Luckily, I live in a nation where copyright laws specifically only forbid for-profit unlicensed copying of works, and thus non-profit sharing of such works, whether over the torrent protocol, ftp or sneakernet, is strictly licit.
Fuck 'em.
I actually collect games rather than sell them, but I reserve the right to do with my physical copies and registered accounts what common morality affords me, broken EULAs or no.
I frankly don't care how little or how much they "lose" through after market trading. Get off my lawn.
Flywheels were a decent alternative last I checked. Dunno about initial costs but maintenance is fairly low and life cycle extensive. Manufacture also doesn't have toxic byproducts.
Read again. He's not talking about electronic warfare. He's talking about good old-fashioned crushing military dictatorship.
The problem with Wikipedia isn't badly edited content. It's poorly informed readers.
A Wikipedia article is only as good as the sources it cites, and anyone intending to do anything important according to information in a Wikipedia article should be aware of that.
Your temperature scale is clearly incorrect.
As it regards cold, it goes from Chilly, to Cold, to Freezing, eventually reaching Ridiculously Cold, Unbelievably Cold and Impossibly Cold.
oh wait, are you using the imperial system of verbal measurement? Never mind.
All of your points disregard that this is an honor system, and they frequently work without any sort of enforcement whatsoever. You don't need 100% compliance either, you don't even get that with purely commercial works.
Also, it's not like giving a choice between a non-commercial CC license and a commercial license without enforcement has much of a downside, as compared to only offering the CC license.
This sort of scenario presents itself in any situation where proof is desired. It's called the brain-in-a-vat syndrome.
This is why proof often isn't a very good standard of what to believe. You can't really have definite answers without axioms, whether your answer is in itself an axiom or is based on such. Math is an example of this, the most complicated such system I can think of, yet interestingly the most useful as well. But I digress.
The reasoned conclusion that your deceitful "sufficiently powerful/clever" alien(s) are in fact godly would be quite reasonable under the circumstances, in my view. As well as very practical, most likely.
It's a naive, domestic operating system without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.