You got used to Unity? I didn't know they still performed lobotomies ;)

I should have put a ;) to make my intentions clearer.

Information in DNA in sperm doesn't count.

I have classes to study for and clients to work for, this is NOT a good time.

I would really like to see a source for this. While I'm sure there's piracy happening offline, I find it very hard to believe that that's where the majority of piracy is happening.

Technically, it's "woosh" in lower case, because the joke was riding on a thin cushion of air, and therefore not making much noise.

So much arrogance and bitterness.

Read the guy's story (yes, I'm re-linking to TFA in a comment) on Ars and the guy's AmA over on Reddit. You don't have to like the guy's game (which most certainly isn't a dinky flash app that he probably knocked out in a couple of weeks - it took him 10 months), but you have to admire his class, and if you inisist on letting the Internet know you don't like his game, you should definitely be more polite than "quite frankly it's crap."

Only if it coincided with Opposite Day.

Hardly.

TheOatmeal: angry and funny blog post to vent about FunnyJunk stealing his and others' comics
RIAA: SUE ALL EVARYTHING!

TheOatmeal: no actual DMCA takedown notices filed.
RIAA: file ALL the notices!

FunnyJunk, to users: harass the shit out of TheOatmeal!
YouTube: K, I'm gonna take obey every takedown notice.

FunnyJunk: SUE THEOATMEAL!
YouTube: Shit, we're getting sued by RIAA Viacom. Oh hey, let's start Vevo.

TheOatmeal: WTF they want HOW much? BEARS AND CANCER AND CHARITY!
RIAA: Uh, we're still not making as much money as we want. Who else can we sue?

You don't say.

You mean like they've been doing in Europe for at least a couple of years now?

I live in Montreal. The Liberal Party, the current ruling party in our provincial government, decided to raise tuition fees for university students. So for about three months now, a good chunk of university students have been on strike against the fee hikes.

While there have been a few peaceful demonstrations, including a huge one downtown on March 22nd, there have also been many less peaceful demonstrations. For example, a few days ago at a Liberal Party conference in Victoriaville, a demonstration devolved into violence. Tear gas, rubber bullets, the lot. A few protesters were hurt, and a policeman was outright beaten by multiple so called protesters.

Unrelated to protests and violence, but just to show you how bad it's become, yesterday, during morning rush hour, smoke bombs were set off in our metro, paralyzing it completely. No service on any line. That was the latest in a series of similar incidents, including previous smoke bombs in the metro and the blocking of bridges.

All that to say that it's an ugly situation, made even more ugly because it's being exploited by people who have nothing to do with the student cause. Anarchists, criminals, call them whatever you want, show up at protests and start trouble. Usually they are masked. You have the right to express an opinion publicly, but you do not necessarily have a right to do so anonymously, especially if you're not really trying to express an opinion, but rather are trying to break a few windows, burn a few cars, and throw rocks at a few policemen.

I know that it's a slippery slope, and that he who gives up a little liberty for a little security deserves neither, but we've shown that large peaceful protests can happen, and that at this point, it's no longer about freedom of anything, it's about preventing crime. And I remind you that John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory works in real life as well. So take away the anonymity, and you might just end up with fewer total fuckwads.

The difference is that with trust there *are* experiments I can perform. Not so with faith.

There's a different between trust and faith. I trust scientists because I can go over their data and validate their conclusions. I could even (theoretically) perform the same experiments to see if I get the same data. Believing the Bible or my priest or my religious grandma requires blind faith, because there is no data to analyse, and there are no experiments to repeat.

Man, this dog turd tastes aweful, let me try this cat turd.