"In the US there are plenty of legal codes that do not allow a criminal to make money from their crimes, such as a mass murderer making money from publishing a autobiography"

Sure, for _convicted_ criminals, not those who commit suicide before any trial.

I'd like a search that actually searches exactly what I type and not what it thinks I might mean.

Including punctuation exactly as I type it instead of ignoring it.

Next thing they'll tell us that not all the tall people are good at basketball.

"What would happen if they scaled that same excavation technology down so that the tunnel was something like 2 meters in diamater for a miniature train..."

The word you're searching for is a 'mine'.

The last one to try to kill a pope was a Turk too.

"most of the people who saw that video (or read the transcript) knew he was giving helpful advice to peers who might want to get out of the cubicle and work for themselves. "

The elusive ones, who actually read TFA or watch TFV?

Both of them?

Just for registering a burner phone I never take with me when I'm driving, I can get cheaper insurance?

Wake me up when they find whiskey.

no irregular verbs, we could call it, let's say ^'Esperanto.

"They could. Granted those, unlike the towers, typically have armed patrols and are quite difficult to get in to."

Not at all. As numerous environmental groups demonstrated, you just have to write a letter asking for a visit and ring the front door.

"The states are: Alaska, Louisiana, South Carolina, Utah, Vermont and Virginia

Not sure why this couldn't be in the summary."

Why state the obvious?

"in VLC every Christmas time the cone gets a Santa hat - it's a nice touch that shows they're thinking about the end user."

unless he's muslim, hindu, baha'i, atheist, ... then they switch to a non-religious player.

"The unstated assumption is that you are still delivering a good product on time."

Unfortunately that never happened, ever!

"Why the funk not just send the damn data to the doctor immediately, and let him/her spend any downtime ("there's always patients cancelling") to review the data?"

Because then the doctor and the radiologist will make deals behind your back and bill your insurance senseless, because you are no longer in the middle to check if they don't overdo it.

"even though "america" doesn't mean what you think it means."

Inconceivable!