So, buy the DVD.

With Netflix, I'm afraid we'll have to pause the movie to put the kids to bed. Then come back and discover that Netflix has dropped it from their catalog.

As far as I can tell, the Netflix business plan has been about erasing the archives so people will have to watch their new stuff. And if you aren't fast, even their new stuff becomes archival. Then, "Poof!"

Pssst! Hey kid. Wanna buy some vacuum tubes?

Your conditions warrant medical (mental health) treatment and education. Which should be aimed at enabling you to handle the university, employment and the world with the tools that enable you to deal with life. From that point on, a university should treat you as any other student. You either can or can not handle the work given you. Either with the abilities you were born with or those tools our health care system should provide you with.

It is unreaonable for every institution to have to maintain (at their expense) duplicated programs to handle every case that comes along. Where I went to public school, the district had excellent, off campus programs for special needs students. Where they could concentrate the care resources to efficiently handle cases. Instead of expecting the general school faculty to dedicate any extra time to handle them. With the hit or miss skill set that would result. The problem with this approach is that parents of little Beavis would be appaled by the neighbors noticing him loading onto the short bus every morning. Other school districts, unable to deal with this parental pressure just mainstreamed everyone. To the disadvantage of those in need of special help.

Why?

Odds are that, if I'm building a flat pack on my system, I've built the application from source. So the dependency issue doesn't exist. Because they were checked by the build scripts (in any competent source distribution I've ever seen). Or the binary was downloaded through a package manager which also handles dependencies.

For some small s/w house or within a company for enterprise apps, maybe. But there are already tools for this.

Many businesses have a check endorsement printer that also reads the MICR code and performs an electronic transfer on the spot. I can't even get home and log on to my bank account before the withdrawl is made.

Given this level of subterfuge, all I can say is, "Sloppy job, Mossad."

Almost as bad as the people who try to get their iPhone payment app running.

Good point. So here's a solution to make everyone happy: A precondition for the acquisition of Warner Brothers (by anybody) should be to place WBs current library in the public domain. Then the unions and everyone else will have plenty of work to do creating new content.

After all, isn't this what copyright is supposed to encourage? The creation of new works?

These will make excellent teaching devices for the kids learn, in short order, how to bypass said controls.

Kids will do what they can get away with.

I think that's a bit of a joke. Isn't Kapoor the guy who thinks he has the exclusive right to develop artwork in stainless steel as well?

Sure, the patent holder of VANTA Black may have accepted money from Kapoor for the right. But that makes Kapoor the idiot. How can one restrict the use of something if it is sold it in rattle-cans?

They used to haul in a few cyclists now and then for riding across the old Evergreen Point bridge (Washington SR 520). Because there was no provision for cyclists or pedestrians. The nwe bridge fixed that.

That would require some sort of enforcement in the face of a possible riot by Critical Mass. The law may say "no", but the realities of enforcement say, "Go ahead, kid."

Bicycles?

So, change it.

Bugger!