3mm/yr * 100 yrs = 0.3m

The math you have performed for the numbers that you have presented is off by a factor of 10.

I've never understood this bizarre belief that "Oh, it's activated, that means I have a legitimate copy".

So it activates it, you still have an unlicensed copy. If you were a corporation and exploited this, let's see how the civil court views your "free license".

Amusing that you try to equate a resistance to the erosion of freedom as a loony position.

Respect is earned. None of the current elected officials in the US have done anything in particular to earn my respect. In fact, I think that the whole system is problematic because I feel that anyone who seeks out a position of that much power is by definition unsuited to possess power. The only people who I feel that would not misuse it are those uncomfortable having it.

Sadly, this is an unworkable system and a utopian dream.

You may try to dismiss anything I may say as the ramblings of a militant religious nutjob (which is thoroughly laughable because none of what you tried to characterize me as in your ad hominem fits), but I will defend your right to make such moronic dismissals just the same.

There's some pretty severe cognitive dissonance in your post. Limiting our ability to criticize our elected officials does exactly what your claims that criticizing our elected officials does. That is makes us "[look] like one of those Middle Eastern countries with shelled out buildings and rubble filled streets."

When you start promoting the stripping of freedoms as something that makes a state a better place, it is time to take a step back and evaluate exactly what it is you believe.

Smartglass is available for both WP7 and WinRT, but hey, don't let reality interfere with your fantasy world.

Correct. I was merely adapting his analogy to more accurately fit how it could be used as a defense instead of the straw man he'd made ;)

That's not the argument.

The argument is that if it is ok for you to steal $2,000, why is it not ok for me to steal $1,000.

There is a big difference there.

You suggested that both our stealing is wrong. The defense would be "You seem ok with the other guy stealing $2,000. That suggests to us that this is a politically motivated action and not based on the merits of your case because if it were, we would expect suit against the more egregious offense where there is none".

You're completely off base. These were refunds levied against the publishers. Amazon has nothing to do with the suit. They are just the medium of refund for kindle owners.

But lying within the species is not a benefit to the species as a whole, hence, the species is a pathological liar (in my view).

We do have a remarkable propensity for trying to mislead one another don't we?

It's like the species, collectively, is a pathological liar.

An individual need not be harmed by a law to realize that it is not an area that should be legislated.

Everything comes and goes. There was a time when the same comment could have been made about myspace.

You mean like a gel-cap? :P

Considering the speed of sound in seawater is something along the lines of 5 times the speed of sound in the atmosphere (note, this is variable in both mediums, and the 5 is in the proper range, and provided only to illustrate the difference in magnitude), that would be one fast torpedo!

You forgot that this is California we're talking about. Most everything gets 50% of the revenue, and total spend is around %4500 of revenue ;)