The 2nd one has the geriatric robot...

Questions about what? You're short, that's normal.

Why did it bother you in the first place?

I helped a bit, does that get me any points?

And that's what I did. I asked about the rules against it and got a response, from you. Because of that I didn't post it despite my personal views on the subject.

So is ''Fuck" and a lot of other things.

But you're not using it to describe or refer to anyone. You're having a discussion about the word itself, as a group of letters that happen to have a certain meaning in the english language. There's an entire wiki article dedicated to the etymology, usage and history of the word in question and it's not censored, because within that context it isn't disrespectful or hurtful. You can have a conversation about it without being racist.

My response isn't a jab at you or anything. You can have a personal vow never to say/type the word again and that's fine. It's just the fact that this seems to be a common thing among the people here and that surprises me a lot.

You're all arguing about money. That's the issue here. Remove it from the equation and suddenly none of you will care who copies/downloads what. Everyone will be happy that someone gave a crap about that thing you've made long enough to share it with someone else.

I'm gonna respond to that and skip the posts ahead because I don't have the time to read them atm. Music business is at a point where you can make a full, professional sounding album in your living room. Each year the cost of doing that gets lower and lower. Giving your music away for free or utilising the 'pay me whatever' method will not stop the music getting made. It'll make the life of Rihanna's of the world pretty hard, because they won't be able to pay other people millions of dollars to make their crappy albums for them, but I see that as a benefit.

The main problem here is that the movie/music industry doesn't want to evolve and adapt to the world that's rapidly changing around them. 20 years ago you could be a 'studio band', record 12 songs every year and rake in the cash while sitting on your ass for the rest of the year. Now you can't. You can grab a whole discography in less than a minute off the web. But what's the one thing you can't download? Experiences. No HD/BluRay rip can give you the experience of being at the live gig. Because of that touring and live shows became the main source of income for musicians (and I'm talking about proper musicians not Bieber or whichever abomination is 'in' these days).

The movie industry has to recognize that people can and will download movies. Not because they're free (although that is a factor obviously), but because it's convinient. Instead of trying to fight it they should find a way to embrace the change and find a way to use it to generate income. Why not offer direct movie downloads? You can pay the $7 and watch Twilight in the theater, or you can wait a week or two and grab a 720p version for $3 off the Paramounts server. No behind the scenes, no special features. Decent quality, low price, 100% income for the studio at no expense. Throw in a system where you can pay in advance for a bunch of movies and noone would even bother to look for torrents.

I'm sorry but Batman:TAS made me hate Batgirl with a passion.

That's genius! Recast Colin and Ryan as Padme and Anakin and suddenly everything is brilliant

I feel important

I'm adding Powers to the list because it's awesome

BTW this would be a perfect cover for the Vinyl Backflip/Red-faced Motherfucker story