REATILER would, if it existed be a person who was not a tiler, becoming a tiler, then relapsing to not being a tiler.

Tiler - noun. One who lays tile as in flooring or roofing. Or the doorkeeper of a Masonic lodge.

Simple? No it isn't. The first amendment does not supersede:
A single parents need (and right) to get home to the kid(s) before the sitter leaves / day care closes, or to the school / hospital if the child takes sick, etc.
The right not to die in an ambulance after the stroke, coronary, aneurysm, whatever because it's snarled in traffic.

There's two to get ya started on thinking on what could possibly go wrong with intentionally blocking traffic.

Alas, those old phreaking tricks won't work anymore in places that have moved away from the legacy in-band signaling and control hardware. Which is pretty much all of the civilized world since the early '90's for the PSTN. One could I suppose get lucky with a local PBX - but the attack still requires obtaining access to the PBX controller / software, not just access to modem's phone line.

I once pissed off a lot, onto the sidewalk.

Just for the lulz of it.

That's not entirely correct: The White House handles the overflow, the principal repository / recycling center is the Capital with two chambers dedicated to the task.

Yep they surely do. This sparked a thought .... so I checked mine: Sure enough there sits a MAC address. From whatever laptop I used to commission it with in 2002. That was a couple of laptops back.

Then there's this:
$ ifconfig eth1 down
$ ifconfig eth1 hw ether 01:23:45:54:32:01
$ ifconfig eth1 up

So did I copy (or did the router's firmware) that MAC or did I spoof it? I honestly don't remember.

It is possible to uniquely identify a computer on the internet, IP / MAC addressing is not one of them. Accurately would require looking at clock skew, traffic analysis and other time-consuming, trained-brain-required, non-1-click techniques.

You should read that pdf (from sony.net) again: The figure you cite is operating loss. Total sales and operating revenue for 2010 was $77.570 billion.

As for your other points .... why bother, since you flubbed #1 egregiously.

Buy a MS-class laptop with Linux already installed - skipping the WinTax altogether so no need to complain - everything is already configured, except for the custom key strokes you're going to do anyway. Sleep / Hibernate works as well as any other line (and in this post coldboot attack era ACPI S3 can be very foolish to use) , Grab VirtualBox and a retail copy of Win if you really need it. Relax and have a stable system that can operate for years without a crash and enjoy life for a change.

Worked for me .

Back on point as to OP's request: Put Win-whatever-the-wife-needs on the Mac and call it a day. This ain't a purely technical matter ;)

You are confused. That last sentence has nothing to do with freedom of speech - what it claims is a right to be heard. You of course, have the right to speak freely. And I have equal right to ignore you.

I have, very nearly everything she ever wrote - not just Atlas Shrugged / Anthem / The Fountainhead - but all the "hardcore" philosophical writings. She certainly did not build Objectivism on the concept of intellectual property. It's built upon (in a nutshell):

1. The notion that an absolute, objective reality exists, that human hopes, fears, wishes, prayers and the like are immaterial to that reality.
2. Reason is Man's means of perceiving reality and the source of his knowledge and his guide for action,
3. That Man is an end in himself, not the means to the ends of others.

What is true is that Objectivism is friendly with the notion of intellectual property: you've a right to the product of your mind (descends from #3, above). It is a capital mistake to read Atlas Shrugged (a detailed view of objectivist principles in action, in novel form) as defining the philosophy, it's way more than that. For starters read Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology and more to the topic of IP, Captialism: The Unknown Ideal.

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I went Galt decades before Atlas Shrugged surpassed Dreams from My Father on the Amazon bestseller list.

The human understandable portion of your post - that part beginning ... ending: "Every application ... the number:" - is the result of a human creating it (creative expression). It enjoys protection under US copyright law.

That string of hex digits is the result of a mechanical process that is a translation - a derivative work. It differs in form, but not - if a reverse translation mechanism is available (and such is) - content. That, by US Law renders the hex string not protected by US copyright (see: http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ14.pdf).

This is the problem. That bit vector ensconced in a device's firmware, even though it is the result of a mechanical process, that mechanical process is but the end point of a creative process and can enjoy copyright protection (US). A hexadecimal representation cannot.

Ok, this one we can see coming miles away:

Work around Lunar craft, shuttle docks, or vacsuit repair and handling?

Visit
https://lunamesothelioma-claims.org/

You may be entitled to compensation.

The Lunar Colony does not certify specialty in Interplanetary Law.

Bullshit. True, Gandhi preached civil disobedience but that message was ignored by quite a few - they saw opportunity to settle old scores. Hundreds of thousands died in riots (Hindu vs Muslim, for example) in the interval between 1857 and 1947. More died after in the partitioning of India into India and Pakistan. And let's not forget the conflict over Kashmir which continues to this day.

To ignore the effects of this internal violence on the thinking of the British and Indians is beyond naive.

Pssst .... Open Standards != Open Source Software.

Governments are obligated to hold a long term view on documents, public or internal. Think decades and centuries, not years. The means by which documents are produced is immaterial in such a long view: MSO / OOo will - if either entity survives - be very different software in 50 years than they appear now. But the documents produced by either will still need to be accessible. Portable Document Format, OASIS / Open Document - these (and their open successors) are the only rational choice for government, not merely preferred. MS .doc / .xls, nor the psuedo-open OOXML are not rational choices.