we could shoot them down from international waters?

Could the "unexplained" slowness in my ancient iPad be down to sites using heavier client-side javascript processing? Chrome bloats, javascript bloats, iPad1 can't cope due to RAM and CPU problems?

Lots of people do that everyday. It's called 'work'.

then there's no need to debate it behind closed doors.

I wouldn't say "disgusting"...

I don't drive a Pirelli/Ford, it's just "Linux".

The M4?

you can look at my apartment building, and then build your own version with your own money. You're saying that I should get a cut of the rent from *your* apartment building because you copied mine?

or is this man truly evil?

Slash's guitar on appetite for distruction was a hand crafted replica of a Gibson made by a guy called Kris Derrig. Someone made something out of wood, they didn't walk into a guitar shop and pinch it. The guitar shop lost no money.

but but Hilary

Yup, to a bully like Trump, Putin is a scary guy.

so we need a trade tariff to protect "real" stores, in the same way Trump protects e.g. corn farmers

The pirate bay is blocked in the UK due to allegedly supporting copyright infringement, so shouldn't both ebay and amazon be blocked for the same reason? I've never been sold anything fake off of TPB, but I've mistakenly bought loads of things from ebay and amazon that were marketed to me as being genuine e.g. sd cards, phone cases, cables etc. The bbc's "fake britain"tv program raised concerns about faked electrical items that can cause harm being sold on ebay/amazon, so... why isn't ebay and amazon being blocked for copyright infringement?

we used to do that with landlines, back in the day. You'd connect to the dialling tone as fast as you could while you routed the call to its destination. The caller then thinks they're waiting for someone to pick up when they're in fact waiting for the routing to finish.