Take the short 20 question driver's test here...

The list consists of questions taken from several of the individual state written exams, where 70% is generally the lowest grade needed to pass.

I received a 95%, missing only one question. And of course, I dispute the answer that the test said was the correct one (would you expect me not to? :-) )

Please excuse the recent dearth of posts here on DC. I'm in the middle of finals season right now and have been making a modest attempt at being responsible. So far I've taken 1 final, but I have 2 regular finals and 1 take-home final remaining, as well as a paper to put the finishing touches on.

I'll manage to put up a few posts during this time.

1. Schindler's List theme
2. The Last of the Mohicans theme
3. The Hunt for Red October - Hymn to the Red October
4. The Hunt for Red October - Nuclear Scam

So Rosie O'Donnell is parting ways with "The View." Not that I care that much. I do not watch the show and I never plan to. That said, the less spotlight that woman gets, the better.

The question is whether ABC asked her to go or if she stepped away from it. Word has it that contract negotiations broke down, but I would not be surprised if ABC low-balled the offer in order to shove her out. They could not have been happy about the negative publicity she was bringing them.

First they kick off Sanjaya... and now they're bringing Bono on the show... I feel cheated and abused ;-)

1. The Decemberists - We Both Go Down Together
2. The Decemberists - The Infanta
3. Editors - Munich
4. The Rasmus - In the Shadows
5. The Rasmus - Funeral Song
6. Snow Patrol - Run

It's about time that a prominent Republican politician takes a stand for federalism. His presidential-contender stock just went up a few points in my book.

1. Live - I Alone
2. Live - Lakini's Juice
3. Collective Soul - Heavy
4. Collective Soul - Where the River Flows
5. Foo Fighters - Stacked Actors

Check out this hilarious Onion article on how a vast majority of parents are "abusing" their kids... This line here sure rings true regarding my childhood :-)

One Illinois boy told of being forced to linger with his mother in fabric stores and later leaving a Toys "R" Us empty-handed, even though the store sold a water gun he really wanted.

Apparently, Blu-Ray is beating out HD-DVD right now. Early steam is very important in a format war, but I still think it's too early to tell.

By the time this format war is sorted out, however, iTunes and similar internet content delivery systems will be on their way to making physical discs obsolete anyways.

Here it is, though a bit belated:

1. Electric Light Orchestra - Telephone Line
2. Electric Light Orchestra - Mr. Blue Sky
3. Calibretto - Don't Go Into the Woods
4. Wolf Parade - Modern World
5. The Postal Service - Such Great Heights
6. Cake - Rock 'n' Roll Lifestyle

Picasa Web Albums rock:

ND Blue-Gold game - 4.21.07

Update: Sean has an analysis post of the scrimmage on Kelly Green. I agree with his thoughts on the QB situation, defensive strength, and the line's lack of depth (on both sides).

Update 2: And here are some individual photos I'd like to highlight. I've cropped them and added arrows to point out certain things:


This was my favorite photo from the game. The timing--catching the ball mid-flight leaving Jones' arm--was perfect.


That kid looks annoyed at us... We couldn't possibly have been obnoxious fans ;-)


Offensive Lineman Sam Young is a beast.


Ara Parseghian watching the coin flip. I had no idea I photographed the coin in the air until I was reviewing all of the photos.


Louuuuuuuuuuuuuu!!!

I'm going up to Notre Dame this weekend for the Blue-Gold scrimmage game. So likely no posting until Sunday. Look for some photos then. -lds

First of all, I realize the parenthetical in the title makes me sound a bit arrogant. I assure you that it is all in good fun and that I actually have been wrong before...maybe once ;-)

That said, I have been an outspoken critic of ethanol (corn-based ethanol in particular) for quite some time. The main basis for my criticism has been that ethanol is not an efficient substitute for gasoline, in that it barely produces more energy than is consumed in the process that produces it.

Now we might be able to add a second criticism: ethanol is no better for the environment than gasoline or perhaps is even worse. Mark Jacobson, in a research article to be published in the April 18 online edition of Environmental Science and Technology, uses a sophisticated computer model to show that widespread ethanol adoption would significantly increase the amount of smog.

