Right youtube are happy to take the video down again if I spend money filing a court case against the infringing party. Which is what would happen if a single person submitted a counter claim against a major corporation's takedown.

The video used my name, and picture and implies that my research supports their creationist message.

I originally found out about this other video after Youtube's content identification system identified *my* video as infringing on *their* video and disabled revenue sharing, that took a month to sort out during which I was unable to monetize my work. (also, I suspect that this possible infringing status flagged my account and resulted in several of my other videos submitted during that period being denied monetization).

Anyway, yes, offended and it cost me a bit of revenue

Nah google is cool with this, if I take the other group to court then they'll remove the video. No point in suing google.

Yes, but that would cost money, and while I could probably get damages It would be practically impossible to collect on them.

Because until the US switches to Ranked Choice Voting only 2 parties can ever be competitive. and the 2 parties that are will have no incentive to change the system to let in 3rd parties.

(not to mention that the libertarians would probably shy away from RCV as being unconstitutional)

Anyone that's putting this much effort in will be aware of that and will be accounting for that in their scoring, topsy is driving this and they have a lot of spam experience.

I remember reading one news story where a property owner was saying he considered anyone coming onto his property to be a violation of his rights and might shoot someone from the power company if they tried to install a smart meter. I wish I could have asked him how the power company reads his meter right now?

Stupidest person ever.

Myplay.com back in 1999 was offering a digital music locker online.
http://web.archive.org/web/20000510123618/http://www.myplay.com/

my.mp3.com borrowed large parts of the myplay design but instead of uploading they used their CD verification system which was judged to be illegal, then.... later mr Robertson copied myplay's entire feature set for mp3tunes.

I'm an oft requested storyteller at school events because I make up voices for all the characters, and yes, I fall into the trap of giving most characters regional british accents. Bad guys frequently end up with some non-specific eastern european accent, and some more exotic characters get asian or scandinavian tilts.

But I never use american accents... not sure why, I just don't find enough characters that fit.

I take BART into work and sometimes got a ride home, and sometimes I'd forget to pick up my car. So , I realised that location based alarms were a technically feasable feature using GPS units or the newer cellphones that were location aware - so you'd be able to setup reminders to pick up your car when the bay bridge was crossed, or pick up milk when you entered a supermarket.

Back then there was no iPhone and getting the location info on most phones was just too much trouble so I abandoned the idea after a couple of weeks poking around.