Are you always this rude to strawmen, or is it just because your Christmas stocking was full of coal?

You can try claiming it's not all you want, but that doesn't change the legal facts.

To the letter of the law under the CFAA ANY USE OF A COMPUTER SYSTEM THAT IS NOT AN AUTHORIZED USE is a felony. You must have been asleep the last few years if you missed all the cases of prosecutorial abuse of this law where people have been charged with felonies for (among other things) making accounts for a fake persona (the Megan Meier suicide case) and downloading things too quickly (the Aaron Swartz case). Those are just the famous ones.

THE REALITY: If the company decides to ruin your life by complaining about your violation of the ToS to a federal prosecutor looking for an easy conviction (or just a bribe^H^H^H^H^H campaign contribution for when they run for Congress), then you will be facing felony charges.

You're the only one mangling definitions. He's using the same one everyone else in his jurisdiction does, where (like every where else in the world) "ownership" is defined by statute. Just because you don't like the law doesn't change the fact that the law defines what property "ownership" is. Welcome to civilization. It's an improvement over the previous condition where the definition of "ownership" was "you've killed everyone who wasn't willing to let you keep it."

Again with ignorant tripe being moderated informative.

The US was involved before the partition. Vietnam never would have been split except because of US interference.

How does this kind of ignorant tripe get modded insightful? Only someone with the most cursory, Eurocentric understanding of history would say this. All of your examples suggest that you passed your high school World History course by snoring through it.

Violent, Expansionist, Imperialist Powers NOT part of "the West": Achaemenid Empire, the Mauryan Empire, the (several) Mongol Empires, the Mughal Empire, the Ottoman Empire, the several Caliphates, the Angkorian Empire, the Burmese Kingdoms from 1400-1800, virtually every Chinese empire ever, etc. Depending on your particular definition of "Western," add the Russian and Byzantine empires for good measure.

Of course, they all had great positive achievements as well, just as the violent, expanionist, imperialist powers of the west all had great achievements too. Except, of course (just to Godwin this whole line of conversation), the Nazis. Fuck those guys.

There are lots of games where you can fight against the US in campaign mode. Hell, in C&C: Generals you could even play as Muslim terrorists. Of course, there are several Civil War games where you play from the Confederate side (Civil War Generals by Sierra was one of my favorite strategy games of all time if only for the imagined challenge of reversing what was really such a one sided conflict.

Food cost in any restaurant is going to be at most 30%. At McDonald's it's going to be much lower--almost certainly under 20% (which is the 5x he means, even though he used the wrong word since it's not an operating margin).

That is not the same law that was overturned. The USSC did not strike down all gun control in DC. They struck down a limited portion of the handgun restrictions.

You need to go back to high school and learn how to read.

Which may be of interest to sociologists and linguists, but not to biologists.

I pay 44 cents per kWh, so...

Moving $60k online doesn't do you any good. You move it from their bank account to...what? Another stolen account that you can't withdraw from? Or one that has your address? Or one with a stolen SS#, but that has you on security cam footage? You move that kind of money out and you are going to be caught.

BeOS came on CDs?

I thought it was a crime punishable by exile to England to eat any non-leek based food in Wales.

You're thinking of 'assimilated.' Also, resistance is futile!

Sure, if they're both consenting adults, why the fuck not?

Really, what difference could it possibly make to you if they did or didn't? Is your life affected in any possible way?