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Besides that, their whole methodology is crap, as has been noted many times over: if there are plenty of messages asking for help on stackoverflow, maybe it's because users are struggling with a language, not because it's 'popular'. A language that is very easy to learn on your own wouldn't have any messages now would it ?

No mod points today, so here's a "virtual +1 Insightful" for you.

I also wish people would stop making such false correlations, it's almost as stupid as these ones.

So people buy legal knockoffs all the time, where it's a MIC purse instead of an MK purse where the MIC kinda looks like a MK. Totally legal, though designers sometimes scream about it.

But they're still buying a PHYSICAL item. You're comparing the copying of a digital work to mimicing a physical item. What you're thinking of is more akin to the mockbuster, a knock-off that is similar to an original work, enough that someone not-too-discerning might confused it with the original work. Under copyright law, a mockbuster is legal. Imitation is legal.

But even if the person is buying an imitation purse, they're still purchasing a physical product. Copying a movie, there is no purchase there.

Its purpose is suppose to be to increase the public domain, instead it has been subverted to make individuals, many of whom are not creators, rich.

I've got no problems with copyright making the creators, or whomever they sold the rights to, rich. I just don't think it should be for a long time period as the current system allows. The reason for copyright as given in the Constitution is valid: copyright incentivizes content creation. I don't think there's any controversy over that statement (god dammit, there'd better not be), the problem has really come from the transition of copyright from a tool to increase the public domain, to a tool that turns content into permanent property. I don't think the goal should be to get rid of copyright; hell, even the current system is better than that. But it should be reformed to reflect its original purpose.

with that. This is only going to get worse too. One of the big things companies have been waiting for is the opportunity to bring the trillions of dollars they've had socked away in tax havens back into the global market without all those pesky taxes. The US, and specifically Obama, have been blocking this. Welp, we done just f'd that up. And what are they planning to do with all that money? Mergers and Acquisitions. Lots of 'em. Expect the amount of competition to drop like a rock.

Now, in the face of all that, what you _you_ going to do? You, Mishotaki. What, specifically will you do when there's nowhere else to buy bread except Amazon and it's $10, $20 a loaf? Maybe when you finally don't have enough to eat, maybe when it's you in one of those tents you'll finally wake up. But ya know what, by then it'll be too late. You'll be too busy surviving to do anything about it. You won't even have time and money to waste posting drek to /. None of us will.

I'm sure those cameras will be able to look through windows into cars moving at speed, and detect thing like this...not.

It takes a remarkable amount of calories to run each mile.

You overestimate how much running takes. Running is only about 40% more calorie burn than walking the same distance. About 150 v. 110 for a 200 lb. man. You also underestimate the amount of calories in lean meat. 1 lb of venison is 540 calories or so. Obviously, it's profitable if you make more than one meal of it, and it's profitable for a small tribe to take turns doing it.

Here's an example of a person doing it in real life. Takes about 8 hours of tracking and periodic chasing.

Humans are the only primates that can do endurance running. (Not many other kinds of animals can; canines and horses are notable exceptions). As the video above notes, we're one of the few species that sweats for thermoregulation (horses again being a notable exception). We're uniquely well adapted to exploiting heat exhaustion in other species in the part of the world we were thought to have evolved in.

Hell, humans have ran down cheetahs this way.

I loved this idea so much I had to find it, took one google image search:
http://twentytwowords.com/2011/06/21/cavemen-and-the-problem-with-living-organically/

Of course there is a great comment by "Jeff" if you scroll down a bit on that page:

So as an evolutionary biologist I guess Iâ(TM)m not much fun to point out that skeletal evidence suggests that most hunter-gatherers before the invention of agriculture actually lived well into their 60âs and 70âs if they made it past child-hood. Unfortunately hunting and gathering can only support small populations and they were displaced by populations that engaged in agriculture. Ag allows for large populations on small amounts of land because of intensification of resource extraction. This led to the rise of cities (and more influentially armies) since not every member of the society had to produce their own food. This also led to extremely poor sanitary conditions and the beginning of the first âcrowdâ(TM) diseases like influenza and syphilis. These types of societies came to dominate human territories and it is these arrangements we associate with ânot living past 30â. Ok Iâ(TM)m done, sorry.

So save that comic for the next time you want to blow an evolutionary biologists top off :)

I think perception is a bigger problem. LEGO has made some good inroads with the 'Friends' line, which, to be honest, has more complex building than some of the "Boys" sets at the same age group, as to marketing... Not sure

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I rest my case. You are unable to respond without equivocating one position as being a completely different one. When you can respond to what I'm actually saying, you might get a real response instead of a meta-analysis of your failure to be able to debate.

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