24 Oct 2000 cmacd   » (Journeyer)

agntdrake: I can recommend the skating FAQ that my wife wrote. Dont let the title fool you, it covers all sorts of recreational skating.

Those rental skates are generaly only worth about 50 bucks a pair new, so you should not expect very much out of them. (I have a coupple of the suppliers of them listed on the Skating Suppliers page near the bottom. Good skates, properly sharpened can do wonders. You will really have to read Karen's FAQ to decide if you want to get hockey or figure skates. in equivelent quality levels, one is as expensive as the other, although often department stores only stock hockey skates in men's sizes and figure skates in womens.

srl: The US tends to be rather conservative, the way to get this cleaned up may be to take an indirect approch. Lobby your represenatives to do a "housekeeping" project on the statutes to "bring them up-to-date". That way no politition is placed in the position of having to defend "indecency", they can instead create a new statute with more resonable provisions (selling things to minors and such)

schoen: Every country can have its own legal deposit requirements for material published in its borders.. The requirments can also change over time. The US used to require a paper copy of every movie in order to register a copyright. This has allowed copies of some of Thomas Edisons first movies to survive, even though the NITRATE film that he used has long since vanished or burned.

In the case of ISBNs some folks have built quite the business of gathering information about things like ISBN assignments and selling them to users like libraries and booksellers. This is info that Should (IMHO) be freely available, but instead is sold on a subscription basis. In fact it seems that it is the RW Bowker company who has been contracted to assign them in the US in the first place! I am sure that they maintain a compilation copyright on the entire list.

My weekend

I changed the oil in both cars. Last time was May, good job I used Synthetic. Rest of the weekend was taken up by small chores.

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