2% growth definitively debunks the claim is causing decline in revenues because the decline is nonexistant, despite so many factors that would lead one to expect decline even if there were no piracy whatsoever. That's the whole point. Your "stealing music doesn't hurt anyone" argument was never made - it is a strawman argument.

Baloroth did not say that stealing does not cause bereavement. He did not say that insurance makes theft or any other harmful actions become victimless. He did not assert that either theft or copyright infringement is fair because of music sucking or the exploited being assholes.

Less scrupulous DJs cheat musicians out of royalties and their cheating puts you at a disadvantage as a secondary effect and causes all sorts of trouble for you. I get that. It sucks. We get it. This perspective is insightful but it really doesn't have much bearing on what you're trying to say (namely, that Baloroth does not know what the fuck he's talking about, as you put it). I suppose you could just be leading up to this:

This whole paragraph is built around blatantly implying that Baloroth [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominum]is a piracy advocate[/url]. He might well be, but there is no indication that he is, and it has no bearing on the strength of his argument.

Here we go again. GP did not advocate piracy at all. Not even once. Anti-piracy sceptics and piracy advocates are not the same thing at all. You need to get that chip off your shoulder and you will find life much more bearable.

Parsing, not rendering. Does fbcon parse font files? Or is that done in user space?

However, you should be able to "escape unpleasantries" by cooperating with the authorities as you are detained for a month at your own expense during the investigation until you are exonerated and informed by the prosecutor that the case against you has been dropped and that you are free to leave the country.

If, after all that, they try to force you back to defend yourself against the same charges all over again then you fight tooth and nail against extradition, because you have pretty much no expectation of a fair trial anymore.

Actually, OpenGL was designed with that in mind. It allows you to render to separate left and right colour buffers. That's the only thing an API really needs to support stereoscopy.

Oh no. You just used the words "analogy" and "stretch" in a reply to a comment about homosexuals. It suffices to say that the analogy will soon be stretched further. You have doomed us all.

Conversely, by my similarly-uninformed logic I expected air to be cooler if less heat is escaping into it. Probably because I automatically assumed the insulation to be below the stratosphere while you assumed it to be above. I'm sure someone will tell us where greenhouse gasses actually accumulate and then we won't be as uninformed.

Just so you know: I do agree with your argument, Ihmhi; I just don't get the example that you used.

Abstinence, whether-or-not combined with existing anti-retroviral therapies, might actually extinguish humanity from the face of the earth in only a few decades, if used widely enough.

Nothing either way, as far as I can tell. That's what makes the whole thing so bizarre. The only obvious rationale is that they're aiming to prevent another Langdell situation, but there are much simpler ways of doing that.

Own the word "scrolls"? No. Own trademark to the the name of their game? Of course. Trademarks don't give anything near the level of control over a word that you suggest.

The problem with that trick is that your regular email address (name@gmail.com) is revealed. Spammers will just ignore everything after the +. You can make it more effective by taking into account the fact that gmail lets you put dots almost anywhere in your name. For example, register my.name@gmail.com and use it for communicating with your friends but never use it for signing up to websites - when you do that put the dot somewhere else (myn.ame@gmail.com, for example). Then create a filter that blocks everything except my.name@gmail.com and myn.ame@gmail.com to catch out sites that try to strip the dots. If you're willing to put in the effort you can use then more filters on myn.ame@gmail.com based on plus-addresses and senders.

Not exactly. They get a cut only from what they sell, not from what competitors sell. I believe Nimey meant that by making themselves the sole source of Metro apps they are ensuring a cut from every program sold as competitors cannot exist.

I would like to be a convert too. The functionality of CoffeeScript is wonderful and I like the grammar but the way it handles variable scoping seems like a huge step backwards. It's counter-intuitive, unclear and unpredictable - as though the designers put an enormous amount of effort into removing an aspect of Javascript that worked well and imitating an outdated version of Python instead. If it actually is a good idea and someone could help me see the light and understand the motivation behind it I'd gladly switch over.

I haven't refreshed this page yet so I don't know if someone has already mentioned this, but it might be a better idea to click on "Edit Trust" instead of "Delete or Distrust" so that you can more-easily alter your policy for that CA later if you change your mind.

It depends on the browser. For Firefox you open the options, select "Advanced", click on the "Encryption" tag, and press the "View Certificates". Select "DigiNotar root CA" from the list (just start typing the name and the cursor should jump to it) and press "Delete or Distrust". Lots of steps, but all-in-all quite a simple process.