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not one single red cent of mine
So you only used those steel pennies produced during WWII?

Actually, structs can be used to provide inheritance and polymorphism. And if you add a bunch of function pointers to the struct, now you have a what is essentially an object in every sense of the word. See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/351733/can-you-write-object-oriented-code-in-c for more information.

So what they really don't want to do is help other rightsholders, eh? I wonder if they'll fight these subpoenas from other more mainstream music/movie/Tv rightsholders? If so, wouldn't that constitute them using their market power in one market to unfairly compete in a different market?

Your comment is spot on about probably saving the government money, up until the "disability" part, which reveals a serious bias against the deaf. Many deaf go to college (and not just the two where sign language is a first class language) and/or get jobs just like hearing people.

On my HDHP plans, the deductible has always been just shy of the legal contribution limits on HSAs. So while your advice might sound great the only way my family could have taken it would have been to not go to the doctor.

Beyond that.... The legal definition of CP also includes depictions of sexual acts with minors who have reached the age of consent in their jurisdiction, but are not yet 18 years of age. So, while it might be legal for an adult to have sex with a 16 year-old in many parts of the USA, it is illegal for that adult to photograph herself doing so. Similarly, in many more parts of the USA it is legal for two minors to have sex with each other, but not for either of them to photograph the activity-- they don't even have to share the images, mere possession is a crime. Finally, you can't even make erotic images of *yourself* if you are under 18! And if you do, you cannot wait until you are 18 and then distribute those images without violating the law.

Actually, pretty soon the only people willing to fly will be those who are so accustomed to being pushed around by little bullies at the airport that when a gang of truly dangerous folks does try to steal a plane the bullies will succeed because the passengers will be unable to think, or act, assertively enough to make a difference.

Microsoft vs. Apple was a copyright thing. Lindows was trademark-related. Microsoft is often the target of patent lawsuits. I can't recall them starting one. Please show your work.

Apple does not have a monopoly on anything. They made one good deal with the music industry and apparently came up with a compelling value offer for consumers (or the easily duped, take your pick). But nothing prevents consumers from buying music through many, many other channels and putting them on one of the hundreds of different devices in the world that play MP3. Apple also came out with a decent phone and lots of people bought one. But the only "monopoly" here is over delivery of applications to those who own those phones. Lots of other "smart" phones exist. BlackBerry and Windows Mobile have been around a lot longer than iPhone and are still very popular. iPad? Whatever. A niche device for the moment. If you invest time and money into putting your entire business model into Apple's hands, the only serious issue is your gullibility. Apple have been raving control freaks since at least 1984.

one of the most selfish things a person can do. Are you crazy? In a world where 16,000 children die of hunger every year, eating is the most selfish thing one can do.

At least the something he is doing is to benifit people that vote, and not a company that puts money in pockets.

Because if there's one thing I hate it is money in pockets! That's why I'm glad Senator Franken gets paid well into the six figures to help scold private businesses for how they treat their non-paying "customers". I guess the money in *his* pockets doesn't count? Because what with the bailouts and health-care bill he voted for, I'm sure going to have a lot less money in *my* pockets, in spite of the best efforts of the company I work for to pay me a decent salary.

Please note: The whole reason companies exist is to put money in pockets. The pockets of those who risk their money to start the company and those who put in their time and ability to make the company successful. If you don't like how Facebook runs their business feel free to not sign on to their system.

Plus it's written in [expletive deleted] .NET, so it will probably never be available for Ubuntu

That's funny, because Ubuntu is including F-Spot, which is written in C#.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_time_pad

They are not like Microsoft, where for the longest time there was no alternative to Windows.

Um, what? There was always an alternative to Windows. It was called MacOS, it was first released on January 24, 1984. That's over a year and a half before Windows 1.0 was available in November 1985.

But I note that any blindly anti-MS sentiment on Slashdot can get modded "insightful" no matter how contrary to fact it is.