Her Majesty the Queen might be interested to know that she is in the databases of several stores.

Agreed. Due diligence is the responsibility of the student. If the extent of your research is a single Wikipedia article then perhaps you don't deserve a degree in the first place.

What this law actually does is drive any serious research out of Australia to other countries. Like say, China. Well done.

Except a $20 suit in 1913 was probably tailor made for you out of very good fabric. The suit you are trying to compare it to nowadays is a cookie cutter piece of trash made with the cheapest fabrics somewhere in Bangladesh sold in some big box store. You are certainly not comparing it to a tailor made suit nowadays that would cost you easily in the thousand(s) of dollars range.

This is, of course, an obligatory reference to "The Crimson Permanent Assurance".

No I see it more as the inventor of the wheel claiming credit for the car or the airplane. Both of which require wheels to operate, but both are much, much more than just a simple wheel.

Only $7.99? We must stay at different hotels...

Consider that the moon has 1/6th of Earth's gravity so stuff is going to fly much further (6x) for the same energy.

So you agree that a blanket statement like "the government invented the internet" is false?

Yeah the government built an interstate so obviously they deserve full credit for my supermarket which depends on having products delivered from all over. Back to Obama's "You didn't build that" huh?

The government didn't create the internet. The government created ARPANET, which was nothing compared to the internet today. The internet sort of grew grew out of that, first at universities using ARPANET as a backbone and later through direct connections between ISP's, as well as using other existing networks (like CompuServe, AOL, etc) to connect one place to another. However today's internet is a very UNINTENDED consequence of ARPANET - which the government (including Al Gore) would love to lay claim to.

Except, the moon has no atmosphere to burn up all the smaller meteors. Here on Earth anything that reaches the surface had to start out big. Since there are more small asteroids than big ones it's much less likely we will get a surface impact compared to the moon.

Funny I've lived there for over 25 years and never, ever had my car searched. Sure I've been pulled over for speeding. I've also been stopped twice at a road-block aimed at catching intoxicated drivers (like they have almost everywhere in the world including the "free" US). I've been stopped once and asked to provide ID and later learned on the news that there had been a pretty violent crime in my neighborhood. But just stopped to be searched for the hell of it? Never.

There's always room for dessert. But I don't like eating solar panels.

So by adding a "tax" on things or legislation that penalized farmers who are apparently mispricing due to not calculating the water they are "wasting", said bureaucrats will ensure a) that no food is produced in California and b) the cost of living increases as fuel costs are paid to have all food imported from out of state. Well done sirs, well done.

I'm willing to bet that the genius who came up with farmers "wasting" water has never been to a farm let alone worked one.