Yes.

Whoever bailed the kid out did not pay $500,000 -- they paid either 10% or 15% (i.e., $50,000 or $75,000) to a bail bondsman as a non-refundable bond, and the bail bondsman then paid the $500,000 to the state.

It's still a nice gesture.

My guess is it was Johnny Depp.

The unemployment benefits available in the US aren't comparable.

The most significant difference is that in the US unemployment benefits are generally limited to a maximum of 26 weeks, while in Australia you can collect benefits for decades.

The "greater benefits" available in some states (e.g., Massachusetts) are only available to people who have been recently working in a high-income job. Your unemployment benefit in MA = 50% of the bi-weekly pay rate you had when you were working, up to a certain maximum. And, again, you can only draw unemployment for a maximum of 26 weeks.

You're referring to unemployment insurance, which is not the only equivalent to the Australian "dole". There's also "welfare" which (as of "welfare reform") is limited to 5y in a lifetime. (Getting welfare, as far as I can tell, is a major pain in the ass; so is collecting unemployment insurance -- getting unemployment benefits in Australia is -- or was when I did it -- by comparison, trivial.)

I don't know how the Australian laws have changed, but you can't just collect unemployment benefits forever without doing anything, but it is pretty close. I'd guess that the amount of crap the Australian system puts you through in a lifetime is probably about with the US puts you through in a year.

Aside from the catchy title and the mention of recent planet-finding successes, this article doesn't say anything that hasn't been said by literally hundreds of other people. (And actually, I'd be amazed if this author is the first to come up with the clever "When are..." formulation.)

Warning to other impatient users:

I didn't read the instructions too well, so the half hour I spent carefully deleting gigantic/uninteresting feeds out of my subscriptions.xml file was all for naught. Because I didn't know I needed to specify the opml_file on the command line, the script just logged into my Reader account (i.e., it walked me through the browser-based authorization process) and downloaded my subscriptions from there -- including all the gigantic/uninteresting subscriptions that I did NOT care to download.

So now I've gone and downloaded 2,592,159 items, consuming 13 GB of space.

I'm NOT complaining -- I actually think it's AWESOME that this is possible -- but if you don't want to download millions of items, be sure to read the instructions and use the opml_file directive.

In addition to the above methods, you can copy the base folder and paste it into the same folder as reader_archive.py -- that's what I did and it worked fine.

In point of fact, my grandma drives a Mercedes coupe. So the answer to your question is yes.

I looked through a bit of your comment history. You are a freak of nature. You easily rank somewhere in the top 1/10,000th of teenagers, probably in the top 1/10,000th of all people of any age. Your abilities are not generalizable.

>"Imagine ... The iPhone, when connected to the computer, can be accessed like any other filesystem. You move files in and out of a folder called iPhone/Music."

This is exactly how Android works. I plug my Galaxy into my computer and it appears just like any other USB drive. I drag mp3 files, or folders of mp3 files, into my Music folder, and I'm done. Same goes for mp4 videos I might want to watch, or PDF files I might want to read, etc.

Is that not the way iOS devices work?

No, sadly iOS doesn't work this way. Yes, there is a filesystem on an iOS device. But the user doesn't access it directly. Instead, the user must rely on some rather opaque abstractions called "syncing" that Apple has introduced. Syncing in this context basically amounts to copying and deleting files, but iTunes decides what to copy and delete. Sometimes it makes choices you would find counterintuitive. I've definitely seen it ruin people's days.

The book's ridiculous claim is that you commit three felonies per day? So to rephrase your question, you should have asked "how many times per day do you travel back in time to commit statutory rape?"

Your examples aren't very strong anyway.

Having sex before the age of 18 is usually not statutory rape, if the person you're having sex with is also under 18.

Very few copyright violations meet the standard for criminal charges. Casual copyright violation is not a felony.

You don't have to report anything on your tax return when you sell personal items for less than you originally paid for them. And not all tax code violations are felonies anyway.

Etc.