Why not? I did!

"bestows new significance on the old aluminum cans"

I'm not sure that those ALUMINUM pull rings are fifty years old. Steel, yes, I suppose so. They've been around for most of my life. I remember people still used can openers to open their sodas and beers when I was a kid, sometime around 9 to 12 years old, I started seeing pull rings. But, the macho men and the big kids were still crushing their empty cans to demonstrate how many muscles they had between their ears. Aluminum cans became a thing when I was already a teen.

Or, maybe memory serves me poorly. Actually, I think that soda was still marketed in bottles until I was a teen. It was just the beer drinkers who had those pull rings. But I'm quite sure that I saw no aluminum cans until around '67, '68, or maybe even a little later.

Maybe your neighbours open their windows too, and now they can listen to your radio too. It doesn't matter, you still get to hear the music you like anytime, so your investment has paid off.

Now maybe you think the neighbours are leeches who reap all the same benefits as you without having their own radio. Sure, they get to hear your music. But wait, they only get to hear YOUR music. Maybe you like classic rock and listen to that all day, and they can either listen to that, or not. But they can't listen to house, because.... wait for it... they don't have their own radio! You know what they're gonna do? They're gonna either buy their own radio, or they're not gonna listen to the music they like. Simple as that.

There's no harm in funding research and giving the information away. Anyone who reads it gets to learn what you found interesting only. If they want to learn something interesting for themselves, they'll have to fund their own research.

And that's exactly what happens.

Repeat after me: information should be free. Not free to buy, not free to sell, just free. Free for all to use as they like. Free to use as their time permits. Free from coercion. Just free.

If that steps on money grubbing publishers toes who think they can take some of that and extract their percentage of profit, too bad. Maybe they should get a real job.

The fruits of research belongs to everyone on earth. Some smart guy or girl spent a lot of time reading, thinking, experimenting, writing up an idea. The fruits of all that work should not be locked up behind a paywall. It should be accessible instantly from anywhere forever, so that humanity can progress.

You're way off base with your defense of publishers.

How typical. People like you ramble on about things like "tolerance", but you are completely intolerant of any point of view that doesn't agree with your own. You are so very intolerant, that you ASSume that any opposing view must be a Republican point of view. "If you're not with us, then you're against us", right?

Poor idiot.

Well crap, I got the wrong make :(

Have you tried a VPN? If I log into my VPN through the UK, I get tons of results from Google that seem to be UK-centric. If I log in through Dallas, Texas, the results look very much the same as not using a VPN at all. Log in through Denmark, and everything is presented in some language which I presume to be Danish, and I have to click the little UK flag to get English results. I don't know if I can log in through Oz or not - I may have to check that out. There is a LONG list of places that I can log onto the internet through, but I've only tested a few of them.

You might give it a try, if you want regionally / nationally / culturally flavored search results.

Yes, I realize that you've asked for unflavored results, but my idea offers different flavors, which might satisfy your cravings after all!

WTF you calling a Republican? I despise what the Republican party has become. Granted, I despise the Republicans less than I despise the Democrats - but that sure as hell doesn't make me a Republican.

Your second paragraph attempts to establish a person's intelligence, based on his political thoughts. No point in reading any further, unless I want to amuse myself.

Then, you have the audacity to offer advice in your last paragraph?

Grow up, boy. Or girl. The adults were talking, and you should just STFU and listen.

"Why the fuck do you make the idiotic claims that you do?"

Useful idiots are useful idiots. Ever notice that those who denigrate European and US culture are almost always leftists? They are communism's "useful idiots".

What if he wants to contact his representative or Senator? What if he wants to petition his government for redress of grievances?

I got a 404...

Taco Cowboy is CHINESE?!?!?!?! You had me buffaloed, man. I figured you for twelfth generation mixed Mexican and redneck, from deep in the heart of Texas.

They don't. You're making it up. First generation has a strong Mexican accent. Second generation has an accent. Third generation speaks better English than most of us tenth and twentieth generation Americans. You pulled that out of your arse, didn't you?

What's more, because I work with so many Mexicans, I'm actually beginning to understand the first generation accents, and accept them as "normal".

Maybe you should work with more Mexicans, and learn how they assimilate.

I'll grant that there ARE SOME militant assholes among the Mexican community who have no intention of ever being assimilated. They don't want citizenship, they don't want nothing from the US. Those people only want to take back those states that the US took from Mexico. But - it ain't happening. Their grand children will eventually become assimilated.

Not that the US will remain the same - Mexicans are changing the US, right now, while we discuss Mexicans in America. Prepare to be assimilated, yourself. My youngest son, for instance, is doing some mutual assimilating with a beautiful young Mexican lady. I'm waiting for a perfectly assimilated little half Mexican grand baby that I can make fun of.

And, yes, Grandpa gets to make fun of the grandkids, no matter what. I don't give a damn HOW sensitive anyone else might be, grandpa and the grand kids do whatever the hell they want to do.

But, you are implying that the corporation can't commit a crime. Then, you insist that this make-believe entity, the corporation, is exempt from prosecution.

I insist that each individual may be judged, AND that the collective entity, the corporation itself, may also be judged. We see this happen when judges impose fines on corporations - no individual within the corporation pays the fine, but the corporation does.

If the corporation can be fined, then by extension, it can be found guilty of criminal acts, and appropriately punished. No, you can't put a corporation in prison, but you CAN deprive it of it's resources, disband it, or put it under special restrictions.