This most likely because unlike other devices that basically relied on appearing as a USB storage device, the iPod needed to go via iTunes for just about everything. Seems this and the AAC wrapper was enough to get RIAA to play ball. I guess they thought it would make the task of transferring those files elsewhere difficult.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_audio_player

Seems there was quite the selection.

Not all of them. There are more then a few African nations using French that are not of France. And was not Vietnam a french colony at one point?

While 3D may be pointless, turning it into a full screen "split screen" seems like a interesting development path right now.

http://www.tecnaro.de/english/arboform.htm

paper production waste turned into a replacement for injection molded plastic.

In essence, divest themselves of Sony Music and Sony Pictures.

Sony has not been about hardware since Stringer took office, and everything else was put under the thumb of Sony Music and Pictures.

And USA did right after gaining independence.

Never mind the continual selling of "ganstas and hos" as some kind of ideal. Btw, anyone recall the uproar when a stripper pole made it into the kiddie toys section of some store?

I recall bumping into a german advert image for orange juice some years back. If it had not been framed by the poster the way it was, i would not have thought about it much. The image was two pre-teen girls in leotards, clearly members of some gymnast club, demonstrating their skills. The idea was to make a link between active/healthy living and orange juice.

I would replace illegal with objectional, as laws are not ordained from on high. Laws are human constructs and so are bound to be flawed and needs constant reevaluation with changing circumstances.

Dude, walk away from the game theory articles and the Rand books. Thanks.

5 years do not automatically give maturity of the experiences during that time are meaningless in the context.

Crazy thing is, they do not suddenly wake up one day and go "hey, i can manage risk". The balance the good and the bad, one need to experience (or at least be familiar with) both. But certain parts of the world seems hung up on keeping their kids pristine and innocent forever.

Insightful, really /.?