Why on earth would you suggest finnish? It only has about 5 million native speakers, it's pretty tricky compared to english, and any finn in this industry you'll come across will be fluent in english.

For some values of fluent anyway, depending on accent...

The family can make slot machines too if they want. The books were written over 55 years ago by a guy who has been dead for 39 years. It should be ok for everyone to do whatever they want with it by now. The actual creator of the work can't profit from it anymore even if you think he still should. If someone thinks these machines or whatever else people come up with are distasteful they they can just not use them.

Maybe the DVD store guy can start catering to perverts as well. You just don't get the same thrill when you anonymously download your stuff from the Internet. The disapproving looks and terse conversation from the person behind the counter when you go rent it really add to the overall experience. Or so I've been told.

In this case, are not the lawyers for once the lesser of three evils?

"The app was thoroughly criticized by the New York Police Department, which said that the tool might prove useful for criminals."

Food and water might prove useful to criminals as well, let's ban that as well.

Iraq started the Iran-Iraq war. Apparently/allegedly.

If you like those, great. If you don't, who cares? No one is taking YOUR game away.

An interesting advantage for tabletop games compared to fancy new MMORPG games. If someone would rather keep playing WoW with the 1.0 rules they're shit out of luck. At least if they want to be legal.

He's the guy with the highest karma on the bioethicist equivalent of Slashdot.

So where is Slashdot based? There wouldn't be many comments left on here if anonymous ones are banned. The cowards aren't the only ones, obviously.