Good cause, I made a donation. My wife uses my Galaxy Tab to display study materials for her nursing certificate. A world of information posted by others studying the same thing. The solar powered Kindles sound wonderful, I might get one for myself.

That kind of thinking runs in my family. My daughter has a PhD in English literature and my son writes and negotiates contracts for 500 billion dollar power systems. You have to make sure that everyone thinks the word you use means what you want it to mean.

Youtube "bobbit's song" you will laugh.

Are you as worried about the first two? Does free expression only pertain to only what not where? Does shall not infringe only to apply active militia members?

Much of the twenty first century's GDP is produced without burning something. Government borrowing is counted in the GDP. Telecommunications, financial, and medical services grow the GDP without smokestacks. Automation increases productivity without increasing energy usage.

Renewables are coming online now. They have a carbon footprint but it shrinks as the energy used in their production is amortized over their useful lifetime.

Thanks for the link, good read. A much simpler solution would be to allow copying. There would be no fees or punitive damages, just an equatable share of profits. A panel of arbitrators would decide who gets how much.

Allowing parts of old works in new works makes the art world pie bigger, not smaller. Artist should be glad for the extra exposure. Myself I never heard the Marvin Gaye song and I don't much care for Blurred Lines but I could watch Eimily Ratajkowski prance around all day.

As a farmer you have to make the maximum profit you can otherwise you lose your land ( ask me how I know). Any practice that lowers your profit compared to your neighbors increases your chances of bankruptcy. Simply mandating all growers adopt the same practices may cause consumers to switch to less expensive foods.

To have a sustainable economy everyone has to be forced to participate. Otherwise cheaters will make more profit. To stop climate change no country or individual can be allowed to cheat. Politics and money can force some change, it will take bullets and bombs to enforce the rest.

Under US law the lower receiver ( where the trigger is located ) is the part that has a serial number and has to be registered. The ATF does not consider one that is only 80% finished by the manufacturer to be a firearm. A person can buy one of these and finish it himself and not have to register it. All the other parts can legally be bought to create a working unregistered gun.

This can be done with a simple jig on a small ordinary drill press without too much effort. The CNC machine will do it with no effort. It is illegal to sell the finished lowers or to charge someone for access to your machine. Polymer blocks can also be used and are even easier to machine.

This is only for the .223 AR-15. This is a very popular kit gun and can be customized with different accessories.

Bear with me, I lack a college education. So, for example, a utility is taxed one billion dollars for the pollution it produces. Then the utility raises cost to the rate payers by one billion dollars. Government then returns the billion dollars to the rate payers. This reduces pollution how?

Couldn't Google search results alternate between link based and fact based?

When I workedI always felt I needed an other hour of sleep. I'm retired and sleep a minimum of 9 or 10 hours a night. Go to bed at 12:00 and get up at 9:30 or ten. I hate the summertime, it gets bright way too early.

Europe is more socialist, people believe any increased cost will be paid for with other people's money. I believe climate change is man-made but nothing can be done to stop it. The Peak Oil people claim the oil will run out soon anyway, then the problem will fix itself.

I live five miles outside a city with 11,000 population. Cable and DSL service ends a mile and half from my house. AT&T buried fiber the entire length of my road but did not hook it up. Dial-up or $80 a month satellite internet only for me. People three miles past my house have DSL because their phone lines come from the opposite direction. With only about 20 homes affected, without a subsidy it wouldn't pay to hook us up

I have chronic tooth abscesses. My dentist always proscribes Amoxicillin 500MG. Fish mox forte from Cal Vet supply is identical. At my last dentist visit he told me I had an anaerobic bacteria infection and proscribed something different. A few months later more tooth pain. A quick search for anaerobic antibiotics gives me Metronidazole for the treatment of anaerobic abscesses. $60 for 60 from the vet supply. I would pay less at a pharmacy but my insurance doesn't cover dental visits.

Well, once your wife leaves you, she might let it get out that she did exactly that. We had a rotten marriage but two great kids, and she left me just when my current wife needed a great guy like me. Now everybody's happy.