You can also set it to be a two-button trackpad.

I stand corrected.

Nah, I'm sure it's a keyed hash. The server can do this because it has the key.

What makes you think I pirate? I don't. I'm just observing that any time the majority of the people do something, it's silly for society to try to call that thing wrong.

By an utterly insignificant amount. Do the math, you're talking about raising the ocean levels by micrometers.

I agree that reservoirs -- and many of the uses we make of the water -- increase evaporation, which Just Some Guy mentioned. But that's not what the sentence you quoted says. I also find it hard to believe that reservoirs, even though all of their direct and follow-on effects, add up to anything in the context of ocean levels.

But they don't. When you build a new one, then for a few years afterwards they may reduce the flow to the seas, but only as long as the reservoir level is rising. Eventually, they get full, and inflow equals outflow, or we draw them down, and outflow exceeds inflow.

Oh, I should also mention that Montana didn't change their minds after "a bunch of dead drivers". They were forced to change their minds after the Montana Supreme Court ruled that the "Reasonable and Prudent" standard (they hadn't really gotten rid of all limits, just declined to set a numeric value on them) was so vague as to be unenforceable and that it therefore violated constitutional due process requirements. Even after that, it took six months for the Montana state legislature to get around to creating a new law -- and the reason they weren't in any hurry is because it wasn't really a problem.

Your example doesn't imply your conclusion. They tried one fix to a broken law, and it didn't work. But there may well be another that does.

When the majority of people break a law, it's the law that's wrong. Laws exist to support and further societal norms. When the norm is illegal, the law needs to be corrected.

Note that I'm not saying copyright should be eliminated, or that it has no value. Just that the present implementation is wrong.