Ever. Besides I can't even watch anything with DRM, except on my iPad.

Why would I?

Just as not offend the copyright holder? I don't give a fuck about copyright holders. So why would I?

I don't know where you get the idea that it's not. It pays for itself, and it translates into the lowest CO2 output in the EU.

The main drawback and the reason why it's being reconsidered is that it's dangerous.

The great thing about nuclear's impact on the environment is that it typically mostly happens near the point of use. Fukushima is going to have terrible consequences, but mainly local ones; i.e. it's mainly those people who benefited from it that will bear the cost.

Contrast with coal burning: everybody gets hit by the carbon bill, even if you don't have electricity.

Are they? Here in Paris local taxes are the lowest in the country, in spite of the largest concentration of services, because of the economies of scale.

What makes lobbying so damaging is that there is a large multiplier effect. A $1 million lobbying effort would easily drive a $100 million profit.

According to someone I know who works in windmill financing, the whimsical nature of wind subsidies in the US has been almost as bad for the industry as if there had been none. Wind projects, as well as manufacturing and deployment infrastructure (barges, trucks, cranes ...) are decades long investments. Congress let subsidies expire almost every other year; that's made it nearly impossible for financiers and actuaries to project the profitability of farms.

is not to compute its result, it is to show how much we do/don't know.

We're slowly, or quickly depending on your outlook, filling in the gaps. We now have enough data on extrasolar planets to do statistical extrapolations.

In the next decade or two, we will have telescopes nearly large enough to do spectroscopic analysis of the atmosphere of nearby extrasolar planets. In particular we will be able to see if they have significant dioxygen, which can only happen as a result of life as far as we know. That will remove another unknown value.

Advances in neurology and evolutionary biology will begin to highlight how likely it is for intelligence to evolve.

Since almost all major publishers use DRM, it's a fair bet they are. Yet they are pirated. How would removing the DRM make any fucking difference?

... has not been a radical party for over a century. It's /always/ been to the right of the Socialists.

That you should stone your wife if she wears clothes made of two different fibers.

Why anyone would ascribe any authority to it, I've never understood.

I'm sure Nambla's chairman could (and probably has) come up with a nicely worded defense of pedophilia. It would be marginally more offensive than this trite, but both just as convincing and moral as this piece of shit.

He learned a french language that's closer to France's than Quebec's.

CDMA as a multiplexing technology is superior to TDMA.

CDMA is not superior to GSM, which happens to use TDMA.

Saying that compression uses the regular "non-sparse" algorithm is rather meaningless; they use what is available, and I don't believe there was a sparse-optimized algo until now.