He made a shitload of money and presumably enjoyed working on Minecraft. If that is no success, I don't know what is.

I would assume that the droids do indeed translate, but we aren't shown it because that would be just annoying.

That's linear growth.

It isn't springtime in the southern half of either the western or the eastern hemisphere.

Won't somebody stop thinking of the children?

And we use those about as much as we use floppy discs.

It does have sort of an equivalent to that, in the form of a number of articles like "Every person shall have the right to (property|life|...)". That the state may not make a law that restricts these rights (unless otherwise authorized to do so by the constitution) is implied. I'm not sure which rights apply to corporations and to which extent.

This new law will probably be constitutional for the same reason patents and copyrights are. I'm not sure what this reason is since the constitution doesn't specifically mention them, it might be the right to property.

Is this what you mean?
(1) All persons shall be equal before the law.

I don't see how this is relevant here, though.

North Americans / South Americans? I don't think we need an extra term for "someone from either North or South America".

That term being...?

Sounds like the work experience did exactly work experiences are supposed to: show him what kinds of jobs he enjoys.

I wouldn't be surprised if those where the only copies, and the hackers deleted them. But they'll probably chase after the hackers and force them to re-upload the tracks to their servers in either case.

She has a PhD in physics so I'm fairly sure that she isn't stupid. Just evil.