I've kept a pet cuttlefish for the last year or so in my aquarium - they have the ability to change their color and texture on demand. Video evidence here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqaKxm6rMUs#t=158s

this doesn't crash and burn

I don't see how this is possible, given that genetic recombination happens. Unless the parents are very genetically similar (ick), there should be billions of possibilities.

While I think this is a good law in theory, I'm worried that it's merely a way to prevent the populace from fighting back against an increasingly autocratic regime.

No shit, but the fundamental problem with the old Busemann biplane is the the lift from each wing would cancel out.

False. For example, when I was building a supersonic rocket, I thought of using a Busemann biplane to decrease drag drastically in the supersonic regime. However, the stabilizing function of fins on a rocket is a result of the lift they produce at nonzero angles of attack. As a result, the rocket would have no stability, and would consequently fail to launch (alternatively, I could have used gyroscopic stabilization, but putting anything in the path of the exhaust tends to be highly dangerous, so I went with a super-light rocket).

After reading TFA, I stand corrected. The Busemann biplane has lift, but only under supersonic flow, so they're using an adaptive wing.

The design has zero lift, and therefore is unusable as a wing. Also, this is very, very old news (2006 IIRC).

Probably won't garner much support.

No, bandwidth requires infrastructure and maintenance, while "intellectual property" can be copied infinitely for a near-zero sum of money.