Those corporations may be "based" here but pay their taxes in countries like Denmark.

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Converting from epub->mobi is not "lossy". It isn't like words or sections of text go missing during the conversion process.

I wonder at what point it would be considered treason when a politician votes yes to this type of legislation.

I would disagree that Lucas tried at all to fit into the expanded universe. I read most of the expanded universe books including the Thrawn series, X-Wing, and Jedi Academy. Those books did well taking all the existing plot before them and integrating them in a way that made sense and pushed the Star Wars story further. It was clear to me when the prequels came out that Lucas had no intent on fitting in with the world that grew during his absence after the original trilogy. At this point the EU has more material than the original and prequels. Granted there were quite a few low quality books and stories and I was never able to enjoy anything after the Vong were introduced but I feel it is a mistake to delete a large part of the universe that he created.

No. The construction of the "final thing it is supposed to be" may only last a fw minutes or hours. The FUN is using those parts to make what you want, play with those constructions, and then taking them apart to build something new. I would love to be able to print missing, interesting, or custom LEGO parts.

Not a chance! With the advent of car to car networking and internet accessibility every component in your car will have its own internet facing IPV6 address!
Imagine the possibilities: You could open your trunk from anywhere in the world, you could preheat the car before your flight even lands, you could update your license plate in real time!

Unless those managers notice and take the heat for the extra cost of overtime, the reduction of quality due to overworked employees, or the missed deadlines they will assume that there was an EXTRA person the entire time and will congratulate themselves for saving money by not hiring an unnecessary employee.

In effect, working at 110% to cover the position hurts your chances of ever filling the position with a qualified employee.

I have a debit card from TCF bank and they sent out notices that their VISA debit cards were covered by the same VISA zero-liability-policy as their credit cards. Regardless, I didn't purchase anything at Target.

If it take that one step further and apply it to outsourcing to other countries...

It is even worse than that. The closest distance from Earth to Mars equates to about 3 minutes at light speed, the average is 14.1 minutes, and the longest is 15.22 minutes. http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Distance+between+earth+and+mars

If the primary goal is to steal trade secrets why bother with any of that? You can purchase the use of a 50GB VPS for $6 a month and store any encrypted data you want on it which can be accessed anywhere in the world with Internet access.

Perhaps if people started installing dash-cams like the Russians.

If you catch someone texting while driving and can provide evidence to the authorities, YOU get most of the money from the fine issued.

USB 1.1 wasn't bad compared to floppy disk capacity and read/write speeds.