Well, considering that the Pirate Bay's own blog talks about Pyongyang and that "We believe that being offered our virtual asylum in Korea is a first step of this country's changing view of access to information. It's a country opening up".

Now, while I'm not an expert in Asian politics, I don't think that Pyongyang is in South Korea, nor do i believe that the quote is an apt description of it.

While I agree with the sentiment, it does raise questions about "greatest country in the world", "land of the free", "bastion of freedom" etc.

Or to put it another way - judge countries/people/companies/stuff by their actual merits rather than their PR.

The really silly thing is that the Library of Congress gets to decide the legality of cell phone unlocking.

Yes, I know, it's because of the travesty that is DMCA, but that doesn't make it any less silly.

I'm normally not keen on the government telling us how to live our lives, but having mandatory liability coverage is a no-brainer for the vast majority of poor and middle-class citizens who simply can't be assumed to be responsible enough to have a personal insurance savings plan, and can't afford a huge payout if they do cause an accident

Emphasis added.

First of all - fuck you.
Secondly - fuck you some more.

If you're poor, how the fuck are you supposed to put money aside for a personal insurance savings plan? Especially in the US, where people are likely to get sued for anything and the cost of any kind of medical assistance is likely to be ruinous if not for insurance.

Seriously - you even pointed it out yourself, right after you made your quite frankly extremely insulting comment!can't be assumed to be responsible

As for #1, there are people out there (losers like myself), who wouldn't mind doing copyediting for scientific papers.

Granted, I've only done it a few times, but even when the subject has been way outside of my field of knowledge, I still find it quite interesting to read the papers. Plus, if you're doing copyediting, you're inevitably going to be talking with the author when there are bigger issues.

And as for layout, I'm sure there are people with expertise in those fields as well.

If it's free and open, why can't you simply submit to multiple journals?

One thing that the cartoon effect in Borderlands (both) does, for me at least, is make the suspension of disbelief much easier.

Sure, it takes you maybe a few minutes in the beginning to get there, but once you're there, you're not yanked out of it, because something sticks out like a sore thumb.

Take Diablo III as an example. Blizzard went out of their way to make some amazing looking cinematics for their cut scenes. But that rips you out of your story and then pushes you back into the usual graphics again afterwards.

Compare that to Borderlands, where the cut scenes are, at most, rendered at a better quality than your regular settings.

Also, there's a lot to be said about interacting with the world's deadliest 13-year-old, when the character manages to be both adorable, funny and really scary at the same time.

The demo linked in that video is quite impressive, and even more so is the performance - it never dipped below 170 fps while rendering at 1080p

When all said and done, who doesn't like cheap tan and tits

Me.

I find Katie Price/Jordan and others who go for that particular look quite unattractive.

The deposit should be sent to the actual owner of the copyright - not YouTube.

Is there a better way to figure out who should pay for the upkeep and extensions of the roads, that by usage? If you drive 200 miles a day on the roads and your neighbour drives 200 miles a year, should he pay as much as you (a non-zero amount of course)? Isn't that [boogie man voice]socialism[/boogie man voice]?

Unless we either switch entirely to toll roads for everything or let the current infrastructure decay completely, the government needs to get funding for those upkeeps and extensions.

Or were you under the impression that the roads were made by the Asphalt and Concrete Fairies?

1a) Don't look like you might be a terrorist
1b) Don't look like the stereotypical terrorist
1c) Don't look like 1a or 1b in blurry pictures
1d) Don't look like you might be a Muslim
1e) Don't live in countries that contain people who fit 1, 1a or 1b

My point was that everybody commits crimes, no matter their social and economic status, and that singling out poor people isn't constructive in any way.

In that case why bring it up? Or why not simply say "the more people there are, the more crimes they'll commit" instead of stigmatizing a massive amount of people?

If you were to catalogue every single crime committed in the span of a year, I'm pretty sure the only ones who haven't committed a crime in some way are people who've been in a coma the entire time, and probably not even all of those.

We know that poor people commit more crimes

Are you sure you don't mean "commit more obvious crimes"? Or did you mean quantity rather than per capita?