So, when Apple made that commercial about 1984 and "Big Brother" (for the Super Bowl) so long ago... they were really warning about the future Apple Corp?

Well, alrighty then!

Couldn't run a holodeck without one... or several... thousand.

A la carte? You mean, only pay for what you want to see? Wow! what a shocker that would be! And Food Network? You don't want to pay for it, but it's OK if everyone pays for it just so you can watch it? Yeah, right. Food Network, ESPN, MTV, TNT and all the rest that I don't watch can fold for all I care. If ANY enterprise can't make money from only those willing to pay for its service or product, then it should go out of business.

My question, too. :D

Huh? The Belgian police have the authority to declare what is, and isn't, an "indecency offense"? I didn't know Belgium was a police state. Frankly, the "how drunk are you" concept makes a lot of sense. Of course, you could just as easily implement a "urinalyzer" to check that, couldn't you? :D

Engadget: I understand you filing this under "Transportation". But filing it under "Gaming"?

Or is finding a taxi in NYC sorta like a game? Sometimes you win? Sometimes you lose? (Or do dispatchers use gaming software as a kind of traffic control "game"? Fun, fun, fun! ...not.)

Clearly, intelligence isn't any more of a requirement for Canadian "boards" and composers than it is for their American ilk (and let us not forget those Scots).

And when it came to Björn, resistance was futile. (Yeah, I'd like to see any player--now or ever--using a *real* tennis racket beat him at Wimbledon, both playing their best... never gonna happen.)

Those other Borg, however, are "definitely not Swedish". :D

"Hey, Fergus, I'm headin' down to the Kwik-Fit to listen in on the radio down there 'n' stick it to those bloody PRS 'artistes'--gettin' ma tunes fer free! wanna tag along?"

...oh, yeah, that happens.

Honestly, I'd prefer not being forced to listen to what passes for "music" to someone else. As such, I don't really consider the sounds--radio or otherwise--emanating from some auto shop to be "entertainment". It certainly isn't public broadcasting (on the part of the auto shop)--the royalties for which have already been paid by the radio station (though not all royalties apply here, the ones in this case do). It is nothing more than incidental sound--loud, annoying, incidental sound. Any law which seriously categorizes this as "taxable" (that's what it is) is little more than extortion.