I wonder what Safari allows. Verizon.com is particularly frustrating in this respect. When browsing my account and, say, trying to pay my phone bill, I often get the "too many redirects" message, so I have to go back to the entry page and try again.

Don't get me started about Verizon's customer service. Or their voice mail. And I'll never buy a Verizon cell phone. Crap, I got myself started. (However, their FiOS service has been outstanding. Go figure.)

He actually used two spaces. Unfortunately for him, browsers collapse multiple spaces into one. He lacks commitment; a true Double-Spacer would have used two non-breaking spaces.

I hear this a lot, but we already have crimes defined by mental state: first-degree and second-degree murder, for example (premeditated and spur-of-the-moment passion, respectively). I suppose hate crimes could be lumped with the former, but they don't always end in the victim's death.

I just finished reading Market Forces by Richard K. Morgan and I'm afraid you might be right.

Due diligence, in this case, would have been to follow standard procedure and turn it in to the bartender.

Not since some enterprising soul discovered bump keys. Now it's trivially easy for anyone to "pick" most pin locks.

Except that those three copies can be read concurrently instead of serially. In the grand scheme of things it doesn't make a huge difference, but it is a difference.

Not defending the publishing industry, but there is a material difference: your copy lent to ten people remains a single copy and returns to you (you hope), but the one you uploaded to two others has become three copies. Still, I don't doubt the publishing industry is inflating the losses.

Already been tried.