If people like an extra hour of daylight after work, then why not start work an extra hour early and get off an extra hour early? Then in the evening instead of being asleep by 10pm, why not be asleep by 9pm instead? Or even 8pm? See.... many Americans can't do it. There's no concept of "delayed gratification" for most people. So, "Daylight Savings Time" was created to force people to get up an hour early and sleep an hour early, for what used to be 6 months out of the year. Now the powers-that-be have increased it to - what - 8 months?

There is also a follow-up to "Man Out of Time" - a coffee table book by Margaret Cheney & Robert Uth, "TESLA: Master of Lightning".

[Speaking from experience, and also being a past and current owner of players and discs (although I haven't watched them in years).....] The video recording on laserdiscs was analog, as stated. The audio soundtrack was also initially analog, however, a digital audio soundtrack was added later (sometime in the 1980s) which was similar to the digital audio signal on a CD. Once digital audio tracks were added, laserdiscs contained both an analog stereo audio track as well as a digital stereo audio track, enabling a second audio program such as a running audio commentary and other features. When these discs are played back on a first-generation player, only the analog track will be heard, which means the main audio of the film on some titles cannot be played on these players, but only the audio commentary or other feature can be played. The first Star Wars laserdisc box set added audio commentaries at various parts of the disc on the analog track. This set can still be found on ebay very cheaply, by the way. There was also an experimental format around 1991-1992 of analog video CDs, which were CDs containing up to 20 minutes of CD audio (playable on a regular CD player) as well as a music video playable only on Pioneer laserdisc players containing built-in CD players - the music video portion was analog video which cannot be played on a CD-ROM drive at all (even though the audio portion of the analog video was digital). Confusing, I know. To understand how it was possible for an analog signal to be recorded onto a laserdisc, there are technical articles on the internet available for the technically curious.

What I would like to know is: Is this a pressed laserdisc or an LD-R? (Laserdisc version of DVD-R, and, yes, there were such things; I have a few.)

You could quit your computer job and go to work at a warehouse (like an Amazon warehouse) where you're paid to work out. The workout is excessive though, for 40 hrs/week. OK so you're not likely to do that, oh well. Next!

I would say that Jonathan Coulton's version of "Baby Got Back" is definitely significantly different enough from the original by Sir Mix-A-Lot to claim it is most definitely a derivative work (or different version from the original). There is a popular myth going around, even being spread by credentialed "experts", claiming that unique arrangements (or significantly different cover versions or "derivative works") cannot be copyrighted, but the U.S. Copyright Office makes it very clear that they, indeed, are eligible for copyright. (Therefore, Jonathan Coulton certainly *does* have some say in this.)

I highly recommend to anyone who takes an interest in this to familiarize themselves with the U.S. government's copyright office's Circular #14 entitled "Copyright Registration for Derivative Works," which states: "A derivative work is a work based on or derived from one or more already existing works. Also known as a “new version,” a derivative work is copyrightable if it includes what copyright law calls an “original work of authorship.” Any work in which the editorial revisions, annotations, elaborations, or other modifications represent, as a whole, an original work of authorship is a derivative work or a new version. "A typical derivative work registered in the Copyright Office is a primarily new work but incorporates some previously published material. The previously published material makes the work a derivative work under copyright law. To be copyrightable, a derivative work must differ sufficiently from the original to be regarded as a new work or must contain a substantial amount of new material. Making minor changes or additions of little substance to a preexisting work will not qualify a work as a new version for copyright purposes. The new material must be original and copyrightable in itself. Titles, short phrases, and formatting are not copyrightable." http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ14.pdf

The real problem has to do with religion. Get rid of religion and you won't have this issue.

It would be nice if all old people with insane religious beliefs would likewise avoid Facebook or have too hard of a time figuring out how to use it. That's the real issue here: there are too many "old" people with bigoted religious beliefs that unfortunately figure out how to get on Facebook.

If they were smart, they would use their capital to LOWER the prices of their products that are way too expensive!

I turned across the channels. 2 of the three network stations aired the slide (with the black background) but I don't remember hearing any audio. The other only had a crawl of teeny-tiny white letters at the top (over "Ellen") which made no sense. A local college station that had mentioned it would happen a couple days prior did not break programming at all. Overall, it appeared to be a FAIL.