Particularly a $12 movie, which is what they would have to cost to equal the cost of the Pill. (Not counting the mandatory biannual medical exams, without which you can't get a prescription.) Ginsberg noted in her dissent that the cost of an IUD is comparable to a month's salary for a person making minimum wage. Then again, I'm sure you'll also agree that the cost of your own vaccines and blood transfusions are also reasonable when those folks start claiming their exemption under this stupid ruling.

When I lived in regular Texas, Green Mountain was my 100% wind provider, and my rates only went down for the ~6 years I used them.

Austin doesn't give me a choice as I have to use the municipal service. I'm still 100% wind but angry they didn't grandfather my past record of wind power into a lower early adopter rate.

I'm 37 and use VIM for VHDL development. Most of my coworkers in their 30s use VIM or Emacs, while those in their 20s use Notepad++. This is for hardware engineers; I dunno what software uses.

While there are some libertarians that support regulation of trade speech, many seem to prefer caveat emptor. Fraud, then, would be policed not through prevention but through litigation, or (for some libertarians) not at all, and instead be a life lesson.

What would that life lesson probably be? "This libertarian utopia sucks; I want regulation back." At least that's my guess.

On the other hand, if you contracted with your neighbor to rent a patch of his land, and you ran your own antenna up there so you could get the OTA signals yourself separately from his reception, that should be A-ok. That's even true if he already had a spare antenna installed and you just rent it from him.

Dinah's The Hopper is similar to, but not exactly the same as, this service. The equipment is still owned centrally and rented to each user; it just resides in distributed houses rather than one central location, and is streamed over the user's personal bandwidth instead of a company's. That is, unless The Hopper is installed in an office.

When our Constitution has social wording in it ("cruel and unusual" come to mind, but there are many other examples) and the SCOTUS' job is to interpret laws relative to the Constitution (so says them + history), then of course they have to look at social effects.

You should write into your contract that you're allowed to take samples from fields where your bees work, and that the farmer is liable for damages if something happens to your bees, you test those samples, and find the bad pesticides.

Contract law is a lot simpler than laws to "protect nature", and since the nature in this case has an owner (you) it's not just a common resource to exploit.

No help if neighboring farms spray that pesticide, of course.

There is nothing that civil law can do that is punitive to the managers. They didn't do anything; the company did things, and they are merely one of the louder of the company's schizophrenic voices. To get at them where it matters (their wallet), you'd have to go after company assets and hope it indirectly affects them as the parent suggests.

Only criminal law could pierce that veil and go after them directly, and while that can be quite punitive, it's not bloody likely.

Stolen doesn't just apply to the physical world. It means that you've been deprived of something you previously possessed.

If your physical thing is stolen, you no long possess it.
If your asset is stolen, you no longer possess it. Most people have digital assets in the form of cash in a bank or stocks in an account; there is nothing physical for either. Bit coins fall in this category.
If your trade secret is stolen, you no longer have a secret.

If your copyright is infringed upon, you still hold the copyright.
If your patent is infringed upon, you still hold the patent.

Loving County, Texas, has a population of 82 or so. Buy enough land and move 83* voters into that county, and you can be elected sheriff, and become official law enforcement.

Simple as that.**

* Probably some of the 82 are kids, so you probably need fewer than this.

** This was tried. It didn't work. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...

Sad as it may be, I think websites that lack flash videos are the ones sliding into irrelevance. Forget using words to convey an idea - even still images are passé - if it can be said it can be shown in a video or animated gif. At least that's how it feels on 90% of the web.

They're "green eggs and ham" patents and shouldn't be approved.

If method x can't be patented, then it can't also be patented
on a computer, on the internet, with a touchscreen, with a mouse /
on a plane, in a car, on a boat, in a house.

If the method is nonpatentable when implemented somewhere /
then it's nonpatentable everywhere!

Where do you buy those things if there are no grocery stores within miles of your house and you don't have transportation?

Google food deserts.

How about Austin first, since, you know, they announced us years ago and haven't rolled it out yet?