Because of the very obvious answer:
Even in the original manga, Alita was not Japanese.

You could have a better argument about the change from Daisuke Ido -> Dyson Ido.

Keyboard Cat and Nyan Cat would beg to disagree.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelli...

I suppose one could argue that the above was not a "verdict" since both parties "reached an agreement", but I'd still argue that standard copyright/trademark protection isn't anything new in the world of memes.

Anyone who wants to crack dvd/bluray encryption for piracy is going to do it with or without commercial programs like dvdfab.

The only reason I still buy movies on disc is so I can rip them to my media server and *store* the physical media.
No needing to go dig up discs, worry about scratches, etc. If I want to take a movie with me, I just transcode it to my phone.

Not only is it more convenient, but it gets around a lot of licensing issues with streaming media where companies let the license lapse and it becomes unavailable online.

As a consumer, I want to consume my media when and how I want. Nuts to anyone who wants to restrict my rights to watch something I've already paid for.

So, as a legal user of dvdfab, I hope they keep doing what they're doing.

Well, you know what they say...reality is unrealistic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audie_Murphy#Battles

When asked after the war why he had seized the machine gun and taken on an entire company of German infantry, he replied simply, "They were killing my friends."

I look in the mirror.

What happens when said support person quits?

Every 4 months? Must be nice.

We get the notice to change our password every *15 days*.
Yes, at my company I have to change my password 24 times per year.

At this point I've taken to cycling through passwords until I can just reuse one that I actually remember, rather than complying with the hideous length/complexity/frequency requirements.

Why we haven't moved to Digipass or something significantly less annoying, I don't know.

While it isn't BTTF, exactly, the tv show Seven Days had a similar time traveling premise, however the portion of the machine that traveled back in time wasn't the time machine itself, but rather a pod that had to be guided back to the earth. The intro of the show even shows a lost pod floating out in space with a (dead?) pilot. One of the few, if only, shows I've ever seen that addressed the time/space issue.

Honestly in our house we enjoy SMB1 more than 2. Why? 99 lives in 2 made it too easy.

We made it through all levels on both games. Master 3 in SMB1 was such a pain.

I do sort of disagree that you can't be shown what to do on a level. Lots of levels have non-obvious methods of beating them that are easier than the obvious way.

Incidentally, if you want to be totally emasculated in relation to this game, look up the pack attack monkey ball videos. You will see him do things with a monkey ball that you'd think was impossible.

Check out Pack Attack A11 SMB1.

http://server1.vortiginous.com/smb/smb1/A11-packat tack-35980.zip