What a waste. It would be much better to put on an entertaining show based on those works.

What do people get out of this "understanding" anyway?

In my experience, absolutely not. Quit spreading untrue stereotypes, I mean it.

Totally uninformed question (as usual), but what is stopping them from just putting an oxygen mask on and walking away?

Sooo, only patents that can be worked around are constitutional, unless they're worthless, right? After all, society would still run without the "interactive web", you just wouldn't have nice things. I bet that the patent would have stood up in court if it had been enforced much earlier, when it was new and only a few people were using it.

Especially when it is that bloody obvious he's an idiot. Doesn't require much insight at all. Oh wait, you didn't mean that did you?

I bet they called it 'Operation Sandwich'.

The sound of the truth, blowing him away.

Funnily enough, there was a story about this a couple of years ago. Well, sort of about that.

Heh, they could just have a server that by default allows the DRM check to pass, and not have to worry about customer details for the time that the other server is offline. But no, they had to choose the horrible way to do it. Should be thinking twice about buying a game from these jokers, I mean other than the way they already treated their 'customers' up until this point.

As an outsider to the US, may I humbly suggest that as a start, an alternative voting system could be used, such as some sort of single transferable vote system. At least then citizens will not have to worry about wasting their vote.

If there is something wrong with my above statement, I would like to know. And yes, pigs may fly and all that.

In my experience it is completely mixed. A lot of people think that it is the law, so it must be good. The techs where I work first heard about SOPA when I went to a wikipedia page in front of them during the blackout (not deliberately, actually was trying to look something up); they didn't much care, and since I knew about it I believe they thought I used the internet too much. The close relatives I have mentioned it to (once) didn't know what it is either, probably because they are informed by TV news and newspapers, which never mentioned it at all, at least before the blackout. It is not something I would particularly want to talk about face to face, simply because it is not 'cool', and that matters.

Maybe your experience is different.

Patent bullshit.

Couldn't resist.

Ah, a budding eugenicist. You do realise that the traits a child manifests are not necessarily the traits either of their parents manifested. This is high school chemistry class material.

Totally agreed.

I have seen people who base their actions on an idealised (to them) version of what the world should be. The results are disastrous. This can be seen when someone puts up argument around something that sounds good, such as "you shouldn't use or benefit from something that was made from the suffering of others". They don't even think of what effects the abstract construction that they invented actually has if it is used. It sounds good to them so it MUST be right. These people also tend to be very hypocritical and selective about what these rules apply to.

As for doing something because it is the 'right' thing to do, screw that, give me cause and effect.

Note I am not devaluing the value of human life, dignity, non-suffering or anything of the kind, just saying that certain moralities that appear good can have very negative effects.

And misspelling your country's name.