#2 same as CD's, right?

Who ever expected that, upon paying over 15x the amount in royalties the artist actually received, you wouldn't own the intellectual property contained within.

Telecoms and Music Business are the same as Insurance actuaries.

Just another corporate screw gun.

Apple's only diff is the put it in an even prettier package.

And no Slayer, either. They don't have that yet...

I have kids; it made me cry, because I wish many things like this for them.

Nitpicking/sustainability/corporate greed aside?

I wish I could see a bright future for all of my kids, but sadly I work daily to prepare them for the worst the world has to offer.

Fatalistic Realism.

. . . but it's a wonderful dream to think that we COULD be sustainable and clean, isn't it?

We used to break open the unused film carts and then use the negative wheel as chinese throwing stars.

early 3 r application; the cut marks from these looked better than the pictures they took.

I hate to doubletap the post, but does anyone else see the grossest Ultimate Antipodal Irony in this?

The headline boils down to "Baby dies while protected by TSA".

Various news bureaus report various agencies responsible for the detention, or the nebulous policies and their implementation.

In the end the agency directly responsible has safety in it's middle name.

Thank heavens they aren't suffering from some gross misnomer.

"Arguments for or against policy should be based on the numbers."

Arguments for or against policy should be based upon the effectiveness of said policy in determining the policy.

If I set out to kill a small family of gophers in my front yard and at the end of six months I have 4 dead neighbors, some missing neighborhood children, and my spouse has a gaping head wound while I naively plod forth on crutches to plant more explosive charges while the gophers effectively hold tea parties every Saturday evening I might just reconsider my methods.

This is NOT war. This is NOT collateral damage. All of these are can be filed under the term avoidable incident, or perhaps wrongful death if you're in that "actionable mood".

I think the issue is one of compassion. I mean true compassion, beyond the television commercial stage of compassion we see.

Right now I envision video of children playing on swings imposed over a waving flag and smiles, smiles smiles. You know; late-night used car salesman ads. The exact same kind of cheesiness I see from news clips of administration chuckleheads explaining just why we little ignorant citizen types need this kind of policy.

I believe a simple sense of intellect liberally sprinkled with some native intelligence would go quite a way towards correcting many of the previously mentioned issues. Compassion and empathy are two elements of a healthy and beneficial society that are so very lacking in this regime.

Stopping ambulances? Killing babies? There's absolutely no need for sensationalism- this government we all currently suffer under makes its own gravy.

I can now easily replace Thompson's line of "dead grandmother crawling up his leg with a knife in her teeth" to "transsexual dwarf crawling along the hall carpet"

But in a sense beyond the macabre nature and initial shock value?

Beauty is personal expression, be it a vagina made of butter in the image of Paris Hilton or a New Orleans drag queen with her bits hanging out of her $2 dress. . .

Our newest is four months old.

I can't stop staring into her eyes.

Enjoy your hiatus, and please do keep track of the hours you spend gazing, eh?