http://images.google.com/images?q=portable%208%20track%20player\&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi

google says you're wrong...

it would, but only on fresh tapes, older tapes tend to copy from one layer of wound tape to another. reel-to-reel had this as well but the tape was quite a bit thicker so it was less of a problem. digital is far from perfect but the errors are constant, it does not degrade over time which is the big killer in magnetic media.

(comparing apples to oranges here, 'digital' is not a storage medium, but since you can move it from one medium to another without loss it might as well be)

madoff did not really get 'caught', his sons ratted him out (good for them). If not for that he would be doing it today.

the trade imbalance is there because America wants chinese goods more than China wants american goods, not because they don't want to trade dollar-for-dollar but simply because there is no need to.

What can Americans produce cheaper than the Chinese could produce for themselves ?

I think you're wrong about the plane not going to stall at that altitude at even half of the cruise speed, a link above points to 'the coffin corner'.

no, that's why that airbus A320 had a pilot on board...

In many countries it is now illegal to link to infringing content, it will take the likes of google to be sued before we'll get a real precedent because only they have enough money to take it all the way to the highest courts.

Linking should be ok, no matter what the content, after all, if you link to one of my sites I can replace the contents of that site after the fact by something that is copyrighted, in no way should an action by me make you liable. This will decide the future of the web.

> Well, you've succeeding in taking a (mostly) accurate statement used to make a general point, and drug it through several layers of unnecessary quibbling.

Isn't that what universities are all about ?

I think 'untouchable' does not mean what you think it means.

Your reluctance to post your address below is proof positive of this, if you're 'untouchable' for real I can't see what the problem is.

All the above is nonsense with the qualifiers you put in this post, and for 'ordinary' citizens who would like to have access to some regular household chemicals there should not be a reason to fear the authorities. As a kid I had a chemistry set that I could have used to do fairly bad stuff with, but being a responsible kid I did not. Today, ordering those exact same chemicals in the same quantity outside of having a 'valid' reason would almost certainly constitute a red flag somewhere and that should not be the case.

and after 10 hours it drops suddenly ?

There are probably plenty of examples of prior art, but IÂll submit mine here, camarades.com, the forerunner of ww.com did this in march 1998.

Some more of these:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=50.977866,-1.963204&sll=50.977866,-1.963204&sspn=177.15044,360&ie=UTF8&t=h&ll=50.954257,-1.975232&spn=0.004731,0.013937&z=17&iwloc=A

I wonder what they are, even if theyÂre not more 6,000 year old structures.

the 'concept' of java goes back to UCSD pascal.

'for a limited time', that bit keeps cropping up in places when permanent features are introduced. I'm not a fan of publically supported commercial entities either...

Why should newspapers get that money ? Why not:

- writers that haven't sold books since '96 (after all their income went down the tubes because of the web revolution)
- musicians
- record company executives
- composers
- various other artists
- people that lost money in the .com bust

and so on. I know that sounds extreme, but for each of those groups you could make the case that their
economic position has been affected by the move to onlline media.

It makes no sense to single out a single group that can't seem to make ends meet without colluding.

This is simply a game of newspaper chicken, first one to blink loses all their online viewers to the
competition. It's not like pay per view has not been tried before (see the porn industry), and in
a highly competitive marketplace the only way that will work is by offering absolutely stellar
content that you own exclusively. So that's the route newspapers should go.

Or die out... it's tough I know, my dad worked for a paper when I was a kid and I visited a
couple of times and it felt like that place was really in touch with the world, nowadays it is
all 90% fluff and 10% news.