A lot of loans are indexed to LIBOR or the Fed Funds rate. Fed Funds rate is what interest the Fed demands be paid to lend money to banks. LIBOR is what interest rates banks in London say they will charge other banks to borrow money. It's a system that shouldn't even exist, since it is literally a daily survey. Each bank gives their answer, none are discarded as outliers, and the figures are averaged. I'm surprised it took so long to manipulate LIBOR to be honest.

They used the actual recording of him. That is still copyrighted almost with no exception.

Parody is protected as fair use. Copying parody is not.

The features are the sweetener to get you to accept the DRM. For some people, it's a good enough tradeoff. For others, it's not. Deal with it, not everyone has the same priorities.

Fair point. I was going on memory of your initial post, and didn't reread it. Memory did not serve my well.

Unreasonable charges for bandwidth and slow connections are an entirely different problem.

You claim to be trying to make a rational, fact-based argument, but you seem to be trying to inject emotions into the argument as much as possible. Choose one or the other, or at least admit you are trying to use emotion to frame the argument.

I never said I was for or against gun ownership. I am, however, anti-rape, though that does not inform my opinion on guns. Labeling people pro-rape is not a reasonable way to frame an argument.

Most companies, at least from a revenue standpoint, make money from products. Who do you think is paying for the ads? Even if you assume the average company spends 10% of revenue on ads (Which is a really high number, I think), you have ten times as many companies producing that making money from advertising (10/11ths of the revenue accruing to producers, with 1/11th going to advertisers. Yes, I know 1/11th is getting counted twice, but since it's a result of production twice, I think it's appropriate).

I use Hulu and never see ads/annoying HEY YOU AREN'T WATCHING THE ADS screens. Maybe you're not trying hard enough. XBMC/Bluecop It's been a godsend, and I expect to appreciate it more now that nzbmatrix is gone.

Unlikely. The more likely scenario is mass blocking of the ISP. After all, from a business perspective, if you make money from ads, this ISP's users contribute approximately nothing, and cost you money.

Uh... yeah. With whom are you arguing exactly?

Yes. The government is the perfect candidate for extremely high risk, high reward investments. No other organization has enough capital to diversify that kind of risk away and reap the rewards.

Cars that use NO gasoline should definitely be taxed for using the road. Cars that use gasoline and are high mileage normally achieve that by reducing mass, so not the same wear.

Considering your sig equates anti-gun with pro-rape, your opposition to my logic is unsurprising.

Labeling your opponent, then arguing based on that label is neither a fair, nor reasonable approach. If you don't agree with how someone labels them self, then argue against that label. Don't just unilaterally change it, then harp on that change.

And if you want to ban everything that protects rapists, start with condoms. I look forward to your "pro-condom is pro-rape" campaign.