And ear marks to pay for adding turtle crossings to roads in Badlands, South Dakota.

Why isn't the EPA all over this? It could be contribution to global warming, for crying out loud!

|| makes my brain want to liquefy and seep out my ears. ||

Hey! Don't knock it till you've tried it!

|| The people closest to this are the Libertarians, but they're so wacky they think that all roads should become private property and made into toll roads, so you have to pay tolls just to drive out of your driveway. ||

Nice pigeon hole you got there!

Not even "most" Libertarians I know (and, I am one) think that.

I do not want tax payer money being given to any news-weasels to "save" or otherwise "preserve" the current news businesses.

They swim or sink like the rest of us, screw them!

A camera fixed into the hood or dash of a police car doesn't get the "whole" event either.

The argument doesn't hold water, sorry.

|| The police are basing this claim on a ridiculous reading of the two-party consent surveillance law - requiring all parties to consent to being taped. ||

So this should work with red light cameras and other "public" oriented camera surveillance. Just because one is in "public" doesn't mean that grant their consent to being under such surveillance. It's not a matter of "privacy" it's a matter of "consent".

The inspiration for this patent were Steve's very own "Toxic Pit Stains" (TM). He wanted to see them in action in a document, web site, etc. outside of the YouTube an other videos where he proudly displays them.

It would be real news of "Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit" took down -- Microsoft!!!

Kettle Foods
Salem, Oregon

Not even A) remotely near Stone Mountain, GA and B) not even remotely the connotation you added.

HAND

Hmm, no.

Well, the fat thing is right on, but Ballmer will never be even in the same universe as Jobs was/is.

What does Steve have going for him?

Toxic Pit Stains (TM), and that's about it.

Pfft.

Krinkle Kut Kettle Chips FTW!

Oh, by the way, Joel Rogers is not just "University Science Dude Says", here is who Joel is (Wikipedia and other sources):

Joel Rogers is an American academic and political activist. He currently is a professor of law, political science, and sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and has written on American politics and public policy.

Rogers received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University, his Master of Arts and Ph.D. from Princeton, and his J.D. from Yale Law School.

He is also the founder and director of a research and policy center, the Center on Wisconsin Strategy (COWS), at UW-Madison. Rogers has written widely on American politics and public policy, political theory, and U.S. and comparative industrial relations, as well as the "high-road" approach to economic development he is credited as first theorizing.

Rogers is also one of the founding members of the Apollo Alliance. [1]. This group was credited with writing the controversial $787 billion dollar stimulus package for the US Congress in 2009.

Now, go do your own research, you might learn something (at least, I hope you do).

Wouldn't that more correctly be "patent gene pool"?

It is a political power issue, period.

And, current administration officials, elected and appointed, are making it such. All part of their "social justice" and "economic" justice meme.

Wake the f*ck up!