Anonymous phones exist in the UK. You don't have to give any (true) information to get a pay as you go phone.

In addition, DRM is good for consumers because it ensures that studios will be willing to publish more than zero desirable works in a format.

You seem to forget that studios _have_ to be willing to publish in a format that people will use. The studios being "willing" to publish is irrelevant. If they try to publish works in a format no one uses, they lose their revenue stream. Their entire business model is having as many people as possible buy the content.

I personally started buying music online a few years back. I didn't want DRM.

I've spent probably a few hundred pounds with Amazon, just because when I started buying music online they were the place to offer DRM free. Apple lost me as a customer because of DRM.

they blocked and non-apple DRM like every other company out there and Real had to hack it.

Is this supposed to be a sentence? If so, I don't know what it means, at all. I'm speaking literally here.

but in the end itunes allowed you to use any hardware you wanted as long as the maker coded to a few of apple's API's.

I can just about understand this sentence, I think.

Of course, for men who are circumcised and so who already lost most of their ability to feel what sex is (because of thicker and less sensitive skin as well as no foreskin movement), it doesn't matter much

How on earth would you know what a circumcised man can feel during sex? Do you have any experience of this, or are you just making assumptions?

Technically, a "Lingua Franca" is a language used by two people whose first language is something else entirely. I, for example, can't use English as a Lingua Franca, since it's my first language. I have, however, spoken to a Spanish person (who could not speak English) in French, therefore was using French as a kind of Lingua Franca.

The original Lingua Franca was a trading language used around the Mediterranean from about 1000 years ago, and was originally based predominantly on northern Italian dialects. The term has been applied to other languages like Latin retroactively.

Chinese doesn't even have a word for "no", to give you an idea of how fundamentally different it is.

The "Do not want" meme was caused by the Chinese lack of the word "no" - See here or here for one of my all time favourite things. It makes the new Star Wars films watchable.

Authors don't have control over their work now. There are plenty of spoofs, fanfics, and porn versions of content that the authors hate. Do you think we should ban them too?

"Reptile" is such a broad, catch-all classification it's almost worthless. Dimetrodon, for example, has always been classified as a reptile, but is more closely related to humans than it is to any modern reptiles. Crocodiles are much more closely related to birds (and dinosaurs) than they are to other reptiles like lizards and snakes.

Ok, I'm going to stop replying to myself soon. It used to be brewed in north London between 1936 and the mid 2000's. And I agree with AC above about its "real" beer credentials being a little dubious now.

Oops, I'm wrong (about Guinness). All the Guinness consumed in the UK (and the US) is brewed in Dublin, apparently. I wonder where I got the notion it was brewed in England.

Nearly all the lager drunk in the UK is foreign - Carling is the only major exception. Some of the foreign beer like Fosters is brewed in the UK under license though. It is originally Australian, though, obviously.

Nearly all the "real" beer drunk in the UK is English, Guinness being the only major exception, though this is brewed in the UK too (though I assume Guinness drunk in Northern Ireland is brewed in Ireland, but I may be wrong).

1920x1280? When was that a standard?

Did you mean 1920x1200?

Why?

How will you using Sony's products without paying for them hurt them?

Really? If you could choose your penis size, what would it be? If everyone could choose their penis size, what would your choice be then?