Better that an animal never be born than spend a miserable, tortuous life trapped in a cage hardly bigger than itself, only to finally be slaughtered for food.

Yeah, not being a regular driver can really put a different perspective on things. Sometimes, when I am driving, I realize how much I'm speeding and I make a point to do three things:
1. calculate how little time I'm actually saving by speeding.
2. realize that I'm not in a hurry anyway.
3. enjoy whatever album I'm playing on the stereo.

Why is this modded funny? It's sound advice. Am I missing something? If you're going to go average speed, stay out of the left lane, unless you're passing someone going below average. And as for blind spots; anyone who doesn't know that rule shouldn't be highway driving.

Also, don't drive at the same speed as the car next to you. Either pass them and get in front of them, or slow down and get behind them.

Even if I wanted to pay for news and magazine articles (which I don't) why would I want to go through the extra complication of a separate app for every newspaper, and downloading each magazine? The web already covers this. Am I missing something?

I used L'Hopital's rule in a wishy-washy, and most certainly wrong way to come up with 100%

FPS doug on the topic:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olm7xC-gBMY&t=2m5s

Him and Jesus. I think they're in it together.

Just fyi, Douglass Adams was in on the development of the movie, and approved of it, up until his death. Yes, it took a few more years to come out, but he was involved in the initial stages.

That's pretty fair, if a bit complicated. But even if the jury and judge came to the decision that *every* person who got their copy of the song from her would have bought it if she personally hadn't been seeding it and decided to make her penalty 99 cents for every song she seeded times the number of uploads, that would still be far more reasonable than the bullshit they handed her.

Even if we take the "low" fine of $54,000, that's $2,250 per song. So what, she uploaded each song over 2000 times? What crap. I understand that some of the fine is more than just compensation, it's also deterrent, but shit, man that's just ridiculous.

On the bright side, I have a habit of downloading something "illegally" every time I let something like this get under my skin, so, off to the torrentz!

I checked, and hatetube.com is apparently already taken. It's not really what I was expecting. So now, half an hour later, I thought I'd drop by here again just to let everyone know.

To add to your (almost certainly wrong) speculation, here's a couple of 'what-ifs':

That disease that (some claim) makes people hoard cats, and a short story by David Brin about a disease that makes people want to give blood, thus spreading the disease.

The long game doesn't have to be so long. See Canada's bill C-24, enacted in 2003. Corporations can't donate over $1000 to a party, people can't donate over $5000.

The gritty details

Grad School; It's not just a job, it's an indenture!

Funny but.. also interesting. I mean, what with all the hoopla over Hawking's recent comments, and the predictable "rebuttals" by the religious folks, about how someone must have started the universe in the first place, therefore there's a god. What if the person/people who started our universe were just a bunch of scientists in their universe?

What would the zealots hate more, the idea that our universe sprang out of nothing, or that our "god(s)" were just some nerds performing an experiment?

But this is backwards. In the sane world, the reason why paying less gets you less is because the cheaper product was cheaper to make. Not only is their locked down product not cheaper to make, but it's actually making the whole line more expensive. Some of our dollars are actually going towards the developers for the purpose of making the product worse, by locking it down.