They watched the suspects like hawks. Pulled in the crows suspecting murder. They were given the bird. Even the canary didn't sing.

I think it's that they are misleading customers as to whether they can get the refund rather than not giving the refund.

Some metadata perhaps. It's easy to remove if you know where it is but a lot of people really don't have a clue.

I think expectation of piracy is built into GOG's business model, but, there's no reason not to have some ability to track leaked files if only for analysis purposes.

For practical purposes they are. When the DRM can be cracked in seconds, who really cares? Sure, there are valid socio-political to object in principle, but if you want media that you can copy and format shift, DVD is fine.

I predict it will be less than a year before law enforcement decides to shut down all cell phones of people they disagree with (like protesters).

What prevents them from doing this now? They effectively control the exchanges.

It is double blind so we can control for people being nice.

Graphical quality is subjective, so people are going to be influenced by whether they enjoyed it more. Chances are they'd also report better sound effects, and even a more enjoyable journey home.

Of course they can - you do it all the damn time!

No. It doesn't work like that.

The BBC itself is publicly owned, so in that sense, it is public property, but we don't have the right to individual assets any more than a shareholder in Sony can start making copies of Spiderman DVDs.

Also it's paid for by a licence fee rather than taxes. You can call them taxes if you like, but it doesn't go into or come out of central taxation.

Yes it does. It's called fair dealing. But it doesn't allow you to offer complete episodes of a TV show.

So you consider your inability to purchase a vacuum cleaner with an inefficient motor a hardship on the same level as death?

The inefficient motors in your vacuum cleaner mean more pollution, which affects me so it makes it my business.

It was 240V +/- 6%. They did actually use those tolerances. Quite a lot of people had a supply lower than 230V or above 250V. Now it's 230V+10%/-2% which isn't a perfect overlap but only a few areas were outside of that range so it wasn't too much to fix.

In the EU, inlcuding the UK, 230V is standard. The tolerances are different though.

Still makes no difference. Even if, having done the calculation, I can work out a means for this to be completely effective, I've lost the suspension of disbelief. When telling a story, things should be presented in a way we'll accept them.

We shouldn't need to leave our involvement of the movie, come up with an entire fan theory and then go back in having established it will work. That's just bad scrptwriting.

Surely this will be a decision to be made by the first independent government. Alex Salmond may not be the majority leader. The SNP may not get a single vote (I can't think why anyone would want to vote for them afterwards).

If Independent Scotland chooses to ban nuclear weapons then that is theiur right as an independent state. If they choose not to that is also their right. But whether they actually do or not is a matter of national party politics, and notpart of the independdence movement. The fact that they will have the decision is a matter for the independence debate but what that decision should be is no.

Salmond seems to think the referendum is bout electing him Scotland's president.