All of the new costly equipment has to keep working with the old costly equipment.

read this as "Gut Bacteria Cocktail May End Need for Facial Transplants"? I was a little excited.

If this helps to prevent one more product from implementing the concept of poking, the patent system may just be worth it after all.

trying to get through airport security. I swear, I bought it at the store! I have no idea what this device is! I've never seen it in my life before!

NOAA too - I think they are often overlooked.

OSU is Oregon State also.

Correct. From my experience, any petitions which reach their quota are honored with a well-written response from the white-house saying: "You are wrong."

"I really do not know if it is worth the effort at this point" - If the site creator isn't willing to respond to a few hundred emails, then the business probably wasn't worth much to them to begin with. Responding to the complaints "individually" doesn't mean having a full on conversation with each person complaining either. If you don't want to respond each person, then just switch to a different host: problem solved!

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In that case, perhaps all GPL licensing can be circumvented by only distributing the software via a virus. "Click Here to begin infecting your computer with the latest version!"

Also note that culture can be influenced by many different directions. Hideo Kojima, whom some of you may know, appears to have felt a similar burden:
"If our children today don't have any dreams, we creators are guilty for not giving them dreams. We are culpable. We must create a dream to leave behind for the sake of our children."
-Hideo Kojima-

Their site http://www.raspberrypi.com/ has had the same "Down for Maintenance" message for at least a month. Is it actually possible to purchase one of these (in the US)?

Based on the documents, it looks like Facebook even was able to provide deleted wall posts and friends.

Unless these laws only specify rights, and not restrictions, then creating laws will only create further restrictions on freedom.

Let freedom be access to all values in a set. Let a law define a subset of freedom. Laws do not define additional freedom, but rather restrict it. If laws are added continuously, without removing laws, you are left with the intersection of all of these laws, which will get narrower and narrower (smaller subset). Advocating the creation of laws should be frowned upon. We should advocate the removal of laws and addition of rights.