"Why officer, me and me fellow gangbangers here use 'em guns for protection, as according to the law. Can't nail me for havin' some protection against them pesky tourists now can ya?"

You certainly own your "stuff".

The things you write perform and produce are not "stuff". They're information. I am telling you, as a sane human being that you in fact do not own it. You merely own a copyright to it, which is society's way of letting you control information you produce.

Or that more people became criminals of opportunity as they got their hands on the weapons.

This is actually a current modus operandi in mass media in their effort to combat the rising wave of "piracy isn't bad" movements. Find someone who is bad at debating from opposing side, put him against someone who's skilled at debating on their side and them publicize the debate. This is happening across the globe as we speak (I've seen it happen in several EU states as well in various languages, especially in Germany with rise of Pirate Party there).

I think there are two very important things that you're misinformed on:

1. "Content" as studios like to refer to it is actually information. In many cases, information, or lack of access to it can and will be lethal. Great examples include pharmaceutical companies and HIV drugs causing millions of deaths due to initial costs.
2. No one "owns" content. This concept is coined by media because of their interest in it, but they do not in fact legally own information. They own COPYRIGHT to the information only. The difference is of astronomical proportions

Methinks they need some cyberin'...

Listening to Ellison's interview the other day was quite hilariously different from reading this.

Guess we now have "Ellison's distortion field". It only covers the man himself and his close circle.

... do it on a dedicated server farm. Cheaper and more reliable.

Yes, I got the joke.

Ah, the iphone syndrome. You believe that your product is superior because it's on iphone and list features that actually show that you're wrong. Reminds me of the recent "ah skype, that facetime clone" remark.

UI on navigators is pretty much set in stone, and has been so long ago because in the end, functionality of a navigator is very much similar across applications. Pinch zoom, as with most kinetic scrolling functions is supported on nokia that have appropriate display (obviously not on communicator, which is now over a decade old and monochrome). Not suprising considering that apple is paying nokia about a tenner for every iphone sold for various patents, which among other things include many of the kinetic scrolling implementations. Modern tomtoms, modern nokias and so on do in fact have a capacitive display with multitouch, and by extension support most standard gestures, including pinch zoom.

Locals get robbed less then foreigners. Completely unexpected.

Coming up next: Jews were robbed more then Christians in Europe. You'd never believe it if you didn't hear it here.

Also, Europe remained more dangerous still. Mainly because Europe back then was forests, an forests make a great place for bandits to hide and ambush from. Forest also sustains bandits well with food and water necessary for basic survival. Comparatively, deserts surrounding Mecca and Medina are far, far worse places to make a bandit camp at. Desert, can't really live off it in nearly the same numbers, much less hiding places and so on.