Surely the simplest solutions is for the FCC to drop the filing?

Actually, in Europe, in most of the countries (but not all), you pay a tax on every single storage media that's called "private copy tax".

It's supposed to compensate artists for the loss incurred because of people LEGALLY copying their music (and not because of piracy, as that would be taxing an illegal practice, which is... illegal)

It includes cd's or dvd's, but also hard drives, phones (even dumb phones with a few megs of storage...), ipods...

In practice, it means that you get taxed when:

- You buy a song, and store in on your ipod : you pay

- you then transfer that song to your hard drive: you pay

- then you decide to copy it on your phone: you pay

The list could go on and on...

Most of the books amazon recommends to me, I end up liking.

Actually, part-time is not really popular nor practiced over here...

So, how does that work? You go in with your faulty cover, you leave with a new user? Do you get to choose your user?

Word 2007 is perfectly capable of reading and editing .doc documents, and as far as I know, Openoffice can read and edit both .doc and .docx.

Your objection is a non issue.

While bullets related hospitalization and deaths augmented markedly...

And as far as I know, even in the US, for science related things, you use SI units.

Considering that microsoft sold the possibility to sign ssl certificates for any domain to the late Tunisian government, why wouldn't they sell the same thing to the makers of that virus, if it really comes from a government?

source: http://arabcrunch.com/2011/09/wikileaks-microsoft-accused-in-helping-bin-ali-monitor-tunisians-corruption-stifling-open-source.html

Actually it used to be taken as medicine, so I'm guessing it's more or less safe in small amounts.

So it's pretty close to Arthur C. Clarke description?

So they track the control room? In case it starts moving around??

Don't tell him that, he's got a licence to kill!

AFAIK, that's exactly what google is currently doing.