Don't be absurd. That kind of reasoning can only lead to absurdities like a patent system, or a copyright system.

You might be surprised how many conversations at the proverbial water cooler center on some new television ad campaign. Of course, it's often easy to waylay those into more interesting topics, such as honey badgers.

+1 Perspective!

Amongst this community in particular, it often seems like the RIAA are doing quite well making up losses by suing grandmothers and school children, but in reality they've already lost. It really hits you when the measure of Rebecca Black's success is that she's climbing the iTunes charts instead of Billboard. The RIAA isn't going the way of the dinosaurs, they're already gone.

On the one hand, I like the variety and time-independence of modern media consumption methods (Netflix, Hulu, TPB), but on the other hand I feel sometimes I'm missing out on a shared cultural experience with respect to commercials. On the gripping hand, my only complaint is not seeing commercials.

How can you prove that humans comprehend anything and aren't just really convincingly passing a constant Turing test? You can't say a convincing simulation of comprehension is distinctly different from actual comprehension unless you can test the difference. Thus the idea of a Turing test: a perfect simulation of comprehension is comprehension.

You give humans too much credit.

The FBI has released a public statement, though, regarding a translation of one of the later notes: "You'll put your eye out!"

Um, no. You're very wrong.

What does that have to do with Christmas? Heck, anyone who claims to be a Christian and celebrates Christmas must not pay much attention to their religion. Christmas is a purely secular holiday that those wayward Christians are foolishly attempting to co-opt.

What, I slaughtered and butchered that donkey and went to all that work and now you're saying I'm not allowed to have ass burgers? Jeez, you jerk!

Psh, I saved 30% on car insurance in just 30 minutes by switching to some guy in an alley.

Um, nerds. Thus /..

5 AM is no longer night time.

They could pull an iCarly and do SplashFace, ZapLook, ToonJuice and the like. Very cool way to have real fake websites, with even the potential of AR, like back when they had that old InYourUnderwear.com to match that ad back in the day (no longer works). There's no reason to blatantly break the fourth wall with 555 numbers and 256.1.2.3 IPs all the time.

That's why you spend $5,000 on a shiny, underpowered Mac product rather than spending $100 on crappy looking netbook that can perform the same tasks without looking awesome.

That's cute, but I like my job.