No, that wasn't the manner I was thinking about when I was comparing the two. I was comparing the two only in the vein of "the 'loser' flag which participated in a bloody conflict still being flown today".

When you start that sentence out with "obviously" I fear you've already missed the mark.

In the US south confederate flags are flown often. In other parts of the world swastikas are common decoration, even decorating holy temples.

Taking a stance like yours only empowers those icons and enables them to continue to be a hot topic decades later. If, after the civil war, nigger had been legally banned and the government moved to great lengths to eradicate its usage, I'd argue that it would hold *significantly* more power than it does today.

But frankly it will probably stop at the Michigan border. Even this weed has its limits...

If I may take off my pants and pull my analrapist stocking over my head...

Yes, it has happened before. I don't know if it is all that common though.

Can you give some examples?

I generally use chrome when I'm able and haven't noticed broken UI conventions that cause me much pain.

I was thinking the same thing. Even if you go down to lower layers, IP routing, packet tranmissions etc. you end up relying on remote servers with non-"free" code executing to handle your requests.

If I want to search an online dictionary how, according to RMS, should I morally perform that operation? Replicating the dictionary and search executables to every individual node wishing to perform a search would be a (bad) options. But what about when the dataset is way too large? (maps data for example).

Those are certainly areas that are painful given how today's media is distributed.

I guess the real point that I was hoping to make was that comments like being willing to "gladly pay significant sums of money" is normally some manner of rationalization at best (as I thought was the case with the post I was replying to).

I wouldn't have described my post as idealistic nor would I have classified it as nihilistic. My intentions were to point out the (IMO flawed) idealism of the post I was replying to.

I'm unsure how you were able to make the connection that I was suggesting that people should defy the law. Also, I'm pretty surprised that you would suggest I was implying that drug runners could somehow find the time in their busy schedules to also collect on contracts.

And specifically what was your unique and interesting method of viewing which was impossible to achieve even with significant sums of money?

Some people like to have a high horse to ride in on so as to make them appear better in line with their "outspoken enthusiast" ideologies.

Sometimes it is a Prius, sometimes it is a certain wardrobe or vinyl collection. In your case it appears to be Netflix's streaming service.

Simply because you found it to be a good plank in your soap box platform doesn't change the fact that the original post was spot on with regards to folks rationalization regarding their reasons for pirating content.

All that proves is that some people don't value their money as much as others or rather maybe they feel that the righteous entitlement that they are purchasing by remaining within the legal boundaries is worth the money.

Why run? I just cured them of what ailed them...right? ;-)

This isn't a good example.

Modern standard Korean isn't tonal. Yes, there are regional variations in the language just like any language, but difficulties in agreeing on the pronunciation of a word aren't because the language has nothing but tonal differences to tell words apart.

Satan is wildly more plausible though.

Without reading the entire article in depth, seems very similar as an idea to the legion distributed computing grid done in silverlight without the bells and whistles:

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/silverlight/GridComputing.aspx