I be a pirate, mateys!

I paid thirty bucks a pop so my girlfriend and I could see The Hobbit in 3D...twice. That's $120 right there, spent gladly, without a moment's hesitation.

Last night another $60 went into the pockets of the movie industry when we went to see Part 2. We're going to go back again...that will raise the total to $240.

And I have absolutely no doubt we'll see Part 3 when it comes out...probably twice AGAIN. That will mean that off just one guy of average means, the movie industry will have made $360 for what is essentially ONE story.

So if I had downloaded Part 1 without paying AGAIN so we could refresh our memories before going to Part 2, I'd be a "pirate"? I'd have to worry that the industry and their tame douche nozzles in the MPAA would be all over my lily-white bum?

Screw them. If there's ever a way I can legally stick it to them, I'll do it laughing. I wish them ill. To the conscienceless greedoids putting honest, paying customers into situations like this, I hope their lives that turn into ugly, painful battles for survival. I truly, deeply detest them.

Ultimately just how much of this kind of rancor do those arrogant, greedy bastards think they can create before average people the hammer on them once and for all?

Brilliant! Thanks for starting my day off with a good laugh.

I guess this means a US court will bravely stand up to bring Mickey Mouse into the public domain somewhere around 3500 AD.

It's very odd that you should have such an experience, especially since you say you're relatively young and in good health. Everybody so far who has claimed they had to pay more than four times the cost of their old policy for the same coverage has proved to be a bare-faced liar.

You might be the first person in the United States to have such an experience, so it would be wonderful if you'd provide enough information that your allegation could be verified by an objective party.

I mean, I believe everything you say, but wasn't it the godlike Ronald Reagan who said, "Trust but verify"?

And who am I to question god?

Who but a witless fucktard could fail to realize the perfect time to indulge one's urge to rebel is precisely when one is carrying a trashed laptop and has nothing to hide?

Absolutely! Crime is crime! There's not an iota of difference between stealing a loaf of bread to feed your kid and driving a lawnmower over an acre of puppies.

My, what a lovely little crop of fascist twerps we're growing around here lately.

The deer around where I live eat it like salad.

Neighbor Pron

Obviously

Bitcoin has been around for quite a while, and nothing special seemed to be happening with it. Then along came the Wikileaks release of information that genuinely infuriated the United States. All of a sudden, PayPal, several imitators and all the major credit card companies decided not to process donations to the organization.

Time passes, and people who might not want the United States to have final say over their financial arrangements were just starting to move lazily toward some form of anonymous money transfer.

Then the Snowden situation arose, and those people got their noses rubbed in the fact that the kind of spying and control they were worried about in a vague way was on-going, comprehensive, and aimed at everybody from heads of state to some granny who attended an Occupy demonstration.

So they got the message: We need a way to move money anonymously, and we need it right this minute.

Enter Bitcoin. (dramatic music)

It won't take long to notice that a grossly disproportionate number of cute girls in short skirts are either warned or ticketed.

When it comes right down to it, the Republican Party has never stood for anything except keeping the foot of rich people planted firmly on the neck of everybody else.

The fact that they've managed to fool a bunch of drooling, ill-educated, propaganda-loving morons into backing them is no reason to believe they want anything for the middle class except abrupt reduction to slave status.

Fuck off, troll.

Thanks for saving me the trouble. That sums up my feelings about the movie almost exactly. It could have been a brilliant satire. Instead, it was a half-assed one.

Thanks for making me laugh so hard I think I woke up the people next door.

...how long can it be until Slashdotters are reported using the avatar to get a hand job that feels like somebody else?