Shareholder has a specific legal meaning. It refers to the entities that own the shares of a for profit corporation. Valve is not a corporation. It is an LLC. If you're trying to dilute the term to mean "anyone with ownership in any sort of company" you might as well just say "owners" as it would be more accurate.

Valve Software is not a corporation. Yes, the name is "Valve Corporation", but they are not actually incorporated under the law. They are an LLC.

Valve doesn't have shareholders. It's a privately held LLC.

Quite true. As the link you provided states, Congress passed a law prohibiting receivers on the cellphone bands. The FCC has tried to claim jurisdiction over pure receiving devices in the past, but has been met with much resistance from the public. This memo, prepared by the Univ of Colorado's School of Law, would be a good place to start.

As for the technology itself, a simple Google search would give you all the information you need.

From time to time new political views get wider attention in the US. In the past it was the neocons, now it's the Tea Party. And they get into office.

That's because our political parties contain a much wider spectrum of opinion than yours. Blue Dog Democrats have vastly different views than Progressive Democrats or the Christian Left, for example. Log Cabin Republicans have a different agenda than the Tea Party, Neocons or the Religious Right. These are just a few examples. In Europe these would all be different parties. In the US they are forced to form factions within a superparty.

You can return any Redbox movie to any Redbox kiosk anywhere.

Everything he posted is right on Wikipedia's various Apollo links. Reading that and following the source links should keep you busy for a long time.

This. Who's chairman of the board over there?

Reed Hastings. You know, the guy who's also the CEO and co-founder. He's also on the Board at Microsoft. I'm willing to bet he knows a bit more about running a successful business than random schlubs on the internet.

The last time Netflix released a breakdown of their numbers like that was back in 2003, when they only had 1.5 million subs. At that time, they bought 85,000 copies of a popular new release. For current numbers we can only go by analysts, which suggest about 1 to 1.5 million copies of a major new release. They don't legally need permission from studios, no, but logistically there's no way they're going to get at least a million discs ready to ship on release day without studio cooperation.

POD is not coming and if it ever does it will certainly not rewrite publishing. If someone ever wastes their time developing a decent POD implementation the best they'll achieve is a high rank in a sad magazine article entitled, "Top Ten 'Too Late' Technologies".
Digital readers are only going to improve in quality and drop in price. Right now there is zero reason for fiction to exist in a physical form except as a rapidly disappearing anachronism. As readers improve, technical and other large format books will soon join them. Just because there is currently still a market for physical books that doesn't mean it's a large sustainable one worth investing in.

False.

In TBC and Vanilla you simply did not get new 5 man instances patched into the game.

Magister's Terrance would like a word with you.

Looking for groups makes it too easy to find another group, thus eliminating the need to be nice to the one you're in.

If you're only nice because you "need" to be, you're a jerk.

If you have an Blockbuster store nearby each mailed rental you turn in at the store is a free rental. You also get two coupons per month for in store rentals. At least that's how it used to work

Everyone is not you. A great many people are poor, unskilled, uneducated laborers and often immigrants. They're already easily abused by employers due to lack of knowledge of labor laws, lack of resources to do anything about it and/or fear of repercussions.