"How can Sylar pick-up a person and throw him against a wall? "

Static friction?

mmm...

No, thank you, I think I rather just buy the iPod and download as many apps as I feel "entitled" to.

It is not as if you had a compelling reason not to.

Sorry, but "this jackass" didn't know that he wasn't going to be able to pay for the apps. He thought that having a paypal account was enough.

You are making all those assumptions and abstract deductions about how developers are going to rush in to develop applications. Well, there are two parts to that:
1. Great! Let them do it, I'll buy the apps. Why aren't they doing it already. Oh, yes, I know... BECAUSE THEY CAN'T SELL THE APPLICATION. I can't buy the application from those "innovative developers" because I still don't have an international credit card. And if I did have an international credit card, guess what, I would have already bought the app from some random guy in the USA or India.
2. Back to reality, I copied a $2 App nobody was going to sell me... So what? you still failed to explain how is this morally wrong, who is being hurt in the process. You only threw around some fairy tales about fair market in a market you clearly don't know and created some fallacious analogies to back you up.

So not only you are making false assumptions, pretending to have a higher moral stand because you follow a set of dogmatic conventions you decide to abide blindly (copyright infringement is bad mmkey) based on your fantasies about how the world would be a better place if I didn't copied those 1s and 0s, you also insulted me in the process... Please, step down from your high horse.

"Just because an action does not cause harm or loss to someone does not necessarily mean that it is the right thing to do."

You are correct. It doesn't mean it is right. It doesn't mean it is wrong either. It is an innocuous action.

We could argue for the rest of our lives if 'piracy' of a product "I wasn't going to buy anyway" is right or wrong. But I think there isn't any discussion about 'piracy' of a product "You weren't going to sell me anyway".

"Write your own app to do the same thing and fill the gap in the market yourself. "

Umm.. yeah right.. you mean writing it and then begging Apple for their approval so I can put the app on the app store and then I can't buy it anyway? or do you mean breaking Apple's Terms of Agreement by jailbreaking and uploading the app to my iPhone?

Not all piracy is because people are assholes. See, iTunes is not available in my country (Argentina) without an international credit card. They won't even take my paypal account unless it has a valid US address. Most of the time they won't even allow me to subscribe to free podcasts (!!!).

So I went to a Mac Store and asked them if they sold Gift cards, nope...

Then I contacted the company who makes the app I wanted (I was willing to pay the $2 they asked, using paypal) but nope... They only do business through Apple.

Ok, screw them. I just downloaded the app, uploaded it to my iPhone and run it.

Something similar happens with the Wiistore. And don't get me started about PC games, that cost several times their US cost.

No wonder piracy is so widespread.

He created his webpage with Netscape 3.0, running on Windows 95. Wow.

That must be why his message is very short: Bad movies should be much more compressible... =)

There is also some pain in the ass procedure

Eww... I won't be travelling there soon....

Somewhere, there's a queen screaming "I'm not yet dead! don't bury me!"

Long dead? Reference please?

If somebody preaches sexuality, that's heterosexuals. Preachers literally preach marriage and their views on sexuality.

I'm not sure if there is anyone alive who was prosecuted under that law. But the victims of these kind of laws are not only those who were prosecuted, but also those who had to live their lives in secrecy and shame.

I recommend you "A very British sex scandal". There you'll see interviews with people who were alive "back then"

The GP, i.e. myself, was just quoting the exact words of the formal apology. The point I was trying to make is that I think this apology has a great symbolic value for homosexuals.

And I'm not redefining anything, I provided a link to the dictionary entry which shows that "homophobia means discrimination against homosexuals" is a valid statement. Then, saying that a law is homophobic because it discriminates against homosexuals is also valid.

I've heard the worst arguments using etymology (my native language, spanish, has many words with latin roots, which leads to many stupid arguments). For example, I could argue that, since homo means "the same" in Greek, "homophobia" is "the fear to those who are equal". Which of course is nonsense. Also, homophobia is not even a Greek word, as it was coined in modern times.

And I have no insights on why Turing chose chemical castration over prison (or if this was even a choice). One possibility is that he thought prison was worst, even more if he went to prison for being gay.

The other possibility, that he thought he was a deviant himself, is not to be discarded. I know that I had a hard time coming to terms with my own homosexuality. Having strong figures around yourself telling you that homosexuality is a sin or inherently wrong is a force to be reckoned with.

It is a homophobic law because it was a law that discriminted against homosexuality, even in private.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_turing#Conviction_for_gross_indecency

IANAL (no pun intended), but I don't think it is related to anal sex in particular but "gross indecency" between males:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_Law_Amendment_Act_1885#Section_11

Finally, about the word "homophobia". A word's meaning goes beyond its etymology. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/homophobia