Lucas sold $2 billion in merchandising rights. You need pod races for toy pod cars, dolls, and 2-headed announcers.

I'm not saying its awesome ("Roger, Roger!" -- The joke so funny Lucas used it twice!), but the tail wags the dog here. Expect even more of the same.

None o' all y'all can count. This is the first Star Wars film that matches its number-qua-ordinal !!!!!!!!!

Competition for shared resources is not the same thing as raiding a farmer's field because you were too stupid or lazy to plan ahead.

You typed your message in on equipment developed by the modern equivalent of farmers, investing and developing.

I'm not defending the OP's issue, but your statment has been disproven -- humanity has tried systems where things were "much more oriented around the common good", meaning "not-capitalism", and all it yielded was people peeking over walls wondering why they had to stand in line 8 hours for bread while we had shelves full of boom boxes and blue jeans.
 

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You only win with "defections"?

I am virulently opposed to an all-encompassing government you cannot flee from.

I also disagree that the current state of politics, for some locality (or globality) somehow represents some Grand Awesome state such that fleeing is interpreted memtically as ceating".

Extra costs will hurt small guys more than big ones, who are already probably spending a lot more on lawyers specifying things than the government fees.

In many cases it's about cockblocking competitors, not limited to trolls, and no little stinking fee is gonna get in the way of multimillion dollar operations.

"On the one side you have the guy who said he bashed his head as the plane landed. On the other side you have the plane maker who says there is no problem. The truth is somewhere in the middle."

"There is a black box."

"Wut?"

"There is a black box. There was no bump and it was a smooth landing."

"Oh."

Not sure if want to join Slytherin anymore.

Freedom collides with democracy again. "Progressive" democracy that can conjur reasons to remove freedom to the applause of people.

"Good morning, gentlemen. What does the overnight Google search analysis show?"

"Well, there is the continued flu outbreak on the east coast, with the biggest concentration in Boston. There seems to be a ringworm outbreak in pets in the southwest, and our numbers show, and I caution you this is probably a 60% overestimate, the apparent nationwide removal of 3.8 million brains due to unspecified causes."

This Brazil thing reminds me of that scene in Citizen Kane where Charles' worthless drunk dad says, "I have a right to that gold mine deed, too, now that it's worth somethin'."

Attention Slashdot: Legitimate comments defending Ron Paul and libertarians are being modded down -1 hand over fist.

This amounts to a silencing of opposition. It is not censorship, of course, because it does not involve angry men with guns.

It does involve, however, angry men misusing the Slashdot system.

With any luck, people who go to suspicious sites that "have software you can install that defeats Punkbuster!" will get what they deserve.

And I say that as a dad who had to reinstall the OS several times due to kids installing gameplay "helpers" their "friends" recommended. One picked dollars off a money tree for some online Tamogotchi-like pet game. It worked as a cheat, just came with a little, unspecified bonus feature.

Lotsa "Gotcha!" type talk, but at the end of the day ICANN has anti-cybersquatting and othet rules. The rest is courts which, contrary to FUD, Libertarians rely on as one of the core, legitimate features of government.

Would such an organization exist sans government? Some kind of mutual agreements would exist for networking -- it does at hardware and electrical and transport levels.

Exactly. It's all there in desalinization. This is just a little more expensive currently.

Like electricity to the home, in 100 years politicians will be taxing it.