Which is unrelated to your initial claim that "All property is imaginary." My shoes are property, and aren't imaginary, thus your opinion is directly contradicted by reality.

That's unrelated to TFA. "the people creating copies of movies, sometimes before release, and uploading them to be downloaded by thousands upon thousands." So a single user "downloading" a single movie with bittorrent could fall under the 10-year rule. That they don't is your opinion at the moment. It isn't coded into law, or otherwise protected. That's how these laws go. They pass a broad law, stating the goal of stopping screeners and pre-release leaks, but word them to cover everything, so there are no gaps or holes, then apply them to the targeted area, for a year or two, then target anyone using bittorrent.

So "lost profit" is the same as robbery. I can just toss you in the "batshit insane" category and ignore you.

DVDs in China. Street vendors selling pirated content openly as pirated. Why do people pay? Because you pay (About $0.50 USD equivalent) for it on DVD/CD. The convenience factor of buying a "DVD" of the movie you can walk home and play in any DVD player. Though I worded it as I did because you can end up buying a CD with the movie (a cam or screener version) on CD, not DVD, and rarely are the rips highest quality. Though many are the full-feature DVD with menus and languages, for the same $0.50. Part of the risk is not knowing what you have until too late to do anything about it if you don't like it.

So the shoes I'm wearing aren't there? Or are you saying that ownership is imaginary? Because that's unrelated to the question of the thing being claimed as owned being imaginary.

Either there are no laws against "fraud" in the UK, or this isn't about defrauding anyone. In a sane world, the person making copies, 1 or 10,000, would get a fine of no more than 3x retail value of the loss (that's the US standard for punitive damages), and if they were making a separate transaction of selling the song for profit, that'd be one fraud case per transaction, as they would be presenting themselves as having the "right" to sell that. So those that sell copies can go to jail for fraud, and those that copy with no financial motive could be fined for more than any "loss" they caused the copyright holder.

But that's too sane and logical for the 1%, who want to rain down vengeance on all those who oppose their quest for profit.

That's a form of fraud here. Not sure about the UK.

So taking $1 from someone and giving them back $0.50 doesn't harm them in any way? By your logic, muggings don't hurt anyone.

OMG, Call someone, Google must be down!!!

I've never had one. I just know they have a dual-screen function, and Google Play. You are 100% provably wrong.

Proven wrong. Now that you've moved the goal posts, are you going to revise your hypothesis? Or continue arguing that reality is wrong because it disagrees with your personal opinion?

Like the Samsung Galaxy Note that comes with split screen and Google Play?

Like on the Samsung Galaxy Note, which comes with Google Play?

Won't work for GEO. They don't carry enough fuel to de-orbit, and doing so would be cost prohibitive.

If we ever sent up a space elevator, how would we protect it from all our junk? Would we need to clean up the orbits, or could we armor it, or have a point defense system?

Kessler syndrome indicates that if they wait for a couple large impacts, it could be too late.

It was tested against the "erratic current" received, just not a transition between two independent and unconnected grids. At most, there should be a single phase jump per transition. Are you asserting that a single change of phase has a large chance of frying consumer electronics and starting a fire?

Given nearly everything these days works with 50 Hz, or 60 Hz, I'd be surprised if something designed as a "world" power supply couldn't handle a phase jump. As they are already designed for changing/multiple phases.

Why are people banned by law from doing things at their own risk?

If we are here to see that happen, it'll be too late to out-run the supernova that follows (unless we have FTL by then).

The entire GDP? Who came up with that estimate? Or is it 1 year's GDP over 50 or 100 years? That sounds a lot more like 2% of the GDP or something like that.

And the reason to spend the money is the same reason you buy insurance. You aren't sure there will be a loss, but you are better off for having spent the money and "lost" it, than not having spent it and suffering the loss. The issue is then the risk vs cost. And I'm sure you'd say it's a low risk event with expensive insurance.

At the height of lynchings, the numbers were never much above 100 across the whole US. It isn't about killing the Niggers that needed killing, the law still did that. It was about killing some Niggers to prevent the others from getting out of their place. Focusing on the numbers indicates you have no idea what a hate crime is. Think of 9/11. About a month of traffic fatalities died. That's not even worth counting. If the numbers were all that mattered, we should have ignored it. But it's not the numbers that matter, it's also the statement about the hate crime. A Hate Crime is terrorism. No more, no less.

Did you hear that the baker illegally gave out personally identifying information about the lesbian couple, and encouraged people to contact them to voice displeasure (or called for public harassment of the lesbians, depending on how you'd like to word it). The payment wasn't just for not making a cake, but for calling down death threats on innocent people. Or have you not figured out how to work that google thing yet?

And when you wait outside a gay bar, and find a guy who walks out alone, or walks out with another guy, then drives home alone; you follow them, do s swoop and squat, or just bump them from behind. Then, when they get out to exchange data, you tie them up, and drag them behind your car until they are nearly dead, then carve "die faggot"on them, and leave them for dead, you'll sometimes get charged with a hate crime.

In general the fights in gay bars where the straight guy tells his friends (I'd say straight friends, but half of then are gay, but in the closet) he's planning on beating up some fags, then goes to a known gay bar, waiting for the first guy to talk to him, so he has an excuse to beat him up, that's an innocent misunderstanding as well?

There are more millionaires in India than Russia