Just an FYI, when commencing an argument, check your facts. This: http://www.pods.com/ doesn't just sorta-kinda negate what you claim - it blows it clean away. Also, so does the container that sits in a neighbor's driveway down the street with foot-high letters P O D S that I can see from a couple of hundred feet away. Not to mention - but I will anyway - the various ones seen being transported and delivered all over the place.

Now you know why I (for one) find your argument, um, unpersuasive.

Ah but it is - in it's own locality within spacetime. That was one of two concepts the the Gravity Probe B experiment was all about:
Overview: http://einstein.stanford.edu/
Frame dragging: http://einstein.stanford.edu/MISSION/mission1.html#two_effects

"E si pur mouve" - true. More so in light of the above experiment - even if Galileo never said it ;)

... is never absurd.
The "genius" of the "elites" usually is.

For those US citizens who don't get the genius reference: It's our Constitution. See Federalist Papers, for starters.

It never has had a Justice system - bound to certain select definitions of the word Justice.

Such as yours, mine or that dude over yonder. And that's a good thing.

Hi, long time hiker and caver here (+40 years at it) and the answer to your question is:

Anyone who wishes to avoid Nature's capital punishment for the crime of being stupid in her domain.

I have a GPS ... and I always take a compass and waterproof USGS topo for the quad(s) I'll be in. Batteries and 'tronics can fail. They can be lost, as can the maps and compass. So be smart and have a backup. And keep the two sets of nav aids separated in your gear.

Regarding the WPA fail, I believe the GP was refering to Ubuntu 6.10 - Edgy Eft. Wireless + WPA was problematic. One had to deal with WPA supplicant and / or GNOME's nm-applet to get wireless up and running. I say "and / or" because I never did figure out which was the magic bullet ;)

I swore off Windows in 2006. I tried many distros, including Debian. Ubuntu was the least troublesome to get working. This coming from a guy who has tinkered - and worked - with Linux since there was a Linux to tinker with. No babe in the woods here, I cut my teeth on the Unix Timesharing System Version 3 (and 4).

Sometimes the point is to build the best-est & baddest box in your part of the woods. Geek cred does have a certain utility (Debian). Other times we just need a functional machine for our work (Ubuntu).

But I will say this: Once (if ever) the economy comes back to the point where I can part with a few grand for my best-est & baddest build-to-tinker-n-tweak box - it will be running Debian.

The first - locking IP addys - is always true. The second is not when the physical port can be accessed.

Good teacher, following the sage words of the great Western philosopher Hondo*:
"Life is tough. It's tougher when you're stupid."

* aka John Wayne ;)

You stopped your list a bit short. After doing your 1-2-3 they arrive at:

4. He's a potential material witness.

They won't know, indeed cannot know precisely how material his information is until he is questioned, hence the detainment.

All legal and proper (in the US). Been that way here since 1789, do try to keep up.

The hell it isn't, and the nature of this force can be readily demonstrated with simple and commonly had objects:
Battery
Wire
Incadescent lamp
Pair of magnets
Compass (the navigational kind)

I'll skip the details one how one uses the above to demonstrate that opposite charges / polarity attract and like repels as most readers of /. are smart enough to figure it out. But those simple demonstrations with a grade school level description of the atom makes it obvious.

And with not a single calculation or equation being used :)

No one is suggesting that after studying materials like this that someone is qualified to do PhD level work. The value in material like this in it's utility in combating the woo-woo purveyors out there.

Oh, it's a business model patent ....
That describes how my (and yours) local Chinese buffet restaurant differentiates it's lunch and supper hours business.

Fail: Prior Art.

But wait! They're using a computer, that makes it different!
So does the restaurant owner ....

So ... your position boils down to: Having even more people die - only thing that distinguishes the second group from the former is you don't like them.

Hard to see a difference between you and what you rail on about, now isn't it?

Yep. Even older: The last DOS (MSDOS 4.01, running on a ancient Compaq) install I had to maintain was retired last July. This in a ~ 26bil (US) Fortune 500 company. It operated a testing apparatus. Lack of slow enough hardware (not kidding) to replace that Compaq was why it was retired.

Speaking of thinking and being critical ... just what kind of market are you referring to? The red light district? We were discussing DRAM ...

PS: Your thinking in the last paragraph is a bit naive. Given:
1. A minuscule fine in proportion to profits.
2. Increasing the fine will take forever to implement: Evil Mega Corp. Inc. has a cadre of lawyers and lobbyists to make this so.
3. Corporations - while enjoying many of the perks of being human - are not, in fact human. It has no soul, no empathy no "feelings" at all. What they do have are software, accountants, and driven-to-succeed(-at-any-cost) types all over the upper middle and senior ranks.

These lead to (pick one)
4a. The fine gets folded into the cost of doing business at location X by automation. Since the cost to operate just went up the price to sell adjusts up as well.
4b. Busted here? Well, shoot, how about that market over yonder? Wonder how long we'll have to wait (answer for the US: about a decade for a two-term administration, 5 years for a one-shot) before we can game this market again?

Nice sleight of hand there. And I'm burning mod points here, so be nice and pay attention, please.

Should you so choose you can - under the law - commence charges, in civil court against the violator. You will have to show the court your standing (your privilege to instantiate proceedings) AND what unlawful or tortuous act was committed, and be specific about it.

Your attorney will tell you, the judge will tell you - and yes I'll point it out as well: Your feelings of being "stolen from" don't matter. What matters is the Law - which says you have a violation of Contract predicated upon Copyright Law, not an act of Larceny.

Your GPL example is also not Larceny.

In other words, guess what: No matter how big a bitch-fit tantrum you throw, no matter how much you wish it to be true, what you believe simply is not true - under the law.