No, it's not. The MPAA & RIAA (aka "MAFIAA") are practicing a form of legalized racketeering, bribery, intimidation, etc. Except rather than having thick-necked goons do the enforcement late at night, they're using slick attorneys and lobbyists to abstract away the dirty work from their hands to the government's.

The "Rule of Law" argument is really nice and all, especially when you're writing all the rules.

Remember, all the seizures of arts in France by the Nazis was "legal", too.

No, not a lamborghini, but a Pontiac Fiero, with a really bad body kit on it.

Or even better, a Geo Metro with a red rattle can paint job (or Maaco), you know, with overspray still on the tires, Ferrari F-40-lookalike wheel covers (maybe they're even spinners, too!), two Lee Press-on NACA Scoops on the hood, and some Firrari (yes, the misspelling is intentional) badges stuck on in various places with double-sided tape. And they even forgot to 'shop the "K&N Filter" & "Michael Jordan" stickers from the rear window. If you look close enough, you can at least see where they removed or 'shopped the Buick-esque stick-on vent "holes" from the front fender.

I'm sure pictures of the 2nd could be found on Jalopnik, Autoblog, etc...

But that's how stereographic photos work in general, whether one is using one camera or two (or more). This wasn't a new technique.

I think the real trick were those 3-D system they smuggled in, where they could pan around the area in virtual 3-D that let them see the V-2 rockets as they were on their launch pads and get a feel [sic] for them.

"Khan, you bloodsucker! You're going to have to do your own dirty work now! Do you hear me? Do you?"

Yes, and currently that wealth shifting around increasingly continues to land in the pockets, hedge fund accounts, etc. of the very rich. But it's all "the natural order" to them.

Stop peeing in my face and calling it lemon-lime gatorade.

Hmm... do you not believe your eyes? Is some of the compelling visual evidence an eco-conspiracy that also involves camera manufacturers, Kodak, photoprocessors, NASA and satellite manufacturers?

OK, some of the statistics are inherently mind-blowing, nature of that beast.

But pictures of huge ice masses breaking up in Antarctica and the Arctic, receding glaciers, shrinking summertime snowpack on Mt Kilimanjaro, etc. are pretty freaking hard to ignore or wave off.

consensus means they might have to change their lifestyle?

No, how about Mother Fuckin' Nature will make them change their lifestyles.

OK, I can maybe sort of see some wiggle room with regards to the "human caused" part, but it is really hard to not come to that judgement, either. It isn't koala bear farts that are contributing...

But, glaciers and snow packs are shrinking, have been shrinking, for the last 50-100 years. Hard to argue that this isn't the case.

what did they invent, fucking glass now?
Well, there's probably an app for that, too...

Oh yes, we built the bridge but there are a few hundred unnecessary iron girders that we forgot to remove...
Well, look at bridges built in the 1800's compared to the ones today. Would we build a modern bridge today using wrought iron links http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifton_Suspension_Bridge? Each building made in a certain period in a way represents a degree of refinement compared to its predecessors. Better materials, better methods. Buildings in general cannot be "cleaned up" the way code can, where "cruft" today was yesterday's conservative design.

Read a book about the differences in the construction of the World Trade Centers versus the Empire State Building, for example (the WTC has sibling buildings still around using the same techniques, such as the Aon [nee Amoco] Building in Chicago)...

I'll go with the Trans-Siberian Railroad instead.

Historically you sometimes get a military backed figurehead.

And Kim Jong Ill was different?

Hmm... you must go to some obscure places in Wyoming (ok, that might be redundant...). My VZWL phone works fine, but that's mostly on I-80 corridor, Rawlins to Casper, Casper to Lusk, I-25 corridor. No roaming, or at least none that I notice. Even signal on most of US-30 between I-80 and I-15. But it does lose it north of Lusk once the terrain gets a bit rougher, but that's a terrain restriction. If I'm up high enough, it'll pick up a signal...

4. Private citizens are not (generally) supposed to engage in surveillance of other private citizens under any conditions.
You obviously don't live in a housing development with CCRs (deed restrictions on what you can do with "your" house) or a HOA (home owners association, like with a condominium or housing development), that is monitored by a bunch of really angry busy bodies, or anywhere else where some of your neighbors have nothing better to do than concern themselves with the business of everyone else. Or a neighborhood bully. Or get on the wrong side of the neighborhood watch committee for a flippant comment questioning their authoritah.

...but it could become the thing to do at the Farmer's Markets...

The cute picture of the critter out in the pasture, or the reality of it hanging on the hooks?