Why should telecoms care if DNS gets broken? They have, effectively, either a monopoly or duopoly. Worse, if the internet breaks, it won't effect their primary cash cow, their OWN video services. From their viewpoint, breaking the internet might actually BE the objective.

How about explicitly defining 'reasonable amount' as being 1% of the current median income for a single person?

Nah, what's cool is being able to sync with an old modem by using vocal pops.

Having thought about this a bit, I concluded that judges should be randomly selected from the lawyer pool just as jurors are selected from the voter pool. Higher level ones could be picked from those judged by their peers to have done a reasonable job at being a low level judge.

Turning this patent around a bit, it sounds like just profiling someone, and predicting purchases based on that profile. Isn't this pretty much what all the "you might also be interested in..." pop-ups do, to some extent or other?

In 11 years men's room stalls will have vending machines that offer to sell you condoms that fit you EXACTLY.

If you don't have a thick bundle of cables weighing several pounds, those rolls of light-duty velcro for tying plants to stakes work great for cables. A few bucks per several yards instead of several bucks for a few feet.

We'll never know who the worst president was, with apparently unprovable, but circumstantially supported, stuff like this: http://articles.sfgate.com/2008-12-05/news/17131315_1_lbj-library-nixon-s-associates-peace-talks

Only if you didn't pay attention to your skill ups. If you were careful to have a full 10 skill ups among all 3 related skills, you could easily max out all of your stats to 100. Granted, having to keep careful track of each skill up was a hassle.

Might not a better understanding of how a culture uses metaphors make it easier to create NEW metaphors to push a particular idea?

No, the democrats had a large number of republicrats (AKA "blue dogs") who tried to woo the republican base in the red states that elected them. This, plus mistakenly believing that republicans would not filibuster any more than the democrats did in their position, basically screwed them. Had they known how dishonorable the republicans would be, they could have changed the filibuster rules at the start of congress (the only time you CAN change the rules with just a majority vote).

Not a law, a resolution - basically, congress saying "this would be nice" without actually going to the extra effort of passing a law.
If there is a way to get a permalink to a bill there, I can't find it; all queries time out and become invalid searches.
So:
thomas.loc.gov
advanced search --> 111 congress
pull-down "word/phrase" to "Bill number"
search: h.con.res.298

Gimp's crop tool only has width, height, or size as crop aspect ratio choices. GThumb, in contrast, offers choices such as square, image, screen (your own current screen), book or DVD, postcard, and a few others. If I'm cropping a WoW screenshot for use as a screen backdrop, that makes the job that much quicker & easier.

That county had a resolution to have their own fire department; it would have cost a few bucks more property taxes per person. The Republicans controlling the county decided it was much better to keep it privatized, and make everyone pay for firefighting services directly, one way or the other.