The other good one in the area is the AFI theatre in silver spring.

The SR-71s were certainly noticed by the Soviet's as they were passing through their airspace, and while successful, certainly, they could also have been used to hide the existence of the various spy satellite programs by providing a plausible alternative means by which the US could have gained the information they used at various treaty negotiations. Eisenhower's Corona program began in 1960, years before the blackbird began overflights of the Soviet Union, and was clearly both a gigantic success and a gigantic secret. Setting up a secondary secret program which had telltale signs the Soviet's could pick up on to mask the existence of the primary one seems like a great way to keep the satellite programs a secret both externally and within the US government, where they could also be attributed to the other program when discussing the results with individuals who needed the information but did not need to know about the program itself.

If this were a problem, wouldn't it also affect nooks and other readers that use e-Ink? The displays are all made by the same company, after all.

Um... There was an earthquake centered near Frederick, MD just last year that was around 4.0, as I recall, which is hardly far away.

It really seems like the sort of statement that warrants a full colon.

That's not a scam, that's how mutual funds stick around!

I think the civil war answered this question pretty clearly.

It's so rough, they put snipers on the roof!

Did you pay any attention when the original poster pointed out that he grew up in a metric country?

I moved from the US to Canada in 2000, and I remember spending a couple minutes converting my weight, height, etc. into metric, because I figured I would need to know it there. Sure enough, once I moved, signs were in metric, but everything was actually spoken of in imperial units, aside from road distances. People ordered half a pound of ham from the deli, were 5'6" or something, etc. This may be a function of where I was (Montreal) but the only people I remember not being comfortable with imperial units were from way out west, often BC or Alberta.

The difference between your example and the issue at hand is that driving on the wrong side of the road is a civil infraction, as opposed to a crime like copyright infringement. The lack of moral standing for the side of the road one drives on is part of why it is considered so lightly, unless harm results. In addition, the rules of the road as a whole are pretty clear, as they can be summarized in a booklet of less than 100 pages with a lot of pretty pictures that every state distributes for free, while a thorough understanding of copyright often requires that one go to court, as fair use is a defense that must be established in court, and is not a clear subject.

Polio is a very interesting case study for this. Prior to the 19th century, debilitating disease and paralyzation from Polio was relatively rare. Polio's disease vector is an oral-fecal route, so with increasing sanitation in the 19th century, children started getting it later. Similar to chicken pox, which tends to be relatively mild as a young child and manifest more strongly as one's age of infection increases, Polio in infants and very young children doesn't cause many problems. The increase in sanitation, however, meant that children would contract it later and later, and instances of severe illness and complications went up as well through the 1950s, until widespread vaccination came into use.

CATS decries that "All your base are belong to us!"

This doesn't solve the problem of Firesheep, because it's likely that the spoofer is on the same wireless network, and both users are NATed to the same IP.

Just to clarify, there are still many people with citizenship who cannot vote, being under the age of majority.