Actually, their minimum monthly fee appears to be $75 + $35 = $110. However good they may be, they're not really competing with Paypal.

They also don't provide merchant accounts to people outside the U.S. Which is the grandparents entire point. Your post isn't that relevant.

People don't have to hire a lawyer, it just is generally a good idea the same way it's a good idea to hire a contractor rather than renovate your home yourself.

The state does already pay someone "to carry out a complete and thorough adjudication of the issues". She is called the judge.

Your rant about crimes and corporations is extremely ill-considered, but I shall leave that for someone else to discuss. I'll just point out that fraud already is illegal pretty much everywhere.

1 US gallon = 3.78541178 litres

For the same reason you don't hire an optical engineer for advice on scene composition; you hire a critically acclaimed photographer.

Anyone can take 3D photos. But you still need a good photographer to bring out the best of a scene.

That makes no sense. Neither MS or Apple has "lock-in" on H.264. Anybody can use it, and neither of them own it.

Well, for one thing you can't test two crucial often-buggy items in a VM:

1) Compositing window managers. Gnome shell runs only with compositing.

2) Grub on a real machine.

Also, you're not testing whether Ubuntu works with your hardware, but rather with the VM. Which, really, is the point of testing the new release.

Just burn them to CD and re-rip them, and stop whining. You knew they were DRM-ed at the time. When CDs came out, you had to re-buy all your old tapes/records on CD.

What do you mean arguably and probably. Saying that you never bought something when you did, in order to get money is fraud.

This is the case he cites:
York University v. Bell Canada Enterprises, 2009 CanLII 46447 (ON S.C.)

Of course it doesn't list examples. In Canada, you can be sued for republishing defamatory comments.

Are you familiar with tape recorders?

Your solution doesn't work.
It fails on new years eve if someone is in a different time zone or if their clock is slightly off.

I'd suggest that any message sent more than seven (pick your favorite number) days in the future is spam.

The average desktop user does not download tarballs and they do not apply patches manually.

They might occasionally download a package, but average users all use x86 so they just need to know their distro.

Technically true, but it doesn't do you a whole lot of good if you don't have anyone on staff who has the remotest idea what to do once they have physical access.

The added blue is for people with red-green colorblindness. Maybe it's a matter of degree. Or 90 degrees. Were the lights horizontal instead of vertical, by chance?

Off-topic, I lived in a city in the 1980s where some traffic lights were still on the side of the street instead of overhead. So many out of towners were running reds and wrecking the city had to put in the overheads.