Actually, their minimum monthly fee appears to be $75 + $35 = $110. However good they may be, they're not really competing with Paypal.

They also don't provide merchant accounts to people outside the U.S. Which is the grandparents entire point. Your post isn't that relevant.

People don't have to hire a lawyer, it just is generally a good idea the same way it's a good idea to hire a contractor rather than renovate your home yourself.

The state does already pay someone "to carry out a complete and thorough adjudication of the issues". She is called the judge.

Your rant about crimes and corporations is extremely ill-considered, but I shall leave that for someone else to discuss. I'll just point out that fraud already is illegal pretty much everywhere.

1 US gallon = 3.78541178 litres

For the same reason you don't hire an optical engineer for advice on scene composition; you hire a critically acclaimed photographer.

Anyone can take 3D photos. But you still need a good photographer to bring out the best of a scene.

That makes no sense. Neither MS or Apple has "lock-in" on H.264. Anybody can use it, and neither of them own it.

Well, for one thing you can't test two crucial often-buggy items in a VM:

1) Compositing window managers. Gnome shell runs only with compositing.

2) Grub on a real machine.

Also, you're not testing whether Ubuntu works with your hardware, but rather with the VM. Which, really, is the point of testing the new release.

Just burn them to CD and re-rip them, and stop whining. You knew they were DRM-ed at the time. When CDs came out, you had to re-buy all your old tapes/records on CD.

What do you mean arguably and probably. Saying that you never bought something when you did, in order to get money is fraud.

This is the case he cites:
York University v. Bell Canada Enterprises, 2009 CanLII 46447 (ON S.C.)

Of course it doesn't list examples. In Canada, you can be sued for republishing defamatory comments.