IANAL: Why don't the big fish provide help to these little fish, to stop these precedents being set, and to, ultimately, defend their own position?

Can't say I'd prefer a binary-duodecimal-sexagesimal-binary watch over a quadrovigesimal-sexagesimal-decimal or binary-duodecimal-sexagesimal-decimal one. A purely binary watch would be more interesting, although less practical.

"Downloading films is stealing" (IT Crowd)

IANAL, but ifaik you can use lethal force if it's reasonable to do so in the prevention of some crimes - such as murder. For example, if you killed someone that was apparently trying to murder you, you wouldn't commit murder yourself if your actions were reasonable in the circumstances.

The wavefunction tells you exactly what state a system is in.

Consider a quantum dice. You can perform a roll-operation on it which sets it to a rolled-dice state. You can also perform a result-operation, that also sets the state, each characteristic state of the roll-operation has a value associated with it (1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6). You can look at the result without altering the state after the first result is found (it's a projection operator in other words). The first difference with your explanation is that you can roll as many times as you like without altering the state after the first roll. That is, when you roll a quantum dice, it is in a unique state. Rolling it again will not alter its state!

These two operations do not commute. The rolled-state can be written as a superposition of the six result-states - and it keeps that state no matter how many times you re-roll. When you use the result operation, that rolled-state collapses to one of six result-states. Which state it collapses too is random.

The maths of Quantum Mechanics is mostly linear algebra. If it was just practical statistics there wouldn't be so many disagreements about its meaning. Nevertheless, it's QM that agrees with reality.

Request a copy (or as many as is required) of the computer. Run it. The simulated version will run slow.

However this doesn't imply that objective reality is provable, just that computers can't simulate reality perfectly.

The inch is a metric unit. As a consequence of the yard being defined as 0.9144 meters, the inch is exactly 25.4 mm. The Open Rack server slots will be 5.334 meters. Maybe they should round down to 5.333... meters.

It's still stuck on version 2.6.12 for Windows. It's a shame they don't support a (binary) Windows download.

Another benefit is access to games like Portal 2 without needing to spend at least $100 on an OS. I'm wondering how many people this would benefit though, as a lot of people will either already have Windows, or require it for other software. I'd guess that people with second machines they'd like to play games on would be the biggest beneficiaries.