Recent content by Merryjest

The free market can have monopolies, there's nothing wrong with that. It's why it's called a free market, as opposed to a market where you are punished if you're too successful. But let's play it your way: next time you come up with an invention or innovation, I get dibs on sharing the profit...

Actually, yes they would deny it. The answer to that question is what separates quality from trash.

When something is written down in the motherfuckin' Constitution, it is -- say it with me know, chief -- "constitutionally supported." -- Alex You should do yourself a favor and read the Nichomachean ethics.

Sounds to me like you are someone who loves to benefit from the ideas of others- just as long as the others don't know how valuable those ideas are. It never ceases to amuse me the lengths to which collectivists thrive on the sanction of the victim.

You mean like the anti gay marriage amendment they were trying to pass? Must all be good, then.

Yep, actually. In the US, income taxation is not constitutionally supported- the government only has the constitutional right to tax for the services it provides (roads, education, fire, police, etc), giving you an income is not one of them (unless you work for them, I guess).

What makes you so special that you deserve to break the rules merely because of your position? You are applying sentimentalism, and I'm sorry, it doesn't work. People die every day- fact of life- and most of them don't get what they want. I would actually call you an idiot, in this hypothetical...

There are, it is to be noted, discounts and exceptions made for the intellectually underdeveloped. Think of it as a sort of cerebral welfare for the chronically impaired.

It is not a ridiculous proposition. You are simply a dishonest person who loves to avoid the core issues and obscure the actual *principles* behind the situation so that you can get away with anything. The product has been taken. If you cannot understand this you are either a fool or a looter...

You asked for it. Products for sale are put on sale voluntarily by the team/company that created the product. They want to make an earning off it, so the only condition by which you may have it is a value-for-value exchange, with the product being one value and your currency being another. To...

You're using the Internet. Find someone from a country that has it, usually you can find them in forums related to the product, and see if anyone is interested in something from YOUR country. Then organize a mail trade. I've done this with CDs of Rumanian singer Ruslana, French singesr Julien...

A game is the product of the effort of others, which is sold- value for value- and not given away for free. By illegally downloading the product you violate the property rights and intellectual property rights of those who made the game, who made it *for sale* and not for free, you are...