@Kaiza: That concept is already used for ski lifts. The chairs move slowly at the ends- and on some lifts at "stations" in the middle- for people to get on and off, and faster (so are further apart) in between.

@22- not to mention the thousands of people who died actually building the city under Peter the Great. According to my Russian friends, SPB is built on a graveyard- another reason not to drink the water!

The "Civil War planes" on page 1 is a bit America-centric. After all, plenty of countries have had civil wars in which aircraft were used.

I remember seeing something this about 10 years ago in a kids' comic here in the UK- it was "Billy Whizz", in the Beano. Maybe the artist also saw it?

Darryl- you have the right to circumvent it, but if you were not technologically literate enough to do so yourself, you're allowed to get someone who is to do it for you. You're not "required to seek out a qualified expert", the expert is allowed to cirumvent TPM for someone else (an exemption to the personal-use-only rule).

Joe: What if the student was also called Ed Stelmach? Does public interest trump his right to the domain he registered in his own name?