Or drop the Obama since Garcia is not the official whitehouse photographer, which might be construed as the Obama Photographer because the whitehouse photographer mostly photographs the president in interesting places meeting interesting people.

One other thing. If someone takes a picture of me and only me, shouldn't I have some say in what happens to the picture? I know that there have been instances where car companies have stopped fan made calenders from being distributed (i forget the case law as to who won though), so shouldn't people have rights over their likenesses? If Obama says that the use of his picture is cool, it should be cool.

We could even use this to "protect the children" in that the subjects could step forth and demand damages. That angle alone should get 90% of washington behind it.

Yeah, I wonder if Rosetta Stone will sue the British Museum for blatantly displaying and advertising that they are in possession of the Rosetta Stone.

i think the subjects were instructed to chant a neutral word or a swear word. Not that people who swear have higher pain tolerances than those that are so gosh durn cultured and never use that fricking language, but swearing may increase a pain tolerance.

The cost of corn is very very very dependent on the cost of oil. Due to the energy hungry nitrogen fixation process required to make the fertilizer so rich in energy it can be used to make bombs (see the Oklahoma city bombing for the effects a van-load can have), corn has been described as being "edible oil", due to it taking 2 calories of oil energy to create 1 calorie of corn energy. Oil goes down, corn prices go down, food prices go down. Don't get me started on the wet milling process required to make corn products into xanthan gum, corn oil, natural raspberry flavor, and the hundreds of other corn derivatives that you read on the ingredients label of just about every processed food. (but a 13:1 energy in:energy out ratio comes to mind). Also, when it comes to meat, it takes 9 pounds of corn to make 1 pound of cow. There is definitely a trickle down effect where the price of food is based on the price of oil.

Other food prices are also dependent on oil prices due to fertilizer costs and transportation costs as well.

there was a company called "Your Long Distance Company" or "Your Phone Company" (i forget which) that would call you during dinner about switching something or other. So people switched and got hit with higher charges.

well, that's what happens when you try to host anything on a comcast connection, it chokes.

No, that'd be silly!

They'll sue the scientists for discovering something that infringes.

xkcd comic reference

Yeah, pretty much you're turning your iphone into a hitch hiker's guide to earth, or at least america and europe if you can manage to squeeze wiki-travel onto it.

wooooosh.
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Saw it? Good, now you should get the joke.

How about this: The coders take the time they would have used to "optimize" and instead better document, test, and debug the code. Instead of same quality, less money, make it better quality, same money? You know that the developer isn't going to charge less money for a new product because it took them less time to get it out the door.

bolt it to the seat, most bikes come with quick release seats and I know quite a few people who take the seat with them when they lock up. It makes the ride "home" more painful for any would be thief.

I always wanted to make a bumper sticker that was similar to the share the road stickers except change the graphics a little (use your imaginations, i'll wait, done? Ok, good.) and change the line to something like "Use the sidewalk" or "Roads are for Cars" or, "Pithy bumper stickers won't keep me from honking my modified train horn as I drive by."

Possibly "Wearing spandex makes you a tool."

Add your own! Its fun!

make it hot, dig out a cone above the ant hole to act as a funnel, pour it fast.

The president can call up a buddy of his in senate or house of representatives, i dunno, perhaps a senator or representative and say "I don't like this plan, its invasive, it strips the american people of their rights and is a tax that closes the gap between guzzlers and hybrids. I don't like it, lets keep taxing pollution." and the senator or congressman will walk up to someone on the National Surface Transportation Infrastructure Financing Commission and slap him on the back of the head for considering such a dumb idea.