The Daily Show mentioned some other journalist's report that this upset may have been caused primarily by Alvin's name coming first alphabetically. So it could be political conspiracy, software glitch, or just human stupidity...

Fixed that for you.

Clearly, the answer to that is that Steve Jobs will have to develop a better iPhone.

That's the real issue. Why were there no robust contingency plans for an oil spill in place before off-shore drilling began? How were oil companies even given permission to drill before they demonstrated reliable containment and recovery plans with the necessary materials/products already stockpiled? The risk of spillage has always been a hot topic with offshore drilling. It's bullshit that solutions to the problem are only being worked on after the fact.

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The disparity of skills is a reoccurring issue in games that cater to both casual and hardcore gamers. Not only do hardcore gamers have the advantage of having spent more time earning those leet rewards, but have also honed their skills more in that time. In games were skill matters and there is no way to segregate the skilled from the less-skilled (e.g., ranked games), people complain. It really is no different than complaining about paying for better gear. "I have to work and don't have time to commit 8 hours a day to playing this game... it's no fair that I have to compete against these people!"

Games are copyrightable, but only for the visual and narrative elements, not the game mechanics.

... and all this time I've been sending a royalty check to The Tetris Company every time I rotated a falling game piece....

Consumer HP products always come laden with ugly, slow, intrusive bloatware under the guise of enhancing user experience. Even their basic printer/scanner software has the tendency to crash and clog up your computer memory. The HP tablet will be about as attractive (and as useful) as the advertisement pullout from a newspaper.

If we can figure out what's going on here in less than five minutes, surely the courts could reach the same conclusion within one month...

I saw the early release. Not very good. Seagal movies are only believable when he's a cook.

Vonnegut, Twain, and Swift wrote satire, but if their satirical works used copyrighted material from other people, they would be infringing the copyright. Those authors, to my knowledge, did not use any pre-existing copyrighted works to write their famous satires. Satire is fine - it just isn't an excuse to ignore copyright.

Applying Chuck DeVore's logic, if the song's copyright owner publicly acknowledges his or her support of copyright protection, then as long as I believe in the opposite cause - no copyright protection - I can use and perform the song to my heart's content as a parody.

AC is simply pointing out the underlying truth that beauty is not in the eye of the beholder and that artistic quality can be rated on an absolute, objective value scale.

*Warning: Car Analogy*

Just because one car in the lot is full of explosives doesn't mean the keys to all the cars in the lot should be handed over.

Besides, if the encryption key was publicized, the government would just begin re-encrypting all the sensitive data with a new key.