Ok, I'll bite. Citation needed. Or is successful troll successful?

We have always been at war with terrorism. And drugs. And poverty.

And here I was, about to post my very own shoggoth theory. Good show, sir.

My pants don't have side pockets, you insensitive clod!

Do they allow tasers, tesla coils, or sprayed acid? I'm liking the sounds of this hardcore league...

FTFA:

...how do you tip your strippers?

...Which has been their tactic all along with this kind of legislation. They start with the foregone conclusion that stricter copyright legislation is the solution. Once it's passed into law, things can go one of two ways:

1) If the MAFIAA's bottom line improves, then the stricter copyright law worked, so more/stricter laws are required to garner even more improvement for them.

2) If their bottom line continues to drop after the law is passed, then it obviously wasn't strict enough, so more/stricter legislation is required.

On a side note, how long until Disney blames the flop of John Carter on piracy, I wonder?

Seriously. I was all of twelve years old, installing my own serial and parallel cards into the family ][e. What modern platform encourages this kind of useful learning activity?

I wouldn't find it useful; it would feel neurotic. So I don't self track. What gets me is other engineers who do self-track in some manner, and regard me as abnormal, insane, and/or less of a technical person because I don't.