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He would have chose (C) if he was an unethical douchebag. Since he isn't an unethical douchebag, he went with the more ethical choice. Hell...he could have chosen A then kept all the rights he rightfully owned. He just gave them back for the sake of ethics. And he was still richly rewarded...

I think it has more to do with kids who don't use Facebook by this point being too retarded to hold a beer or take a bong hit.

Both. It isn't a moral or ethical issue, but the show was compromised by trying to do too much. No big deal, but still a mistake.

What is the class that's bringing the suit? What damages are they claiming? Why was this "news" story posted without such vital information?

5% markup isn't "profit". That's 5% over the direct cost of the item from the manufacturer. There are tons of other costs associated with selling any item. 5% is a loss. Brick and mortar items need to sell 20%-30% markup to see a profit. Hence why only huge warehouse stores like Best Buy...

They don't get good prices. They get standard wholesale prices. Most manufacturers set their prices and require retail to sell them at those prices, then sell to retail just slightly below, 5% or so. Apple does this everywhere. All TV manufacturers do this. All consoles are sold this way...

They have to push the extras because they make zero profit selling items. Nothing. The markup for electronics, video games, CDs, basically anything BBY sells isn't enough to keep the lights on much less pay anyone's salary. They make everything work through warranties, installations, service...

Citibank makes available money for endeavors that create the value that is taxed by governments to pay for everything, including SETI. Stop oversimplifying these extremely complicated systems that allow us to do all that we do in this country to call attention to specific issues with it. The...

CC# are an integral part of any business transaction. Throw away the CC# and you don't know what the paying party of the transaction was. If you don't know who paid, the rest of the transaction is basically meaningless. Sooooo...if you're required to keep records of business transactions for...

Don't use "deregulate" as a policy advisement. Rather, "regulate with an eye toward promoting competition/lowering barriers of entry into industry." Deregulation of big companies is tough to sell politically.

If the only information leaked was information tied to lying and cheating by officials, no one would hate the guy. Just saying.

How dare someone try to save marriages by sharing the information he's collected as a marriage counselor? And how dare he try to save marriages after his marriage was hurt by infidelity! Hypocrite or something, right? He's not wrong. He isn't spouting scientific fact, but if spouses stay off...

If you can't spell it right, you can't link it right. www.tumbler.com doesn't go to the same place as www.tumblr.com

OMG really? If your kids are social butterflies there's a greater chance that they'll take part in the same risky behaviors those they are socializing with take part in? Amazing! I'll have to keep this in mind when I have kids...in the same part of my mind that stores info like "kids who eat...

Wow. You're not only too awesome for Facebook, you're too awesome for your own friends!

Nowhere did it say SWToR would be bad. Simply said they spent a lot of money and were pouring more resources at it to finish it in a timely manner. So it's big. Everything else is just disgruntled grunt worker talk.

If the government had less power, the corporations wouldn't gain as much getting the government in their pockets. Powerful governments are corruptible. Weak governments aren't worth the money.

Just like many others, I'm going to overreact by refusing to see this movie because it's about someone I don't know who got really successful doing things I'm not completely sure about.

Read the article. He explains the benefits: It's a tech demo, in essence. Finding the digit doesn't matter, but the solution can be used for other problems that do matter.

I'll tell you you need to rethink your lifestyle. You're overextended. You need to have about 6 months of expenses saved up so that losing your job WON'T cost you your house or your ability to feed your family. If you can't do this, then you need to get a second job and make sure you know...

What if I told you that not all criminals are bad people? Would you then put your rolleyes smiley away?

Are you high right now, hardware_failure? You realize the people trying to buy in this article are teens, right?

Or the tail of a rogue comet passes through the atmosphere and causes all machines to come to life and turn on their creators in bloody rebellion to the music of AC/DC... In this case, the arm would smash you around the room into a bloody pulp then hop around downtown where-ever leaving a path...

"3 guys who help a lot of people steal things in a world where the term "moral compass" is a punchline end up confusing the shit out of a legal system not designed to deal with their type of criminal activity." Revised summary...

"What a maroon" is what Bugs Bunny would say when describing an idiot. I have a feeling that was what WWCephas was going for.

They deserve those things if they create enough value to pay for them (after taxes, of course). If not, they deserve dick. As taxes go up, the amount of value that needs to be created goes up.

Fixed for you. Now finish your thoughts.

So you called to tell us that a GTX 260 isn't as good as GTX 480s SLI'd? Thanks for the info, Captain Obvious.

Apple owns the app store. It can impose whatever beliefs it wants on its own store.

Free speech is the greatest and worst thing we have. Protecting from the latter causes the loss of the former.

"Premium" is the key word. To charge, your content better be exclusive, hard to produce and easy to market. There are millions out there with the ability to make sites that will emulate your content for free should you charge for it. You better charge enough to get enough lawyers out there to...

Actually, that's when Civilization (IV) began for me. Haven't paid much attention to much else since then.

Ever heard of firearms?

Innocent nudity isn't pornography. Google should alter or replace the photo (as they should for anyone that wishes to be removed), but they did nothing wrong. There is no expectation of privacy in public. Your front yard is public. And kids running around naked aren't pornographic, even if...

You realize that publicly disclosing your mistakes in the United States adds $100 million to whatever judgment is made against you in later class action lawsuits, right? It's not about being dishonest, it's about keeping your money out of the pockets of the class action lawyer army.

Should see his diesel legs.

These leaks don't include our Army doing anything "illegal". It's a warzone, and innocents die in warzones all the time. They are "covered up" because our press and general population is easily turned anti-military by such collateral damage and it is extremely difficult to turn them back. The...

They still don't have a 64bit compatible version of Flash yet. Screw Adobe.

You can't expect a cat (even one who needs and can make use of a computer workspace) to have enough foresight to put together a proper work area. I think that's pretty damn clever for a cat!

If Apple, etc. raise prices they will sell less units. They might make more per unit, and if that increase is enough to offset the lower volume of sales, then they'll benefit from the increase. If they would benefit from an increased price now, they would increase the price now, no matter...