The australian government wont give me a loan for that.

Oh wait, you are assuming everyone lives in the retarded american system where you have to get an actual loan rather than government assistance (with a promise that you'll pay it back if you earn enough, and if you don't you get a free education - basically).

America is so broken, don't assume everywhere else is too.

Expansion on this then for games just to help you.

If you write a [game] and you get 100 paying customers and 1000 warez kiddies, you have 1100 total people that know of your work from the past that might buy from you next time.

Pirated copies = potential future customers. Unless what you give them is crap.

58 billion dollars worth of society has.

It wouldn't be a problem for him.

He would change his business model, and not accept returns.

Wow, I am on a major role today, That's problem number 2 solved trivially so far!

Put ads in the video they release?

HOLY CRAP that was hard to come up with!

Windows costs 100 dollars.
Poor person can afford 50 dollars.

Poor person cant buy windows officially, but gets it "for free" on that PC they just picked up.
They *would* have paid 50 dollars more for their PC if it had legitimate windows. But they can't get it for that price.
Poor person goes and buys a $50 lollipop instead.

BSA calls this "$100 lost to piracy, the world is $100 worse off"
I call that "$50 lost to piracy, the world is $0 worse off"

Stop misrepresenting the facts you intentional moron.

OP didnt say "remove DRM" OP said "Remove limitations on modded consoles" (IE consoles that can install linux).

You obviously have a selective memory.

Season 1-3 of SG1 were horrible. (it was 60 episodes of: "lets almost save daniels girlfriend!")

I agree re season ~4 onwards.

I think your problem is you thought SGA was any good ever.

And if you seriously dispute this, you can't dispute that SGA was horrible for the *entire* first season.
SG1 was *HORRIBLE* for the entirity of the first 3 seasons . I watch these shows religiously. I had watched them religiously for the last ~15 years or however long they have been on for. I watched the movie when it came out etc.

SGU may not have been *good* at the start. It might not have been season (approximately) 10 SG1 good. But by god, it was SciFi Gold compared to season 1 SG1, or Season 1 SGA.

(Don't get me started on BSG. Loved that series until it gave itself a lobotomy in season 3. Even now I still haven't managed to watch season 4. but that's not season 4s fault.)

I think my point is, take off your rose tinted glasses. SGU started better than all the other stargates. It just wasnt stargate sg1-again like SGA was. And we were better off for it.

Why not give the user a choice? Saves battery unless you click on it. Problem Solved!

You forget that a phone "Dying" is subjective. My iPhone 3g still works. But my god after 12 months its battery lasted MAYBE 4 hours if you ever used the device. 24 months later? 36 months later? Old nokias can last 10 years+ AND you can replace the battery so it still holds a charge. Good luck using your iPhones 5 years after heavy use. And that has nothing to do with wether it will "work" (because it still should, but without significant battery life).

Does grammar in quotations apply outside quotations? I failed english at school so I can't answer this one. I do know that if it were programming we'd be in trouble for unterminated constants in the replace string we were writing. Is a correction a replace string for the above post? I know of a friend once who enabled automatic replace in his IRC history when appropriate strings were said after the fact. So someone could write: "I just popped hard" and then go "oh crap!" "s/popped/pooped" and in his IRC history it would change "popped" to "pooped" There was much lulz when I realised you could change what *anyone* wrote with this. Changing his IRC history to show people (including himself) saying all kinds of retarded things etc.

they DID ask IT.

IT said: its too hard.

Sorry, but Windows isn't the lowest quality product.

• From a non-technical users perspective, *nix was the lowest quality product (no ease of use)
• Windows was the cheapest product (no special hardware)
• MacOS was expensive (hardware lockin)
• And anything else was too small.

All the above basically has changed. But so has windows, it's actually pretty good now (only 20 years to get there...), but various flavours of *nix have caught up in usability (for your average pleb here) but MacOs still has the hardware lockin (arguably though, completely artificial hardware lockin...)

Huh? You are on drugs clearly.

They did not say: "We don't want heavy handed regulation so we will terminate them" they said:
"The Green Party has always opposed, and continues to oppose, termination (account suspension) as a remedy for infringing file sharing."

The end.

PS. the government doesnt "regulate" to stop people getting their internet terminated. If anything ISPs don't want to EVER cancel peoples internet. They only have to regulate so that people DO get internet terminated.

Remember, "corporate culture" has nothing to do with the regulation (other than wanting it to pass). Because they aren't cancelling anyones internet at the moment. Corporate culture WANTS them to cancel internet. Thus they WANT regulation. No regulation (in this instance) = no cancelling of the internet.