In highschool I did a small research paper on the environmental dangers of the gasoline additive MTBE. The huge problem with MTBE is that it is highly soluble in water and has a tendency to spread quickly through an area's water table. MTBE use has hence been limited. Ethanol, unfortunately, has the same propensity. How well do we understand the environmental risks associated with its usage?

But we do not need to rely on a computer model or any other scientific experiment. Brazil has been using substantial amounts of ethanol for a while now and is dramatically increasing its use. I suggest we study the environmental impact there.

The evidence against DST in regards its supposed energy savings continues to mount. First we learned (from an extensive real-world study in Australia) that DST does not cause electricity savings. Now we learn that it causes a significant increase in gasoline usage!

Thus the first example of why I (and a few others) were on the right side of this issue a few months or years before others began to catch on :-)

Here is a map of the world, with the nations sized according to the percentage of goods they contribute to Walmart's stores...



I'd be interested to see a similar map, but with nations sized according to their consumption of Walmart's goods. The U.S. would be truly massive on this one.

What's the point? China is producing a ton of cheap goods, and the U.S. is consuming a ton of cheap goods. The U.S. and China have an economically-cozy relationship, just as the U.S. and Saudi Arabia have. That is to say that our interests are by no means in unison with these nations but that we are economically bound to them.

Glenn Reynolds, law professor at the University of Tennessee and the man behind the Instapundit keyboard, seems to be in sync with me on the issue of federalism. He came out against the Supreme Court's partial-birth decision yesterday on the same commerce grounds that I did.

And now today he has come out against the government's drinking age highway funds strong-arming.

I don't mind the company on these issues.

I'm flabbergasted...thrown into an existential funk! (ok, maybe that's taking it a bit far) But the unstoppable Sanjaya Malakar was not invincible after all. He has been voted off of American Idol.

Of course, country music can pretty much always kill a good thing ;-)

Radley Balko has a sensible article on the matter in Reason Magazine. My biggest problem is the way the Federal government strong-armed the states into complying with its federal minimum drinking age: by denying highway funding to stubborn states.

This seems like a complete end-around to federalism and a way for the federal government to expand its powers beyond constitutional designs.

Sense a theme in my last couple posts?

The decision by the Supreme Court was 5-4, split along the expected lines. In favor of the law: Scalia, Thomas, Alito, Roberts, and Kennedy. Against: Breyer, Souter, Ginsburg, and Stevens. The only surprise there to some people is Kennedy's vote (seeing that he has voted to uphold the essence of Roe v. Wade in the past). But for anyone who has read Kennedy's views on partial-birth abortion in the past, his vote here should have been expected.

But what might come as a surprise to you is that I think the Supreme Court ruled incorrectly; I would have stricken the Federal partial-birth abortion ban as unconstitutional.

Here's why... Since I oppose the court's ruling from Roe v. Wade, I would not strike any partial-birth abortion ban on the grounds that it violates a woman's supposed right to choose an abortion, as I do not see that right as existing. However, I oppose this law because it was passed by Congress and not by a state. Congress, in my opinion, has exceeded its Constitutional powers by enacting this ban. If it were a state law, I would have supported it.

Congress cited the interstate commerce clause as its authority for passing the partial-birth abortion ban. This is a blatant and gross extension of that clause's meaning. I am disappointed (but not surprised) that the court's conservatives ruled as they did. They seem to have placed their policy wishes over a sound textual interpretation of the commerce clause.

This may have accomplished their objective at this point in time, but what damage will this cause in future jurisprudence?

I'll have to read their opinions to get a firmer understanding of how they addressed this issue.

1. Rufus Wainright - My Phone's On Vibrate for You
2. Rufus Wainright - Agnus Dei
3. Sufjan Stevens - The Transfiguration
4. Sufjan Stevens - Chicago
5. Badly Drawn Boy - How

At least according to this LiveScience article they are... Take that for what it's worth.

Now based on some of the people I've seen out there, I can't say I'm surprised...

The Copyright Royalty Board (yeah I really have no clue what that is either) has approved a new royalty fee regime to govern internet radio stations. The end of it is that these streaming networks will face far larger fees, especially if they have higher traffic.

Some are speculating that many of the stations will have to shut down.

