Meanwhile, DC continues to show there is no move too desperate that they won't risk alienating their fans in the quest for the dollar.

(Note: Not multiple dollars, they'll do it for just 1....)

Zynga? Copy someone else's Game?

I'm Shocked! Shocked, I say!

Q3DM17, The Longest Yard, is almost mandatory, I would think...

From the summary:

'I decided to "get even" by launching computer attacks against him,' said Ardolf

Sounds like he confessed, so, um, yeah?

If everyone was going to go away for a long weekend, maybe that wasn't the best time to be releasing an update then, hmm?

I wasn't even given an option to upgrade or not, it just happened without asking and broke a couple add-ons I use every day.

And in related news, the number of TomTom units available for sale on eBay tripled last night

People already have the dev kit running on the Nook Color.
If anything, source would *improve* the user experience at this point...

We're going to ignore the fact that this is more accurate, as a democracy is where everyone makes every decision, which is impractical on any large scale, while a republic is where we elect people to make decisions for us.

In all fairness, one of the reasons there's such a low piracy rate on Baen's books is that they are free to distribute as long as you don't charge for them

Baen on their own website has many first books in series available: http://www.baen.com/library/

Also, they've released CD's of books in many of their hardcovers over the years, with a license that allows copying, including online. One site that has them available is http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/

The only versions of their books that are electronically available and not allowed to be distributed are the ones purchased at http://www.webscription.net/

And Express mail isn't really handled on the regular routes, but a separate truck anyway.
Days I get Express and the like delivered, I get an extra mailman in addition to the regular drop.

Except you don't know which person you're going to try and call on it is actually a complete whack-job who will now tailgate you and generally make a nuisance of themselves all the way to your destination where they will threaten you with bodily harm...

Learn to keep track of your damn phone...

So 2 wrongs makes a right?
Heck, even if you're just copying a copy, it's still a copy of whomever had the original idea somewhere back up the chain.

(Note: I'm not saying reusing an idea is right or wrong, I'm just pointing out the hole in this particular argument)