opyright primarily exists to keep Disney and other big media companies in business.

Are you sure about that? You might want to think again because copyright is specified in the Constitution, which was written and ratified centuries before those big media companies existed.

Yes, exactly what I pointed out in another post: the identity of the account used has been proven but not that the person who used that account to send the message was, in fact, the ex-husband. It may look like mere nitpicking, but this is the type of nit that lawyers (And remember, judges are all lawyers.) are trained to watch for and pick.

There's one important detail that you're overlooking but a judge would have to take into account: the ex-husband's name in the headers can be considered proof that the message was written on and sent from his computer, but it does not prove that he was the actual sender. As a layman, I have no idea what you would need to do to prove such a thing after the fact, or if it's even possible, but I'd be very surprised if that wasn't one of the judge's reasons for his ruling.

You left these out:

Birth of a Nation
The Longest Day
Around the World in 80 Days
The Ten Commandments

The last being 220 minutes, not counting the overture, intermission and exit music. Yes, it really has a built-in intermission.

Well, that's what I was told back then. And, if it doesn't work like that, how does it work?

And my non-layer understanding is that if there's a conflict between federal and state laws, the stricter of the two wins. Thus, states should be able to add an extra warning to the packaging, but not remove one that the feds require.

Back when I was a child, in the '50s, we lived in a suburb and had a gardener who came around every other week. Among other things, he had a small tank with a hose and nozzle that he used to spray something on weeds, which died in a few days. One day, while watching him, I asked him what he was spraying on the weeds: olive oil. Apparently, it coated the weed, covering its pores and preventing it from "breathing." Not only that, it's totally non-toxic. Shame, isn't it, that this can't be adapted to a commercial use?

Don't worry, it's just a bunch of liberals showing off their TDS and thinking it's virtue signaling. "Sound and fury, signifying nothing."

That's what I thought at first. Then I remembered laptops. Do you really want to have to take out the battery every time you need to shut it down?

I'm beginning to suspect that it's really rsilvergun responding to his own comments to make it look like somebody agrees with him. Not only do this AC's posts look exactly like rsilvergun's, the poster is even adding his .sig to the end. How pathetic can you get?

Boy do I feel old.

Imagine how old I feel; I'll be turning 77 this Autumn.

Personally, I like it just the way it is. It does, of course, raise (not beg) the question of just what deviations are standard.

Same here, but in my case it was about 21 years ago.Since then, the only time I've used Windows has been to play games at a private club I belong to.

Who needs a Mexican restaurant to get menudo? I live in Colorado, just north of the New Mexico state line, and if I want menudo, I just go to the supermarket and buy a can of Juanita's. Quite good and much faster than making it from scratch.

This is how the "walled garden" effect evaporates.

Not with a bang, but a whimper.