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Well as I doubt that 'Ethanol-fueled' is really your real name you have just commited a felony punishable by up to 5 years imprisonment

What, because a site's policy states something you think it's ok to not pay any attention to it? To blow-by the sign-up form with false data that just meets the field validation?

Christ indeed. IMO, who cares how people "use" sign-up forms, the provider expects valid information to be entered. What, because there is finally a consequence to providing false information just to sign-up to a site you're getting pissy? Please. Now if they only start to go after all the spammers with yahoo/google/hotmail account we'll have some progress.

The Boy Scouts of America actively discriminate against atheists and homosexuals despite receiving government funding. They can fuck right off.

So what you're really asking is what sort of evidence of tampering you should be sure to avoid leaving behind?

Ummm...so you're essentially throwing EVERYTHING that makes you a republican out the window to vote for the most leftist presidential candidate from a major party EVER?

Jews get angry whenever they see someone who doesn't share their values of murder in the service of greed.

WellI don't share your values, you treacherous race of murderers and theives.

I'm tired of watching you steal land and water from Palestinians so you can have a lush lawn in the middle of the fucking desert.

For years, plenty of people have pointed out the difference between innovation and invention, with a popular quote (attributed to way too many different people over the years) being that "invention is turning money into ideas; innovation is turning ideas into money." Basically, invention is coming up with a new idea -- innovation is successfully bringing a product to market in a way that people want. Where some people disagree is how important each of these stages are. Our position has been that innovation is a lot more important than invention. Successfully bringing a product to market is what makes the world a better place -- because it satisfies needs in the market and expands the economy. There were music players before the iPod, but Apple innovated the iPod into more of a "must have" device. There were cars before Ford, but he innovated to make it affordable for the average person. This is one of the reasons why we have such trouble with the patent system as it's currently designed. It rewards invention, but makes innovation more difficult and expensive.

A new study supports this point by showing that in most companies executives are a lot more worried about innovation than invention, saying that they're overwhelmed with ideas. It's successfully executing and putting those ideas into practice in a way that makes money that's so difficult. The study found only 17% of companies where execs were worried about not having the necessary ideas. Instead, most companies were greatly worried with taking those ideas and actually being able to bring them to market successfully. So once again, we're seeing that it's innovation that's the bigger challenge than invention. In fact, it seems that many companies feel that there are too many ideas going around -- and the real challenge is in executing and bringing those ideas successfully to market. So, why is it that our public policy is focused on just the invention process (of which there appears to be too much) while making it more expensive and difficult to execute and bring products to market (which is the real challenge companies are facing)?
http://techdirt.com/articles/20070903/221321.shtml