Here is how a police officer relative of mine explained this:
(Please dont mod me down, I am just a messenger)

When you point a camera, it is not just a passive device recording events. Instead, it can actually influence the events that it is recording. A witness at a crime scene may be hesitant to say exactly what he or she thinks because he knows the neighbors may see it. People may run away or refuse to come forward because they are afraid that they will be identified later on television and thus could become the victims of a crime. A lot of things happen in police encounters and sometimes a camera can have a chilling effect on the proceedings. Sometimes the influence of camera presence can benefit society by keeping police abuses in check. Sometimes it can be a harm.

Personally, I think the police officers only have their own benefit in mind when they ask for a ban on cameras.

Another closely watched entry in this year's competition was National Enquirer's outing of John Edwards' affair with Rielle Hunter.
I guess the Enquirer didn't win. Othewise, it would have been another first - a Pulitzer awarded to a tabloid.

Here is a simple test to dertermine which group you fall into:

1. Hold both your arms in front of you with your hands about a foot (0.3 meters) apart.
2. Make fists with your hands.
3. Extend the index fingers of both hands towards each other.
4. Bring your index fingers close together and attempt to touch their tips precisely together.

If you can do it, you can enjoy 3D movies.
If you cannot, go to a vision therapist.

You can also try the above test with one eye closed. You will almost always fail at step 4.

Please give generous support to these brave men and women in uniform who are sacrificing so much to keep us safe from our sworn enemies. You can help in so many ways. Donate cash, send them care packages or offer substantial discounts on the goods and services you provide. Have them give inspirational talks to school children. Invite them to throw pitches at college baseball games or give them free front-row seating at NFL and NBA games. Celebrate them by having them line up on stage at the begining of any award or entertainment show. Call your congressman or senator to increase military budgets because our brave servicemen remain shockingly under-equipped when facing our powerful enemies whose only goal is the utter and complete destruction of our homeland and our way of life.

To play devil's advocate, giving tax breaks to attract/keep major businesses is a normal thing for state governments. After all, these businesses bring in major direct (income taxes) and indrect revenue (local employees' property taxes, sales taxes etc) to the state. Nine years ago, Boeing ditched Seattle and moved to Chicago partly because of tax breaks offered by Chicago.

Here is a young slashdotter using a widely available version of this device to analyze planetary motion and black holes:
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Here is another one using it to visually depict string theory:
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I am sorry but I would take this story with pinch of salt.
Could be someone is pulling a fast one on this guy?

There is nothing in the film that shows any originality or creativity in ideas. It seems like a amateur copy of scenes from "War of the Worlds" and "Independence Day".

So, what did Hollywood Studios see in this guy?

That he can make a hacky special effects film for $300? Even there, anyone can see that if you used the proper accounting methods, the budget was probaly way more than $300. All those crowds running was previously shot and reused dfootage. If he had to perform original shooting of those scenes, the budget would go way over $300. Same goes for the explosions and other special effects. He probably spent a long time on creating those but did not include the dollar value of that time which typically would add thousands of dollars to the film's budget. So, I am not seeing what he brought to the table.
Those fan-created Star Trek episodes have more going for them than this.

This is a perfect example of how deceptive headlines get created.

Original paper title: "Two white dwarfs with oxygen-rich atmospheres"
The newspaper headline: "2 Earth-sized bodies with oxygen rich atmospheres found- but they're stars not planets"
Slashdot headline: "Two Earth-Sized Bodies With Oxygen-Rich Atmospheres"

The submitter could have simply stated "Two white dwarf stars with oxygen-rich atmospheres" but then who would have clicked further.

This decision just gave the IP address sword its second edge.

On the one hand, they were using IP addresses to identify and prosecute people for 'illegal' downloading and accessing child porn. Now, someone was aquitted based on their IP address.

Interesting indeed. Probably now, the authorities will realize the futility of using IP addresses as evidence.

Slashdot story in 2012: MPAA asks again for control of bank accounts
The MPAA is arguing that if they could directly control consumers' bank accounts, they could offer more goods to consumers.

Compare this simple robot to the high-tech Japanese one covered by Slashdot earlier. Makes one realize the difference in research money available to the Slovenians versus to the Japanese.

Your examples are of world-famous celebrities. They are popular cross-racially. People's knowledge of these celebrities and their identification with these celeberities is based on other things - not the skin color. In ads featuring unknown models in normal settings such as home and office, it is different.

This will lead to people indulging in arbitrage.
Unless, of course, Microsoft has somehow put in a mechanism that disables a UK-bought Windows 7 when someone attempts to install it on a computer located in the US.