We keep trying to come up with rules which include those objects want to include and exclude all the others. The rules are arbitrary too, the result of a majority vote by some group. This is not science; it is semantics.

Perhaps the British prisons succeed in rehabilitating criminals, but the US prisons only succeed in making a person unfit to live in society (other than prison society).

Hear, hear! Dr. Maturin can do anything except board a ship without getting wet.

Even /. has bought into calling copyright infringement "piracy". If you don't think it's the moral equivalent of murder on the high seas, then don't use the RIAA term "piracy". You just play into their hands.