As as been explained many times on this very website, piracy isn't theft because we're making copies, not depriving the owner of the original.

In other words, instead of taking out the trash, we're duplicating it so we can each have a bag of smelly junk in our very own homes ;)

Grandparent either misread or misquoted.

The US has a law on the books that when a US soldier is held in the Hague to be tried at the International Court, the US has a right to go and get him.

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Nothing special, just one of those typical little USian acts of "fuck the rest of the world, USA, USA!" that inexplicably causes some people to despise the US.

It would not apply to diet sodas, fruit juices, dairy or alcoholic drinks.

Awrighty, in that case I'll have 63 oz of coke and 1 oz of rum please!

How about if God really wants us to hear something, he pops on down to Times Square in person and lays it out in clear simple words?

Until such time, the Bible is a book that was written by men, translated by men, and interpreted by men. And there's far better books out there to base one's morality on.

I'd hardly call this enlightenment. We got a very strong nationalist vibe going on at the moment and after the recent premature fall of the government the US cock has temporarily been removed to free the mouth for pleasing the voters instead.

We'll come up with a good excuse of our own to control the Internets soon enough though, freedom is scary.

It's the lolcats. They're in ur websitez, buying ur bookz.

Does anything work that doesn't require me to sign my soul over to the Devil?

Natalie Portman, naked and petrified, covered in hot grits, held aloft by penisbirds and a beowulf cluster of GNAA trolls.

Good times, good times.

What can we do to make IT, development, and computer science a friendlier place for everyone?

I'm sure there are things that can be done. Whether it is a good idea to do them is a different story though.

And while we're at it, may I suggest we do the same for the less glamorous industries? Let's have more female truck drivers, female garbage disposal workers, female sewer cleaners and all the other less glamorous jobs that are male-dominated.

If we're going to work based on the presumption that it's all nurture and nature plays no role whatsoever, let's go all the way.

I absolutely agree. Before women were forced at gunpoint to shake their booty on MTV we were a lot more polite to them. Of course, we didn't actually allow them to vote, get an education or to come out of the kitchen, but that is very much besides the point.

We've been treating women as second-rate citizens for fucking millennia, and the argument that it's due to pop-culture and porn gets modded insightful?

I think that motive & intent matter a whole lot more than the "who".

Ehmm, that is pretty much the whole idea behind the concept of a hate crime. The difference between "I'm gonna kill that guy for his money", "I'm gonna kill that guy because he's pointing a gun at me" and "I'm gonna kill that guy because he's a filthy faggot".