There is a more or less standard format that has developed for Lab/Engineering notebooks. The "no blank space" part is done specifically so you can't add information to a previous date. That way the notebook shows how an idea was developed over time, documenting the entire development process rather than just the end result. Pages are generally signed off on by two people, the person taking the notes and a second "witness," which is supposed to cut down on forgeries.

And yes, they can be entered into evidence as legal documents. How valid they are becomes a matter for the lawyers/jury/whatever.

What? C'mon, there are millions of American public school students! With lunch money! That they are wasting on food! Sue them too!

Since we seem to be living in an age of bullies, shouldn't they just get it over with and follow things to their logical conclusion?

It doesn't matter where their offices are, it matters where they are incorporated. Google is incorporated in the US, and hence is expected to follow US law, even if those laws are idiotic, or a half century out of date.

Possession of fully automatic weapons is illegal everywhere in the United States, unless the owner has a federally issued Class 3 firearm license. They don't just hand those out to everyone who wants them. In addition, certain jurisdictions limit the the types of firearms you can own. Often these restrictions are completely illogical ("assault weapon" bans, for example, which ban some weapons based on what they look like, not on how they function,) but they do not violate the 2nd Amendment.

I have two PS3's. My recently purchased slim (bought the same week that PSN went down) will not let me watch Netflix, no matter what I try. My ancient fat (original, 1st gen) will eventually let me watch, after sever failed attempts to log in to PSN. Both have the same firmware version, and the slim's settings were copied from the fat. So, just because one person can get to Netflix with PSN down does not mean everyone can. It all depends on some combination of hardware, software, and settings.

2.7182 is e, not pi...

Works on my fat (the original model from 1st release), but not on the slim purchased this past week, despite having the same firmware version. I have no idea why one can use Netflix and the other can't.

Actually, the first thing that would happen is someone would copyright corn.

So a European country buys the state-of-the-art processors from us, and then they sell them to China. Trade restrictions only work if everyone has the same ones.