I observed two sets of reactions to yesterday's tragedy at Virginia Tech. The first was heart-warming: within an hour after the news broke in full-scale, people were reaching our to express their grief and condolences to the victims and the families of the victims (including multiple Facebook groups). The second was extremely aggravating: pundits and bloggers wasted no time to attempt to use the massacre either for or against gun control.

I am not saying that events such as this one are irrelevant to policy debates, but can we not have just one day without such opining? Furthermore, there are two big problems with using this event in this fashion. First, the story was not even mature during pretty much the entire day. How can you extrapolate from an event, when the facts are not even fully known yet?

Second, tragic events often mislead. Tragedy breeds emotion not reason. I saw more than one talking-head on CNN or Fox News claiming that this event shows that we have an "out of control" problem in this country and implying that school shootings are on the increase. Actual statistics, however, do not tend to bare this out.

Here's the story as ABC has it right now (2:10 p.m. EDT)...

Update: MSNBC has a more detailed and up-to-date article... (3:02 p.m.)

Update 2 (4/16/06): Here's a thorough article on the tragic events of yesterday. Some parents are demanding that VT's President step down because of the school's failure to enter lockdown following the first shooting, but so far the president has refused to do so. Finally, Captain's Quarters has a good write-up on the shooter, including some discussion of a cryptic message that he had written in red ink on his arm.

My morning commute playlist...

AKA a playlist that Magee would like

AKA a bunch of songs sung either by females or a guy whose voice sounds like that of a female


1. Denali - Normal Days
2. Portishead - Mysterons
3. Portishead - Sour Times
4. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Y Control
5. Rush - Dreamline
6. Rush - Natural Science

Yesterday I wrote:

"I cannot know what is in Imus' heart, but as one commentator on TV noted, Imus has not given any indication in the past that he is racist."

As it turns out, I now can better understand what's in Imus' heart, and it's not pretty. The commentator I referred to in that statement was obviously ill-informed.

Michael Wilbon has a column up in the Post with a couple Imus quotes from the past that are quite telling. I reprint Imus as quoted in that Post column now:

Imus is the one who said in 1995 of Gwen Ifill, an accomplished, award-winning black journalist of incredible dignity and grace: "Isn't the [New York] Times wonderful... It lets the cleaning lady cover the White House."

And here is another:

So "nappy-headed hos" wasn't some weak moment of great exception on the Imus show. In 1997, during a "60 Minutes" profile, Mike Wallace confronted Imus and a former producer who quoted Imus as saying he'd hired a staffer to "do nigger jokes." When I mentioned that earlier this week on ESPN's Pardon the Interruption, Imus responded on his show that it simply did not happen -- though I see it in a 2000 issue of the Columbia Journalism Review and had a producer access it through a transcript (also the audio version) on National Public Radio.

Wallace: "You've told Tom Anderson, the producer, in your car coming home that Bernard McGuirk is there to do nigger jokes.'"

Imus: "Well, I've . . . I never use that word."

Wallace: "Tom?"

Tom Anderson: "I'm right here."

Imus: "Did I use that word?

Anderson: "I recall you using that word."

Imus: "Oh, okay, well then I used that word, but I mean . . . of course that was an off-the-record conversation . . ."

Wallace: "The hell it was."

Imus deserved to be fired from his radio show. No doubt left in my mind.

Jason Whitlock also has a good column up on the matter. He dismisses Imus as a shock-jock and says that we need to focus on the racial negativity coming from other sources such as comes from certain rappers:

I don’t listen or watch Imus’ show regularly. Has he at any point glorified selling crack cocaine to black women? Has he celebrated black men shooting each other randomly? Has he suggested in any way that it’s cool to be a baby-daddy rather than a husband and a parent? Does he tell his listeners that they’re suckers for pursuing education and that they’re selling out their race if they do?

I disagree with Whitlock that somehow Imus should be dismissed, but he still has a good point there.

Note 1: I must admit that it pains me greatly to be agreeing with both Michael Wilbon and Jason Whitlock in the same post, because each has displayed so much ignorance and bias in regards to Notre Dame football. Maybe they should stay away from sports :-)

Note 2: Metaphysical question: would Don Imus call Sanjaya nappy-headed and/or a ho?

Here's an easy way to tell if somebody is gay, based upon a certain subtle detail of their car. Note that this only applies if the person purchased the car himself or herself:

I don't know who wrote this, but my law student friends will appreciate this one. Btw, exactly 13 of them apply to me... not saying which ones.
...

