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Piracy is a business risk in any medium that can be put into a digital format. It needs to be assessed and managed the same as any other business risk.

Copyright infringement is the civil crime of the age we find ourselves in. It is rampant, but does less damage than certain commercial lobbying entities would have us believe. Our Branch President has publicly said he would take away the Temple Reccomend from anyone should he find out they are involved in copyright infringement. Whether or not he is allowed to do this is another matter but, should we as LDS be infringing copyright? Not any more than anyone else should be, which is not at all.

Moshka, that's just cheating.. it's not like the seafood is actually inside the Jell-o... just the mayo and cottage cheese.

AltaVista! Yahoo isn't their own search engine anymore, Bing loads the page with too much crap. Google steals my privacies.

Answer 5. "I am not sure. I need to go see if we do." Call police while gone, and wait for them to arrive.

You should try living in the UK. Right now, 1 US gallon of gas costs $6.58 after you do all the relevant conversions. I can hardly wait for BP to pass the fine on to the consumers in more expensive fuel, and everyone else raise prices as well.. Gotta love price fixing oil companies.

Corn and peas in unflavoured gelatin. That's my favourite!

Here's the thing, if she gets all huffy over a small matter like you described, do you really want to spend Eternity with her?

The Internet is an enabling technology. If e want to find good, and be uplifted, then the Internet can enable us to be good and better. It can bring into the open things which would have otherwise been secret. On the other side, if we want to do evil, there is more than enough there. Anything from soft porn to instructions for building an IED from chemicals under your kitchen sink.

As with any relationship, communication is important. Perhaps you can show your spouse how your time on the computer is used, what lessons you are working on, what research you are doing. Maybe timetable things so you have a more spread-out day education-wise, make sure to involve your wife if it causes concern for her, so at least she knows how you are using your time.

No matter where the blame lies, this is a huge problem with a heavy environmental impact. Some of the more extreme, are calling this an extinction level event, but they assume an unlimited supply of oil, It has to stop sometime, either by us or by just running out of oil.

I am an INTJ, Introverted Intuitive Thinking Judging Strength of the preferences % 100 88 88 33 INTJ Profile profile for me. You are: very expressed introvert very expressed intuitive personality very expressed thinking personality moderately expressed judging personality So where does that put me then?

I think that our Eternal companions become our soul mate. At some point they may be the same thing, but I do not think they start the same. I thought the idea behind a soul mate was similar to love at first sight. I also don't think that everyone has their just one person. There is at least one other girl that I could have quite happily married, My wife may be able to say the same thing. Who would have been our soul mates? I don't know what the statement was trying to combat, but he was not wrong. Some people are more compatable than others, but if your relationship is based on the thought that your spouse is your soul mate, is that enough to take on the trials you will face?

Meat is one of those areas, where moderation is the ruling factor. We are stewards over this planet and the life on it, so how we treat the animals we eat plays a part.. at least in my understanding.

I am wondering similar, except with the added bonus of living around 4000 miles from where I would like to be. How would I go about finding work in the USA (I am a US Citizen), from a long distance? My current job I like, and found in the local paper.

There is something that came to mind here, a webcomic that I read. In essence, normal person + anonyminity + an audience = a troll/flamebait/etc. Te idea is that the anonymous nature of the Internet can make people into downright jerks.

A few inaccuracies here.. The "cult" label is used to try to disenfranchise people, and make them unwilling to listen. It's a subversive label, applied by those with either no understanding (parrots), or by those with a reason for hating the church, i.e. ex-mormons, pastors with something to lose, etc. It may not be a discussion for this time, but it may be worthwhile for the OP to figure out why their spouse thinks the LDS Church is a cult, and to logically discredit each reason. If logic can't prevail, and the spouse is unwilling to listen to the Spirit, then I don't know what will convince them otherwise.

There is a family in my Branch, the kids are both now at University, husband is a non-member, atheist to be exact. They've been married something like 30 years and he's not budging. Not everyone will come to the Gospel in this life, but hopefully the OP's spouse will see that the LDS Church is no more a cult than her own.

Argumentum ad baculum I misread this one as "Argumentum ad bacon", and anything involving bacon is good in my book. It would have to be Argumentum com succidia to be correct.. I think.

From the info I have (US born, US citizen, no right to vote in the UK) there hasn't been any real reform in how the votes were tallied since Victorian times, when there were a lot fewer people, and a smaller portion had the right to vote. It made sense under those circumstances, but with modern methods of communication, and our current dispersal of population, the system is broken. The US system is broken as well, just not as badly IMO. Electoral reform is in the cards, heck, Labour might have done better under a different system.

Ahh, I see there are more results in, last I heard, and based my comment off, only about 60% had been tallied. The new news, as long as there aren't dissenters then it looks like we may get a small coalition government with a very narrow majority. I wonder what will happen next election, will Labour slide further? The sad thing in this whole thing really is that the Pirate party UK got only slightly over 1000 votes. Yarr!

I don't know how this ties in, but I've just been reading and listening to (thanks to Youtube) lectures by Carl Sagan, Bill Nye, Stephen Hawking, David Attenborough, etc. People highly renowned in their respective fields for their contributions to science. Hearing them talk about life, the Universe, the vastness of space, and the laws that bind it all together.. there were Spiritual Experiences to be had there. We can neither prove nor disprove the existance of God. We can prove the laws of nature and mathematics, the same laws that God uses to govern the Universe. I don't know how else to describe it. Finding God is not something that can be repeated in a laboratory, or published in a scientific journal. It is a discovery of self, and a highly personal thing.

I don't know right now if Cameron actually has enough for Clegg's folks to give them what they need. It looks to me, more like the coalition will have to be between the COnservatives and Labour... like that's ever going to happen.

The problem with the slippery slope argument is that somewhere along the line, one thing may not always cause the other. In your example, the start is drinking, the end is serious drug addiction and potentially violent crime. Drinking does not in all cases lead to this. The slippery slope argument depends on the idea that from A you may get to B, and from B you may get to C, when the probability is low. It is not a factual argument, and it is not logical, hence why it is a logical fallacy. From Wikipedia

Just like the Native Americans in a way, they didn't have the immunities to the diseases carried by the blankets that they were given as charity, so smallpox, bubonic plague, etc were spread by the blankets. I'd say, wash the quilts, and seal them up before donating them. :)