PDF's already embed images, text, layout, colors... you name it.
I don't think that's a reason to publish a pdf over expressing that content in html. Violation of convention or purpose or standards... any of those are good arguments, just not throwing in a reason of X already supports this, so use X.

It was just a play on the Sim City fiasco with their online only mode debate. It was sarcasm as you noted in that WoW is an MMORPG in which it's required to be online, as that's what the O is for. It actually had nothing to do with me disliking or liking DRM, only that we're making demands for changes to their ecosystem and we might as well get all crazy on them.

*Whooooooosh*

I hate the always online mode of WoW. I want an offline version!

SpaceX used NASA's documentation. They wouldn't have existed if not for NASA, it would not have been profitable to attempt to generate that knowledge. Ditto for Virgin Galactic.

No wealthy businessperson will drop their entire net worth on something that they can't see the rewards from within their lifetime.

I'm not going to waste my time debunking everything you can dream up, but I'm more than confident that none of what you can imagine would have been possible without the government expending its power to lay the infrastructure necessary to operate any of these companies. Or the knowledge acquired from government sponsored research.

Even when you think, man, I got you on THIS! Turn around and look how it's funded. Chances are, it was kickstarted by a government grant.

Micro soft
International Business Systems
Apple
My Clean PC

those are all common words too

And it has figured out that all objects have been constructed from an all knowing being. Divine intervention if you will.

http://aims.byu.edu/mission_statement

Except that the minimum rates are the prices they wanted from you anyways. It's like Verizon's unlimited legacy plan vs their 2gb data plan. Metered pricing is good for you right? Well their 2gb data plan cost as much as their unlimited plan (that you can't get anymore).

If they took their previous rates and actually prorated based on usage, then your Grandpa figure could get by on a $1.50 plan instead of $15 one. But the isp can't get by when 50% of everyone pays less than their minimum they need to stay afloat. Nah, you're still making the low volume users subsidize the high volume ones, and then you're gouging the high volume users to the point where they either find a new isp or quit their streaming.

So the poor saps back in the verizon example are paying the $20 for 2gb when quite a few of them use less than 100mb a month and should be paying... $1.

I'm even worse... I'm down at the less than 10mb a month user... Give me my damn 10 cent bill for crying out loud. I'm on wifi all the time. 99.9999% of my usage is being paid for through other providers, but I still have to pay the verizon tax to have a smart phone that uses 10mb of their bandwidth.

Exactly! *nods head*

you're being trolled.

ok, add 2 months.. it's still 2 years apart regardless.

buuuut....
http://www.universetoday.com/14824/distance-from-earth-to-mars/
May. 22, 2016 – 75.3 million km (46.8 million miles)
Jul. 27. 2018 – 57.6 million km (35.8 million miles)
Oct. 13, 2020 – 62.1 million km (38.6 million miles)

Looks like every 2 years is about the closest points anyways.

2 years is based on how many episodes of their reality tv show should play before they select a set of new "winners"

That's kind of the point. They'll be making a reality tv show to make some people some big bucks down here on Earth. Then launch the corpses into space.

I wonder if life insurance policies can be terminated for getting selected to be on that show :)

The place I work has lots of documents generated about decisions made, why those decisions were made, etc...
They are really helpful documents that save a bunch of time... if only people would read them 6 months later when they should.

Nah, people seem to ask for documentation third. Google first, co-workers second. Only until they run into a co-worker that says RTFM do they get to the third option of reading it :)