In the "more expensive than human blood" link it looks like there has been no effort to distinguish between the cost of the ink and the cost of the print head and other high tech included in the ink cartridge. These are indeed wearing parts.
It just strikes me as akin to saying "I paid $200/quart for my last oil change, and oh by the way they changed the timing belt and water pump for free"

DARPA press releases look so much like April-fools jokes anyway, I hardly see why someone felt the need to do a search-and-replace of "pyrolysis" with "nuclear".

I prefer the moving tips on Budget rental box-trucks.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/movingtip/

"the EU and the USA can subsidize their farmers to the tune of billions of dollars a year, while farmers in developing countries are given no such support and are cast into the winds of the free market" Raj Patel
http://bloggingheads.tv/diavlogs/10819?in=02:52&out=03:29

"with this simple CardTalk record-player...."

Hope that disk isn't music, it sounds awful because it is just about impossible to keep that pencil rotating at a steady speed.

It is NOT that the US wants foreigners to die, it is that we have had a standard for well over 90 years that has been proven to be effective.
There is a regular consultative process that will allow change to the standard if change is warranted. Oddly, this process seems to be driven by data generated in the real world. Change to the color green and addition of the running man symbol may well be appropriate, and are not disallowed.
Because the USA was 50 years ahead of most of the world in this it has a preexisting standard. Because the signs have been in use for the entire lifetime of most of the population, they are more easily recognized in the near-term future than any replacement will be.
New Jersey is inventing a symbol to mark the back of the car for new drivers that have recently passed the driving test. THAT is a stupid action, ignoring the existing "p-plate" symbol already in use in most of the English-speaking world and elsewhere, to come up with a new one that won't be recognizable to anyone from outside your jurisdiction. But replacing a proven symbol just because a new ISO standard exists is not a good reason by itself.

I'm sure in the comment thread at the link someone has brought up Ikea pictogram assembly instructions. I don't think anyone can sanely argue that the word for "exit" is easily misunderstood, and I've managed to figure out ones that had strange words such as "sortie" and "ausgang" as well.

As for metric, I've yet to find a country that has adopted it. When laboring in Europe I worked out quickly that the standard 2440 x 1220 mm plywood sheet is really 4 x 8 feet. 2440 x 1220 mm does roll off the tongue better though.
I did have a bit of a pickle in England when tying in new metric pipe into an old house with old plumbing. But when I asked at the "plumbers merchant" they told me that I just needed a 15mm coupling to solder the two together -- 15mm copper pipe is exactly the same size as the old 1/2" copper pipe, it is just measured to the inside diameter rather than the outside...

Having cut out old pipes I was quite convinced that the inevitable scale after even a few years would completely block any possible contact between the lead and the water. And in the USA the lead has been phased out of solder for plumbing for more than that few years. But researchers have been making an effort in Washington DC and other places to do actual PPM lead level measurements, and a water-fountain that measures fine this week can be way over the limit next week. Globs of solder can finally break off into the flow, becoming eroded as they lodge in a bend or aerator, putting the lead way over safe limits.
The problem is not the water being supplied, but contamination from old pipework on the premises of the home, apartment, or school.
For a school in an older building, complete replacement of the plumbing from the water-main would fix the problem, or they can do consistent lead testing of all drinking water fountains. One is really disruptive and expensive, the other merely very expensive. Or they can install point-of-use filters, but these need expensive replacement of the filter media at regular intervals. Priced water filters for your fridge lately? Mine should have been replaced a year ago.
On the other hand, they can pull out the fountains and put a office water cooler in the position of each one. In most cases this is what is meant in the news report about a school using bottled water. Not individual bottles of Evian, but bulk 20-Liter bottles with a dispenser. But they can't use little paper cups like every office, because every elementary student knows that that makes Gaia cry.

Splint -
Seems fair to me. 30 toys in a 40-ft shipping-container full of toys are shown to be missing a safety feature that was mistakenly left off the order by the foreign vendor. It can easily be retrofitted by the importer, but we should impound and destroy the whole shipment in order to make a statement that small-business owners should know better than to do business with anyone who is less than 100% perfect in their order fulfillment process.

And with the amount of white-noise produced by the waves breaking on the shore, it is probably just as well that they do Shakespeare where most of the audience knows the words and the plot.
At least that's what I surmise. I could be wrong.

But corporations still may not make direct contributions to federal campaigns from their own treasury, so unless the costs of creating the press release and video were all borne by a separate political-action-committee, they may already be in violation of campaign-finance-law.

In the "about New Hampshire" section of newhampshire.com, it says that one can be fined for "maintaining the national forest without a permit" if one is found picking up litter in the White Mountain National Forest.

It seems contrary to public interest, and I cannot find any applicable permit on the Forest Service website nor the NH state one, nor any reference to actual law text or court opinion. "Maintaining the national forest without a permit" seems like a pretty specific offense, so you would think it easy to find.

Did I not answer your questions?
" Exactly how is giving MORE rights to an Immortal entity with unlimited lifespan, nearly unlimited cash, and who can't be jailed like a human serving human liberty?"
I dispute that it is more rights, it is by law and example fewer.Nevertheless, it serves human liberty for the same reasons and purposes that rights of human individuals do.

"And exactly how is this the ONLY option?"
It is the only option, because if my association with others allows the government to deprive us of rights, we are deprived of rights.

"Please explain rather than repeat some jingoistic term that someone told you."
I thought I did, and don't understand why you thought in advance that I would be jingoistic.

"PS-Since other countries Don't do this are you saying that the USA is the ONLY country that protects human liberty and that giving Corporations human rights is the only way??? Sorry but your BS doesn't pass the smell test.
Two part question:
A: I am not saying that the USA is the only country that does this, I am saying that it is present in common-law, civil-law, and asian legal systems.
B: Asked and answered.

" Retention of property was a State constitutional right at the time this decision was made NOT a Human right."
I would hold that rights exist independent of the state. A state or person may violate my rights, but they are not the state's to give.

"Human rights are derived through international treaty, mostly."
I REALLY hate to argue from authority, but I think at this point it is just easier to refer you to the 2nd paragraph of a document from the USA called the "declaration of independence".

Not more rights - many of the same rights. Corporations can be party to contracts, own property, and sue or be sued. They obviously can't vote or hold public office. The ability to be charged with a crime varies between countries.

In the US an early explication of this was when an English corporation owned some land in Vermont, and the state said effectively "we can take that away, because we are not violating the rights of a person". They were, albeit indirectly, violating the human rights of each owner of the corporation, taking their property without compensation.

Many of the same considerations that go into strong bill of rights protection for natural persons apply to metaphorical corporate "persons" as well. But this is not unlimited. In the US the right to free-speech does not extend fully to corporations, but freedom from search without a warrant generally applies. It is fiction to say we treat corporations exactly the same as humans. But for specific rights, if we do not do so, we end up violating real human rights of real humans.
Other countries DO do this, such as Germany and China. Even the very recent EU charter of rights grants specific rights to "natural and legal persons" i.e.: actual human persons and corperations.

My experience looking into the provenance of silly laws is that invariably I can only find reference to them in other lists of silly laws, and that their existence in real law codes remains elusive.

(Giving corporations the same rights as the individuals who make them up is the only option in practice that protects human liberty.)