The probem is precedent. This sets a bad one.

Sure, this guy went out of his way and clearly worked with intent to benefit from Montsano's work ... But now GMO companies have a leg up on future cases where some of their seed gets mixed into a larger crop.

This stinks of DRM at the genetic level. And if you'll excuse the tinfoil hat, whose to say the farmer here isn't a Monstano shill, violating the patents in the most egregious fashion possible, if only to ensure Montsano's victory, and set the aforementioned precedent?

Someone hurry and patent "a zip gun, but from a computer!" It's an entirely new idea.

Be sure to include specifications about the roundness of any edges.

Yup. Give it a few months to soak in, and everything on TPB will have the bumpers, credits and metadata stripped.

So when someone downloads Adventure of Big-Chair season 3, the fact that it looks surprisingly like some HBO series is irrelevant if I haven't seen said series. I diligently searched for the name in question, and was not familiar with anything else. Thus I am free and clear.

Essentially, they've separated the contract for service and for hardware.

If you want to pay $600+ up front for the newest handset, then you are free and clear of any contracts. But if you want the same phone for $200, they'll finance the other $450. Cutting out of that early is exactly the same as cutting out of your car loan early, just on a smaller scale.

"Hallway time?"

It's called lobbying. Mostly because hallwaying sounds ridiculous.

My first thought :
Who the hell tries to bomb Canada? A country stereotyped by polite apologies and maple syrup.

Of course, the thought that immediately followed :
Freaking South Park.

It's cloth, actually.

Currency isn't printed on paper, it's roughly 75% cotton, 25% linen.

Duration is key. How long will the effects persist?

There's nothing wrong with keeping Boston on lockdown for a few days, while law enforcement track down these scumbags (or rather, the one still standing) Once the immediate threat ends, that's when we need to pay attention. I imagine Boston will go back to mostly normal in a few days.

Better yet, sounds like a perfect opportunity for the government to learn BitTorrent.

It's already available for free, and released under CC ... Just seed it yourselves and call it good.

My first thought exactly. The mark to beat is an extremely imperfect one. We meat popsicles are hovering around 11 million reported accidents per year. Though on a general decline, I think the google-mobile can give us a run for our money.

Very true, and I've not forgotten.

But now the tripe is better disguised behind shiny graphics, amusing rag-doll physics and multimillion dollar marketing campaigns. Meanwhile, the good and unique games are discarded because they don't carry the N+1 title scheme of an established franchise that's been floating on the reputation of 1 well done game many many years ago. Spec Ops : The Line was brilliant cutting satire of the whole genre, meanwhile CODBLOPS, ME3 and every Halo since, well ... since Halo 1, have been getting worse and worse. Poor writing, terrible pacing, over-reliance on cut scenes, and microtransactions required to actually play the full game. Oh, you paid $60 and thought that was it? HA. Now go buy a coke for a code you can redeem for more bullets, and pre-purchase at this store or that to get a better gun, and then drop another $10 for day 1 DLC ...

That's the main reason I'm looking forward to Ouya, and others like it. Sure there will be garbage, there will always be shovelware looking for an easy buck ... but hopefully the good games will actually stand out and be rewarded for their efforts. That, and I just want to play FF6 (3) again. ;)