My wife has pretty much the entire animated Disney collection from before 2004 on VHS. A lot of good they do us seeing as we no longer own a working VCR. If we want our kids to see these movies we'll have to re-buy them on the popular format of the day when our kids are old enough to watch them.

Not true.

Now, I don't suggest that you download this torrent, as taking steps to keep watching movies you've already bought would clearly be illegal. I'm simply saying that you don't have to rebuy them to keep watching them.

It's such a horrible temptation to not be good little citizen and keep paying a company over and over and over again for the same content, isn't it? I mean, they paid good money to get copyright extended ad infinitum and make form-shifting illegal, no? So you'd be eeeevil to not fork over cash to them again for things you've already bought, no?

(Avon activates the star drive incinerating Dr. Langstrom in the Process)

Dayna: What about Dr. Langstrom?
Avon: Who?

Orac: We need to lose 63 Kilos in order to achieve orbit.
Avon: Who do we have left to jettison that weighs 63 Kilos?
Orac: Vila weights 70 Kilos.....
Avon: Vila, where are you?

You make a good point, but I defy you to correlate the success of foreign auto makers in the US with the decline of US auto makers in the US without noting that unions are a huge part of the equation.

Let's see, GM, Ford, Chrysler: Unionized.

Toyota, Huyndai/Kia, Honda: Non unionized.

They all develop and produce cars inside the US, for the US. They all borrow and/or share designs with overseas companies/subsidiaries/etc. The only real difference is the union status and the parent companies' nationality. I will concede that there is certainly a component of 'Americanism' in play at all levels of management decision making.

Nevertheless, how can you say with a straight face that a) the US auto makers aren't hindered at all by wildly expensive and inhibiting union contracts, and b) the foreign auto makers would be more competitive if they had unions? That's the burden of proof unions are up against if they want a place in the US going forward.

This really just seems to be "9 interesting animal models" or maybe "I spent 10 minutes reading about animal models."

Along those lines, I study development in chickens because they're easy to study live as embryos. I've seen a lab that studied owl optical lobes, if I remember correctly because owls can't turn their eyes, and I guess the other eye's region expands to compensate. Songbirds have been used to prove that neurons are produced in adult animals, females treated with testosterone gain neurons their vocal centers. I've heard of grasshoppers being used to study neuron axon guidance. And I saw an interesting discussion of platypus sperm, they seem to have a slingshot mechanism.

We kill animals and plants to eat them. Is this evil? Should we stop? Then we die...

If we can test new medicine, making n animals suffer but allowing us to make m fewer humans suffer, for what values of m and n is that a good trade in your mind? 1 and any? m equals n? any and 0?

See, absolutist statements have a tendency to blow up when you have to trade off things as you often have to in the real world constrained by the finiteness of resources.

And when traffic between my home and the tpb ip range (all tpb ranges?) is blocked, how do I get to the tpb from home?

When there already are plenty of other machines I can bounce off of, why set up my own? Exactly what is gained?

I really hope the order of that is wrong.

I have seen the word sentient used before, for instance by Buddhists, but never really knew the definition of the word. So this time I googled a bit and now I really really do not know the definition. So what is your meaning?

I might note that IMO that you can talk about animals with language, culture, tools, creativity, self-consciousness and love fairly emperically. Does not mean they are human but this tends to crap out a lot of simple minded definitions of human.

Reading comprehension failure there when you didn't notice "era" and built a pile of stuff on it, then for some odd reason you decided to wrap yourself in the flag and shout.
Do you really want a reply to you questioning all those words you just put in my mouth that I don't agree with anyway?
I'll only say this - all of the Westinghouse stuff will be buried by competitors that have actually done some R&D over the last thirty years or civilian nuclear will go nowhere. Some of those competitors are of course in the USA and have done more than slap on a coat of green paint and call it Gen3+.

So, the "turn around and cancel" option is $179 + $350 ... for a net price of $529. Identical to the "just buy it unlocked" price.

Seems like a 100% reasonable ETF to me (far moreso than Verizon's ETF of twice the phone "discount" to cover "phone assistance" and "network upgrades" per their statement to the FTC).

He was referring to apathyruiners post. Which is where I pulled this quote.

So you expect them to just give up on the rather lucrative sales of OSX to all their old macs? I bought leopard for my 3 year old macbook along with a new hard drive. Thats $150.00 of almost pure profit for Apple, that they wouldnt have gotten from me otherwise, I had restore CD's, I could have used them, but I wanted expose and spaces and time machine.

I highly doubt they'd give up that second sale just to spite another company.

They typically are when it is longer periods due to a wrongful conviction.
A man in San Diego, CA awarded $100/day for the time he spent in a jailcell
A man in boston served 18 years, eligible for up to $500,000
An Australian man seeks 7.5 Million in damages from 12 years served, West AU offering 3.25

Not that I dont agree the lost time thing will ever work, just wanted to point out that people are infact compensated for jailtime they didnt deserve