Now you're just lying. The "undercover" operative said that he thought the media was being controlled by the Jews to bait Schiller. Schiller said that he in no way felt pressured in that way, though he did "confess" that NPR talked about the Palestinian side of certain stories and joked about being called "National…

Absolutely not. You clearly haven't worked in fundraising. You don't choose someone that best represents the organization and its goals; you choose someone who can get you the most money. For example, saying that NPR would be "better off" without government funding is an objectively false and ridiculous statement —…

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Again, you can complain about how he's using it, but you can't deny that the kid is talented.

Who asserted that Kanye was MORE brilliant than either of those artists? Also, you're comparing one award given to two "questionable" artists (though I would argue that "Faith" is almost a perfect pop album) to a 10+ year (to date) career of MASSIVE critical and commercial success. Again, 14 Grammys in 6 years.10…

@badasscat: The funny thing is, except for Urban Cowboy, none of the dramas that you cite are "original": all were based on books or novels.

@r1z3Nfall: One could argue that, but that would be incorrect. If you're referring to the male trend to chase after younger women ("barely legal," etc.), you're talking about hebephilia or, more likely, ephebophilia:

@BrknPheonix: That's still not the creation of demand. I get your argument, but you misspoke. Possession, by a sufficient number of people, INDICATES demand, which spurs supply.

@Dalton63841: Everyone has already given examples, but the "actual/virtual" line is really dangerous because it implicates the line between actual crime and thought crime.

@BrknPheonix: That's sort of a chicken-egg situation though, isn't it? Possession doesn't create demand, demand results in possession.

@winstonsicle: That's not analogous. He was explicitly showing how easy it is to falsify child pornography to demonstrate how the current laws may be unconstitutionally broad/vague.

@battra92: The key is "over the course of the afternoon." A cup of Starbucks probably isn't going to survive cooling and reheating in the way that a bottle of soda will.

@minjin: They didn't promote it. They seem to openly mock it, both in terms of price and in terms of the fact they don't actually work as headphones.

@Canon7D-Fanboy: Whatever gets you through the night, man.

@Canon7D-Fanboy: I think a lot of your arguments are rationalizing your behavior ("it's safe and I'm paying money, so there's nothing wrong with it"), in the same way that people who buy music from allofmp3, etc for $.25 a track rationalize. I'm not gonna hash out that argument, though, cause it never goes anywhere.

@Canon7D-Fanboy: As people are pointing out with other "systems," though, you're basically just paying to pirate (it's not fair use, because you never "owned" those tracks). At that point, you might as well just torrent.

@kaiban: Because the country of origin is unable (or unwilling) to stop it because the foreign download sites are usually mob-operated. Seriously, you're pirating either way; might as well save your money.

@tarikabouzied: Amazon pays full price to the artists, and eats the loss. The whole thing's basically a loss leader to keep you comfortable with amazon.com as a store.

@Ghostnappa9001: If it's anything like the ones that came before it (e.g., allofmp3), it's Russian, it's mob-operated, and it's not legal. "Our servers are off-site so they can't get to us" != "legal"

@ProudGeek: None of what you've described is at all relevant to DRM. Apple has created a closed retail space, true, but once you have purchased the song you can throw it on to your Zen/Rio Karma/Coby digital player to your heart's content (assuming it supports .m4a, which is not an Apple restriction)