Kind of counter productive, in this case... Hollywood has made a huge noise about this sort of issue for such a long time that most people have had the topic forced into their consciousness and are aware that copyright infringement IS NOT theft.

So, their natural reaction is going to be "I know you are fucking with my head and you're making me angry."

But no one likes having someone take credit for their work. That's an issue that touches even the guy flipping burgers. If they framed the issue accurately, they'd get more sympathy for their position.

They do this because they want people in general to relate to them. If people do not relate to them, they will not stand beside them.

The vast majority of people are completely immune to copyright infringement. They don't make a living selling people permission to copy. Therefore, when they hear "We must do something about copyright infringement!", their reaction is "Meh, doesn't affect me."

Just about everybody is vulnerable to theft. Most people have a shirt on their back and would be cold if someone took it. Therefore, when they hear "We must do something about theft!", their reaction is "Yeah, I don't want anyone stealing my shirt! I'm with you!"

This is their motive for trying to confuse people about the issue.

Even "freetards" care about people claiming other peoples work as their own. It's not that he stole, it's that he lied.

Ok, you clearly are trolling. The line you quoted says, an orbit is a path around a point in space. Not an object. A point. And, in the case of our planet that point is the barycenter of the Sun and the Earth. Not sure what your agenda is here, but I'm content that any third party reading this exchange will understand, so I think I've done enough here.

No, YOU are wrong.

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

If you find it hard to comprehend things you read, here are some pictures.

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

Ok then... the Earth does not orbit the Sun, it orbits the barycenter of the Sun and the Earth.

If you want to be precise about it, the Earth does not rotate around the Sun.

Rather, the Sun and the Earth rotate around their mutual center of gravity, or barycenter. Same goes for the other planets. The barycenter of the Sun and the Earth is within the Sun, but is not at the center of the Sun. The barycenter of the Sun and Jupiter, on the other hand, is not contained within the Sun at all.

I think the guy was intending to express his skepticism that we will ever see this happen. Nuclear fusion is the new Duke Nukem Forever.

Whatever, dude. You're biased as hell and I don't care. If I found the interview, you'd say he was just a bad egg who should be fired and that it wasn't systematic. I'm not American and I have no desire to start a business and be your servants, so I can just casually infringe on all this shit as though it didn't exist while your country implodes on an overdose of poorly thought out ideology.

Back in the day, it was necessary to entice people to reveal their guild secrets because forcing them wasn't practical and running them out of business wasn't either. Now, both options are practical, and that's what I support.

I've often thought of building a shopping cart with a 3D scanner in it and going down to the shops to wander around indecisively putting things into and out of my shopping cart, before buying a stick of gum and going home to upload them all to thingiverse. Even things I have no interest in personally possessing. Just to put the screws to people who enforce these artificial scarcity measures. Perhaps the act of typing this out will be the trigger that causes some 16 year old geek to do it tomorrow. If not, I'll probably get to it eventually,

I really do want you guys to suffer, though. I try not to think that way, but some part of me would be upset if you change before you pushed the rest of the world to the point of taking violent steps against you. I know that on a systematic level justice is wrong, and that I should try to have compassion for you even though you're evil fucks... but it IS emotionally gratifying, and I'm not as nice a guy as I try to be.

Yeah, but... have you EATEN a microwave dinner?

Quality doesn't matter. Only convenience.

I've read interviews where patent clerks said precisely that. I'm not motivated enough to look for them, but it IS true.

You're putting it out there that the MS example has buttons while the iPhone doesn't have any buttons. I'd argue, the MS example is more sophisticated because it supports multiple buttons, while the iPhone has one button: The iPhone. The MS example entirely encapsulates the iPhone's technology and moves forward from there.

Most of the time, I think you guys are just trolling or have a vested interest in the exploitation going on. But for brief moments, one of you manages to convince me that you really are genuinely that stupid, and that I have far fewer peers on this hunk of rock than I thought I did, and it's deeply depressing.

I never knew that. I hate them just a little more now than I did 5 minutes ago. These trackpads-under-the-palms are fucking terrible.

Not just "I miss the clit-mouse on my old Thinkpad" terrible...

"I need to disable this because I'm constantly moving the cursor with my palms while I try to type and now I need to go buy a USB mouse for this poorly designed piece of shit." terrible.

Did you seriously see anything there that wasn't painfully obvious? All the video demonstrated to me is that Microsoft throws their money away. It struck me as a bureaucratic butt covering move that they hired her to go through these motions in the first place.