Hey, up until 5 years or so ago there was still a brand-new, never sold, never left the lot, Studebaker sitting in the dealer showroom right in front of a huge window.

Of course, the dealer had died decades earlier and the heirs were *still* arguing about the inheritance and kept it in limbo, so the property was kept untouched all those years, gathering dust and fading under the sun. Not too far outside Pittsburgh, I saw it a few years before it finally disappeared. My dad used to drive past it every time he was in the area visiting family or on a business trip, from well before I was born up until he went by a few years back and it was finally gone.

So a factory new Studebaker has actually sold more recently than a copy of Novell WordPerfect.

Wow. More than 30 comments already and no-one has brought up Microsoft killing the cpu if it thinks your copy of the OS is pirated. Must be a slow day. ;)

Some of the sites are for designated terrorist entities - it is already illegal to do business with them. (In fact there is a large fine attached.) No 1st Amendment protection in that narrow case, it just isn't enforced worth a damn (hello YouTube and WordPress, I'm looking at you), so maybe British pressure will raise the temperature a little.

Otherwise, no, there probably won't be anything done as lunatics and creeps of all stripes are generally allowed to say whatever the heck they want here in the US. It isn't freedom if only the right kind of speech is protected.

You missed the extra special terror for the agoraphobics who are already panicky about traveling in the first place: they're not so limited as the acrophobics, they freak out over all three dimensions.