That's what I thought when 'podcast' happened.

Nobody killed it :(

That is not anywhere near 'all' the DMCA does, you're either woefully misinformed or being disingenuous.

Takedown notices are a very small part of the monstrosity.

Actually, pretty sure that Dasani not only had worse levels than tap water but had to be recalled because it went over some or other legal limit.

And I never heard it called cancer water, I did hear a lot of people saying "fuck coke, trying to bottle out water and sell it back to us, what do they think we are, morons?"

No, it gets here by mail order.

For some reason it is way, way cheaper for me to order stuff from the far east, the US or even the UK and have it shipped over, than it is to get it from an australian website or retailer. Don't tell me that bulk shipping adds a 100% plus markup over individual shipping, these things work the other way around.

And then there are other things like games, which you get online, which often launch at $50-60 in the US and AUD 100 ($102 right now) here. For the same thing, delivered over the internet.

There is no justification.

Um, in England, on the BBC channels, there are no ads.

There are trailers for upcoming shows, but no advertising. It's one of the reasons to love the BBC.

Not anyone with unresolved problems, there are always unresolved problems on any platform you can think of. I'm talking about anyone who can't make linux work satisfactorily for themselves.

It may well not be ready for grandma, but for someone that reads and posts here it points to a stunning lack of competence with computers.

If it takes you several hours of googling to get ubuntu up and running, and three weeks later it's still not working as you like, then you are incompetent and have no business posting on a tech site.

Seriously. OS politics aside, if you're finding it that difficult then you probably should't be working in the tech sector.

Surely VP of SAP doesn't need to be doing that?

Some sort of mental illness of thrill-seeking?

Yeah, or there's open source, which you don't have to pay for, and you can get the source too.
I realise this is of little consequence to most, but I like it.

I do think that the BSA should go after everyone they cam though. High visibility lawsuits against users will drive many more people to open source, some of whom may eventually be the sorts of folks that contribute.

No, it was exceptionally stupid because he doesn't own the equipment or pay the energy bills, regardless of what the bitcoin outcome was.