Because fraud has a very different definition from "lying" in the legal system.

Nothing wrong with this, as long as you enjoy having academic research controlled by the government.

The strategy worked pretty well for xbox.

sounds like Joker's analysis in The Dark Knight to me...

They were forced to take the money by the Fed and they tried to repay it within days because they didn't want the ex post facto strings attached.

He sold out 50 concerts for his upcoming comeback tour. 50 straight concerts in London. In a stadium that's easily 200k in size. That's over a million people willing to apay to see Michael Jackson. I'd say he was still a popular performer.

There are plenty of technical economic reasons to keep using the pound. There is actually economic freedom to be gotten from not using the euro. They might not be good reasons (although I think they are), but they are there. It's not just sentimentality.

Couldn't we just call it a spade?

I wasn't aware Edison stole the soul-saving machine from Tesla as well.

... and Czars were also authoritarian monarchs in Russia, Serbia, and Bulgaria. Or was that too obvious?

That, or everyone breaking the law and not paying for their product. That will do it too.

/just sayin