Best post of the day.

Well, I never met a math exercise I wouldn't at least try. Here you go.

The Tuskegee syphilis experiment.

As opposed to the USA, where the only people benefit are the rich and the healthy.

To be fair, cars tend to last a touch longer in the (southern) USA than they do in Canada. Something to do with them not needing rust-causing salt on their roads 4 months out of the year. Some rough data from last year suggests that they get about 25% more out of their cars than we do.

And now having re-read the article, I realize that this man is patently insane. Primarily because he blames Apple for driving sex shops out of business.

Normally, I'm not this paranoid, but this reads like a false flag operation by some religious group looking to get filters installed by default. At the very least, I wouldn't be surprised to find out that they're helping fund this insane lawsuit.

One of your slobs in Sector 7G.

Better yet, I love how "cermanic and concrete" are somehow natural because they're made of natural materials. As if they're somehow more natural than plastic. I am reminded of Abstruse Goose.

Wow. That's horrible. If I could mod you up, I would.

Okay, this is something that's been bugging me for quite a while now. Here in Ottawa, there's typically about a second or two where all the lights are red before the next direction turns green. Is this not the case in the USA? As in, do the lights in the NS direction turn green exactly when the lights in the EW direction turn red?

To follow up on the other part of your question (what do I do), here are my suggestions.

• See if there are any documents that back you up on this, e.g. style documents, and so on. Use them to your advantage.
• Find people he's worked with before and see if this is a chronic issue, or if they've ever made headway on getting him to clean things up.
• Get a feel of the culture there. If there's a culture of "get 'er done", you might be out of luck.
• Talk to him. Let him know that you're having a hard time following his work in the format he typically hands to you, and that you end up spending a great deal of time refactoring things so that you can properly implement it. Emphasize that the whole project will go much smoother and faster if he's willing to spend some of his time cleaning things up. If you're lucky, he cleans things up. If you're less lucky, maybe he'll at least acknowledge the extra overhead, and manage his expectations of you accordingly.
• Give up. If the guy is senior enough, or he's got an "in" with upper management, or he's just an asshole, then it might be better for you to just slog along and wait until the product launches.

But they are appointed by elected officials.

17 USC Section 301

(c) With respect to sound recordings fixed before February 15, 1972, any rights or remedies under the common law or statutes of any State shall not be annulled or limited by this title until February 15, 2067. The preemptive provisions of subsection (a) shall apply to any such rights and remedies pertaining to any cause of action arising from undertakings commenced on and after February 15, 2067. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 303, no sound recording fixed before February 15, 1972, shall be subject to copyright under this title before, on, or after February 15, 2067.

(d) Nothing in this title annuls or limits any rights or remedies under any other Federal statute.

So in other words (if I understand the ruling & law correctly), for songs recorded before 1972, the parts of the DMCA granting rights & remedies apply, but not the parts of the DMCA removing previous rights and remedies (i.e. the safe harbour bits).