I HATE MY LIFE.
I wish I was someone cool and awesome with confidence and a snazzy sense of humour and who is good at sports and makes school look like a breeze and is good looking and popular with the ladies and has nothing to worry about and has a social life and does amazing stuff all the time and yet somehow has a quality about him that doesn't make people hate him.
Most of the "qualities" you refer to don't matter in the same way to anyone over 21. Of course, a sense of humour and basic self confidence will always be qualities, as are looks, but even a mediocre-looking guy like me who is useless at sports and a complete nerd (i mean, i'm both a petrolhead and into computers, how can one be more of a dork by teen standards) can find a good job, a brilliant circle of friends and a wonderful girlfriend. There are many kinds of "amazing stuff" one can achieve and most of these, even if you do them just because you care about the task at hand and/or think it's good for you, will get recognition and positive reactions from people with similar interests. The focus on looks and sports will be gone soon as your surroundings change from the "geographically close people" of school to the "similar interests/backgrounds" structure of college or a job.
Since when did we get BBC programs shown even before the UK does?
It happens from time to time. Bones, for some reason, was broadcasted in Canada a day before the US last season.
I'm not saying downloading music is a special skill. That's the point. Anyone can do it.[...] I'm sure as hell not downloading it to buy stuff that's free.
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And I use a morality system with torrents. If I like what I got, I send what I believe it was worth to the creator. They almost always get more than normal through that system anyway. (And a lot of torrents I get is stuff I already have).
See, there's a contradiction in your post. You think pirating stuff is better than buying because then it's free. Which means you do not pay for it.
At the same time, you say send "what you believe it's worth" to the creator if you like something. That not only contradicts the "free" thing, but is also an obvious lie. Even it you'd be willing to really do pay for what you like (i'll give you the benefit of doubt here) i'd like to see how you'll get the money to the Estate of Elvis Presley, or, even more complicated, to
Scotty and
Bill (assuming you even knew about Scotty and Bill before reading this post). There are so many people more than just the Artist involved in the creation of a record, do you really think you have the wisdom to think of them all with your generous donations,
even if by some miracle you could track all of them down?
Sending "i downloaded your works and i really liked it, Sir" money to anti-piracy activist musicials surely will work well, too.
Here, have some -rep for bringing a bad name even to pirates.
EDIT: How many people here can name the original "Tennessee Two" without using google or wiki?