What you have described is a contract.

The ride-trade ticket is worthless unless all parties to the arrangement live up to their commitments.

You seem to have forgotten the possibility of non-governmental intervention. Using your car as a unlicensed taxi service means that your auto insurance premiums may skyrocket or your insurance company may walk away from any claim you make when your "customers" are aboard.

and yet you wonder why Costco wants to distance itself from a suspect supplier and a million jars of peanut butter that may go rancid before they can be distributed?

"Avoids" is much too strong a word.

State and local health regulations are not superseded.

You remain legally responsible for injuries or deaths which result from your gross negligence or intentional misconduct. If it comes out in court that you donated food you knew had gone bad or was very likely to have gone bad, you are in trouble,

What "all parties have agreed to" for the narrow purpose of settling a bankruptcy suit is not the same thing as "accepting legal responsibility for the charitable distribution of perishable foods that have been in storage for a minimum of two years."

If you want to ignite a food riot in a school or prison, serving rancid peanut butter is as good as any place to begin.

Before the railroad, clocks were set to local solar time, which changes significantly every 25 miles.

The earliest locomotives could easily be pushed to 25mph or better over a decent stretch of track. That made scheduling clumsy and dangerous even after the introduction of the telegraph.

GMT was introduced as a navigational aid for mariners, an easy and reliable way to determine longitude. When the sun says its 5 PM in New York and the moon says its 10PM in London, you have a problem. The difference between night and day,

Makes perfect sense for the disabled.

When was the last time you heard a complaint about accessibility in Windows?

How do you do that if you need sticky keys and other aids to use a keyboard?

Not to mention a two or three year investment in programming skills that you have no way to pay for.

The same can be said for their support groups.

The question then becomes "Why have these problems been solved for years - a decade or more - in commercial/proprietary operating systems from corporate giants like Microsoft and Apple, who should - in theory - have even less interest in investing rime and money in providing services for the disabled?

The worst being the posts that suggest the disabled should cough up the money to pay for a fix or fix the problem themselves. It would be rough justice to put these posters on an SSI budget and see how well they fare.

and this is a good thing?

what else could be ignited?

The long-lived Howard Families of Heinlein's "Methuselah's Children" (1941) weren't looking for a way back, they were looking for a way out --- having abandoned all hope of finding a safe refuge within the Solar System.

The historical parallels are many.

In many ways, the experience is universal.

In my family history, I see refugees from the religious wars that began with the Reformation, others driven into exile by the Scottish Clearances, the Irish Potato Famine...

Do the words like "mission critical" or "breach of contract" have any meaning to you?

The Moves Unlimited catalog is 800 pages, listing tens of thousands of videos in print.

There are specialist catalogs out there which probe much deeper into certain genres. Some, like The Serial Squadron and International Historic Films are passionate about film and video restoration.

Now and again, I'll discover a website which has offers a handful of "sponsored films" on DVD --- industrial, educational and religious films ---- sourced from small private collections which I'd known only through chance encounters with surviving 16mm prints.

I've said nothing here as yet about high definition playback, 3D, sound quality, translation or captioning. But there is a reason why Walmart's Blu Ray selection has been growing rapidly along with the screen size and technical sophistication of its HD sets and sound bars.

Disney's "Frozen" has been famously translated into over forty languages, a sampling of which can be found here: Disney's Frozen - "Let It Go" Multi-Language Full Sequence

The North American based streaming service may not need so broad a reach, but the days when it could be English only are fading fast.

The neighborhood video store can offer a better selection than the Red Box --- but still only a tiny sampling of what is out there. Netflix may have what you want, assuming you are willing to wrestle long enough with what it laughingly calls a search engine to find it.

But it won't have everything you want --- with the features you want, or in the quality you want,

Five data points from Amazon.co.uk.

Best Sellers in DVD & Blu-ray

#1 Frozen - DVD
#8 Frozen - Blu-ray
#10 Frozen - Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray

All pre-orders for the 31 March UK Frozen release.

#12 Gravity DVD + UV Copy
#20 Gravity Blu-ray 3D + Blu ray + UV Copy

All you ever really see in Star Trek: TNG are the elite career officers of the Federation military --- and a more privileged, complacent, self-absorbed and self-righteous a lot it would be difficult to imagine. It is only in later incarnations of Star Trek that you begin to see some cracks in the faÃade.

Three guesses and the first two don't count.

Losing patience with the snail-on-a-salt-lick pace of Digital Research, the Holy Grail for the systems software geek in 1980 was a serviceable CP/M-86 clone. "Serviceable" in this context did not mean "market ready for an IBM PC."

Microsoft's deal with SCP was never as one sided as the geek likes to pretend.

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