The moon doesn't have veins of iron ore because it doesn't have an atmosphere that contains oxygen and never experienced the Great Oxygen Catastrophe, and thus does not have the banded iron formations which is the source of almost all the minable iron on the earth's surface.

Mickey Mouse is NEVER coming out of copyright protection. Every time that event has gotten close Disney simply has their shills in the government extend the copyright term. According to the Supreme Court, as long as the term is "forever minus 1 day" it fits the constitutional requirement for copyright terms of a limited duration.

Obviously not very thorough, there have been many cases of Monsanto suing farmers for having Roundup ready plants in their fields due to contamination. This guy's website tells his story, he gives case dates and the courts where the cases were heard. Sounds pretty verifiable to me.

I do consider that an excuse - I certainly don't know all the idioms for languages I wasn't born with (nor all the idioms for my native language). I knew I was being pedantic, my apologies.

<pedantic>Do you mean one fell swoop?</pedantic>

You got a new laptop and it runs Vista? Why?????

He is not talking about the TSA or leaving the country, he is talking about the police seizing large amounts of money in traffic stops, even when there is no evidence of a crime. Once they seize the money, you have to sue them to get it back. Since this is civil forfeiture, you do not have the same rights as if you were charged with a crime. The police sue the property itself. Perhaps the lawyers at Cornell put it better:

Unlike criminal forfeiture, civil forfeiture proceeds against the property, not the person.
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Due to its civil nature, the roles of the parties change. Instead of prosecutor versus defendant, the hearing concerns a plaintiff, the United States in the case of Federal forfeitures, and a defendant, the property in question. The owner is effectively put in the position of being a third party claimant. Furthermore, civil hearings involve a more lenient burden of proof than "beyond a reasonable doubt." Once the government establishes probable cause that the property is subject to forfeiture, the owner must prove by "preponderance of the evidence" that it is not.
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Unless provided in statute (as in 18 U.S.C. 981(a)(2)), innocence of the owner is typically not a defense.

There have been many cases where money was seized without any evidence of a crime (here is a book about some of them). There is a clear incentive for police to seize money in this manner as they generally get some or all of the seized money to use for departmental operations. This behavior by law enforcement directly contradicts the text of the fourth amendment, another casualty of the drug war.

How about:

The word you were looking for is shelf. If /. employees don't ever edit anything, why are they called editors?

Perhaps for your particular region, but an anecdote is not data. This 2004 report shows that 55% of Belgian electricity is generated by nuclear, a later study shows close to the same. Just because your bill claims a 2% mix doesn't mean that is representative of the energy mix in your country.

You really think nuclear physicists don't know how to calculate half lives of fission products? If they didn't, they certainly couldn't operate nuclear reactors. Since there are operating reactors in the world it appears that we are actually capable of performing such calculations.

Here is a Youtube video of the statements in question:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oS4C7bvHv2w&feature=player_embedded