Yeah...you're assuming that is worth doing. Big fucking assumption. I could not possibly care less about "pop culture" when it largely consists of bullshit. FWIW, I'll never a Facebook or twitter account either - I don't care if that makes me a "social media" luddite.

They'd have to put something on compelling enough for me to pay to watch it - which isn't really likely. I got rid of my cable tv service some time ago. The only thing we watch at home is Netflix, and even that is pretty marginal considering the $130/month I have to pay for cable modem service with sufficient bandwidth & usage.

Oh come on. By what magic force should a company charge the same for a product (accounting for PPP) throughout the world? Maybe companies charge more in certain parts of the world simply because the people living there WILL PAY MORE! I'm going to go out on a limb and take a guess that medicines cost less throughout the world than they do in the U.S. (for various reasons - none of which are important). I'm sure that no one in places such Australia would offer to pony up more money if they learned their (fill in drug name of choice here) costs a lot less than it does in the U.S. If you're willing to buy (whatever) for twice the price of your neighbor, you can't really blame me for selling it to you at that price.

The only thing I use iTunes for us to connect to streaming radio stations to listen to the news and related programs. It works pretty well for that. It works well enough that I don't use VLC, which I also have, and which could also do the job. I'm SO glad I don't have any kind of "iDevice" - I hope this nasty trend toward morphing OS X into iOS doesn't continue. If it does, I might have to finally switch to Windows ):

Even if he has unmet tax liability, that is not the issue being raised in this case.

TFA is not about "illegal copies" of a book. It's about copies published by the copyright owner, legally purchased, and then SOLD by the owner of the books. Big difference from "illegal copies".

Cars already have a "break override system" - it's called the gear shifter. If the vehicle begins racing out of control, simply moving the shift to the "N" position cuts the engine off from the transmission, which will result in the vehicle coasting to a stop (unless it hits something first). On some vehicles, this can also be achieved by pushing in the clutch.

May Van Halen should be sued - as VH wrote and sold millions of copies of a song glorifying suicide by jumping. Surely this poor fellow must have been influenced by the popularity of the song.

Actually, that is not the case at all. Science deals with the provable, or potentially provable within certain, reasonable parameters. It does NOT deal with anything someone can come up with. For example, suppose I have a theory that the entire universe and time itself was created by a purple creature with a bucktooth and a sore ass from taking a pounding the night before from his spotted blue friend. That is not a scientific theory. It is not provable. Now, I may take it as a matter of FAITH that this is what happened - and I may or may not be right. But I shouldn't be trying to prove I'm right using the scientific method - nor should you represent there is any kind of (scientific) controversy just because you can get some people to agree with you - even if they happen to be scientists. Just because a scientist thinks something doesn't make that something necessarily scientific.

So....everyone involved in the education industry should be working for free? Really?

They don't want them either.

You can choose to underpay. It's called "shoplifting" And your logic is flawed. 10 people could come in the store with $100 bills to buy $1 items. My policy is not to keep $1000 of change on-hand, so I could never make change for all of them. That's fraud? Please. On a similar note - if a place is "cash only" and someone can't pay because they only have a card, that's fraud? Again, no way.

It's not defrauding. Hey, if I say, "we don't stock pennies - you can pay with exact change or donate the difference if you like" and you choose to "overpay" by a few cents, that's your choice. I'm under no obligation to make change for you.

I use cash every day. I don't have a debit/ATM card. I do have a credit card, but I only use it for "in person" transactions at gas pumps, for large purchases, and instances where I don't happen to have enough cash on me (I don't buy much, so it's not usually an issue). Generally speaking, if a transaction is under $40 or so, I'm paying with cash. Taking a look right now - my wallet has $152.....and no pennies. As an owner of a retail location - I find it really annoying that people use cards for the most minute of transactions. I mean, damn - is it expecting too much for you to pay for that $1 item with cash? On a related note - we don't keep pennies in our drawer. We don't round the transaction, nor do we give out pennies. If we "owe" someone pennies, we just ignore it. No one every says anything. We also don't accept pennies, generally speaking. If we do get a couple of them, we just toss them in the trash. Not a big fan of dollar bills either - the pennies of the currency world. Dollar coins make so much more sense. We DO stock our drawer with $2 bills, dollar coins and half dollar coins.

Oh yeah - and what a burden that is.