Yes, and it should.

If I want to pirate a movie, I can go to a single site, find multiple options (1080p, 720p, ipod, ect) for just about every movie in existence. All of which are "in stock" and most of which I can download to my computer in less time it would take to drive to the store. The movie is presented to me without unskippable ads, without worry of scratching or losing, and can be archived without taking up space on my shelf.

All of this is free.

As most technical people are very aware, if I'm selling a product in a marketplace where a virtually identical product is available, I need to add value in order to get people to purchase through me instead of the competition. Adding value for movie studios is easy. They are selling legal copies and supporting the people who made the movies. The added value is already there. However, to add value, they need to provide an equivalent experience.

Currently, they aren't even close.

A sufficient amount of water or any other oxygen containing substance found in greater quantities on the other planets would explain the why the earth has so much atmospheric oxygen. Granted, that we know of, there is very little, but our understanding of what is contained on our planets is very limited. In addition, we're beginning to find evidence of oxygen in the form of water everywhere we look in areas where we hadn't found any before.

As far as Mars and Venus is concerned, CO2 has a pretty high concentration of 02 oddly enough. For the gas giants, hydrogen is much lighter than oxygen, and H2O contains quite a bit of H. Since we can only see what has floated up to the top of the gas giants, it really isn't a surprise that what we are able to measure easily is hydrogen.

Our atmosphere would have a much lower percentage of oxygen if plants hadn't pulled such a large amount of carbon out of the air and if our temperatures were low enough to keep all water vapor frozen and out of the atmosphere. That of course doesn't account for all of the differences by any means, but what we don't know about the composition of other planets (or our own for that matter) is far greater than what we currently know.

Whew! I'm so relieved I'm running Windows 8 on my main pc. My server running Windows 3.11 is probably in trouble though, I'll have to see...

Certainly. I plan to launch a series of 25 geosynchronous satellites providing broadband internet access to the entire world. It will be independent from any government's control or oversight. I'm going to call it the Archangel Network. ...What?

Exactly. I, and I'm sure many others, spent countless hours studying web technologies in the late 90's. I was starting to become quite an expert in typography, accessibility, interface design, and the myriad of technologies necessary to create complete web applications. Then I started trying to develop standards based web pages that worked in IE.

So, now I'm a database developer.

There could be one serious advantage of everyone's personal dirt being available at all times. Eventually people would have to stop pretending to be so perfect. People make mistakes, and currently as that isn't currently ok with society, everyone spends most of their lives trying to hide those mistakes from everyone else.

I think that's a larger detriment to us personally and to society as a whole than not being able to hide those things. If all of our dirt was public knowledge, we probably would be a bit more understanding.

This was in Bosnia. I'm pretty sure the guy was just bored.

I got a ticket for driving 8 in a 5 mile per hour zone on a military base once... The speedometer on the vehicle I was driving started at 10.

I tore it up and told him to bring it up to my commanding officer if he'd like to. Never heard about it again.

Exactly, and make sure it's single function and black and white if you don't print in color often, less things to break that way. I picked up the Brother 2070N myself a few years ago. Works with or without drivers, works great in Linux, perfectly reliable for me (and others based on reviews), and cheap enough to not worry too much about it if it doesn't last more than a few years. Plus it has a toner drum available if you do a lot of printing. I'm still perfectly happy with this one, but there might be a better one available now, I'd still be looking for the same features and it would be what I compared everything else against.

It can if you aren't writing with graphite.... http://www.grand-illusions.com/acatalog/Metal_Pen.html

Stephen Hawking isn't British, that's obvious to anyone. He doesn't have an accent.

And somehow I think you'd have a hard time marketing a Redundant Array of Inexpensive Pigeons...

32 bytes, 256 bits..

Don't you think she looks tired?

Absolutely incorrect. That might be true if piracy wasn't easier and faster than buying, renting, borrowing, or demoing.

But its significantly easier, which means that if the item wasn't worth your time to get, pirating becomes an easier and faster option. That alone is going to swing more than %1 of the instances of piracy.

And then it's free. If you think people don't get things just because they're free regardless of whether or not they would ever need, use, or even think about the item again, then you don't know people.

Your 99% figure is simply wrong.

Not true. Is there any software, movie, or music that slightly interests you that you would never purchase?

If it's software that could save you time (Photoshop over Gimp for example), then pirating it didn't remove a sale, it only saved you time.

If it's a movie or music, you might find that you liked it instead of just never knowing about it. Once again, you gained, and nobody lost.

If you can't think of anything that might interest you that you will never purchase, then you either have too much money, or too few interests.