That's pretty great feature, and it pretty much removes any excuse for piracy.

Let's also not forget that there's no way to "return" an app or even to politely ask for your money back. If the app doesn't work, you're screwed.

According to Androd Market, you can return the app for a refund within 24 hours:

http://market.android.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=134336

Does this not work for you?

(I'm just parroting the link given a few posts above -- I haven't tried this myself)

Just change your product from Pod to Pad, and Apple will leave you alone.

Yes of course I know this. But knowingly receiving stolen property is also a crime. At least where I reside :)

Using Facebook as sworn testimony! Cause you know people never lie on Facebook! /sarcasm... Also that would be my defense if I was her. Unless she was dumb enough to add a picture... in which case I'd say I shopped it... Unless she was dumb enough to also attach a video...

This hard earned money is not your to begin with. It's not even real! It only has value because of the government. How much would one dollar be worth if the government didn't exist? If there was no one watching the boarder, and anyone can come from any shitty country and steal it from you. If there was no police protection your beautiful house would only be worth as much as the window a gang of criminals smashed to get inside, and loot it; proceeding thereafter you kill you and rape your family. Or how much would your stack of bills be worth if no one regulated inflation, and overnight it wouldn't buy you a loaf of bread? (See Zimbabwe)

Not everything government does is great, or even good. But they do enough good to make it worth it. That's why all first world countries with high standards of living have large governments that collect taxes, and not Somalian-style fiefdoms. So no they are not trying to keep their hard earned money, they are stealing from everyone else.

But one of them will usually have a hard time keeping his mouth shut about it.

In that case they don't trust Joe who never went to boot camp and has a CS degree to light up a cottage half way around the world with a million dollar missile if he thinks there might be children inside. /exhale

If the government somehow steals something, it's alright!

You assume that motive for such crimes is always monetary. I assure you, the man smiling in those photos is not smiling cause you gonna wire him some money later.

I would disagree. Maybe on low settings this is true. But on higher settings and if actually competing with another Human being, religion was highly desirable.

It had benefits and hardly any drawbacks. Only drawback was the possibility of your opponent winning a diplomatic victory.

Oh then tell your acquaintances they can buy it now. So instead of playing the best game of the series, which civ4 was by far, they are stuck with this POS and no religion! Yey! the "sanity" of a religious zealot prevails yet again!

I cannot envision this day, because I will simply not buy... I mean... "license" any of this crap. I'll make my own games before I buy into this "you don't own what you paid for" nonsense.

I call it iWaste when it's new and shiny.

All the physics articles I've been asked to referee so far have appeared on the arXiv (http://arxiv.org/) already. They tend to be submitted to arXiv and the target journal at the same time. There's a good chance I'd be familiar with the paper by the time the journal came knocking with a referee request.