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Listed below are comments made by Xzanron between Friday, 25th April 2008 and Sunday, 6th September 2009.

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Speaking American 12:59pm on 06 Sep 2009 AmericanSportFan: "We call it Lighter Fluid and it comes in handy when your looking to cook with Charcoal although some brand of charcoal actually don't require the use of lighter fluid."

I believe what squirrellist wanted to know (and I'm curious as well) is:

What's the word you use for the 'gas' that's pumped into your houses for your central (and/or water) heating, for your ovens and for the hobs on your stoves?

We have "British Gas", a company that does not make gasoline for cars but supplies natural gas to homes (and businesses) for heating and cooking. When people in the UK say "gas" that's what they mean. What word would American's use?
Watching you, watching YouTube 1:52pm on 04 Jul 2008 jacko101:

I think you've overlooked a rather fundamental and significant problem.

What if you'd watched something that is perfectly legal in your country of residence, but illegal in the country whose judges just ordered your data released?

The next time you go on holiday or business you might find yourself arrested at immigration for a "crime" you never actually committed.

But.. well, actually you did commit it, they have the logs to prove it.
No defence for 'stealing' music 12:01pm on 03 Jul 2008 I have proof that making stuff available for download free and without any restrictions actually increases the profits of the creators of that content.

Baen.com, a book publisher, has loads of books available free to download (including New York Times best-selling authors). They actually include CDs full of electronic copies of books with hardbacks they sell and encourage readers to copy the CDs and give them to friends.

The authors that take part have publicly acknowledged that their royalties have shot up as soon as their books became available legally for free.

Their logic is simple, no one has ever handed a book to a friend with the words "read this it's awful". Every book that's out there is free publicity for the author. The next book that comes out will be bought, maybe even back catalogue books. If someone reads it and doesn't like it, no loss, they'd probably never have bought it anyway, but because it was free, people will give them a try, it doesn't cost them after all, and they might just turn out to like the author and then they'll start spending money.

There will always be people that just take, but most people want their favourite authors to keep writing, so they pay even if they don't have to.

The model works, the music industry is just too narrow minded to see that and in the process they are alienating the wrong people. Those that are never prepared to pay are a lost cause and don't care what the music industry and others do, no level of adverts, abuse and "measures" will deter them. All the while those measures are making life difficult for the honest people.

And when it comes down to it, if a musician or author isn't good enough that people are prepared to pay to support them, then that should be a big enough hint that they should be doing something else.
Way out in Flemish 11:19am on 25 Apr 2008 "Way Out" is a poor sign.

If you use "Exit / Sortie" almost everyone, regardless of their language, going through the station will know what it means.

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