I have a DVD recorder, much more practical and with better quality. It's affordable and it can record on rewritable discs. The reliability of the rw discs varies a lot, some will stand only 2 or 3 re-writes, but some others will last much more.

And besides, who sponsors firefox? Various google "features" creep into the browser, and it takes some effort to disable them. I still use firefox though (what else is there, really?).

In my opinion it's much worse than that. We are not that good at creating new things, but are extremely good at learning and adapting existing things. By enforcing excessive restrictions on copying we are limiting progress, and I think it goes against what we normally would do. While I think there should be some provision to reward the original creator(s) of the works (such as a limited time copyright) the present system goes WAY too far and is clearly excessive.

I'd like that the community elements would work in Linux (so you could be online in their chat/community thingy), and perhaps a game or two. Given the size and fragmentation of the linux community this is unlikely to happen.

It's not that easy, I've had mixed experiences with bug reporting, from bugs being fixed almost immediately or in a day or two after I reported it on the developers mailing list, to being a mostly ignored bugzilla ticket that will be eventually purged (firefox). It's always easier when a clear test case can be presented, such as a minimal script that reproduces the problem. However not all bugs can be that easily reproduced.

Of course it's still easier and more effective to report bugs of open source programs that closed source. It's hard to even bother reporting closed source programs bugs, you won't even get past the first line tech support...

See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth_reward_check

Nobody really cares that you own the CD case with its cheap artwork.

Why don't they sell CDs with proper artwork, booklets, etc. then?

Good call! The first MDK has a great ending, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAL9fwNX8B0

There's one thing that goes against the internet philosophy: Geographic restrictions. I can't buy amazon .mp3s, can't watch Hulu, etc. It's getting more and more annoying.

Read this: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/vitamin-b12-and-depression/AN01543

Much easier than that:

Mat 24:35-36 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.

You should read I Samuel 8 (http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=I%20Sam%208&version=NIV).

Actually even you had a few millions to blow in a movie you'd still have to get it distributed so that it gets shown in a lot of theaters. I think that could be harder than making the movie in the first place.

Well the whole point is that, without cookies if you type google.com in the address bar you should get the english version of google, but if you go to google.[countrycode] you'd get that localized version. What really happens is if you are in a country that has a local version of google you'll get redirected from google.com to the country's version unless you click "google in english" and accept a cookie.

Visit http://www.google.com/ncr (no country redirect) and google will no longer use your geolocation to determine what pages you want to see.
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Exactly.