So the headers came from Jeff Dunham????

Usually the first adopters.....

That's really good news. i was starting to worry that there would soon be no way to explain which way things turn. In a digital world, which way is "clock-wise"?

On the upside there is increasing confidence they'll be able to ship at least one WP7 product
A WP7 product is an upside?

Or possibly "ScrewU"s

Hogamus, higamus...???

Sounds like a couple of marriages I know of.....

But you'd better be sure to do this at the primary level; after that it's really too late....

I'm against term limits; I would however, support a bounty.......

Exactly. But of course, how can you have truly loving relatives when it takes multiple incomes to maintain a household? Or worse yet, when you've sacrificed your children (either through abortion or contraception) to build wealth in the first place?

In the US the federal government has no property taxes, usually that is a state tax. States vary but where I live property taxes are for real property which is essentially real estate. We also pay a tangible tax and an intangible tax. The tangible tax is for hard physical assets the company owns such as PC's, copiers, vehicles, etc. We also pay an intagible tax for intangible assets such as patents, trademarks, goodwill, etc. So we pay taxes on patents and copyrights but they aren't called property taxes, they are called intagible taxes. Every state probably has different rules, this is just how it works in Florida.

In essence companies do pay taxes for copyrights and patents, they just aren't called taxes, they are called fees. It can't cost anywhere near what the fees are to obtain and maintain a patent for a patent clerk to review an application.

And contrary to jailbreaking, rooting an Android phone is not illegal. =)

"The government should end all subsidies, including allowing industries to pass external costs to others"

That would be a step in the right direction, but I don't think it is enough.

In addition to all the other factors stated in posts above, we have to consider the massive infrastructure in place to support the status quo.

Without subsidizing alternative energy, it might end up taking 50-100 years to completely replace all the infrastructure that currently supports coal and oil.

If I were to try to compete with series of coal-->electricity plants by building up a series of say, wind farms, I'd face pretty large obstacles that coal does not face.

Where to store the energy for later use or low wind times?
Not being able to build near existing lines if there isn't wind there.
Power grid not designed to handle spikes in power,
etc etc etc

Likewise if I wanted to start an electric car line. No 'recharge stations', no bulk battery makers, battery technology research needs to be furthered, etc..

Subsidize should be used to encourage industry to move in the direction the benefits the public. Unfortunately, they don't seem to be used in that fashion very consistently.

This is a very important point that is often overlooked.

The counter-argument is that many software companies offer student discounts. Very significant student discounts. However, any student studying graphics today needs many different apps from many different vendors, they also need to upgrade each year to the latest and greatest version. So even though software is priced well for students you can easily be talking about a grand or more per year and at the same time the students still need good hardware which you can't pirate.

I pirated a lot of software while in college. I got a job and now I own thousands of dollars in software that I upgrade every 1 - 1 1/2 years. Had I not been able to find all that software for free and invested the vast amounts of time learning it I'd probably be working as an insurance broker and would not have bought any of the software I now own.

Quit paying the BSA for a service that alienates your future clientele and remember, the software that is too difficult to pirate will never be purchased by the "student" because the "student" in question didn't become familiar with it...

Yes, it is legal. It says so right on the site's FAQ page.