There is a difference between stealing a car and making an exact 1:1 copy without effecting the original.

You are trying to clam "Theft" (taking a physical object from someone else) and "Copyright Infringement" (making a copy of a digital object) are the same, they are not.

Yes, Lets take the vigilante route with Murder and Arson, Like that will somehow get their money back instead of prison time.

And the reason there are not more people along with is maybe they don't want to squat in their own filth for weeks/months and are not raging lunatic animals. (like the OWS group is behaving like.)

And more to the point everyone seems to think that all wall-street/bank people should be in jail for their so-called "crimes" except they are not (except for a few so far) because NO CRIME WAS COMMITTED! (none on the books for the most part)

If you think it should be a crime then advocates such a position and change/update the laws, don't spout out crap about punishing people for non-crimes that don't exist.

Maybe you should be arrested, but you didn't commit a crime... oh well i think you should just because i say so. (doesn't sound so reasonable now does it?)

Got a Maxtor 120MB Original IDE spec.

So old it actually is one of the pre-listed (ie non-user/custom) types on the old BIOSs that had the 1-30 something ID Type in the list up until a few years ago.

Even cam from the factory with the error/bad sectors written in pen (the 12, 20, and 40MB ones i had before it when they still used pencil died years ago)

I don't mind those, But the newer web-looking half-page (almost flash-looking) banners they try to integrate into the movie/tv scenes are what is annoying.

They do now. Why do you think they bought Motorola?

These "Bills" do not amend/modify the constitution, they circumvent it.

Amending the constitution is fine, but there is right way to do it (constitutional convention,voting, state ratification, etc...), and there is the wrong way (adding legislation by re-defining common terms and trying to work around it because you know there is no way you can successfully modify it when you don't have the votes or issuing executive orders).

Then why are unions compulsory in some places, Why don't these union bosses ask their members to voluntarily pay their dues instead writing laws that make them mandatory and their membership a requirement to work. (most of these union bosses are paid more than the company executives they are so against.)

Maybe these workers should be able to "Democratically" choose to be a union or not, and be able to voluntarily pay their dues instead of the money be spent before they have a say.

And btw the US is a "Democratic Republic" not a "Democracy" (there is a big difference in rule by mob and equal rule by law)

"...Microsoft is incapable of producing a basic utility like that on their own and must buy it from another company."

Where do you think all of Microsoft's products came from in the first place?

DOS: MS Bought it
Original Windows interface: MS Bought out the company that made the DOS shell for it.
SQL: MS paid Sybase for it.
MS TCP/IP: MS got it from BSD

MS Hasn't really created anything, they have acquired it from somewhere else.

And the judge should have thrown the gavel right at the lawyers head that did that.

"but as it's currently deployed by carriers it doesn't have the ability to record SMS messages, phone calls or keystrokes."

"Currently" is the key word here and is subject to change over time!

You forgot the current trend of Volume bursting during commercials. (what ever happened to AVL from the older CRT TVs? I could really use that now.)

That is the most annoying thing ever, i have to turn the volume way up (some times 12-13/30) during shows/movies and the commercials blast in at 20x volume and i have to turn down to below 2-3/30.

Both cable and sat. companies do this, I heard there was some law about to be passed by congress 1-2 years ago to stop this but i guess the advertising bribers...eh lobbyists prevented it.

An SSN is only for use as by the SSA for retirement benefits, says so on the card (i even have that specifically says no to be used as ID and i am keeping it since some of the new ones don't)

They shouldn't be using it for these purposes and that "Is" the problem.

No, it was more stupidity of deploy $NEW_SHINY_DEVICE now and don't properly estimate/evaluate the impact of deploying 1,000s of $NEW_SHINY_DEVICE systems and just spend the damn money without thinking ahead.

Careful what you wish for, instead of being "Designed for low-end consoles" -> PC port.

It will be "Designed for lowest common denominator smart-phones/tablets (or flash) -> PC port.

Don't give it, you would be surprised how many of those won't push you when you refuse.

I have done this at govt. facilities and they usually will skip it or not even notice you put nothing down, Most places/forms simply have a field and ask you to fill them all out.

Most people will simply fill out all fields that are asked on the forms, just because it is there does not mean it is necessary.

I don't fill it out for for govt. entry passes or medical forms. (no one has ever noticed or asked 99% of the time and those that do i remind them that number/info has nothing to to with the form I'm filling out and they drop it)