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When I was a medic in the Army, I received a memo regarding the fact we were to no longer permitted to refer to the Heimlich Maneuver as such and, instead, we were to refer to the technique as “abdominal thrusts”. When I inquired as to why, I was told that the good doctor [...]

I am rather stunned and even more skeptical to hear form a P2Pnet article that the RIAA may be dropping its massive sham litigation campaign. The P2Pnet article references this Wall Street Journal article, which states the lawsuit campaign may end. So all is good now right?
I doubt it. As the P2Pnet article points [...]

It seems there is the thought of taxing downloaded music in New York State. According to this download squad article, that and other taxes are being considered. The tax rate on this "digital media downloads" would be 4%.

The Yahoo Tech News Article it refers to also mentions that the tax will target "soda and [...]