Digital Millennium Copyright Act
Again, our friends down south are doing it. The DMCA didn't get too far federally in the US, but it looks like the entertainment industry is trying state by state to get the legislation enacted, and they've been successful in a few states already. What this could basically do is render it illegal to possess certain devices, because it could be used illicit purposes. Government in the US serve big business, and not necessarily the public. This would basically limit the development and proliferation of new technology - in the US. Think this is going to stop what's happening in the Asian countries? Ha! So again, the US is putting itself behind. Glad I live in Canada.
The first chef
First came fire ... and then, as the camera shifts to the soon to be late-village idiot, you're left wondering -- just what was going through that mind -- and food is put on the fire, for the first time, and cooking is accidentally discovered by humanity. The first chef is ridiculed by grunts, then the local thug tries a sample of the burnt carcass, and soon, everybody gets queued at the McDonalds drive-thru. What happened? Richard Wrangham of Harvard believes there's more to cooking than evolutionary history would have you believe. Wrangham points out that there is no way homo sapiens could survive on just raw food. Raw food just doesn't give up calories as easily as cooked food -- and raw food makes the digestive system expend more energy to get at those calories. Cooking on the other hand breaks complex molecules down, allowing the digestive system to make easy work of them -- and cooking also softens food, allowing the body to get to the calories with less effort...
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