Nice. An obscure Tubes reference. Now I have "Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman" going through my head...

I once went on a tour of Wind Cave in South Carolina, which is unusually dry for a cave - so much so that they only allow in a few people at a time because they found that the water vapor in people's breaths affected the caves. In one of the caverns there were pallets filled with toilet paper, rations and other stuff that had clearly been there for some times. The guide said that the supplies were put there by the U.S. Government in the 1950's. The cave was deep enough and far enough away from population centers to provide shelter in case of atomic bomb attack and dry enough to allow paper goods and other perishables to be stored practically forever.

So, you see, it's all about *where* you store it...

You possess a copy, you don't own it. If this distinction seems minor to you, try using a piece of music you think you "own" in a game that you write or in a movie you make and you'll find out what the true status is.

Kennedy said "We choose to go to the moon" at a speech at Rice University in Texas, not the State of the Union address.

It wouldn't have been very difficult to come up with something that looks enough like the label without actually duplicating it. Other than reversed graphics, the design (even Jack Daniel's label) isn't terribly uncommon - a quick perusal of any one of a number of clip art or graphic artists sites could have given the artist something that they could use without infringement.

It's fairly obvious that the similarity between the book cover and the Jack Daniels label is intentional. The cover artist has no leg to stand on here either artistically or legally.

One could, however, make an argument that Jack Daniel's went after the wrong target. An author isn't necessarily always in the conversation when the publisher picks the cover artwork for their book.

That's very close to the truth. Propositions that require new outlays are not required to have a funding mechanism. In addition, because they are not laws, ballot propositions do not have to be constitutional.

For instance, assuming you could get enough people to sign the petition (which wouldn't be terribly hard as signature takers are paid by the signature and so aren't terribly interested in talking about the bill that they're gathering signatures for), it is entirely possible to put a proposition on the ballot that would require that white people get ice cream every Thursday and that the bill be picked up by everybody else. Obviously it won't pass constitutional muster if passed for a variety of reasons, but there's nothing stopping it from getting on the ballot in the first place.

So now everybody games the system for their own purposes. We've had ballot measures that don't stand a chance of becoming law (an English-only amendment), competing measures (one, from insurance companies, that purported to lower insurance costs by restricting awards and another, by lawyers, by restricting the amounts that insurance companies can charge), some that reword other propositions that have already been passed and some that, if passed, will negate other propositions that are on the same ballot.

Nope, that was An Wang

For all intents and purposes the addresses that my company registered in the early 90's are ours. If we want to sell them, there's nothing within ARIN's Number Resource Policy Manual that says that cannot sell all or any part of our address space to anybody else. The transfer has to be done through ARIN and it has to be a group within ARIN's zone, but if we charge for it, ARIN doesn't care.

How's this from Politico:

Ron Paul announced Monday that he would no longer campaign in states that have yet to hold their presidential primaries, effectively putting an end to the last remaining primary challenge to Mitt Romney. “Moving forward, however, we will no longer spend resources campaigning in primaries in states that have not yet voted,” Paul said in a statement released by the campaign Monday afternoon. “Doing so with any hope of success would take many tens of millions of dollars we simply do not have.”

They were one of the best. As of July 1st, Kodak Gallery's closing and photographs will be moved to Shutterfly.

Do you drive on the same roads as everybody else? The ones with cars that have 400+ hp just to go to the store? The ones that have had their ECUs reprogrammed or rechipped to allow greater boost or better acceleration?

Shortly after automated cars are permitted hit the roads, third parties will have devices that will allow occupants of the vehicle (can't call them drivers any more) to override speed and distance allowances either because people want to get to their destinations faster or just because they can.

Exactly the same way: advertising. Shows were sponsored by cigarette or car companies (I seem to remember that Perry Mason was sponsored by Viceroy cigarettes, for example) and had live endorsements by cast or filmed commercials (sometimes both) when shows were broadcast. Advertisements paid all the rent.

Only if we continue to use corn-based ethanol rather than cellulosic ethanol that use wood waste products or grasses.

The discussion has only been cast that way recently to take advantage of the Tea Party and in an effort to bring in moderates to their cause. Their objection in the past has been exclusively on moral grounds.

Really? Any Panamanians, Brasilians, Peruvians, Argentines want to chime in on this? I've never heard any of them refer to themselves as Americans or where they live as America.