you know who "the masses" are, right ? yes, those who work hard to buy pastas and to have the right to rent their 127.0.0.1.
So, isn't it just normal they speak badly about those poor bastards who just want to have bigger profit's rate ?
Providing hundreds of jobs you say ? I see exploiting other's lifes. (I might be kind of communist here...)

1st: declare there's a shortage of some sort, scare people telling them there's not even enough of that resource for healthcare (but forget to mention there's plenty for money-producing-industries) -- 2nd: give some millions bucks to your friends to "look for solutions" -- 3rd: go on vacation with some of the $$ your friends give you back under the table

I get the point, but I live in Belgium, where the "private copy" law allows me to rip my rentals (and even to go to the library and copy-with my own hardware only-any books/CD/DVD I want) - as long as it is to be used in a "familly environment". So I was a bit surprised by the whole point of getting caught... The way it's done here, if you rent something, the price you pay includes 1. The rental of the pysical object 2. the fee to pay the author. Since you paid the fee to the author, you might not be allowed to keep the physical media you rented, but you paid the "licence" to the work... And there's a tax on USB/SD Card/HDD which compensates, once again, the authors since those devices are (as worded in the law) "purposedly made to copy IP works". So, we're allowed to copy. But not to distribute.

Pardon my french, but, you're actually not legally allowed to rip a rental for your personnal use ? no "private copy" rules where you live ?

the character you're describing is indeed St Nicolaus, whose day is december 6th. No way he's that big fat dude called Santa Clause (Pere Noel in french - Daddy Christmas). They are two different "persons".

Instagram's the fisher price of the internet...

"freely available" as in "available from/for any country, over any TCP/IP connection and at the same price everywhere since it's a downloadable content" ?

Funny ? I'd say insightful !

Screw the french fries, they're Belgian !

Uh? can't you even vote with your wallet ? drop Verizon and get a new contract with some other carrier ?

nah, Tegras run better for the purpose...

look on new Audi car, I know they have... Citroen does also on its newer models...

or fired ? (answering a /. poll while at work ? ^^ )

Or they cried.