With a whole generation growing up with these video games and slowly getting into positions of power, it's simply no longer an issue. Almost all of us has played a violent video game at some point.

LOL

:-)

Wonderful, now I feel 'young' again :-)

I think there's something to be said for low UIDs :-)

You have a very valid argument, but there's one aspect that's missing: just like with old-fashioned racketeering, it's not a one-time expense: fold to one patent troll and you'll have to fold to all.

The SCO case was different: it was basically a Microsoft vs. Linux fight by proxy that SCO could not have funded on its own.

This patent troll is more likely to go for the low-hanging fruit, so it seems smarter for him to not make himself an attractive target.

Uhm, it doesn't seem very fair to lump actual fraudsters in the same group as relatively innocent parodists. Once you start making people part with their money, it's a completely different situation.

Oops, meant to reply to the parent of this post.

That being said, tax relief does not result in net profit, just in lowering the effective costs of something you'd do anyway. So unless there's an added benefit, I would prefer not to cut up family members this way just for tax relief :-)

I'd suppose that the taxes would apply to remaining family, not the deceased person.

As a general rule, hours where one is naked should not be considered work time.

Nuking in general is a losing proposition. The principles of MAD still apply. Nukes are most valuable when never used.

Wow, you have a rather high userID ;-)

We already use Tau for both torque and for shear area. The nature of both types of calculations typically involves circles, and therefore, pi. Yeah, I'm nitpicking, but the last thing I need is for my simple calculations to have three different uses of the same damned Greek letter.

Everyone knows pi. It's too late, it's been the standard for generations. The same goes for the English language - it sucks, but even though it makes logical sense to change to something better, good luck trying to get everyone on board that train.

I too have the Nexus One, and always thought the adjective "unlocked" was amusing when it was never locked to begin with.

  But what I find more interesting is when non-gadget people ask me what phone I have, and then ask "who's it from." When I explain "I bought it directly from Google, unlocked, no contract" most people just don't comprehend it because they don't understand the concept of buying a phone outside of a provider, or that their on-contract phone that was provider-subsidized has trade-offs such as being locked and having some OS features removed and bloatware added.
Too many people (at least in the US) blissfully assume that you only get your cell phone from the service provider, and don't even grasp the concept that the handset and service don't have to be tied together well enough to realize they can't take their phone elsewhere.

That's my view. But Guinness Draught is quite popular.