I have to imagine that this would open the hospital up to some liability issues. The first time someone dies because a test wasn't run in time, I have a hard time seeing a jury accepting "the doctor didn't ask me nice enough" as an excuse for not running the test the doctor ordered.

The best compromise would probably be to treat extended copyrights more like trademarks. For the initial period, it could work much like copyrights do now, but after that it has to be actively registered (and then refiled periodically. Say, every ten years or so?) and utilized. Unless a work was actively registered, then it would be presumed to be in the public domain. So since the burden would be on the copyright holder to maintain, there would be no need to worry about monitoring royalties or distribution rights.

I disagree. While using another search engine certainly gives google and inventive to improve the search, it doesn't really help them to do it.

People switch services for all sorts of reasons. Fashion, apathy (if, say, they switch computers and it has a different default engine), etc. Dissatisfaction is just one reason, and since the process of leaving is silent, they have little enough way to tell why.

Reporting the trouble to them gives them the reason you're dissatisfied in a way that switching doesn't. Of course, they're always free to ignore it, but at least if they do then switching can be an incentive for them to improve rather than an enigma they have to puzzle out.

As I understand it, an english court ruled that using the word "bogus" meant that he was claiming that they were knowingly engaging in fraud. So now since Sigh has no presumption of innocence, he must not only prove that the treatments are ineffective, but that they knew that and were fraudulently selling them anyways.

In addition to Python, which has already been mentioned, I've found Erlang's doc to be decent. However, my experience in the language isn't that comprehensive, so there could easily be gaps I've missed.

I don't know about C++, but I've found intellisense to work pretty reliably for C#. I don't know offhand why they would be that much different in experience. Could just be better supported in C# since that's Microsoft's pet language.