Dear lord this is absolutely hilarious.

Steve Ballmer: When marketing goes too far... [MPG]

] Would today's tykes tolerate the classic games you grew
] up with? Kids do say the darndest things in this uncut
] version of an EGM article—now with a bonus game not
] included in the original story!

] Kirk: I'm sure everyone who made this game is dead by now

I thought this was quite amusing when I read it, too.

Kids Play - Proof that you are OLD

Jeremy wrote:
] Of more than 18,000 students surveyed, 38 percent said they
] had lifted material from the Internet for use in papers in the
] last year. 44 percent said they considered this sampling no
] big deal.
]
] "I'm not sure it's shifted values yet, but for a lot of
] students, it's heading in that direction."
]
] In fact, for many people, that shift has already come.
]
] ... In a nation that flaunts its capacities to produce and
] consume, much of the culture's heat now lies with the ability
] to cut, paste, clip, sample, quote, recycle, customize and
] recirculate.

I would be interested in knowing how many people are "lifting" this material and how many people are quoting this material as sources and citing the source... because I know I've done this quite often, particularly when it comes to research papers that are available online, etc. I would assume that a considerable amount of people use similar tactics.

RE: Beyond File-Sharing, a Nation of Copiers