You could do a work-around for the GPL argument by making agreeing to a contract functionally identical to the licence a pre-condition for accessing the program. The only problem with that is that it raises questions of liability for bugs.

Anyway, the first paragraph of your post didn't relate to GPL infringements, because mostly GPL authors don't care about non-commercial infringement, because it doesn't really matter. Commercial infringement would still be illegal, so the problematic infringements are not affected.

I see the point you're making - but most of those questions are only relevant for a party forming a Government.

There's no chance of that happening here - I don't mean that in a "they won't get that many votes" sense, but I mean in the sense that they don't have enough people even standing for election. So such a thing is impossible.

It's still important I think to have policies on a wide range of issues, because if you had one as your MP, you'd still want to write to him, and hope he has an opinion on more than a single issue, and such things would be voted on in the Commons.

But let's be fair - individual MPs are not expected to come up with solutions to the economy, or immigration problems. (As an aside, I'm not sure what uncontrolled problem you are referring to - although I appreciate that these might be questions asked by your typical Daily Mail reader, so it's useful to have responses to them.)

Cablevision already has some of its own television networks, although the are small by comparison to ABC. They own MSG Sports and a fledgling hyperlocal news network News12. MSG Sports carries Knicks (basketball), Rangers, Devils and Islanders (hockey) so Cablevision tends to tout "...carries all 9 New York major sports teams" in their ads. What they don't mention is that the two Cablevision owned franchises, basketball's New York Knicks and hockey's New York Rangers, are horrible. All of these are further examples how the Dolan family tends to run businesses into the ground.

I worked, until recently, as a "Student Affairs Administrator" and I see a very similar problem in my own field. Much like Education, Student Affairs/Higher Ed Admin seems to attract those individuals who we might all call "nice but not very bright." They're not, by any means dumb, but they're not the most analytical minds on the planet either. A big part of their job involves thinking through problems, which they are often not equipped to do by the education they've received.

Like K-12 teaching programs, their graduate program does not actually prepare them by teaching them things relevant to actually doing their jobs. Many Student Affairs Administrators spend a great deal of time supervising students, and yet they never take a class on supervision or discuss the best methods for supervising their population, much like many education programs do not focus on strategies that actually improve classroom management.

Both fields share similar philosophies (frakking Dewey and his sloppy Positivism). I've given some consideration to becoming a teacher. I enrolled in a teacher preparation program only to be disgusted by the curriculum and the "push everyone through" attitude displayed by many in my cohort. Only one of the professors I took a course with actually had any experience as a classroom teacher.

Much like in Student Affairs, it's not the money. It's not even necessarily the pool of talent; it's the philosophical underpinnings of the field. "Caring and sharing" and "Everybody's a winner" are the mantras that these fields live by.

I really, really hope you're wrong. Forced to choose between a smartphone and nothing at all, I'd likely go with nothing. Which would be professionally problematic, since I code for a living.

Unfortunately, Amazon seems to have a pretty good lock-in on the eBook market right now despite any potential price gaming. They're still much cheaper than the Sony Reader store for most books; Books on Board manages to offer slightly more competitive prices than Sony, but they're not as cheap as Amazon.

Amazon seems to be maintaining its competitive pricing on books, even in the eBook arena; and, other stores are either unable or unwilling to follow suit.

It's a general problem with any kind of social service in most parts of the United States. If you start making any money at all, whether or not the unemployment, welfare, SSI/SSDI, etc are a considerable part of you being able to get on your feet, you almost immediately start to lose benefits. American social service/social insurance programs shoot themselves in the foot.

ATT offered users an unlimited data plan, no wait, they required one with an iPhone. Now the problems with ATT's network are the fault of those selfish users who took ATT's offer seriously. Give me a break. ATT is rolling in money from iPhone, they should use it to build out their network.

MySQL has been forked several times since Sun bought them. There's now a confusing welter of forks of MySQL, and no one is sure which is the 'real' one anymore since the original owners of MySQL AB are responsible for one of the forks.

MySQL has an ace in the hole, however: a HUGE install base in ISPs. MySQL is THE default database you're going to be exposed to for web hosting, and a perception that it's being allowed to whither on the vine will kick up a backlash against Oracle (just as it did with Sun).

How would you handle the passenger texting then? The driver isn't the only one in the car.

I've always wondered how mainframe people reproduce.

A lump of metal going really fast can have more energy than a small explosive. F=MA, remember?

No I don't. In particular, I appear to have forgotten which of those three variables stands for kinetic energy.

automagically

What's wrong with "automatic"?

On a related note, get off my lawn.

Poland actually deployed troops.

How were they not part of the coalition?