Sell the rights to what? The exact mass value of a Higgs boson? The cross section of U-235 for neutron capture?

The original post mentions tennis elbow and sore neck and shoulders. About 12 years ago I thought I was getting carpal tunnel, and had sore neck, back, and shoulders. Independent of these issues I took up Olympic style weightlifting, and within about three months all the pain issues were gone. At 46 now I'm about 2x as strong as I was at 24. I can not recommend it highly enough, and for the issues mentioned, dead lifts, back squats and front squats would take care everything.

Hmm, the slope of my benefits with time is negative, and the slope of the slope is negative. Time to get that new job.
Mod me true.

From the document you reference:

my bold. If some people outside of the United States want constitutional protections, they can write one, and they can start with a Declaration of Independence - likely followed by a civil war of some size or another. You will have to search pretty far for any constitutional scholar that thinks the constitution applies on foreign soil, and only perhaps half the SCOTUS takes the view that one should do 'sprit of' vs traditional reading of the text.

Where the body is, seems to me rather more important than where the bits are; I completely disagree that one is bringing a person into the United States by listening to correspondence from within the United States. The reciprocal argument is that we are putting the listener next to the person having the conversation, which is a foreign territory and hence again not subject to Constitutional consideration outside the agreements that our government makes with the foreign government.

Can you point to where the Constitution mentions God? I'm not recalling the mention. The Constitution: The first sentence of the constitution begins with "We the people of the United States...establish this Constitution for the United States of America.". The fourth amendment says, "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects...". In both cases it is the same people being referred to; the citizens of the United States. I don't think that the Constitution says much of anything about foreign people or non-citizens, but I'm happy to hear your counter argument.

The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies:... We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed...

The Constitution of the United Sates and The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies are not the same document.

The meaning seems plain to me. The first sentence of the constitution begins with "We the people of the United States...establish this Constitution for the United States of America.". The fourth amendment says, "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects...". In both cases it is the same people being referred to; the citizens of the United States.
I don't think that the Constitution says much of anything about foreign people or non-citizens, but I'm happy to hear your counter argument.

I guess I see the UI work that Apple did on the iPhone as original and innovative and not at all standard; I'd never seen anything like it at the time, and probably the ATM was the only touch interface I commonly used. What Apple refers to in its own documentation since the Mac 128 day are Human Interface Guidelines which describe guidelines and principles, not standards.

Wire formats, radio formats, computer to computer interactions are the stuff of standards. One would be a little out of place innovating in TCP/IP at this point and hoping to connect to another computer. But Human UI has the advantage that humans can adapt on the fly and understand a new UI. Standard UI makes me think of Motif widgets, or SWING widgets - ugly or at best average - but certainly standard.

Never driven a Citroën? The steering wheel is subtly different with a single attachment to the wheel so that it never gets in your way while steering. If I recall, Citroën invented damped power steering with the SM in 1972 - so that steering stiffened with increased speed, oh and the suspension lowered as well. I don't know which company moved all the controls to within reach of the wheel but it is standard now to be able operate the radio and horn with out moving one's hands from the wheel. And as far as the hand break is concerned, isn't it still a foot break on many vehicles - like the Toyota Sienna?

http://store.apple.com/us/browse/reuse_and_recycle
Just found out my 1st gen 16Gig/3G ipad is worth $125 dollars for recycle.
My daughter's old slightly beat up 3GS is worth $95.
Hmmm, maybe time for a new iPad.

Forget the whole disk encryption recovery key is how I would do it. How do you deal with stolen laptop data security?

Drivers could learn from pilots - 1 fly the plane, 2 fly the plane where you need to go, 3 talk to the people you need to talk to.

One time I was driving I-5 to LA in the passing lane, which had traffic going above the posted limit. I looked in my rearview and an officer was right on my tail. I expected to get pulled over for speeding at that point, signaled and switched to the slow lane. The officer pulled right up on the tail of the next car which did the same as me. Two more cars followed likewise. The fifth driver did not notice the officer right behind him and in about 30 seconds on came the lights. He probably got a ticket for speeding, but his crime was failure at situational awareness. If that officer was looking to fill a quota any one of us would have done, but I was glad to see the unsafe driver get the ticket.

Was the backhoe near your building or near the hosting building. I guess I'm asking if the single point failure is something your company could have mitigated?

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Schwarzschild+radius+of+4+million+solar+mass+ = 7 million miles
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Sagittarius++A*+radius = 13 million miles
Seems Sag A* radius is based on observed angular size of the radio source.

The jets should be perpendicular to the accretion disk which should mostly be co-planar with the disk of the galaxy. So, the jets will not point at us. If some oddball star or mass or whatever that is in a highly out of galactic plane orbit gets sucked in, we should still be ok as there is quite a lot of dust between us and Sag A*.