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Income taxes don’t pay for the protection of copyright law, though.

[citation needed]

While I see the merit in some of your proposed reforms, I think you’re going off the rails a bit here. Law enforcement is paid for by our taxes. If you earn more money as a benefit, you pay more for law enforcement. That is the status quo, and it seems fair enough. The problem is your logic is not unique to copyright law – you could just as easily claim that every law or legal protection enables the success of your product; they are all instrumental.

1 day ago on 'Free speech doesn't mean free stuff': Congress begins copyright reform with a plea for civility 1 reply

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That’s already directly captured by income taxes.

1 day ago on 'Free speech doesn't mean free stuff': Congress begins copyright reform with a plea for civility 1 reply

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Can I just say that “Goodlatte” sounds like a Starbucks evil henchman’s name?

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Sure, why not? Look how well it worked out for Sony!

EDIT: Side note, they couldn’t be Apple Records, since there is already a different Apple Records.

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Um, Office does run on Linux. http://www.codeweavers.com/

3 days ago on Microsoft responds to YouTube demands, 'more than happy' to include ads if Google allows it 3 recommends

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Onenote, Skydrive, Skype, Outlook…

3 days ago on Microsoft responds to YouTube demands, 'more than happy' to include ads if Google allows it 8 recommends

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Wrong, “creepy” modified “crap,” referring to your “posts.” Helping animals is nice. Helping animals while dressing up as Nazis is a little creepy.

3 days ago on Microsoft responds to YouTube demands, 'more than happy' to include ads if Google allows it 1 reply 3 recommends

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Aping a fictional brutal totalitarian fascist government is slightly creepy.

3 days ago on Microsoft responds to YouTube demands, 'more than happy' to include ads if Google allows it 1 reply 8 recommends

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http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=5124

3 days ago on Microsoft responds to YouTube demands, 'more than happy' to include ads if Google allows it 1 recommend

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Google won’t allow it.

3 days ago on Google demands Microsoft remove YouTube Windows Phone app, cites lack of ads 1 reply 3 recommends

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Yes they are, because they will not give MS permission to use the API’s necessary to comply with the T&C. They are basically setting an impossible requirement.

3 days ago on Google demands Microsoft remove YouTube Windows Phone app, cites lack of ads 1 reply 17 recommends

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I’m sure they didn’t. In fact, MS has made their office file formats a royalty-free ISO standard.

3 days ago on Google demands Microsoft remove YouTube Windows Phone app, cites lack of ads 26 recommends

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Yes, because Microsoft explicitly chose to do so.

3 days ago on Google demands Microsoft remove YouTube Windows Phone app, cites lack of ads 4 recommends

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They can’t, Google won’t allow them to.

3 days ago on Google demands Microsoft remove YouTube Windows Phone app, cites lack of ads 10 recommends

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But Microsoft isn’t even asking Google to make the app, they’re willing to do it. This would be like if Microsoft sent a C&D to OpenOffice.org to stop using Microsoft’s file formats.

3 days ago on Google demands Microsoft remove YouTube Windows Phone app, cites lack of ads 2 replies 19 recommends

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But Google has indeed built Office-compatible apps for its users, without any complaints from Microsoft.

3 days ago on Google demands Microsoft remove YouTube Windows Phone app, cites lack of ads 2 replies 7 recommends

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They didn’t challenge it in court because they didn’t know it was happening until now.

4 days ago on Justice Department defends surveillance of AP reporter phone calls 1 reply

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Not really, no, or they wouldn’t put up with it.

4 days ago on Justice Department defends surveillance of AP reporter phone calls 1 recommend

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Cool story, bro

5 days ago on New Windows Phone updates this summer ! Yaah /s 1 recommend

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It’s called “strangling the baby.”

5 days ago on Nokia's aluminum Lumia 925 is the best Windows Phone yet, but that's not enough (hands-on)

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I’m struggling to understand how a 1080p movie will look much better on this screen.

5 days ago on Toshiba Kirabook review: finally, a flagship Windows 8 laptop 4 recommends

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If you meant “herbicide,” you shouldn’t have said “pesticide.” They are two different things.

6 days ago on Would you eat a $325,000 test-tube burger?

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A logo that explicitly references a fictional Nazi movement, no less.

6 days ago on Would you eat a $325,000 test-tube burger?

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No, mechanically separated meat is something else. “Pink slime” is beef that’s had the fat removed, then ground very finely. Being 100% lean, it can be added to other meat products to reduce fat content.

Mechanically separated meat is meat that is deboned using a mechanical process. The small scraps are finely ground and used to make sausages and hot dogs.

Both types of meat are approved for human consumption.

6 days ago on Would you eat a $325,000 test-tube burger? 1 reply