In reply to Tom Coates.

Tom (and John):
I started a reply to this, but it got way too long for this clunky commenting system, so I've turned it into a separate post. I hope you'll appreciate that it's not an attempt to dominate or derail the conversation, but an attempt to come up with some actual numbers — even if they're numbers completely pulled out of my ass. And it's more interesting than repeating the same thing over and over again, which is "people shouldn't be stealing things."