The reason to use rebase is simple:
To avoid clogging up the revision history with those moronic "Merge branch 'master' of [url here]" commit messages.

As I found out the hard way.

If it's anything like my cat it will leave something, but believe me, it ain't rainbows...

I've passed wind that was faster than that. Color me unimpressed.

Don't get me wrong, it's nifty to see a four legged robot walk (although it seems to be rather random which foot hits the floor when), but when you announce something incredible and deliver something "ok", expect people to be kinda "meh".

First question: Am I under arrest? If answer is no, then have a nice day.

Your memory of IBM differs from my own.

I can't say I've had that much to do with them. HP, on the other hand, I could rant about for a while...

This is actually becoming a problem with this. Aside of the usual devaluation of the product by adding DRM to it, any book with this DRM you buy becomes a liability. If, for some odd reason beyond your control, this somehow ends up in someone else's hands, you may suddenly become an unwitting "pirate". Your ebook reader gets stolen and suddenly your ebook gets shared all over the internet. And now prove that you didn't.

Explain again why the heck I should touch any "legal" ebook with this landmine buried inside with a ten foot pole.

No, I said it was music!

Hell if I remembered the title, I have that melody stuck in my head now (including the glitch) but you don't think I could remember even a few random words that I could toss at google, do you?

Ok, you're right. That's pretty insane if you ask me. Not every word is a suitable substitute of another one in every situation. I'd rather endure someone copying my book than someone altering it and claiming it's from me.

Who said you may still quote in the future? A reference has to do, most likely.

I can feel your pain, I, too, write (don't worry, my language of choice is not English). And I usually pick the words I use carefully and with reason. There are minimal but very important differences and my readers usually enjoy my choice of words because that choice by itself often has a meaning.

In this particular case I don't think that the robot would change words for ones of similar meaning like a badly done thesaurus on steroids. Rather, I'd expect them to add blanks (like, say, putting down two or three spaces between words instead of the usual one), omit a period at the end of a paragraph (where the average reader would probably not even miss it) or introduce subtle spelling mistakes (which is more easily done in languages that use diacritics with minimal impact on word spelling). My bet would be on the introduction of trailing whitespace characters or similar "invisible" things that the average reader would most likely not even notice.

Yes, for example correct capitalization can easily alter the meaning completely. Take this sentence for example.

"I had to help my uncle Jack off a horse".

Now imagine this sentence without proper capitalization and how the meaning changes instantly. If DRM strikes here, what could well be a very child suitable book on how to help your elders may easily become something that you might not want your kids to read!

Erh... this is maybe a good moment to inform you of a pastime that we tend to partake in when we are REALLY bored.

1. Take a famous quote, some song lyrics or any kind of text that the average person should know.
2. Open Google Translate. Pick 5 languages, no two may be from the same language family (it's generally safe to choose from different continents, ignoring the Americas).
3. Chain translate the text. Use the output of one language as the input for the next.
4. Translate the final result back to English.
5. Post the result and have people guess what the original text was.

It is usually kinda legible if you have a hunch what might have been the original text, but in general it's an adventure in cryptography.