I did look at the url properties. It was the plain url. A search for "houston chronicle" returns this <a href="http://www.chron.com/" class=l onmousedown="return clk(this.href,'','','res','1','','0CAcQFjAA')"><em>Houston Chronicle</em></a> right clicking and copying the link location copies "http://www.chron.com"

Where does google do redirects? Doing a normal search, on multiple browsers, both mac and pc, both logged in and not, google search results just contain the direct links.

From the speech:

But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas?

from http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/jfk-space.htm In case you are wondering, Rice is a small university in Houston, TX, and gets regularly squashed by the University of Texas in football, and was the site of that speech.

They've been apple's problem since they took over porting java to the mac, and prevent sun from writing their own java for mac.

If pasteurization is that important to you, just buy a keg. Most domestic kegs are non pasteurized.

Does that include cases that are dropped or plea bargained? I would guess that unless they were sure of a conviction, or it was a high profile case, a DA would try to avoid a trial. Trials cost a lot of money, and a DA would probably like to plea bargain any case they aren't positive about. And the accused may be willing to plea bargain even if they are innocent, just to get it over with.

Your example fails in every way possible. First, we have already established that a previous install exists is a tautology. Therefore, Apple does not need to check for a previous install, and does not need the draconian checks that Windows has on upgrade versions, and will happily install itself on a clean hard drive. This provides a much better user experience, without having to prove that the older version exists, either with license keys or checking for an old installation. Secondly, even if it required a previous installation, you could restore the original version from the recovery disk, and then install the new version. So, in no possible way could this be construed to be your scenario.

Consider this example: I have a Mac with OS 10.4. I buy a new hard drive, put it in, and install from my shiny new OS 10.5 DVD. Knowing that this is a mac, and therefore a previous version of OS X must exist, 10.5 happily installs itself. I also have a PC with windows XP. I buy a new hard drive, and install vista from my shiny upgrade DVD. Before Vista will install, I must prove that I have a valid XP license. I must either put in another license key, or let it install over the old XP system. Now, which system sounds more user friendly to you?

Yes, an apple branded mac which by definition already has OS X installed. Therefore, apple only sells upgrades.