Yeah, and the only reason marijuana is illegal is because they can't figure out how to tax it...

Question - Does defending your glorious leader give you a hard-on?

When he took the initiative in explaining that his extreme energy usage was okay because he paid himself for carbon credits, was that as glorious?

No one failed to predict that there would be conflict in business. They instead instituted the court system to handle such issues. Which is what we see here.

I find it instructive that the "can't we all just get along" crowd doesn't understand how things work in the real world.

I guess if you give up before you begin, you deserve some sort of prize?

The simple reality is that "the corporations" are run and owned by people, who have just as much right as you to try to influence how things are run. They're just better at it than you are. That doesn't give you some special right to deny them what they want despite your "moral" objections.

Your way isn't objectively better, and you have no inherent right to impose it, no matter how correct you believe it to be.

You couldn't be more off base. Everyone secretly thinks just like I do, unless someone is paying them to think a different way.

Nintendo wasn't scared of the PSP, they were scared of Apple's amazingly successful iDevices.

Sony is about to taste third place in yet another market. Heaven help them if Microsoft ever figures out their mobile strategy.

Nothing but a law that people pay little attention to stops that from happening now, but it's hard work. People aren't big on hard work for little benefit. Which reiterates my second point.

I never understood what the end of copyright would bring as a benefit. It's not like people would be magically forced to release all source code. I guess software would be super cheap, but there would be fewer people working on it since there would be no money in it, so there would be less choice all around.

Seems like a terrible goal.

I guess you just make it personal policy to be an anti-ambassador for the GPL?

Or maybe you believe haranguing people to your point of view works?

If you were downloading all of the rest for yourself, don't worry, the Miley Cyrus is an improvement of your taste.

What's depressing is the "anyone who doesn't agree with me must be getting paid for their opinion" mindset.

That's what gives rise to anti-intellectualism, you know - that wild arrogance is distasteful in the extreme.

It's always been fashionable to brand someone a troll when they don't blindly accept populist Slashdot tripe.

Were you born this retarded or did you work at it?

Yeah, those telemarketers are the 1% man.

Ah, the shill argument, the first resort of the "my opinion is obviously objectively right" nerd.

At least you have the courtesy to start out with a line that lets us know you have nothing useful to say.