It's yogurt made from the secretions of the evil tofudebeest.

I think... I feel good about it.

I still miss WordPerfect every time I open MS Word.

The first image that popped in my head was some lawyer or pretend-human working for the Fuck-You-AA jumping up and down in joy shouting, "Two thousand two hundred fifty per song? That's chickenshit compared to this! If we can get each case bumped up to 50 years in jail and four million dollars, minimum, just like this, we can get whole slews of these filthy downloaders offing themselves! Problem solved!"

The sad thing is that greed, whether for fame, notoriety, or recognition, or even just for money -- and who's to say that any or all of those might have figured in the case of the prosecutor here -- has gone unchecked and allowed to run rampant for a long long time. Lawrence Lessig cites that "...we live in a world where the architects of the financial crisis regularly dine at the White House..." Increasingly, it's become more and more commonplace, and perhaps even acceptable, for supposed infringers -- more often than not people who have no access to expensive legal support -- to be punished so harshly that it makes no sense, without regard to any actual form of "justice." If not acceptance, then this behavior has so far generated only apathy.

In this case, I think "bureaucrazy" is entirely appropriate.

...does one lug around a ton and a half of bacon? And without stopping somewhere and just gorging on the stuff?

So has anyone else noticed that "Potential Indicators of Terrorist Activities" and "Pain In The Ass" have the same starting letters if you turn them into acronyms?

Aww, I feel for you, I really do. It just doesn't change the fact that you're an idiot. A superannuated idiot, for sure, but then idiocy like yours knows no boundaries of sex, age, or race.

From reading the article, apparently even deselecting automatic updates isn't enough, because part of the constantly-updating TOS reads:

Nah, idiots like you are always wrong. You can't even spell Paracelsus' name right.

Wow, did someone rewrite the laws of physics as regards the chemical properties of solid water when I wasn't looking? Goddamn, that must mean that comets don't actually exist, because they are, after all, agglomerations of dust, rock, and... wow, look at that! ice, totally exposed to the vacuum of space, and couldn't possibly survive long enough for our obviously ignorant, non-creationist "scientists" to observe them and catalog four thousand one hundred and eighty-five of them.

And I guess Jupiter's moon Europa is shot, too, because it's just so much ice and rock at what might as well be the partial vacuum of 0.1 Pa. It's incredible that our ignorant, non-creationist astronomers can still see it in their telescopes, considering that ice evaporates in a vacuum. Wow, they must have such incredible imaginations!

Only if you define "religiot" as someone who follows a religion. :P

If it's not targeted at them but they're the only ones getting hit, then the people deploying the DRM have really shitty aim.

TL;DR: Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak! Whoosh!

Ah, but proper, intelligent communication, both written and spoken, are. Knowledge of usage, syntax, and grammar are necessary to be able to decode what the other person is saying and contribute intelligently to a conversation, unlike, say, dropping the word linguistics in a totally off-topic, tangential response and using meaningless junk phrases.

Attacking what someone says as a "meaningless junk phrase" is hardly conducive to fostering discussion, especially when one uses meaningless junk phrases, too. When was the last time you waved your hand in someone's face and said "Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!" and got anything close to resembling a meaningful response? Did your calendar list "idiolect" as your word for the day and made it so that you had to find any way at all to inject it into a conversation?

If you're trying to get your posts modded Informative or Interesting, the least you can do is use a proper a href reference instead of leaving people wondering if you're using some made-up word from your idiolect and having to use the autodetect feature of the google translator. Oh, and drop the ad-hominem attacks, too. Attacking a poster does not make up for a lack of relevant content in a post.