Don't know about BF4 in particular, but they sure are right about "cultural aggression".

They are certainly experts of this topic since it is what they are doing in Tibet for 60 years.

Sorry DRM is stupid all day. Give me the non-DRM-laden version every time.

FTFY

Physical media has serious problems (like being inconvinient to handle, not really backupable, dependent on other devices to use it, etc - and it may have DRM on it at the end). You don't have to go back there, you can just move ahead and use the ethereal formats without the DRM-nonsense.

And with the right Calibre plugin you can de-DRM any ebook from Amazon automatically.

And recently, the The New England Journal of Medicine reported depression meds have no effect.

That's patently untrue. The Huffingtonpost article you link to is wildly inaccurate, self-contradictory and much more about sensationalism than the actual NEJoM article.

Just take a look at this article. If you see the same in the print edition then you should come off your acid trip. And it's not that it is gorgeous in its full glory - it is also implemented correctly. On the desktop it does not overload the CPU, it is absolutely enjoyable on mobile devices, hell, it renders OK also in lynx. And note the correct use of videos: you are not expected to watch it like TV, it just enhances the text.

That's great, but my 4K TV only has HDMI inputs

That most probably means that those HDMI inputs are NOT HDMI 2.0 ports (especially because the HDMI 2.0 specs were released this September).

I fully expect these to be a re-built subset of applications, not binary compatible but code compatible.

Actually they are most probably talking about the "Windows Store apps". These contain both x86 and ARM binaries, run sandboxed, fullscreen with the Metro UI, so I see no reason you could not run them on the X1. However I also do not see much reason to be excited by this functionality - only time will tell, but I do not see huge potential in running dumbed down, simple apps on a gaming console.

http://thepiratebay.sx/

Incidentally, having a patent also means no patent, since algorithms are not patentable.

They're not the government. They have no "fairness" obligation to everyone.

But they are a business and as such, they are subject to business regulations.

I don't see how they can be accused of holding a monopoly when "no other horse breeding registry allows cloned animals ..." indicates that they ain't the only game in town.

To be a monopoly, you don't have to have 100% of the market - just like Windows does not have 100% of the desktop OS market and there are quite a few other desktop OSes, yet it definitely has a monopoly in that area.

That statement is just as silly as if you said 'OH, well bullets kill, and are made of metal, maybe no one should use metal there either?!'

Yes, that's silly. Just as silly that because of the A-bomb they should not use nuclear powerplants, for exactly the same reasons.

I don't believe they should have huge petro based power plants that should something go amiss incinerate exceptionally large areas and make them un-livable well beyond your life span, causing slow deaths to large populations with birth defects years to come.

You know, the problem with oil-burning power plants (and in Japan that's what they are using to substitute the currently off-line nuclear power plants) that nothing has to "go amiss" for them to cause slow deaths and birth defects (and, I should add, currently there's nothing to suggest that the Fukushima incident will result in slow death or birth defects).

Yes, I can totally see, how a misguided Apple user would download stuff from Amazon to his iPhone instead of using Apple's app store - well, except for the minor problem
, that their phones do not allow them to do it.

She should just grow up and accept that she's not as special as she thinks she is.

But there's a little problem there: she is.

OK, so who will be the first to post the phrase "almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea"?

Oh, it was me.

That 51,1% certainly does not include a lot of the things you have listed - like the 25% VAT (sales tax), the egregious taxes on anything related to cars and don't even get me started about liquor taxes in Sweden. If you factor all that in, it comes a lot closer to 75%.

Exactly :)