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Seriously? They better send you a gas card with a full tank's worth of cash on it something, that's insane.

Nope, the RIAA has gotten enough laws passed that even once you've purchased something like a song or movie or any digital file, you don't actually "own" it. So your description is still technically illegal, thanks to your friendly DMCA.

Er, they still teach writing. Just not cursive.

Psh, get with the times, Jethro! Android/iPhones, now. Blackberries are so 2005.

That's how I did it! It would! How else will we stop the coming alien invasion?

I dunno most voice to text software I've seen was rather crappy. It'd certainly be awesome if it actually worked, but most things I've seen needed about an hour of calibration for just one person's voice, and even then it wasn't all that accurate. Might be better now, though, dunno. Haha, I...

No, I was just referring to the original topic. And it's mildly more complicated in that case, but less complicated for keeping things organized on the whole (for me, at least).

Convertible tablets. Digital stylus for freehand stuff needed, keyboard for regular stuff. And either way, I'm pretty sure I'd not want to see cursive on a diagram or graph or whatnot.

Double benefit, then? :P

I just practiced as a kid in "developing" a signature, where I'd print my name, then do it faster and faster and everything would turn into generic squiggles that are still fairly unique and almost similar to each other. Oh, when I'm at a store, it's even better. I often draw a tree and sun...

E-cards? Bleh, no thanks. That's one digital equivalent that got butchered early by Hallmark and extremely shitty graphics, and honestly, good riddance. (Though to be fair, I'm not a huge fan of actual cards, either.) Rebates are silly as it is, though. I think Staples does it entirely...

Because of a lack of cursive? Cursive is silly and useless. Cursive kind of reminds me of old English. It's nice for people to be able to read it, but I certainly don't think it's a necessary skill (or for that matter, even necessarily useful) that everyone should learn, by any means...

I assume you have ESP or some other way of knowing that her lawyer "knew" that she was guilty, rather than assuming innocence?

Says you. What doubts are "reasonable" to you may not be "reasonable" to others, and doubts that are "reasonable" to others may be unreasonable to you. Haha, not at all what I said. You said he was a slimeball because of his defense strategy. I assumed that you meant by that that any lawyer...

I would certainly not recommend practicing that as your sole form of birth control. Biology's a bit too messy to be very accurately predictable.

I'm pretty sure this is more of a hallmark of online culture (especially on websites where the majority of communication is done via text, such as a forum) than in the greater hearing culture, since my experience with other people in the general population is that grammar is much less of a focus...

On the island on the left with the trees? ;)

Lie detectors are notoriously bad at actually, y'know, detecting lies. They don't work. So that'd be pointless. The defense brought up that "angle" because it's the law. I fail to see how defense strategies make a lawyer a slimeball, but whatever. You apparently also are not familiar with...

Whaaaat!? You mean it's pointless to argue about most things on the internet, because all it does is make us feel like we've actually done something when all we've really done is sit around wanking the whole time? But that's one of my forms of entertainment...

Of course it's speculation, I'm just pointing out that "reasonable doubt" isn't an objective measurement or anything like that, it's extremely subjective. Oh, certainly. But it is certainly still possible that the jury was mistaken. There's just nothing that can be done about it if they were.