And yet, whenever someone says, "I'll never change my mind," I wonder where they got their opinions from and when they were set in stone?

Political opponents within Russia mostly. And this is also an effort to keep the countries surrounding Russia more or less subservient to Moscow, lest they get any ideas of moving closer to the West.

They should apologize. I am not Rick Fucking Perry.

This isn't really a problem. The worst thing about nuclear weapons is that China, India and Pakistan are not bound by any treaty, especially Pakistan. Nuclear proliferation is one of the scariest things in the world, especially when you consider this:

Eh, FSM was specifically created to provide a counterargument to religion in schools, and I'm not aware of anyone who participates in it out of an actual feeling of spirituality. No idea about the other two though.

Well, although that's the punch of the story, the issue that triggered it is some type of entitlement that he felt towards a girl. That, right there, is the real problem in this case.

Look, man, I'm going to try and be kind with this response so... where do you think the English language comes from? God didn't invent the dictionary, we did. Language happens orally and then gets described later on in books. There's no right and wrong. The dictionary is descriptive not prescriptive.

Pokemon is owned by Nintendo. Now that this article is up, I would expect the makers to receive a cease and desist within the week.

They conclude that YouTube celebs aren't marketed and shoved down our throats, but that really isn't accurate. YouTube insists that I would like certain channels based on metrics that I can't begin to fathom, despite being remarkably inaccurate. They market their bigger channels readily on their site through ads and…

he was really rich before he stared it's easy to do what you love when you don't have to work like everybody else

Show me on this pie-chart where you touched her.

As I recall, despite the rampant piracy of GoT, HBO is still making boat loads of money off it.

Copying isn't stealing. I've deprived nobody of anything. Check and mate.

But it's not theft, it's copyright infringement.

actually Hollywood and the music industry seem to have come up with a particularly ingenious way of stopping downloads - produce such crapulent content that no one wants to waste bandwidth downloading

So is comparing the entertainment industry to "regular people". Billions go to people who create nothing, who contribute nothing, and who only profit off of others' work. The losses to piracy are nothing compared to industry markup.

Have you ever worked in the film industry - I have, and they make shit loads of money, regardless of piracy, they are not reliant on percentage of box office. It's the people making crap for no money that suffer. The MPAA take a hard line as they don't want to further encourage it. If you look at the documents leaked…

Game of Thrones also has bonkers ratings. This past season, they were getting Walking Dead type numbers, on fucking premium cable. That's absurd. So yeah, it stands to reason that the torrent estimations would also be rather large.

yh i feel so bad for james cameron, i mean how is he going to afford the rent, or feed himself for that matter :O

No, sorry. Consumers do not have to have the talent and financial resources to "make their own" in order to criticize the things they love. Movie critics do not have to make blockbuster movies to be able to tell you that the dialog was awful. Very few people have all the skills necessary and the thousands if not…