No, not really. They would force the accuser to pay the fee. I don't know about 50k, but 5k should do the trick. There should be some cheap outsourced labor somewhere who can add a small amount of intelligence to tell if the video really is what the script thinks it is for the copyright holders. And if some of that fee was returned to the person who had it removed then we'd have incentive to go after it each time.

Feel good about shopping at costco. There's been a few weird items, but most of the stories written about costco end up looking like this -- http://positivesharing.com/2007/07/analysts-to-costco-stop-treating-your-employees-so-well/

I think your Math is off because boomers are retiring in full force now. My mom was a Baby boomer born pretty much right after the war, She would have been 66. But most of your serious campers are a bit younger. They are in their 50's and have retired early, not late. Kids are out of the house and they either worked for a private company and/or owned one that is now most likely in the hands of their genx kid, or they worked for the govt and retired after 20 years of service. which also explains why RVers are overwhelmingly veterans. The ones that are plus 65 many times stay in one campground for weeks, they don't travel as much as you think.

I wonder how much Fox news will report it. You can't tell me all the other networks aren't going to have a field day with this in the US.

Even better it took an Italian judge to rule this way. Brought to you by the same folks as this gem: http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2049773/Does-Italy-Really-Want-Search-Engines-Recent-Legal-Rulings-Suggest-Not

If you want to do this try having a glass of OJ (high pulp or not) with a bowl of oatmeal with some cinnamon on it - lotsa fiber and good taste even without the sugar with the cinnamon. Also - not to long ago it was common for restaurants to serve juice in a small 4 ounce glass. Even Mcdonalds had it in a pre ackaged 6 ounce container. It's a recent thing to have 8 or even more commonly 16 ounce servings, which is waaay to much. Fruit juices CAN be good for you, just not in such quantities. also, one other suggestion -- orange water. juice yourself one half an orange into a big glass of water. That right there is better than any softdrink and is fairly sweet if you mostly drink water. Stop drinking anything but water or unsweetened tea or coffee for three weeks- even skim milk will taste downright sweet afterwards.

That's assuming your new tool that's vitally important actually has a man page. Very little is documented as well as it was 10 years ago.

Be careful what you wish for on this one though. My lovely geek wife of 12 years didn't play videogames. We led a happy existance (pocketbook wise) by me buying all the latest and greatest, and her getting the hand me down parts making a faster machine for her every once in a while.

Then I got her started on MMO's....

Now everytime *I* get an upgrade, *She* gets the upgrade too.

Ouch.

But it is a blast playing online with her. The one thing we've discovered is she like pretty much the same all the time. She's a dedicated raider on wow. Me, it took me 3 years of off and on play to get my day 1 priest to get to lvl 60. I reup for a month or two every 4-5 months then get bored again and go play something different... Thank goodness there's not many games I have to buy two of right away!

Milwaukee, WI built a airport station. Flights leaving there (and thus reducing Ohare's congestion) have gone up because of it. I think what really needs to be in the mix with this plan is airport stations all around. Think of the smaller cities in between these cities -- Lafayette IN., Racine WI., Bloomington-Normal IL., etc.

Hop on the train from Madison, WI and head to ohare for an international flight... or Minneapolis or Milwaukee... Or heck, sometime you see goofy prices IN Madion, or Indy, or Louisville...