The difficulty in choosing something like "net worth" is that it is essentially a self'-reported value, unless you want to give monitoring powers to the IRS or some other third party to vet your claims.

And even then, what constitutes to "net worth"? If we're talking assets held minus liabilities owed, then my student loans should keep me tax free for several years after I graduate next summer. What assets would be counted toward calculating net worth? How would I go about determining the value of my books, or my computer software? I know what I paid for my computer 6 years ago, but how much has it depreciated?

If, by extension, you're suggesting that people start recording and monitoring what they own and at least the aggregate value of it, similar to what businesses do, I'm all for it. Too many people don't know what they own, or if it's worth anything.

When travelling from one body to the other in a LaGrange system, we're not really concerned about the other 4, are we?

They were spraying the crowd with Melange?

Umm... What?

An Amendment is a ratified change to a legal document. it either replaces the original language, or adds additional provisions to it.

That means the amended document supersedes the original document. You cannot interpret the Constitution without the Bill of Rights, nor any of the other amendments that have passed. Legally, the Constitution doesn't exist without them.

I'm sorry, but you could not be more wrong about this if you tried.

Given our debt-based and loan-centric society, one could argue that the money you keep in the bank isn't even money.

The fact that the FLAC conversion software is released under the GPL tells me that won't happen, ever.

What are you referring to? Apple removed DRM from the music available on iTunes back in 2009.

I seriously hope you're not implying that GP thought, and encouraged the idea, that Apple still sells iTunes music with DRM.

Lovely idea, though since the first 4K monitors will be 84", we'll have to get some serious miniaturization to get the ppi you'd need to fit all that in roughly 1/16 the screen size