The point is copyright term is already absolutely ridiculous. They'll just keep extending it, no reason not to. The parties that were initiators of those extensions admitted that they want infinite copyright.

The problem with religion is that it's inherently logically inconsistent, so they can arrive to any conclusion they want. They could as well decide to make the telescope itself a sacred symbol instead or just consider this irrelevant. To all of this theological justification can be made. The fact that they chose to close it down at any cost suggests that underlying driving force of their behavior is anti-intellectualism.

Yeah, it might seem to be true, but automatic variables are simple to use and things like shared_ptr offer most of functionality of garbage collector when you actually need it. So I don't see much point in garbage collector. Other people too it seems given that there aren't any popular C++ gcs.

I think that using smart pointers and RAII pattern is in all respects better than garbage collection.

Russia is a lot of different people with different objectives. How can you say what is Russia's objective and what isn't? Stop making stuff up.

I think Obsidian developers are way over-hyped. They DO pay uncharacteristically high attention to plot but they really suck at game design, balance and level design. So I think they could make really awesome interactive novels instead of wasting their time with genres they currently work in.

Because he doesn't know chinese? :P

Yes, it works for the purpose of creating another class of rentier aristocracy. And those rentier would understanding disappointed if it was gone. It never worked towards its stated objective "to promote the progress of science and useful arts". Rentier don't have time for that. They actually mostly spend their time on pursuing copyright lawsuits and enjoying their luxury lifestyle.

No. For manufacturers only matter their anti-competitive deals with IBM, Microsoft and what-not. Also, there's no difference between OSes for majority of users so no reason to change..

Don't be ridiculous. Majority will be using whatever OS that is pre-installed on the pc. Majority of users won't spot much of a difference between windows, linux and mac nowadays. Differences between them are insignificant for you unless you're a nerd.

Really? It's pain no matter what. They say "always write a marriage contract". This answer fits with any kind of marriage, even generalized group marriage.

If Greece really doesn't make stuff then there's just no way of them being positive without some sort of outside funding(NOT loads). But how come Greece doesn't really make stuff?

What is the spirit of current system anyway? All people have different opinions. Personally I'd be fine with its abolition even.

But you still failed to establish that poly-marriage is inherently more problematic than homosexual marriage. I remain unconvinced. Polygyny at least is widespread in Muslim countries and Africa and is part of local law there. So it's not unimplementable. I say just take advantage of inventor's paradox and legalize gender-independent group marriage. Both polygamy and homosexual marriage will be subsets of it.

What world view? I don't understand what you're talking about. I don't have any world view.