If we take the fictional replicator concept to the extreme; yes.

We could all forgot about jobs and income and live in a Utopia where everyone is free to pursue whatever they want.

But in the more practical sense of 'if I could duplicate cars like I duplicate software' where the world isn't very different from ours - we do need income and we don't have an endless supply of unicorn farts to feed us, it doesn't work out so good.

But yes, laws to protect ideas are good. Disregarding those laws are bad.

And, everyone arguing otherwise is free to release THEIR ideas for free. But they don't.

Slight misquote there... it should say "food" not "toys" - I doubt that kids eating the toys makes them fat - LOL.

But if they really wanted to be consistent they should ban sugary breakfast cereals with toys and or with cartoon characters on the box and other items like Cracker Jacks that have a toy in the box. After all, that's preying on children's love of toys and cartoons to sell sugar-loaded unhealthy items.

By this logic, as males, you and I should face police more police scrutiny that women. Look at murder statistics. Look at violent crime statistics. Men are disproportionately more likely to engage in illegal activities like these.

So, any time a cop sees a man driving a car, bam, pull him over. Check him out. Assume he is up to no good.

Collective punishment like this is wrong. It reeks of police state and has no business in a free society.

You might want to read your own sig.

Translation: "If you would just make me king, I would be able to solve all the problems."

these guys openly made fun of scientology! They are not afraid of getting killed. If one of the writers was killed there would probably be a show about it the next week.

If you don't care what other people think about you, why are you trying to correct what people think about you?

You know, I'm fairly sure that Matt Stone and Trey Parker alluded to invoking the Streisand Effect in the episode; the celebrities activated Barbra Streisand closer to the end.

This description is from the spam merchant's POV, not the spammer who operates the spamming equipment. The merchant wants to get his message out to X people. The spam operators charge money per address.

What'll happen here is the spam operators will find it more difficult to operate in conditions of continual crackdowns. Taking down a 100,000 bot net does not suddenly create 10 10,000 bot networks. The laws of supply and demand will kick in, meaning the price-per-address will rise. And spammers are going to be impacted by price.

Ah, the old "it's a conspiracy" theory. The problem for the U.S. isn't the conspiracy you are so certain exists. The problem is Business School Product that make local decisions to outsource, insource, wtf-source to increase their particular bottom line. The macro effect is hollowing out the middle class in the U.S. while it is helping to create a middle class in China.

The fatcats are not out to break the middle class, there is nothing in that attitude for them. They are breaking the middle class out of sheer stupidity and immediate gain for themselves without realizing that in the end, it will take them out too.

The result might be the same, but you need to readjust the tin-foil a bit and learn how economies work.

Contact your host, or switch. It isn’t Google’s fault if you signed up for a host which got its entire IP range blacklisted by allowing its customers to send spam and ignoring the subsequent spam complaints. I’m not saying that’s definitely what happened, but there’s a good likelihood it’s exactly what happened.

It’s unreasonable to expect Google to start white-listing customers from a sleazy host on an individual basis. Screening customers is the host’s job and they failed; now they got blacklisted and all their customers suffer. Yell at the hosting company, not Google. If enough of their customers leave because they aren’t cracking down on the spammers, they’ll suddenly realise that not doing anything about the spam is hurting them economically just as much as terminating a few spamming customers would. And if they don’t realise this, or if it wouldn’t... that isn’t the sort of host you want to be associated with.

No, they won't. Either their $15 maglite will be sitting next to a $5 piece of Chinese junk and people will buy the Chinese Junk or their $10 piece of American junk will sit next to the $5 piece of Chinese Junk and people will buy the Chinese junk. The American Co will then go out of business and the Chinese Co will move in and be the major importer and seller of flashlights in the US.

It is easier than you think... If souls exist, it is a religious issue. And most religions state that God owns your soul, not you. It isn't yours to sell. Contract invalid. If they don't exist, there is nothing to sell. Contract invalid. Even if you come to the point that the soul is something that is yours, there is no way for one to collect on such a deal. Thus... you guessed it... contract invalid.

> Why assume the A4 is a dual-core PowerPC when it's built for an OS that restricts the use of multitasking?

"WTF" quote of the day. What does dual-core have to do with multitasking??????????????? Windows did multitasking long before dual core chips existed.

On a related note, the iPhone DOES multitasking; it just doesn't let the USER multitask. How do you suppose an incoming call gets through while you´re listening to music?

"corporations don't make laws or form government you silly twit."

Where have you been living the last 50 years? Certainly not on Earth. Money is what elects candidates, and corporate money is thousands of times stronger than the population. Combine that with no term limits on Congress, and recent scotus decisions like:

http://www.scotuswiki.com/index.php?title=Citizens_United_v._Federal_Election_Commission

The US is as close to fascism as you can get without actually officially declaring itself fascist.

I would be tempted to mod you up because of the basic truth. But remember, while Bush was pushing for the war in Iraq (with both Rummy and Dick pulling the puppet strings) it was congress that rolled over, amongst both parties. So shorthanding it as "Bush" is easy and commonplace, but is also really misleading. But Obama, as well as the new congressmen, did inherit this mess and have to deal with it. Those who shout about Obama and the unbalanced budget are myopic at best.