supposedly it was 'sold' by people who didn't really live there anyway.

The 13th Amendment contains the loophole "except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted"

I know that's how bookies work, but I figured putting real money on the line would help ensure accuracy because it would help people take it seriously, that plus a large sample size.
Sports betting does have some skill in trying to figure out if the bookies/betting public are wrong, as opposed to some other forms of gambling being complete chance, but I don't want to put too much stock in trying to beat the system. Ironically, trying to beat the system could just encourage gambling, exactly what the system wants.

Most of the betting lines I see have San Francisco by just a few points, which fits with WolframAlpha's analysis of a slight advantage to them.

The damage of the Sikh temple shooting was reduced by cops arriving.
Reducing the damage of such incidents is obviously a good thing even if we can't stop an incident completely.

The post URLs have old dates, such as http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1660/01/26/ - it doesn't say "really posted on 2003/01/26", not that I can see anywhere.

Slashdot could use a -1 Go Back To Stormfront mod

it seems like military experience should be mentioned on a resume/CV (if you actually have it, of course. :P)

I haven't read them in awhile, perhaps this gives me reason to read them again.

Alas, as some other commenters have pointed out, VII isn't going to be an adaptation of an existing story. May the Force be with the writers, since this seemed like such an obvious idea.

Yeah, I'd pick Timothy Zahn's Thrawn books if Episode VII was to be an adaptation of existing Expanded Universe material.

yeah, I feel comedy is OK in regular definition because you can still hear the jokes and see well enough and action benefits more from crisper images.

True, book copyrights tend to be in the author's name. It almost seems odd to me since I'm so used to seeing music copyrights in the label's name. Odd how the RIAA has made the normal seem odd, although I like some of the music under their control anyway.

it's a loophole in the current law that doesn't limit the denomination of platinum coins. so it has to be a platinum coin, although not necessarily $1 trillion exactly.

yes, but the current laws don't limit the denomination of platinum coins, leaving that within President/Secretary Of The Treasury discretion.

Congress could override the veto,but I doubt they would.