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• Commented on Business Software Alliance asks Britons to become paid informants
  So why would anyone report software piracy other than a reward or out of spite? It's a private contract dispute, not a matter of right and wrong....
• Commented on How Britain's Pirate Finder General is trying to save the Analog Economy at the Digital Economy's expense
  A small nit to pick; charging for access to Napster would have killed it as surely as the lawsuit did. They could have put up ads, though. The elephant in the room is that regardless of how you slice it,...
• Commented on EULAs + Arbitration = endless opportunity for abuse
  How are these quick contracts of any benefit whatsoever to anyone not writing them? We'd be better off if we established signatures as necessary for contracts....
• Commented on Associated Press loves fair use (we just wish they'd share)
  Rouge goes on your face, rogues do it from behind....
• Commented on Canada's "TV tax"/"Save local TV" squabble explained
  It's a dinosaur fight. Let them squabble amongst themselves while the internet asteroid approaches. Will anyone still be paying for cable tv in 30 years? I don't know anyone under 30 who does now. Will anyone get their news from...
• Commented on Transborder Immigrant Tool helps Mexicans cross over safely
  The link has a space preceding the http....
• Commented on Is Sony legally required to make its games accessible to disabled people?
  Landsburg is wrong on both counts. Unless Mary the landlord is building her apartments on land carved out of the aether with her own two hands, she's taking up resources that could be used by non-bigots. Back here in the...
• Commented on HOWTO flout the flavored tobacco ban and make DIY homemade clove cigarettes
  I'd rather see them move all tobacco sales to dedicated tobacco stores, with a zero tolerance policy on sales to minors....
• Commented on Pop-up camper on a shopping cart
  @Rosequeen: This is a common misconception and a bit of a pet peeve of mine. The cost of doing business has absolutely no bearing on prices charged. Businesses charge the as much as the market will bear. If costs exceed...
• Commented on A Few More Questions
  Victoria is a sweetheart, but she's 87 years old. No teeth, though. Stay away from Calgary. She'll give you herpes....
• Commented on Keyboard Cat t-shirt
  It's cat Kirk, cat McCoy, and cat Spock!...
• Commented on Witch booted from farmers market
  Can't she just put a glamour on her application?...
• Commented on Pope damns medical patents
  should prompt us to liberate ourselves from ideologies, which oversimplify reality in [sic] artifical ways, and ... lead us to examine objectively the full human dimension of the problems. So he's closing the place?...
• Commented on Fees waived for US marrow donation signups
  I just sent in my cheek swaps to join the Canadian registry last week. Americans are weird. Paying for blood and charging for marrow?...
• Commented on Man detained, threatened and abused by TSA for flying with $4700 in cash
  @Antinous All those examples of situations in which one might reasonably be carrying $5k involve taking it from where it was obtained to where it would be used. Not randomly walking around with it as this guy was. Look, we...
• Commented on Man detained, threatened and abused by TSA for flying with $4700 in cash
  If you're getting on a plane with an amount of money no reasonable person would feel safe carrying, it most certainly is the "damned business" of the airline, airport and relevant security personnel. Carrying thousands of dollars in unmarked bills...
• Commented on Man detained, threatened and abused by TSA for flying with $4700 in cash
  When exiting a big box store, you have every right to refuse to show a receipt. The store may use all legal remedies at their disposal, which is nothing. When flying with a suspicious amount of currency you have no...
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