Well, these things do happen...

http://rt.com/usa/news/public-urination-warden-police-367/

Though the officer in question was fired yesterday

Thank you, though in my defense, the article had it right - and the main point, two states did make recreational use legal.

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSBRE8A602D20121107?irpc=932

Washington and Oregon have legalized recreational use as well.

Most of the Pepsi bottles I've ever seen were bottled in Mississauga, Ontario... That's not exactly local to where I lived, in Boston, MA. That's the wrong country, entirely. I assume it's the same all over New England, at least.

Is this woman running for public office? She has my vote, if so!

In the case of a contractor or a comissioned work (in the US), a work qualifies as a work for hire only if all the following 3 conditions are met:

1. The work must be specially ordered or commissioned
2. The work must fall under one of 9 categories defined by 17 U.S.C. 101: contribution to a collective work, translation, supplementary work, compilation, instructional text, test, answer material for a test, atlas, or part of a motion picture or audiovisual work.
3. There must be a written agreement between the parties that the work is a work made for hire.

If these conditions are not met, the work is not a work made for hire and the ownership of the copyright remains with the creator of the work.

In any case, consulting a lawyer to understand your particular case (and review your contracts) is always a good idea. If you're in the position of propsoing that contract, you should have a lawyer draft the standard framework you then customize for the client.

Bell was offering 6gb for $30 recently, should still be on (or negotiable). Mention Rogers is currently running the same promotion if they aren't - they'll likely price match, or some other special-offer magic which makes it work out the same.

Tape measures are expensive, minimum wage is somewhere between $20-30k/year. That cost increases quickly as you add locations or expand to a larger space, and require more expensive humans to operate these seemingly inexpensive tape measures. Now throw in the cost of management, hr, benefits, and so on.

The same $20-30k could see these deployed across a chain of stores. Turnover is limited to devices which break down and can be replaced for less than $200. There are fewer teenagers being irresponsible on the job or pissing off customers, and less need for management to play the role of babysitter.

It probably has its drawbacks, but cost is not one of them.

Yet it is possible, which was the question that was asked. The repercussions (legal and otherwise) would be swift, currently.

They could refuse to certify their hardware, which would likely cost them any discounts on licensing. They would not be able to use windows update to update drivers. See: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/hh924782

Windows could be changed in such a way as not to allow installation on uncertified hardware. Likely not insurmountable, but not trivial for the average user.

The tinfoil hat could be screwed on too tight, but then again..

I was making the same point that it was simple, but still not nearly as simple as hitting someone with a heavy object. You'll notice that in places where guns are less convenient, weapons of more convenience tend to win out. A trip to the hardware store for a length of pipe and then to the sporting goods store for ammunition takes time and planning, while bashing someone with a tire iron requires that it hasn't been inadvertently left out of the trunk the last time you needed to use your spare.

The time and planning bit is likely still the reason you don't see more of this. The task may not be complex or difficult, but it is still time-consuming.

in such places, ammunition is typically regulated as well. that same length of pipe needed to serve as the barrel is far easier to simply club someone with.

it truly is dead simple. in fact, you can likely find a zip gun of sorts and ammunition at your local hardware store in the form of a .22 nail gun. modified slightly, it would be rather intimidating at close range.

This is Slashdot, and you lacked a car analogy. He thought you did well and was trying to protect you from later complaints.

It could simply be that the images for Canada are newer. Google tends to start projects in the US first and then expand them later - and later comes better cameras, faster and denser storage, and so on.

That's a problem with a solution, URIs (and usually, context as well) manage to differentiate perfectly there. Otherwise, COMMAND.COM would be a much bigger problem than AUTOEXEC.BAT.