So? What's your point? You're not interested, so no one else could possibly be?

Easy? People are different, so maybe it's easy for you, but after two days of not sleeping I'm a nervous wreck. More than three and I seriously start losing it (as in, I talk to people who aren't actually there, see things that are definitely not happening etc.). I really don't want to experience 5 days, let alone 11

Yes, the election for the Bundestag (German federal parliament, arguable the most important election) is in a couple of months.

Because individuals and business don't really have any reason (or the means) to do a lot of basic research. Think of CERN or the Manhattan Project. Do you think those kind of research would be done if it wasn't paid for by the government?

I don't approve of that kind of crap either, but you do realise that that is a false dichotomy, right?

I highly doubt that the tld is relevant here and I'm assuming that a .com domain doesn't necessarily mean that the server is outside German jurisdiction.

You must be new here...

Rock Band and Guitar Hero always struck me as rather strange games (even though they're really fun), but the idea of Lego Rock Band just made me check if it's april fool's again...

No, just because you know what they are doesn't mean everybody does. In fact, I have no idea what kinds of apps visio and quicken are.

Stop giving them ideas. It is bad enough as it is...

Two? I wish. You forgot eV and probably a couple of others I can't think of right now. I think it was Feynmann who said "For those who want proof that physicists are human, it is in the idiocy of all the different units which they use for measuring energy."

Well, actually that's not too far from the truth...

It would be, if the definition was actually reasonable.
However, any reasonable defintion of theft would entail that after the theft the thief has the stolen goods. In the example we are talking about, this is not the case. The "thief" does not have the sole right to produce copies, so there is no theft.