Well, I am an Oregon citizen, so as (part) owner of that copyright, I hereby release Oregon State Law under an unrestricted Creative Commons license.

There.

Now it can be accessed, used, republished, etc. by anyone, right?

#26 (LAMACQ):

When I was four years old, I had my tonsils removed, and I distinctly remember a bizarre black and white checkerboard effect occurring just as I started to go under from the anesthesia. I don't remember ever having the near/far stuff going on, though.

Neurological phenomena are both fascinating and scary with all the ways one's brain can malfunction.

Space Race Ace,

I've also seen that van, completely covered in stick-on letters spelling out the conspiracy -- except in my case, it was in 1998, in Monterey, California, when I was stationed at the Defense Language Institute there. I gave the guy a dollar for his xeroxed pamphlet "proving" that Stephen King had killed John Lennon. It was a hoot. It was passed around the barracks for a while, and never made it back to me, which is a shame. I wish I still had it.

The problem with a legislated minimum period is that it's virtually guaranteed to shift over time (just like copyright terms, except in the other direction). We'll end up in an Achilles vs. the tortoise situation, where every legislative session halves the period between "now" and "then" until the distinction is meaningless.

There's no obvious bright line separating "stored data" from "live data." It becomes stored data pretty much instantaneously. "Well, we don't have data on where the phone is now, but we know where it was eight nanoseconds ago..."