I still wonder what's good about corporations paying taxes anyway.

Wouldn't it be more beneficial if they didn't pay taxes?

So, if corporations didn't have to pay taxes. They would hire more people or pay them more. Those additional hires or higher salaries will then be taxed again. So the Gvt. does get it's money.

The effect is, that corporations won't have to go offshore for the best tax deal and pay taxes there.

So we would benefit a lot more if the corporations stayed here - tax free - but in return hire more people or pay higher salaries.

For hardcore online gamer ping is one of the most important metrics to check up your internet connection - and hardcore gamers do everything to keep it as low as possible.

Kim even had own fiberoptics laid to his mansion - since he's a gamefreak...

So, when ping goes up considerable for some time it's not just a routing "issue".

That's why europeans, north americans and asians don't usually play outside their region - bigger ping.

It's from 1944 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_railway_clock

you can see it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvIvKiDWDks

Well, the second hand goes around continuously without ticking... and then it has about 1.5 seconds pause at the full minute.

That was because it was simpler to construct back then and the power was only 50hz or something... so at every full minute, a new impulse is given and all the second handles on every train station starts the minute round anew. so they're all in sync despite being analog watches.

Actually, some swiss guy asked the swiss federal railroad if he can use the design for an according app in the AppStore. The swiss federal railroad gave him permission to do so.

Now comes Apple and rips off the design also - so there is a direct competition between the app developer and Apple.

... how copyright and patent law holds back progress and stiffles competition -- all on the back of consumers.

ignorance is a bliss, right?

please point out where their ideology is based on theft? Furthermore, what is theft actually?

I just wonder what this "intellectual property of your work" is that StudiVZ generates? I rather thing it's a site where lots of personal information is shared in a nice package and so targetted advertising is made simple. However I lack to see what IP those sites generate (that could be turned into profits).

it is... they are running also for the upcoming EU parliament elections. Just to quote from the TF article: Andreas Popp, lead candidate for the upcoming European Parliament elections characterizes the censorship as undemocratic.

are you confusing "Pirate Party" and "The Pirate Bay"?