You might be in law school if...

You know all sorts of sneaky and creative ways to steal from clients thanks
to your Professionalism and Ethics class.

You consider dropping out of law school approximately every hour, but after
that first semester you realized you were already in too much debt to be
anything other than a lawyer.

You aspire to one day own Blackacre.

Substance abuse becomes you.

The drama in your life now rivals that of high school.

You consider tie-dying all of your t-shirts because they are already half
covered in fluorescent ink from your highlighters.

You no longer have an ego left to bruise...it's already been beaten to a
bloody pulp.

You make adverse possession jokes.

You chuckle at the irony that the designated shorthand for Statute of
Limitations shares the same SOL abbreviation as the phrase "so out-of luck."

You might be in law school if you suddenly realize that you can type 120 WPM
and you no longer know how to use a pencil.

You might be in law school if...your friends and family start asking you for
legal advice because they know you can't bill them.

You can name without hesitation at least three people who make you want to
throw things when you see them raise their hands in class.

You are truly and deeply unnerved by the thought of some of your classmates
becoming attorneys.

You think tequila shots are essential to ordered liberty.

You wonder if that one professor who always seems angry and irritable and
treats students' minds as his personal playground is actually a sociopath or
just didn't get enough hugs as a child.

Sometimes during disagreements you are tempted to 12(b)(6) the offending
friend or family member.

You know and understand the complicated epistemological and metaphysical
differences between a conspirator and an accomplice.

You know and understand the complicated epistemological and metaphysical
differences between coffee and red bull.

You can't remember if you decided to come to law school because you wanted
to help people and make a difference in the world or because you hate
yourself.

You think whoever came up with the Socratic method should have his face lit
on fire and then beaten out with a rake.

You can't think of any legitimate reason why a law student would need access
to certain public records, but you can think of a whole lot of illegitimate
ones.

After the first semester you realized that "briefing a case" need only
consist of looking it up on Lexis or Westlaw.

You've given yourself carpal tunnel from all the spider solitaire you play
in class.

When someone is expressing their frustration or anger about something that
is in any way related to the law, you can't be sympathetic because you're
too busy figuring out in your head if they have a cause of action.

You hear about the death of an elderly friend or relative and wonder if they
died intestate.

You have considered changing career paths to hot dog vendor, stilt walker,
or career alcoholic.

You're pretty sure the reasonable prudent man is a friendless tool who still
lives with his mother.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., who was born in Indianapolis and spent his early years there, died yesterday at the age of 84. Vonnegut combined elements of multiple genres and has been recognized as one of America's great and unique writers. Check out his Wiki bio and check out this write-up on him on In the Agora.

That said, my exposure to Vonnegut is limited, and I would like to read more of his work. One short story of his that I have read is "Harrison Bergeron." This story left an indelible impression on my philosophy towards government and society. It was easy to read yet profound. Its message was tragic and triumphant. Here are the first three paragraphs:

THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren’t only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General.

Some things about living still weren’t quite right, though. April, for instance, still drove people crazy by not being springtime. And it was in that clammy month that the H-G men took George and Hazel Bergeron’s fourteen-year-old son, Harrison, away.

It was tragic, all right, but George and Hazel couldn’t think about it very hard. Hazel had a perfectly average intelligence, which meant she couldn’t think about anything except in short bursts. And George, while his intelligence was way above normal, had a little mental handicap radio in his ear. He was required by law to wear it at all times. It was tuned to a government transmitter. Every twenty seconds or so, the transmitter would send out some sharp noise to keep people like George from taking unfair advantage of their brains.

Check out the whole thing here and then maybe you'll want to go out and buy one of Vonnegut's books.

So MSNBC has canceled the TV version of Don Imus' radio show... Everybody knows what Imus said about members of Rutgers' lady basketball team. But more importantly, do we know why he said it?

What IMUS said was certainly an insult to the Rutgers players, but was it racist? I'd argue that it may very well not have been. Intent matters. Imus intended to insult these girls, and he did so in part by using a racial term in regards their hair: nappy. But by doing this, did Imus intend to disparage these girls for being black, or even worse to disparage black people in general?

