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...to end drug prohibition since at least 1996, on both practical and 10th Amendment grounds. Statists love the "War on Drugs" because it gives them more ways to control people.

Meanwhile, President Obama, the first president who openly admitted to using illegal drugs, has cracked down harder on medical marijuana and other uses of "choom" far harder than Bush ever did.

Indeed there is plenty of public television produced with government funds (mostly indirectly through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, sometimes directly through federal government agencies or from state governments through state public broadcasters) where the funding is based on limited broadcast by public broadcasters, but other rights (broadcast by private entities, Internet distribution, DVD distribution) is held by the content creator.

Most television productions are a complex mix containing a broad array of elements (recorded and original music, still images, stock footage, animations, archival footage, talent) and the rights for each element can be controlled by different parties. In order to make content accessible after the broadcast rights expire, all the permissions must be renewed.

PBS maintains a warehouse filled with 150,000+ videotapes going back more than 40 years. Rights to these materials are sometimes only partially known, and often the rights owner may not even exist any more.

For more info see Intellectual Property and Copyright Issues Relating to the Preservation and Future Accessibility of Digital Public Television Programs.

Maybe he was prophet, giving us a car that by today's standard would have been fantastic on gas mileage back in 1933. We're all gonna be using three wheels soon when we have to try to get gas at Bartertown

1. I agree. I hate it when submitters include their own "insights" with their submissions. They always just wind up sounding trite and unintelligent.
2. Pie charts are so named because they resemble pies (although usually ones unfairly sliced). PI Chart (from Project Initiatives) is just taking advantage of the fact that most Americans pronounce the Greek "pi" like "pie"—overwhelmingly cutesy, to be sure, but probably not what you meant. I also found this pi chart, although I don't think you had that in mind either.

Should be perfect for Florida and other places with "high winds"[....]

Then it'd probably withstand pretty much any level of wind--until something that wasn't streamlined (e.g., palm tree, SS Minnow, old lady on bicycle) slammed into it . . . .

Maybe advanced materials are what's needed to finally achieve Old Bucky's goals (even though they supposedly could have been built for the price of an automobile instead of the price of a house). I'll buy one.

One of the PBS stations, WMET 13 in New York, did manage to film the thing pretty much perfectly- AND, while the production values on the movie were comparable to early Dr. Who episodes, the acting is QUITE good and the movie is more than watchable.

I don't know about the A&E attempt at the same, since I didn't see that one yet. (Though, to hear it, it doesn't sound quite as good as the original attempt- reviews are mixed and lean towards making statements about it being "an inspired adaptation" and that people that saw the original movie or read the book would be disappointed.

Or Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion car.

Or Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion car.

Maybe you'd be more interested in something like Bucky's Dymaxion homes.

Worried by the poor sanitation, inefficiency, and high cost of bathrooms, Bucky came up with a solution in 1936.

The four, stamped sheet metal or molded plastic sections are each light enough to be carried by two workers. They'll fit up tight staircases and through narrow doors, allowing retrofitting in existing structures. All the appliances, pipes, and wires are built-in, limiting on-site construction to mere hook-up.

With the sections bolted together, the interior has no germ-harboring nooks, crannies, grout cracks or anything that can rot. Large-radius corners make germicidal swabbing easy and complete. Downdraft ventilation draws fumes and steam to the undersink vent. Both sink and (deep) bath-shower are arranged to ease the care of children and seniors. The mirror doesn't steam up, the sink doesn't splatter, and the toilet paper stays dry.

Dymaxion Bathrooms are to be equipped with "Fog Gun" hot water vapor showers that use only a cup of water to clean hygienically without soap. Remarking that "Nature had designed humans to separate urine and excrement. Both are valuable chemistry, and should be collected for further use," Bucky specified a waterless "Packaging Toilet" that deftly shrink-wrapped the stuff for pickup for later composting. (Ordinary toilets use approximately 2000 gallons of pure drinking water per year to flush - and waste - one human's "exhaust" that, if dried out, would scarcely fill two 5-gallon pails.)

You can include me in that list. I saw it on TV first and only then discovered the book.

There's lots of cool info on the movie here.

-- Brian