Anti-incumbent furor is something I've always been entertained by, in the sense that bad-blood is always complained about, but not what's making the blood bad to begin with. So you vote everyone out. Okay, great. What's to prevent this load of politicians from going bad? The threat of getting voted out? Something they'll have to face every 2 to 6 years anyways? The structure of government is what requires change, not necessarily the people. Unless you treat the underlying cause, you will face the same problem again.

And if they include their anti-virus, then they're a monopoly trying to exploit the market through tying. There's no winning for them. Though your point doesn't really stand as their AV solution is free.

To people who would have pirated anyways. You're not entitled to their game, no matter how bad of a deal it is. Their business failings don't forgive your moral failings.

What you're supposed to do is return them to the bank or contact the secret service and turn the money over. However, you're not reimbursed for this. If the ATM gives you a fake $20 and you go inside and give it to the bank, you're out those $20 because they didn't witness what happened between you getting the money and you coming inside the bank. Knowing that, what you do with the counterfeit money is sort of up to you. Maybe you didn't realize it was counterfeit and will spend it anyways. It's best to withdraw cash from inside the bank and verify it in front of the teller, because if they see that you didn't swap any bills and you were given a fake by them, they will exchange it.

Lost control of your computer != Hacked

It's worth noting that this beta signup also allows you to opt into Diablo and Warcraft universe beta testing as well.

Vista cost me $100 the week it came out - legally at that. You're either doing it wrong or you're being disingenuous for the sake of argument.

What's the problem? We were planning on thanking you in the release notes...

Given the complexity of games today, it would likely mean the same game being shipped, sans patches that fix bugs later on. UT3 isn't some game from 15 years ago; the code base I'm sure is nowhere comparable, so to be quite honest, bug free games these days aren't a realistic expectation.

Correlation != Causation

Because you failed to read the sentence correctly.

That it's their software that they've created? That they're allowed to do with it as they see fit, because it's theirs and they own it? How dare they change their new OS so that it differs from the old one, you know?