I cannot know what is in Imus' heart, but as one commentator on TV noted, Imus has not given any indication in the past that he is racist. In fact, the truth seems the contrary. After Hurricane Katrina, Imus was outspoken against the government's support of poorer victims in New Orleans, implying a la Kanye West that the government may have been biased against black people.

So perhaps people should chill out a bit on this stuff. There are numerous examples of racism in public and private, including ones that might seem more subtle than Imus' comments but are in fact much more damning of the person who made them. We should focus on those.

Somebody has really gotta rein in Rosie O'Donnell...

I find it hilarious that Sanjaya Malakar continues to succeed on American Idol, leading to the consternation of so many die-hard Idol fans. Now that the judges are even warming up to the unstoppable force that is Sanjaya, his detractors might be in their last throes (see Dick Cheney's comments a couple years ago about the insurgency in Iraq)

Sanjaya sang the classic Latin song "Besame Mucho" last night. This song has a special place in my heart, as I am a huge fan of the Beatles version of the song, which is on their Anthology album (see my morning commute playlist). I gotta say I like the Beatles version quite a bit better...



p.s. If you doubt that he's an unstoppable force, check out this article which says that Sanjaya is more searched for on Yahoo than both Harry Potter and Justin Timberlake...

1. Sweet - Love Is Like Oxygen
2. Sweet - Ballroom Blitz
3. Beatles - Besame Mucho
4. Beatles - I Me Mine
5. Mika - Grace Kelly
6. Death Cab for Cutie - Soul Meets Body
7. Gomez - Nothing Is Wrong
8. Weezer - Falling for You
9. Weezer - Why Bother?
10. Weezer - Perfect Situation

I have uncovered a secret memo that Matt Drudge wrote to himself for the Drudge Report:

The Drudge Report Strategy memo...

- run news search for "gay"

- run news search for "Hillary"

- run news search for "Al Gore and/or global warming"

- run news search for "American Idol" (this year for "Sanjaya")

- run news searches for "Cindy Sheehan," "Ann Coulter," and "Rosie O'Donnell"

- follow hurricane and earthquake update pages

- in the Spring talk about the cherry blossoms in D.C. and about late snows

- in the fall/early winter talk about record high temps in certain cities

- run news search "sex w/s (school or teacher)"

- cover every single story that deals with transgenderism

- on Sundays talk about my own radio show

- read the London and New York tabloids

- read the Yahoo oddly enough news page

A British reporter goes undercover at a new London Abercrombie & Fitch store. He gets hired on as one of their meet-and-greet models and writes about his experience:

The men who stood semi-clothed at the entrance earned an extra £1 an hour. But they had the required A&F six-pack. The new way of selling clothes seems to be not wearing them...A & F is unlike other foreign stores that arrive in the UK and try to fit in. It is brash and all-American. But they do want to be posh. Association with the quality tailoring of Savile Row, the listed building and the statues and art work, rub uneasily against the overt use of sex to sell clothes.

There's nothing tasteful in halfnaked boys hanging around the store door. Or are we just too oldfashioned for this fusion of softcore porn and high-class pose?

Here goes:

1. Midnight Oil - Beds are Burning
2. Rusted Root - Ecstasy
3. Rusted Root - Send Me on My Way
4. Tears for Fears - Everybody Wants to Rule the World
5. Tears for Fears - Mad World
6. Gary Jules - Mad World

This has been making the rounds on the net lately, so I figured why not:

Wow:

ORLANDO, Fla. -- An activist was arrested while he was feeding homeless people in a public park.Eric Montanez, 21, a member of Orlando's Food Not Bombs, violated a city ordinance against feedings in the park Wednesday evening, police said.Each group is allowed to feed only 25 people, but undercover officers saw Montanez feed 30, police spokeswoman Barbara Jones said.

This sounds promising:

Researchers from the Nanomaterials Research Centre at Massey University in New Zealand have developed synthetic dyes that can be used to generate electricity at one tenth of the cost of current silicon-based solar panels. These photosynthesis-like compounds work in low-light conditions and can be cheaply incorporated into window-panes and building materials, thereby turning them into generators of electricity.

If we can more cheaply utilize solar power, we can not only supplement the power grid, but we can also use that electricity to produce hydrogen via electrolysis, which could be used in cars.

