This struck me as rather absurd as well. Why, excatly, can they double a fee because people might dance along to the music? I can understand they wanting to be reimbursed for the playing of it, but why on earth do they get to decide what you can do with music already paid for to play?

Be like charging you 3 dollars for a big scoop of Ice Cream, then carging to twice that because you wanted to eat it..

I dont think you're understanding whats happening here at all.

Google is not removing results from their search. A user comes along and searches for "Human Rights Abuses in Tibet" for example. If I run the search I get about 4.5 million hits (my lord, 4.5 million hits on that? Anyway...) because i'm in the US.

If I were in china, i'd get a 404 page not found error, or some other weird obsure error page.

Whats happening is someone between me and Google is intercepting the search query, deciding on some filter if what im searching for is appropriate based on some unknown list of "not to be known" subjects, and if my searches dont pass the test I dont get the results back. Peoplere were complaining to Google because it seemed like it was Google's fault.

So Google is now going to turn around and say "Hey, you, user. Yeah you! Just wanna let you know, searching for that has resulted in people not getting results."

So, yeah, way to jump on the "OMG GOOGLE IS EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL AND IM SMART FOR POINTING IT OUT HAHAHAHAHAHA" bandwagon. Your bias is showing.

Hate to reply to myself, but clearly I meant Taliban, not Talaban.

I'm sure the grammar Natzi's will follow shortly with other issues in my post I'm not seeing offhand, this post included.

I'd kindly request people not confuse the Talaban with any religion trying to issue a message of Peace.

They're much like the Catholic preists who molested children and then got wisked away by higher ups trying to cover their own butts. They abuse the message for their own gain not in the name of the god they claim to follow, but for their own self-worth and warped ideals. The Koran, much like the Bible, are full of really good messages. They're also full of a lot of garbage.

A distinctly human trait.

If the guy is a crook, book him for being a crook!

I'm not a fan of the guy, but im also no fan of the idiots who protest funerals either. Doesn't mean anyone has the right to go and shoot the bunch of idiots, or steal their cars. The heck is wrong with you?

We're supposed to have higher standards here, we're supposed to do things in a fair and even handed way, to the best of our ability. This isn't. Just because the guy's got a record does not give the people who did this a free pass to ignore everything the country is supposed to stand for. Everyone here who's rooting for the goverment is a stupid idiot, idiot.

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No not really. We'll still need insurance for accidental damage and theft, as others have pointed out.

Now, if I made my living delivering pizzas for a living, i'd be a little more concerned. Imagine if you will, ordering a pizza from a local joint, and sending your car to pick it up. Cook walks out to the parked car in the spot designated for auto-deliverly pickup, waves the recipt over the optical scanner, some compartment/door opens on the car, puts in the pizza and walks off while the car drives it home.

Such things would show up in the more expensive cars at first of course, but I could see entire industries developing around this. Heck, we dont buy groceries online because the hard part is getting them home in the first place. This sorta takes care of that problem. Wouldn't even need to be your car, you could build an entire company around a driverless food delivery service for a major city. Want McDonalds? Sure! The Nickle Company? No problem! Who needs to deliver, when the car does it for you?

I dont see anything that claims thats not possible, so I dont quite get where you get this from. It would be a strange place indeed, a planet warmed by tidal friction from within would have a very different biology of life. I'd imagine most life would be deep underwater near rifts in the oceans floor, there'd be no point in forming near the surface, depending on what caused the tidal forces.

Would make for an interesting long-term strategy for an advanced race to survive past the life of stars, if you can heat from within via tidal forces around say, a super massive black hole. Just dont be the jerk to mess that one up.

"Sir! We forgot to exchange values between Metric and Imperial, the entire planet is about to get sucked into a black hole!"
"Well...alteast we dont need to worry about budget cuts next year."

All it really proves is that humans cannot comprehend distance as vast as this.

My understanding, and im sure its flawed, is that something like a Photon doesn't experience time. To it, it pops into and out of existance, one end at the surface of a star in a galaxy cluster 12.7 billion light years away, the other end at the Subaru telescope in this case. Just as suddenly as this happends, its gone again.

This is because its traveling at the speed of light. Time and space are linked. Beyond this my understanding breaks down, but I suspect it has something to do with moving through space at that speed, and our misunderstanding of what time really is. We experience time where there is a 'universal' time in our refrence, because really anything we need to reference is already here, moving with us at the same speed around the sun. There is no 12.7 billion years ago to this galaxy, per our reference, because nothing that is happening 'now' as you and I understand it can possibly affect us here, without violating the speed of light. We're not looking at a galaxy we're literally looking back in time at a galaxy. If this galaxy exploded ripping a hole in the fabric of space-time and ended the entire universe right now, we'd not be aware of it for another 12.7 billion years. Per our reference, nothing has happened, or will happen, for that span of time. So in effect, for us, what we're seeing is what IS happening.

Now please correct my misunderstanding, those of you lurking out there who do know better, because i'd love to understand all this!

If I ever get that Time Machine i've been working on to work properly, I know what era im not bothering to visit now.