Or simply say no to parent's trolling. (No infringement vaguely proven, fragmentation, failures!?! Pleeze!)

Russia made their rails incompatible with the rest of the world so that a foreign military could not just rail on into mother Russia.
That means they have a track width (called gauge in rail language) which is 4 foot 11 inches. While the US has 4 foot 8½ inches. Enough difference to instantly derail the train. The good part is that most of Europe and China uses the same gauge as US. I'm curious if they will modify their tracks or make new rail wheels which covers both sizes. Being that this is bound to open up a massive amount of shipments. Imagine if China joins in. Rail would see an amazing comeback. Next we would have Japan make a tunnel to join the Russian rail. I suspect that this would also make foreign countries more accessible and lower the desire to kill the "different" people "way over there".
(Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Track_gauge)

Exactly. It's not like they still carry my old stereo from yesteryear. As the article says, they spend less since people are not willing to spend as much. I noticed the same decline in electronic shops. Back when microcomputers came out it was easy to find a store to buy quality components and have a good selection.
Now the only one that seem to still be in business is RadioShack. Not exactly what it was a few decades ago either.

I listened to a 5.1 system my daughter had and it was kinda OK when watching a movie. But once you turned on quality music - yikes!

It was very surprising to hear how a 5.1 system could sound so bad. Which was mostly due to the crappy speakers they included. I got spoiled with studio equipment and could never listen to anything less without being disappointed. Of course everyone wanted to know what I thought of Their stereo. About which one has to get very clever on how one answers. My reply ended up being that they sound pretty good for what they paid. Unless they actually wanted to know the truth.

If you don't actually sit and listen to a good system, or live music, it's not that easy to realize what it should sound like. With all the get everything from the comfort of your own home, that becomes harder and harder. Yeah, my 30 old system sounded a lot better (though only with two speakers) than todays average 5/6/7.1 systems.

Quality is not either subjective. How accurately can your equipment reproduce a sound? Your taste is subjective but that's another story.
Marketing does affect what people buy, especially when they can't tell the difference.

Hehe, this is funny. You can also be charged with stealing, even if all you did was make a new copy.

I find the arguments interesting, Speed kills and Guns kills. Neither is actually true. Not that I'm promoting speeding. But it is usually incompetence, poor responsibility and stupidity that kills. Governments, having problems with telling the difference, simply apply a simply rule that applies to idiots and professionals alike.

Of course the fact of him speeding (or not) has nothing to do with Your actions. Or are you arguing that since others are doing something that it's all of a sudden OK?

Yup, unfortunately you are soo right. I have however discovered that there are a number of people who are on the fence and can't quite decide what is right and wrong, and when shown the way, they walk the straight and narrow.

It thought of canceling a few times, but thought oh what the hell, it'll be interesting to see the argument against, it being such a heated subject. And who knows maybe one person will do the right thing as a result.

Haha, I'm sorry but that is funny!

Reality check! The license is intending for you to take it. When we talk about taking things that don't belong to you it does not include things that you are allowed to take.

Don't make the mistake of looking at what it does to other people. Look at what you are doing, your actions. I can't see how you taking something that does not belong to you is anything but stealing. Theft. Justifying it with the, often false, idea that it did not do any damage, does not make your action any less so.
It is very true that stealing someones car is quite different from stealing a copy of a computer program. Nevertheless, it is the act of taking something which does not belong to you which makes it theft.

How about someone dropping something on the street. You see it falling to the street and the person is oblivious to the fact and keep on walking. Frankly, if you pick it up and keep it it's also theft. The proper thing to do would be to return it to the owner, or at least make it easier for the person to find it.

All these justifications does not make it less so, it only serves to make you not feel so bad about what you have done/are doing.
It is also rather gutless to hide behind justifications instead of simply owning up to ones actions.
The number of people who feel it's not stealing does not either make it less so.

A much better way of life is to stand up for your actions and set a good example. Make it your goal to always be helpful, soon you start feeling better about yourself as well. I'm sure a number of people consider the above weird and unrealistic. It is however totally workable, and usually brings about a much better feeling about self and others. Being unselfish creates something akin to an accounts receivable in life. When you're in need others often come to your aid, etc.

As I've said in the past, BSA and similar organizations, are in themselves trying to make everyone into thieves by calling everyone so in the hope of increasing income for their members. No doubt they are paid more the more they can stack things in their members favor.

Simply observing how certain groups operate around artists you can see that they themselves are raping the artists under the guise of giving them an "opportunity". Meanwhile the artist who is the one creating the art, and clearly the more valuable one, sees only a few pennies on the dollar. While the lesser person who cannot produce art is taking such an advantage of the situation that the artist has a hard time making a living. Regardless of the effects of those actions, it does not however make the act of taking something which strictly speaking does not belong to you any less of a crime.

Again, this disregard for common sense and decency is not an good opportunity to loose your own respect. Ignore what others are doing and do the right thing for yourself!

That's a technicality as to USSR taking Berlin. US troops wanted to take Berlin and were there way before USSR. But were ordered to let the Russians take it. Germany really fell largely to the US forces. The allies did most of the work before USSR came marching. This was an entirely political motivated move.

Haha, not quite so. As the end of the war (WWII) there was the growing concern amongst various war criminals in Germany that they might end up in big trouble. The idea was formed to start an organization that would be looking for criminals, but manned by them, which would hold them above suspicion (plus they had new identities). At least that was the idea. That organization was named Interpol. It certainly was a private organization without any powers which is often given all sorts of powers in movies, but alas that is in movies.

Their current status does not have any war criminals as they are all dead, but one can only wonder what is up with an organization started by war criminals to help them hide.

For all the young ones I'd like to point out the classic PR number that people so easily fell for in the early days of gas stations. Back in the days when you went to fill up your car with gas you were often doing the filling yourself. The criminal would fill up his car partly, turn off the pump and the restart it. Then completing the filling. Of course the meter only showed the last fill and so you got away with paying less than you took. To raise themselves above suspicion they would simply pop in every now and then and announce that they took gas the day before but forgot to pay. Thus making the gas attendant think that the criminal was one honest fella.

There's two ways to hide, one is in the open. In the most obvious place...

As far as TLD, that ship sailed a long time ago as everyone simply stopped verifying the correctness, and the steps in place is easy to sail around. Since most people don't verify much I would be surprised if someone questioned Interpol's status. Which mind you I've not done for some time myself. By now anything is possible, I just don't look at a TLD to determine what they are.