PETA wants attention like a 3 year old with a tin whistle.
There is no such thing as negative attention; as long as they are in the news, they will be happy.

Thanks for your graceful remark, now I'll surely take your advice, being called a fucktard by an anonymous COWARD.
I used the phrase dead tree book, to distinguish between an e-book and/or text on a (lcd) monitor.
Of course I could have simply said 'paper book', but hey, I need to go with the times...

You go to a library to look for books.
You go onto the internet to look for .... Oooh shiny thing

A dead tree book beats a text on a monitor, and even e-ink readers. A book you can take with you and doesn't need power (although you do need a light source).
An e-reader is great (use it myself a lot), but for quickly flipping back to a certain bit to check/read it again, a paper book wins hands down.

I found more interesting books/authors by browsing the books on the bookshelves in a library than online.

Colour other than 'no colour' used to be thought of as inferior/impure, and those diamonds were ground up and used as industrial sandpaper. So quality is very, very subjective.

Of course, most writers I grew up with were already 'old' when I first read their work... Frederik Pohl (and Jack Vance earlier this year) managed to reach a very respectable age, and their passing is only natural. It still saddens me though that such a mind is gone forever.

I bet it would be lye going in all directions, but the net result is the same... But if this rates as a felony, then I'm probably on the terrorrist list of the USA...

Global warming and the decline of pirates comes to mind.
Also, http://cats-or-dogs.com/ is a nice study of correlations...

The Cold Equations by Tom Godwin. Still depresses me only thinking about it.

The stupid thing is that we here in the Netherlands measure TV and monitor sizes in inches. I know what to expect from a 32" TV, but when they advertise it as '81cm' I need a calculator...

You should never search for 'does it blend' on YouTube... It will permanently damage your brain.

and give it to independent studios and offers like that of wolfire's "humble bundle indie" . As if awful DRM and little re-play value wasn't enough for today's games, now this. Pass..

First: If the project was under the the GPL and the libraries are under the GPL, the result must be under the GPL.

Second: Depending on where you live, you might or might not have given over the rights to your employer. You need to take your contract to a lawyer in your country and ask them. As usual, slashdot is _not_ the place to get specific legal advice; we can just blabber about generalities.

Thing is: The GPL does not matter unless you distribute the software to anyone. Before that, the licence does not matter. So you need to check the _second_ point first. When/If you release the software and the libraries are GPL, it's a clear-cut case.

No idea if your employer can go after you for "wrongfully leading them to believe they owned this stuff" though...

Don't think so. Let's be real. The reason that most people choose Apple is the apps (8 billion served) They aren't too concerned about how incrementally better the OS is. Apple isn'tr the best, but the consumers don't care because it the most advertised, and does what they want to do

Well, the US seems to think that their rules are to be applied globally, especially when it's about audio/video material...

Just answer the phone and listen to them.

"I'm [name] from [name] and bla bla bla..."
After a while they will go "Hello? Hello? can you hear me?" and after a pause they'll hang up.
But because the number is not a sale/no sale, it'll come back in their loop, and they will call again.
Just repeat this, and try not to laugh at their distress.

I got the floor manager on the phone the 4th time. She told me I could just have said that I wasn't interested. I replied that that wasn't as much fun as this.