Welcome to Australia! (That is exactly our government right now, 3 people have the balance of power.) It is actually hilarious (and god awfully painful) to hear people talking about "backflipping" and "reversing election promises", when they made these promises under the auspices of "Give us government, we will/will not do X" What happens? They DON'T get elected. So they figure out a way to convince a couple others to actually elect them. As far as I am concerned, governments that are REQUIRED to form a coalition government (after the election occurs, not before) are basically exempt from all promises, because they can't keep their promises, as the voting public didn't hold up their end of the bargain.

Office XP? O RITE !! office 2002 ...

pervert.

It is completely analogous.

Back before The War, it was legal to own slaves. The law said you could, and if a slave ran away the police would drive them back to your house (given they could prove that the slave was the slave in question).
The analogy isn't that you can have slaves NOW, it is that things can change. That what is considered "Right" now, and that what is considered "Good" by the law changes. (don't forget it was also considered "good" by (at least some) popular perception, I mean they fought a WAR over this issue among others ofcourse).

Sure, slaves are odd, but the argument that: "The law says its good, and I agree" doesn't necesarily make it right. Because the law has considered "good" and "right" some odd things (according to us) in the past.

They shouldn't be *obligated*, but they can go to hell if they try to sue someone for playing with something they own.

you think $50 dollars is bad?

try paying $90+
($110 for xbox RRP).

Oh, sure its AUD, but we aren't 60 us cents to our dollar anymore, we are in fact 1.05 us buys 1 AUD as of yesterday.

*Spit*

You are really not thinking very much are you.
If you can't convince someone to pay you for something you are doing, get this, you don't deserve to get paid. I know its hard to imagine, but you don't get paid for it, period.
If you write music, and can't convince someone to pay you for it, don't give it away for free. Keep it! your heirs can try to sell it later, and get paid for it then!

If you build a boat, and can't convince someone to buy it from you. So instead you give it away. Your heirs don't get paid for it ever.. Why should they when you can't sell your music when you are alive?

When I start selling your book, I am not selling YOUR book. I am selling something that LOOKS like your book.

Your example of the house is a false example.

The closest would be, if you die your heirs inherit your house.
Your heirs can't stop someone copying your house. Copying your garden layout, copying your trees. That would be nuts.

But given time, education and funding they COULD perform the independent testing and verification.

No such thing can be said of religion.

This is the standard for *what is faith and what is trust*.

Science isn't faith. It is trust that the above statement will lead us to the reasons of why things are, and why things will be.

Faith is believing the reasons of why things are (and will be) is attributable to methods that are unverifiable. Your belief that prayer caused healing for example. If I had a drug, that healed terminal condition X. I could set up an experiment that showed that using that drug vs a placebo would show an obvious increase in survival rates for condition X.
The prayer equivalent would be to run an experiment where you would have someone pray for those with condition X (in their presence). But the placebo in this case, would be someone that *looks* like they are praying, but are actually praying to god to tell him to decide. (the faith based placebo - look like you are praying for their survival, but actually praying to let god decide as if the prayer were never made).

Obviously, Terminal conditions is taking it a bit extreme, but I guarantee you, as long as the participating patients were not tipped as to the content of the prayer, their recovery rates (as an average) would match identically those that had an honest prayer for them.

Clearly this also voids the whole experiment, because the argument is any omnipotent being capable of all this healing would see through the whole charade and heal those he thought truly deserved it (or something), regardless of the experimenters prayer. Sadly this is an out that faith has to avoid the scrutiny of the whole "repeatable" aspect. Faith has rules and regulations that require it to be beyond questioning. That is why science is not a faith. Its rules and regulations are explicitly defined so that what it claims is true is meant to stand up to testing. but more than that, is supposed to actually be tested.

With a sit in you can go to the "entrance" of a store and talk to people visiting.

With the internet you cannot go to the "entrance" (front of the web page) and give people a handy popup (that they can rightfully ignore) about how bad you think sony is.

Talking on the internet, is like going to your local park and complaining about the supermarket in a city 200 miles away (everything on the internet is very close to everything else, while simultaneously being on a different planet). Sure, people can go to your park and hear your story, but how exactly is it the equivalent situation to a sit in?

A DOS isn't the same, but its close. The closest to a sit in would be defacing the front page of Sony's website in such a way that you could click "past" the defacement and continue working on sony's site. But I don't think anyone would think that it is legal, as it requires modification of Sonys property. (kind of like spraypainting your message on the window of a shop). There really is no equivalent, but a DOS is the closest - no physical "damage" but it does affect its ability to do business (no sit-in is damageless).

except a big enough picket line will be really annoying to walk past.

This is like a really really really big picket line. you *can* talk to sony, it isn't going to be easy and not everything you say to them (internet metaphorically speaking here) will get through the picket line (and back again)

They aren't cowards, they are DOING something, in fact they are doing a very illegal something.
They got balls, (perhaps stupid balls) but balls. (though perhaps slightly inflated by the theory of "anonymous"... they aren't anonymous enough in general sadly.)

And after you do it to one, you can buy another! and torture that to death! Take that Sony!! Maybe after you've bought like 50 Sony will finally give in! In fact I'm sure they will be so sad, they will be sure to give you a free copy of God of War 7 and pray you wont burn that on your extremely popular viral Youtube channel in front of your whole audience...

Out of interest who made the battery in your laptop? Did they pay Sony for any patents they might hold on battery technology? Are you sure?