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It's always morally wrong to download something illegally. But for me personally if something just isn't available it makes it much moral for me to download it. Personal example. I downloaded a very shoddy pirated copy of 'Is It Bill Bailey' which contained some of the funniest shit I've ever seen. Eventually I found a better pirated copy. As it wasn't available to buy on DVD I uploaded some clips to my youtube account. They were taken down when they became much stricter a year ago and you still can't even buy the DVD anywhere!

Here's my take on it all. Looking back at music first, the whole thing kicked off back before broadband was available (in the UK anyway) and we were all using 56k modems. I believe Napster was one of the first. The reason that was so popular wasn't just because it was free, it was because it was fast, easy, and more importantly you could get hold of rarer tracks that weren't sold at your local store. This took off even more when mini-disc and cd players were replaced with mp3 players. Problems started when music companies didn't keep up with the demand for this kind of thing, I'm not to clear on the history, but I'm sure it was quite a while after when it was possible to buy songs legally online for not much cheaper than you could go buy a cd in a shop. But comparing that to the infinite selection P2P programs offered and the price tag, it wasn't worth it for anyone. It's only over the last half a decade where music companies have started to get their shit together, offering things like Spotify which is very cheap and offers the same, if not more than P2P programs. Over the next few years, pirating music will become more and more redundant. Eventually more and more people will shift away from CDs altogether making them also redundant which will only lower the cost of MP3's as downloading music is so much more efficient that buying a CD. The same thing is very similar with movies, it just happened a few years later. Pirating movies only started to get popular when broadband connections did. Unlike 3mb songs which would take 10-20 mins with a 56k modem, a 700mb film would take days and would block anyone from calling you all day. When broadband became popular people started downloading movies like crazy. Film companies reaction to this? Nothing. Keep selling DVD's in shops and bitch about it instead of making them available online. This went on for the best part of a decade until things like lovefilm and netflix came along and only just recently weened people away from piracy. So the lesson learnt is people are always going to pirate material if there's no alternative, so the best thing to do is get your arse in gear and offer that alternative. Don't do it quick enough and not keeping up with the times will force a underground society of piracy until you do. So now that we have these services, and movie and music piracy isn't too much of an issue, the modern day version of this is youtube. Youtube does have means of stopping copywrited material in two main ways, one good and one bad. The good one is that they'll have an agreement with whoever owns the rights, they'll throw up some adds and the person who owns the rights will get money from ad revenue. This is good because it allows youtube to be the means of allowing this clip to be extremely easilly viewed as opposed to it not been availabel on the internet anywhere and the rights owner reaps the benefits. The bad thing that happens is that it's removed from youtube forcing people to either not see the clip or to find it pirated somewhere else. If these right owners don't want their material on youtube all the best to them, but to not make it available by any other reasonable means is where the problem starts. TL;DR The reason we have piracy is not necessarily because it's free, but because there's no other reasonable alternative. This is the problem, cracking down on piracy will do nothing if an alternative isn't put in it's place. SOPA and PIPA is like someone getting shot, but they cover the wound but leave the bullet in. It will do nothing. All it means is instead of going to youtube.com you'll put the IP address in your url bar instead. It just makes it a tiny bit more inconvenient for you. Pirating a movie is not like stealing a car! Must be the worst simile I've ever heard. Music isn't stolen, it's copied. When you steal a car, someone loses that car. When you pirate music, nothing is lost but potential earnings, and I use the word potential very loosely because people assume that if someone pirates a movie, if they couldn't have done that they 100% certainly would have bought it. The majority of the time this isn't true. I would never have bought Photoshop, or Microsoft office, and I would have never bought/rented 95% of the movies I've pirated.

Valid reason is you have to have breasts.

Does the rear wheel spin freely?

Why are you implying that people who 'shag around' aren't normal. It's people who get married and have 1 sexual partner and the ones who aren't normal really, it goes against all our natural instincts. Absolutely nothing wrong with just going out and f**king a different person week in week out, so long as it's all safe and consenting.

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As someone who knows shit and doesn't really care about cars, I also agree. The races are usually my favorite part, even more so with the specials. But this was all even more scripted than usual. Like has been said I preferred the more adventurous one's where they actually had random issues rather than scripted ones.

So at what pressure does helium become the same density as air?

It would weigh nothing, but it's mass would increase. Making the bike harder to move in every direction that isn't against gravity. I wonder what the mass of a 1000 liters of helium would me compared to the mass of a 10kg bike.

Might be the first time I've ever felt OG on this forum! But what I never got about pressurized helium is that it's lighter than air because it's less dense? So helium pressurized would make it more dense and therefor heavier?

The reason you're getting confused is you're starting from the position of: 'More mass = more weight'. This is true in most circumstances, as weight is generally mass*gravity, gravity being a constant number. However in the situation you're talking about, you're adding more mass (helium + balloon materials) to the bag, even though that mass will be creating a opposite force. It's like asking how much you weigh when you're in water. Or free falling from a plane. In both these situations your mass stays the same, but the word 'weight' becomes ill defined. Tying a helium balloon to the bag will most certainly make it weigh less even though you're adding mass. And you will get your sweets cheaper. But I think the person selling you the pick and mix will have issue with it. It would also not make much of a difference. You're average helium balloon will barely lift a pound coin half the time. You might save 2p at best. Helium will always cost more than the money saved on the pick and mix. However hydrogen is as twice as light as helium, so you'd get more for your money with that. Just don't go near any naked flames. It's all relative to the ratio between the balloon materials and the helium. You could probably fill a hot air balloon with helium and it wouldn't go anywhere because the materials on a hot air balloon would outweigh the helium.

First question is how're you legally going to stay that long in the USA? No health insurance is going to cover pre-existing conditions, and with most health insurance you'll have to pay for it first and then put in a claim later. Best bet is to go with no health insurance and if you need medical attention go to the emergency room where they can't legally not treat you. They'll send you a bill for about a million dollars.

Any chance of a elephant with an erect penis instead of a trunk and testicles instead of tusks?

I personally believe if you don't use your bash ring or bash plate in every possible opportunity then you're not riding pure trials. UCI = French BMXing.

Same time as when late night tv ends and cartoons come on. From my observations this is 5am.

External hard drive. A hat. And one of those slicer things that're always on tv.

Totally agree, I was like, wait, what, that was the end?

Lies. PS3 has no games.

I like what he said about how things like Spotify have helped put an end to piracy. I personally download extremely little pirated material because I can listen to music free and watch movies and tv shows on netflix. Back in the day I used to watch movies via torrents because there was no other means to do it online. Piracy has always been ahead of the times. Companies need to get their shit together and keep up with the times.

Yeah maybe a little too bold. Maybe more like 10 ish. But certainly i don't think anyone can doubt it's ultimately going to end up that way. As graphics get better, it's going to be much more efficient to process it all in one place. And now with the boom in mobile devices that can take advantage of this technology it's only going to make it even more desirable. I really do think whatever comes out after the ps3 and xbox 360 will probably be the last of the consoles. Then all you'll have is a box that can stream HD and a controller.

How can he expect her to respect that he doesn't want her to go with her ex? There's nothing to respect. I think it's pretty sad, my wife goes to the bar all the time and her ex is often there. Nothing ever crosses my mind at all. Just seems so wrong to demand that she not go. I don't get how people can be in relationships with people they trust so little.

Would a dodgy site still have the right URL though?

Humm, that's very strange. Fire them an email.

Do you have a credit card that ends in 34? It's definitely not a phishing site.