are not the same. Volume measures pure energy levels (in Db) whereas loudness is based on psychoaccoustics. In particular the Fletcher-Munson curve http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fletcher-Munson, which details the perceived response of humans to different frequencies at different volume levels. The supreme court was either ignorant or corrupt when they said that it is not possible to measure "perceived loudness". Measuring devices for this have existed for quite a while. There is a similar problem with songs prepared for radio play. In order to attract attention producers boost the loudness of the cuts, leading to an overall lowering of quality (namely dynamic range) for pop songs.

Let's announce that a spaceship has been built to save the really important people, and anyone who signs on now gets the trip for free...

I don't see why the gambling industry would be a problem. Working for malware/spyware/spam distributors or other gray areas is. I'd probably include porn industry as well because most of those sites serve malware as well. Working for the games industry looks great.

I've used ACE a lot, 10 years ago, even then the code looked like it'd been hacked on by 4 generations of under-grads (which it had). Basic stuff works good, but there are some lurking race conditions in shared memory pools that you don't want to meet. I recommend Poco, industrial, easy-to-use etc.
http://pocoproject.org/

I wouldn't consider boost, yet, they're just starting to put in a full suite of cross-platform stuff and they're still missing some important pieces.

that Obama wants to increase hours, its in order to lower the influence of the parents on their children. Clinton has for a long time opposed "unregulated child-rearing". In general the government would prefer more time with your kids.

...to give directions to a book store. After all this is indeed "linking to copyrighted material".

The poster should open a map. Gaza borders on Israel AND EGYPT. The man could have only been prevented from getting cooking oil of both countries blockaded him!