Not at all. There is a wealth of research about this topic.

Ensuring severity and certainty of punishment will not stop crime. It may affect some rational actors decisions but most criminals are not rational.

Bullocks. You could make the crime for stealing death and execute everyone who does. There would still be stealing.

Simply put most criminals don't think about consequences.

This only applies to rational actors. The problem is most criminals are not rational nor thinking of consequences.

Case in point, criminals know convenience stores have cameras but still openly rob and steal from them.

Pokemon concept and ideas are heavily borrowed already. It is pretty idiotic to pretend they created anything. Instead they copied a bunch of Japanese culture and now want to prevent others from doing the same.

It is all known as intellectual property. This covers copyright, trademarks, and patents all with the same concept of creating artificial scarcity to ensure profits.

You would deprive everyone of the joy of playing this game mashup!?

I know you are joking, but honestly we would have a lot better games if we were allowed to openly borrow and build off of other concepts including characters and storylines.

Simply put commercial interests don't produce the best games. Instead of innovative gameplay we get loot boxes and micro transactions.

A great example of this is Pokemon. You know damn well that fans could make a better Pokemon game than Nintendo ever could.

Copyright cannot protect 99% of creators because enforcing it takes enormous amounts of time and money. This isn't really a big deal though because 99% of people who create don't need these supposed protections.

That's right, the amount of writing, art, and music that is created for non-commercial purposes dwarfs what is created for profit.

Your last tidbit is highly accurate. Big business almost exclusively uses copyright to control others work to the detriment of society.

The leader of the KKK said he would vote for a black man over a white woman. Sexism has always trumped racism.

Sure, you don't actually own it. The words you strung together are not actually yours nor is the grammar you strung it together with. The knowledge you used to create it is also not yours.

The only way to ensure no one reads, borrows, or "steals" your work is to never share it with anyone and certainly never put it on the Internet.

The only way to ensure it is truly yours is to never have participated in society, invent your own language, and of course hide it from ever being discovered.

This is the only real way. You need to create in a vacuum and lock it up so no one will ever find it. Then and only then can it truly be yours.

This is the way. This technology is too critical to our future to leave in the hands of the private sector at this point.

Yeah, like I was saying. You have to do it the way they want rather than just click on it like every other GUI.

One thing I really did like was the use of the drop down menu. I really appreciate all programs using the same basic interface.

I absolutely hated all the Microsoft Ribbon bar nonsense. They have reinvented it so many times you never know where to find anything.

Well that was not the case with the last time I used OSX. You click on finder and it would not open a second window. This is not how Windows or Gnome/Kwin work.