If the voting majority in a first-world democracy actually wanted reform, they would get it in the next election. Protesters in the streets are necessarily always fringe lunatics. The Revolution will be televised -- on election night. You only get bloody revolutions in countries that don't have democracy.

In principle, there could be parts of the plan that require secrecy in order to work. Otherwise, if the market knew a particular move was coming, it would react to it before it happened which could defeat the purpose of various possible moves.

the lost revenue by the studio, which currently stands at $10AU ($7.90US) based on iTunes pricing.

The studio should only be entitled to recover the wholesale price, which is presumably somewhere around half of the retail price.

You're off by a decade... 31 years.

He must be using one of those newfangled Pentium processors.

You can walk on ice. Trust me; I've done it.

If you really believe that a minimum wage can increase the welfare of poor people, why not raise it to $500/hour? Then we can all be rich!

How many executed prisoners reoffend?

Most methods of execution should only cost a few dollars.

I calculate that half of Rhode Island is equal to 4162 Libraries of Congress, by floor space.

There are 365.2425 calendar days/year. There are 365.2422 solar days/year.

The real question is how many millions of people should we kill with energy poverty?

The article says "error rate of just 4.58 percent ... Google's system scored a 95.2% and Microsoft's, a 95.06%". That means Google's and Microsoft's error rates are absolutely terrible and they really should just toss a coin!

More importantly, why are these guys ignoring West Antarctica or Antarctica as a whole? Does the activity in these regions not fit their narrative?

There's a whole spectrum of opinion: Denier -> Skeptic -> Neutral -> Agreer -> Zealot. There is too much conflation of "Denier" (one who denies blindly and emphatically) and "Skeptic" (one who is scientifically knowledgeable not convinced by the available evidence) and too much input from "Zealots" (those who agree blindly and emphatically).

To complete your analogy, dodging the ball isn't free. Doing so will give you a heart attack. Now, what do you do?