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So... am I missing something here? What part of it is rape? Legally, if a woman changes her mind at a point, even after having sex, she can call rape even if she doesn't say no at any point. The worst part is that if the genders were reversed the man would get told to man up. There have been cases where men have been raped by their SO and the police just laugh at them.

Have you mixed the vodka with anything? Plus aren't you 15? Your sense of taste will change as you get older.

Creative mode is, but to get anything out of it, you need to buy it.

They ones who would have been a 5-minute internet sensation wouldn't even sell enough albums to pay off their debt to their label in the first place. The internet is now providing ways that the artists can earn the majority of the money from album sales, and the recording industry does not like a competition that has the advantage over it. As for software, some of the best software I've ever used was free. Linux, foobar 2000, rainmeter, Google Chrome, ImgBurn, 7-zip, CCleaner, f.lux, Mumble, are all great pieces of software, and not one of them costs a cent to legally download.

Taking healthcare away from one group to help another is in no way an improvement. If anything we should be looking elsewhere for the funding, such as the failing war on drugs.

I already hate buying bottled water. It's the municipal water supply marked up 10,000%.

The fact that alcohol has no flavour makes for easy hiding of it.

I'm not ready to go to gaol for theft, but I would for copyright infringement. Me thinks the truth doth hurt a little? :-D Not really. If I stole something I would be willing to go to gaol for theft.

Ok, so Ars Technica has been able to shed some light. Feds give OK to deleting Megaupload user files starting Thursday http://arstechnica.c...ng-thursday.ars

They've either finished with it, and have all they need, or only deleting irrelevant evidence. Although that could be construed as tampering with evidence.

MegaUpload User Data Soon to be Destroyed http://torrentfreak....stroyed-120130/ MegaUpload has received a letter from the US Attorney informing the company that data uploaded by its users may be destroyed before the end of the week. The looming wipe-out is the result of MegaUpload's lack of funds to pay for the servers. Behind the scenes, MegaUpload is hoping to convince the US Government that it's in the best interest of everyone involved to allow users to access their data, at least temporarily.

jrhairychest, one question I must ask you. Earlier you commented on the state of elderly care. Why do you want to reduce the care for the accused rather than improve the well-being of the elderly?

The law disagrees. Just because it's the law does not mean that it can change what something is or isn't. There's many laws that don't make sense. Completely contradicting my earlier convictions on contextually irrelevant quotes, here's a little nugget: "I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law." -Martin Luther King, Jr.,"Letter from Birmingham Jail" 1963 So, who's ready to go to jail for the law that they feel is so wrong? :P I'm not ready to go to gaol for theft, but I would for copyright infringement.

The law disagrees. Just because it's the law does not mean that it can change what something is or isn't. There's many laws that don't make sense.

I've never played beer pong. Although, knowing my friends, we'd probably put shots in the cups instead of beers.

Property can't be digital. Property is tangible and is ownable because it in itself is limited, in whatever form it takes. That seems contradictory. What I'm saying is that, as long as it's tangible (ie it's something you can physically hold/possess,) then it doesn't matter if it's a CD, a book, a table, a car, a block of land, a pet, a computer. They're all property that can be possessed, traded, and stolen.

No, I'm saying you can't take something that's intangible and say it is just to give you the same legal power over it. No, wait, I'm wrong as they don't want the same legal power, they want more as it becomes more profitable to sue for thousands or millions over just having the person imprisoned like they would if they had actually stolen something.

Well, TIL.

Property can't be digital. Property is tangible and is ownable because it in itself is limited, in whatever form it takes.

You're wrong. In the UK they do. What compensation?

You do realise that people have spent decades in prison for crimes that was later proven they weren't capable of committing, right? They get everything but lynched by friends and family, and even once proven innocent, they don't get compensated for the large chunk of their lives lost.

When I drink alone I drink lightly, and I always play games.

Are bongs even illegal in NZ?

I really want to go offroading sometime. Unfortunately, every time I've had an opportunity to I was too drunk to drive. I guess one of these days.

European countries didn't sign then. Today this article was posted, saying that all EU countries signed save mine, Germany, Estonia, Cyprus, and Slovakia. That happened yesterday. Though I can understand why they would want to, I can't say I'm very happy with it. According to law in my country it is perfectly legal to download music, TV shows and movies (just not copyrighted software) from host sites - uploading is illegal. As such downloading legally has worked quite well for me, allowing me to follow TV shows that are only on paid TV here, or not at all. For both shows I actively follow I could not watch it on TV now buy any of the DVDs unless I'd like to have them shipped from the UK or US, which gets you area code crap and is rather overpriced if you just want to watch something once or twice. If this agreement and SOPA stuff were to be part of a new internet where there is a place where everyone, regardless of their location, can legally download TV shows and movies (and pay a small amount for every episode or so), I wouldn't be bothered, but with the current system of "Americans only" for "legal" streaming and no DVD releases in half the world they don't lose any profit if I download those - yet they take my entertainment away without gain for themselves. They may have signed recently, the paragraph I specified only mentioned the countries that signed on 1 Oct, 2011. Australia is also an extremely abysmal with receiving movies and tv shows. I've seen pirated copies of DVD rips of movies months before they get coming soon trailers in cinemas, or tv shows years before they come out here. That's only mainstream movies/shows, too. Some movies I watch are refused classification here, too. While that doesn't explicitly prevent us from possessing them, importing them is technically illegal.