How can Microsoft possibly conclude that Malware is a greater threat to pirated PCs from the previously quoted data? Obviously the US has a higher infection rate than China, with the US being at 8.2 per thousand and China only at 6.7.

If it were me analyzing the data I'm afraid I would have to conclude that users who use windows update more often and use official copies of windows(US users) are more likely to receive a malware infection than users on pirated copies without using windows update(China).

I guess I deserve a job at Microsoft if I'm able to better comprehend the statistics than they are, assuming the numbers from this article are even true.

I would hope the father would have more experience with what an erection is than his wife. I suppose the mother could be a doctor, nurse, whore or porn star.

I agree and I base my entire mood on the smells of the locations I have been to during my day.

For instance, if I go into a gas station bathroom during my day I am liable to become completely enraged or possibly even suicidal at the thought of the acts previously taken in order to create such smells.

Depending upon how bad the smells were, I may even kidnap a child or go on a shooting rampage because of them.

On the other hand if I journey to a flower shop and take in the 'wonderful' scents of flowers and the unneeded perfumes I am likely to smell emanating from the woman behind the counter I will go even crazier due to my allergies and form some sort of murderous coalition or cult.

As you can clearly see, this proves smells have a great effect on emotions and the actions taken because of them.

Do not try to purchase the chip. That's impossible. Instead only try to realize the truth...

What truth?

There is no chip.

For the record, I am not saying that we should get rid of and change the entire judicial system.

I am simply saying that more laws are not the answer to freedom and a peaceful and tolerant society.

We don't need more laws, we need fewer better ones.

I believe having a single law state: 'You can not harm or make contact with another individual or their property without their prior consent.' would fit any necessary situation in the United States if it truly is a free country.

Once again you are twisting everything I say into something else.

Obviously they would have to be found guilty of the crime first and as stated the punishment would have to be equal to the crime. This can be insured by a governing body of officials that approved the final decisions of the jury.

You were unable to even come up with an example where my law would not be effective.

You would have to actually cause harm to another individual or their property in order to be punished under these laws.

We would be able to retain our jail system and even use similar time-based punishments for crimes.

When did I say this? Stop attempting to put your foolish words in my mouth please.

Are you saying that one's punishment isn't currently decided on by a jury of peers or judge? It is mind-numbingly absurd that you attempted to discredit me by bringing the demographics or psychological state of a person into account as though they do not have weight in the current state of laws.

Obviously you would still need some sort of judicial system to decide on a punishment fitting for the crime. I suppose I should not have used the words 'eye for an eye', I should have said that the punishment should fit the crime and should be decided upon on an individual basis by a jury of peers. I definitely used the wrong terminology.

Selling anything to anyone is not harming them as long as the ingredients listed are the true ingredients. If somebody is stupid enough to purchase gasoline and then start guzzling it without first finding the necessary facts about what gasoline does to your system then that is their own fault. Same goes for people supplying their babies with formula as in your example.

The simple fact is that people need to stop using other people's stupidity as an excuse for their own.

On the other hand, if the seller were to not list that gasoline was in the baby formula that you bought then he of course would be punished for harming your child.

You, just like everybody else, are accustomed to there being holes in the system, because this is what allowing for an infinite number of laws creates.

There are no holes in the law I proposed so long as you take on the situation at hand with a rational mindset and do not try to contort it into something it is not.

Both copyright and law systems in all countries are completely flawed. As we continue to add more laws the system becomes increasingly complex and convoluted.

The only real solution would be to break everything down into a much simpler set of laws that do not require changing and do not require any other laws to be added onto them.

For example, in the US there are laws in effect that if completely enforced would turn well over 50% of our population into official criminals. Unofficially I'm sure 99.9% of Americans have done something 'unlawful'. As with every other country I'm sure.

Here is the only law I see us needing:

1. Do not physically harm or come in contact with any individual or their property without consent.

Punishment? It should match whatever the crime was, an eye of an eye.

Sorry all you greedy companies out there, property is physical. Due to the internet distribution of information is now free. You can't stop us from expanding our minds or from experiencing a video game or music that we can't otherwise afford.

The anti-cheating technologies in SC2 will be up to you if the friends list and Battle.Net2 works as they have planned. They plan on implementing a friends list like steam or wow has and it will even be integrated with some in-game features(wow friends list, creating raids outside of wow, etc.).

This means, if somebody is a hacker you will most likely be able to add them to a blacklist and just never play with them again. The alternative method is to make new friends and just don't play with people that are not on your friends list and that you do not know and trust. Hackers only ruin your game if you force yourself to keep playing with them.

Here is a link to some information about BNet2 from IGN:

http://pc.ign.com/articles/101/1017149p1.html

Blizzard has a secret society of gnomes that sneak into SC owner's houses at night and steal the discs.

A recent study showed that Blizzard would have made only 25% of it's recorded profits if they had not deployed the gnomes.

Emptious-Numerator Divided-Dottus.

Sometimes referred to simply as Divided-Dottus or the symbols '/.'.

I never once said that you have to be blindly obedient to be patriotic, I said that if you did then a patriot would == bigot. Ahh.. the wonderful invention of the 'if' statement. If only there were some equivalent in the English language, oh yes if.

I only wish that even half of all the bullshit I have seen in this world were imaginary.

If your wife hates all other women and you love your wife enough to believe in every ideal she believes in without question, then yes you hate all other women.

If you follow your country blindly while it creates war with others over possibly meaningless matters or when there are other options besides war and you never once question it then you are a bigot.

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It's not sad to see it appear trollish when really it does not have much relevance at all to the topic at hand. Any moron can throw posts all over that say, "WOOO!! Go !"

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