Something tells me you're not going to be creating architectural drawings on ChromeOS anyway...

But you're forgetting that it's buggy as hell. It crashes all the time for me when I go to sites like The Daily Show. Also if I move my browser window to my second monitor and then fullscreen, it goes fullscreen on my primary monitor. Uber sucks since I have a 24" monitor plugged in to my 15" laptop and I can only watch flash full screen on laptop. Given these issues, do you think I'm more likely to watch the legal versions through flash player on the content owner's site, or download it through bittorrent? Flash in general is a problem.

Sure you can but you could just buy it once and then download it again for free, and possibly legally given Fair Use rights. Right?

The same rep also told me to measure my bandwidth with http://www.shaplus.com/bandwidth-meter/ Anybody know if it counts in base 2 or base 10? If it's the former, than it's even worse customer service because they're recommending a tool that won't help you avoid going over the limit. :(

Who did you hear this from? I just chatted with an online rep from comcast through their support section and they quoted me it is being measured in base 10. So really they're providing you 233.5GB of bandwidth - NOT 250. Bastards. Title needs fixing!!!

250 gigabytes or 250 industry gigabytes? Base 2 or base 10? There's a big difference!

Catholics and Anglicans at the least are not Puritans. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puritan

Indeed book prices are absurd. I was lucky this year that I was able to get all my books online through illinoisbookexchange.com which is basically a Craigslist for textbooks at University of Illinois. Whoever is able to do this nation-wide for many universities will put a significant damper in the textbook industry's cash flow and make a bunch of money in the mean time. All unis should have a service like this because buying textbooks new should be few far and inbetween.

Sure they're different things but they bother suffer similar exploitation and both need to be similarly reformed. Similar as in both need to be completely revolutionized. No one deserves copyright on a sequence on radioactive waves and no one deserves a patent on a sequence of thoughts.

Ah. So the government can spy on the citizens, but it can't go the other way around. Can someone offer me a definition of tyranny?

Hmmm I'm severely confused on the wiretapping law in Illinois. Didn't everybody hear the tapes of the calls former Gov. Rod Blagojevich made regarding the negotiation of former Sen. Barack Obama's senate seat in exchange for something? I think it's obvious that he didn't know he was being secretly taped....so how will these tapes get admitted as evidence and why isn't US Attorney Pat Fitzgerald under indictments for taping without consent of all parties? I'm all for exposing corruption, but for fucks sake, you can'

I'd rather people unfortunately died because of leaked information rather than people die because information didn't leak. I think the latter case is much more likely to produce a tragedy than the former.

But I don't have any money to buy a new law :( That's what I pirate everything to begin with!!!

You did't do it for teh lulz? :(

Meh, more like 150. The US has only been a real corporate dick to the world since the Industrial Revolution or a little thereafter.