Serious money? You know we aren't really talking about "serious" money here. He claims the savings is $300 a year, which isn't serious money. One thing to keep in mind is, a VPS will be upgraded to newer hardware overtime. And if you want to do the same, you need to take that into consideration.

Uhm, that was the ENTIRE point of the analysis. So yeah I think it took that into account
TFS says "upgrading an extra PC..."

I think it said "consumers are reimbursed for stolen funds", which you say you were. It doesn't talk about being reimbursed for side affects. In addition this was mostly about passwords. Did they steal your credit cards because of weak passwords?
Sounds to me like you anecdote confirms the research.

They are both turing complete languages. So what can you do in Python that can't be done in BASIC?

Slap a few libraries on ANY language and you get do anything in less lines of codes. That's what libraries are for.

I'm going to go down to my local Carnegie Library and look that up...

They can get away with it, as long as they bring me my Breakfast Mountain Dew

In some circumstances you ARE supposed to question them. And that is the whole point. Its one thing when the secretary assumes the printer guy is the printer guy, its another when its the guard at the front door.

Don't be circular in your definition. It is called "property" because it is something you own. In the case of copyright, you own the right to copy, and in patent you own the right to use the process. Just because you don't like the name doesn't mean it shouldn't be used.

It becomes an interesting situation. If I write a book, then give someone else the copyright, does the copyright still end when I die? If not then the older one gets, the quicker one should sign away their rights.
But why should someone else benefit as soon as I die? If I want to provide for my children, and I'm a cabinet maker, I can make a bunch of cabinets and give to my children, so they can sell after I die. But if I'm an author, and I finish the story the day before I die, my children (or wife) are out of luck? If that is the case, perhaps I just won't bother writing the story, or letting it get out.

You are right. But publishers shouldn't be able to specify the price the middle sales to the public.

For you maybe. I like my ebook because it is convenient, and when I bought it, ebooks were cheaper. Then Apple decided to screw the customers over.
I've already payed several hundred dollars for the convenience when I purchased my reader. I don't also need to pay that for each book
don't forgot you also loss the convenience of reselling your book

I guess it depends on your definition of "less"
I can get mass market paperbacks from B&N for 10% off the cover price. So I refuse to pay more than 10% off the cover price for an ebook. Yet ebooks are routinely equal to or more than the mass market paperback. Thanks to Apple
The big winners (from me at least) in this fiasco were independent authors. As that is pretty much all I read right now.

How is this case absurd? Apple colluded with the publishers to reduce competition in the market place. It had nothing to do with Amazon selling below cost.

So the first one needs to be sold for $100,000 and then the rest are free?
How much it costs to produce an item isn't really reflected in the price
And it isn't free for the additional copies either.

Most people would not want that.
But most people don't care. First of all most people don't even know, or consider what is actually happened. Secondly it is convenient for most people. And thats pretty much why it will continue.