The move away from fossil fuels has got to be technology-driven. Perhaps that's a truism, but it also creates an important decision. What is the best national policy in terms of alternative energy techs? Do we let the market govern? Do we invest large amounts of tax dollars in certain technologies? Or do we heavily tax gasoline and/or coal to artificially push the market to find a solution?

Who needs gay weddings when we now have gay fairy tale weddings... Or would that be fairy tale gay weddings...

Hmmm, maybe I'll make this a daily feature. Here were the songs for my morning commute:

1. Oasis - Don't Look Back in Anger
2. Oasis - Where Did It All Go Wrong?
3. Oasis - Little By Little
4. Oasis - Wonderwall
5. Cake - Commissioning a Symphony in C
6. Cake - Comfort Eagle
7. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Wet Sand

I want it...

So as you all know the captured British soldiers were released by Iran. But what you may not know is that they were given goodie bags by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The bags included amongst other things:

- handicrafts
- books
- pistachio nuts
- Persian sweets
- a vase
- compact discs

These are in addition, of course, to the stylish suits that Iran clothed the soldiers in before sending them on their way. AhMad also said that the release of the soldiers itself was a gift to people of Britain.

Well how nice of Iran! I swear, I think we're living in crazy loony land sometimes.

First, is Iran so stupid to think that this sort of theater will convince anyone in the West that Iran is anything but a despotic dangerous nation (excluding Rosie O' Donnell who already envies Iran)? And second, is Britain so stupid to think that Iran should not be punished in some fashion for its behavior?

Iran is going to keep pushing our buttons. And they will continue to do so until they go nuclear in a couple years, and then nobody will be able to ignore their theatrics.


Update: Was there a prisoner swap with Iran? Blair says that Britain did not enter into any such agreement, but did America?

Check out this article:

More than 4,000 clubbers danced through the rush hour at Victoria station in Britain's biggest flash mob stunt.

Revellers responded to e-bulletins urging them to "dance like you've never danced before" at 6.53pm.

There were knowing looks and giggles among the casually dressed crowd that gathered from 6.30pm, wearing earphones.

A deafening 10-second countdown startled station staff and commuters before the concourse erupted in whoops and cheers. MP3 players and iPods emerged and the crowd danced wildly to their soundtracks in silence - for two hours.

Ah, gotta love an iPod... Here are the songs I listened to during my morning commute:

1. Sanjaya - You Really Got Me
2. Wallflowers - One Headlight
3. Smashing Pumpkins - 1979
4. Collective Soul - Run
5. Foreigner - Blue Morning, Blue Day
6. Journey - Separate Ways
7. The Hollies - Bus Stop

Indiana same-sex marriage ban collapses

The amendment didn't make it out of the House rules committee. Most likely it will not see the light of day this term. This does not mean that the issue is done, however, as the General Assembly could still pass the amendment next term, which would then place it on the ballot for final passage. But as long as Democrats stay in power in the General Assembly, this is unlikely to happen.

According to my SiteMeter, somebody found my blog by searching Google.co.uk (Google in the United Kingdom) for the search terms: "Lucas Sayre."

Now, as far as I know, I don't have any regular readers across the pond, so this hit is a bit disconcerting. Perhaps my recent chiding of Britain in regards to how they're handling the Iran situation has angered the wrong Englishman...

Eh, but why should I be worried. The British will respond merely by suggesting the possibility of diplomatic talks with me. Maybe they'll even take the severe step of hoping that the world will not like me as much.

Update: Oh, and btw... In my April Fools Day post, I linked to a site www.britainsucks.com, which surprisingly enough does not actually exist (UKsucks.com and englandsucks.com also do not exist). But it turns out that www.canadasucks.com does exist. I love Canada, but the site is still funny.

This is pretty big news. Huge, in fact. Apple Inc. and EMI Music are launching a new program where Apple will sell EMI's catalog on the iTunes store DRM-free.

When Steve Jobs wrote an open letter a month or so ago, in which he criticized DRM and said he'd like to be able to sell music "open," many scoffed at him, saying that he was all talk and was just trying to avoid regulatory scrutiny.

But now he's proven the critics wrong.

Here's how it will work. Apple will begin to offer EMI's music in higher-quality 256 Kb/sec format DRM-free. Each of these higher