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And if you aren't allowed into their home, you can just toss it through a window.

True, but you can be pretty certain that someone coming in to your movie theater is physically located in your country. It's also a reasonable assumption that it's legal for them to be there.

Maybe you can't achieve perfect enforcement, but I would guess that every country in the world has laws about what physical items can be brought into or sent out from that country.

I agree that that's a great ideal. The problem is, under who's jurisdiction? For example, the United States has very little control over what companies do in other countries (openly, anyway; I'm sure there's plenty of military and economic threats being passed around back channels), nor can the United States force companies from other countries to sell in the United States. You would need either an international treaty, which the media companies would never allow, or a world government with this kind of authority, which the UN is unlikely to get any time soon.

Ubuntu hacked...? I seem to recall that being a feature that was implemented by Motorola.

Cell reception, at least with T-Mobile, works quite well in Boston's subways.

I certainly wasn't trying to argue that the prices 20 years ago or the relative decrease in price since then was in any way connected to copyright infringement. I only meant to point out that the relative price for a new game has gone down. Exactly why that has happened, I don't really know.

Isn't the price of a new game typically $50-60? That's the same as 20 years ago, so in inflation-adjusted dollars, the prices have dropped quite a bit.

I do agree with you about the extra downloadable content issue, but I don't usually buy games like those.

Exactly. Assuming that Sprint is a rational actor in the market, there are two possibilities*:

1. Sprint makes a profit from offering things like extra warranties, either directly, by selling the accessories for a higher price, or indirectly, by gaining customers that they otherwise wouldn't gain. If Sprint is making a profit, then they would continue offering these benefits and continue making a profit.

2. Sprint is losing money from offering these benefits. In this case, it would be a net gain in profit to stop offering these benefits.

Note that Net Neutrality regulations and false advertising laws do not appear anywhere in the math.

* I'll ignore the possibility that Sprint is breaking exactly even on it.

Wow, I think you just implemented wizard spells with a somatic component. Add in voice recognition and the need to have your phone with you, and you've got verbal and material components too.

Admit it, you just want real life to be more like a video game.

HP? They seem to like to hire complete failures.

If by "enlist" you mean becoming an enlisted soldier, then you probably don't have much choice in the matter. If you just mean joining the military, then if you have a college degree in some science or engineering field, you can become an officer and work at someplace like a Navy research lab. There probably isn't much need for computer scientists or physicists in Afghanistan, so you most likely won't be deployed to a combat zone.

If you don't use a Monster watch band, you won't get true time fidelity. Monster watch bands give you perfectly clear seconds, while all those cheap watch bands will only give you ugly, degraded seconds.

Is this the next season of 24?

If you're an engineer and you can't break something, obviously you aren't trying.