tell them to notify the police about the dead body and toaster you found in your bathtub, so why would you call on the ISP when you find someone "killing" your profits? When two rights are pitted against each other it's a matter for the courts resolve. I suspect this film studio just doesn't understand that in a society governed by law, you have to follow the proper procedures to minimize innocents being accused of wrongdoing.

Would the film studio shoulder the cost of damages payed out to the customer of the ISP after a court rules that the ISP harassed him/her repeatedly with false accusations based on weak evidence?

The difference is that a bar is responsible for keeping order, so they hire bouncers or lose their license. An ISP is responsible for protecting it's customers privacy, and only a court order can force the ISP to divulge any personal information, and it takes real evidence to get that. ISPs are not responsible for suing their customers on the behalf of a third party. Now a third party is dismayed because it has to go through the proper authorities to see justice served, oh the horror of having to let a court decide when to break our right to privacy.

Copying a violent crime portrayed in a movie is clearly an infringement on their copyright. You have to negotiate a license before you are allowed to re-enact scenes from their intellectual property (though some would argue this falls under "fair use"). Content creators has to be protected from the public, because that's what governments are for, to serve the interests of corporations.

It's the same here in Sweden. CD, HDD, USB, VHS, etc - all storage formats has a "cassette fee" which is then passed on to artists through STIM, the same authority you also pay a fee to if you play music in a pub or if you have a radio station (anything open to the public, I think).

"In AU, film studios issue ultimatum to postal services. Take copyright responsibilities seriously or leave the industry. 'Businesses such as postal services want to enjoy the benefit of being able to make money out of the provision of postal service facilities and they enjoy that benefit. But it carries with it a responsibility,' ".

Perhaps it bothers you because your mother told you to sit up straight whenever you slouched, so now you think everyone is obligated to do so. You automatically assume that all mothers are as strict as yours, so maybe on some level you think that, unlike you, he doesn't respect his own mother.

I guess those people doesn't see the value of spreading their language and culture globally.

I think many people who did like to read newspapers recognized that it is a very wasteful way to deliver news in the information age.

Yeah, sadly no one seems to make an overlord model yet...

So the temperature will go back to what it was before the greenhouse effect?

Obviously this will be taken into consideration, with the assistance of the authority assigned to preserve wildlife in Norway. I am sure I've seen salmon "stairs" that enables salmon to migrate upstream in a dammed up river. Would you care to share what has made you think Norway isn't governed properly?