If I were a politician, which I'm not, too lazy for one thing and don't like people that much, but if I were I'd be totally delighted to win any race with 57% of the voters voting for me.
I believe that's what most winning politicians would call a mandate for their policies.

Cue the lawyers.
You know if the oil companies think that there is recoverable gas or oil in Vermont the oil companies will try to go after it.

Get the money first and then manufacture the product.

Some of them are teachable.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/accused-somali-pirates-head-trial-us-court/story?id=12093415
This is one answer.

I bet he won't even get half of that as the lawyers will get a good portion. The idea of this kind of settlement is to make the defendant not do it again. You can bet that in morning roll call there will be some orders there about not arresting people for using phones to record police.

"Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves. "
Albert Einstein

A nice song from Consumers Union about drug side effects to enrich your day.
http://youtu.be/mYodDH4qZQo

Look at Gutenberg.org for Edgar Rice Burroughs. He wrote the Tarzan novels and also John Carter of Mars. Dated but fun to read.

The problem with trying to boot to an image or live CD is that where I used to work all computers were set to boot to the hard drive first and had a long and non simple BIOS password so that users couldn't change any settings.
I'd agree with you that he should get his own machine.