Why does every aspect of the publishing industry seem to fail at grasping the advantages of limited or no DRM and digital products?

Expired then. I've changed emails at least once since then (assuming this wasn't during the time we were using AOL) and moved four times. Thanks.

Oh well. Maybe I'll renew it, maybe I won't.

I think I still have my ham radio license somewhere from when I took a mini course in the subject back in middle school. We all got our licenses at the end of the course and I never did actually use a radio since. It's probably expired by now, though, or close to.

So I guess I can't pantomime planting bombs or firing weapons anymore.

A broken iPhone really is an emergency! That means I can't play Angry Birds!

Am I the only one who reads apk's comments in the voice of an insurance or used car salesman?

From what I've seen, they're saying pretty much what I've been saying for a few months now and some of what I've been thinking since the recession. However, with no real definition to them aside from the vague desire to do something about the corporate government and a sense of being on the wrong end of the stick, it's difficult to tell other people (like my grandmother) just what Occupy Wall St and similar protests are about. "Ending corporate control of the government" isn't really enough explanation and the groups refuse to get into more details.

On the one hand, formlessness and lack of unique identity and goals helps them by keeping the doors open to anyone who wants the same goal but may support different methods of it. It also makes taking action against them, whether through the media or law, difficult. On the other, those same traits confuse the hell out of people. Not just the talking heads or the politicians, but other regular Joes that want to understand and maybe support them. It's going to take more than simple anger to gain results.

They're working on getting some details done, but the model of self-government they've chosen (a fully democratic consensus seeking assembly) makes it difficult to get to that point with any real speed. Right now, they have my support. We will just have to see how well that holds as time goes by. The Tea Party had good talking points in the beginning too, but they got co-opted by the Republicans. I'm desperately hoping that sort of thing doesn't happen here, but history is not favoring those odds.

We already have cops in high schools, given the principals the authority to ruin the lives of high school students on the slightest whimsy, and eroded (if not destroyed outright) any suspicion that these students nearing adulthood actually have any rights while ensuring the parents have no actual responsibility for their child's eventual success or failure.

I will point that there have been pushes to fingerprint kids in schools all over the nation for years now. Fingerprint scanners are a natural combination of this and the above. Schools are prisons and daycares now. Who needs education? Just give them a pass if they can spell their name and move on.