I guess they could decide to continue with their tax avoidance but since that would result in paying more tax it's not really a decision anyone would make.

What if it's a smear job on Take Two? At taxpayer expense?

Then they have the same recourse as anyone else - even those without a library of trademarks; they can sue for defamation after broadcast.

Piracy may well be down.

Are sales up?

The only reason piracy is illegal is because it affects legitimate sales. If people are not getting media for free, but still aren't buying it (for whatever reason) then this is a net cost to the economy.

MRA? Gamergate?

This is a single blog criticising the film. And it is only criticism and calls for a boycott!

Nobody had heard of this crappy blog before this. Suddenly it's all over facebook, Twitter and now Slashdot.

Yes. There are some stupid people. Yes. Some of them have blogs. Hell, even ROK itself has a reasonable article about how stupid the media is over this.

Second how is this surprising to anyone ? It's long been possible to describe and mathematically manipulate sets with more elements than the observable universe.

That's what I was wondering. Even going to the extreme, the diameter of the universe is about 5x10^61 Planck lengths. This is the sort of figure mathematicians have been happy to play for years now.

Sony is a big company that makes ebook readers. There are plausible explanations as to how they might have a legitimate non-DRM copy.

My experience living in Amsterdam, was that at a respectable 5'11" I was a runt. Maybe the taller ones just don't fit on planes.

Absolutely agree with that. Some of the horrors I've seen include everything is a singleton, virtual methods replaced with templates, a complete reimplementation of std::map and std::vector, with map implemented as a vector of key/value pairs (Yes - seriously; they had O(n) access time). Actualy, that last one was all about reinventing the wheel. A reinvention of string class (where we already use 3 standard-ish implementations).

The nicer projects use standard types, base the architecture on existing successful products, and have a fairly simple class heirarchy.

It wasn't in front of a public audience! It was a bit of unused footage where he just mumbled a word that sounds like "nigger". He chose not to say it but felt it sounded too much like he did. The choice he actually made was to use one of the two other takes because he knew that would cause undue offence and he didn't want to do so.

The only way this is possibly harmful to anyone is as a result of the Mirror digging up the footage and publishing it, carefully processed and biasing the audience to actually hear it that way.

The list doesn't contain "Correct", "Battery" or "Staple". I declare it useless!

Arte you white, male, and straight? If so then you're out of luck unless you can find a niche where you can claim greater persecution.

Social conventions.

If you aren't aware that certain modes of dress are considered slutty, then you're ignorant. If you really want a concept, then google "slutwalk". Even women who are against this generalisation are clearly aware of what the social convention is on this.

If you dress that way anyway then why complain when people make judgements? If you care about how other people perceive you then dress in a way that will make them perceive you positively.

Why not? The number of people who live that far away from civilisation is paltry even in the US.

He didn't use the "n-word". He mumbed something that could be the n-word if you're primed to hear it that way. In a pice of footage that was never used!

Seriously, how is this harmful to anyone in any way? The whole thing is so idiotic.