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I think he's still sulking about the Seahawks losing to the Panthers. Or maybe he's hitchhiking your way to surprise you with a finished copy of Antagony and had to leave his computer home. No telling with John. Good to see you pop in once and a while anyway; hey, maybe that's what he's doing...trying  to spur you on with his absence. Take care. Vern

I would think the loss of pressure would similar to that of SCUBA divers who ascend too rapidly and get the bends due to Nitrogen "boiling" from the blood. In such a case, your early rescue could place the victims in a hyperbaric chamber to slowly equalize the pressure to normal status. You might wish to check out more details on the effect of bends in such a case. Take care. Vern

Alas, the "tolerant" North is/was only a façade. Take care. Vern

When "anywhere else" leaves a lot to be desired, then "enormous superiority" still has lots of room for improvement. To blindly deny that is to become part of the problem. But I'm sure your highness already knows that, right? Take care. Vern

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Welcome, John, never been to WritersCafe, but you should enjoy the vittles here just as well. Take care. Vern

Save yourself the trouble of all that butchering and just keep a well stocked pig pen; pigs will eat the body, bones and all -- perhaps a new slant on going to the pigs. Take care. Vern

Ideas can't be copyrighted. There are only seven basic plots (plus or minus depending on who does the categorizing) and they have all been done thousands of times, so there is no copyright on a plot, else every author in the world would be sued every time they published a book. You can't copy characters and you can't take  large excerpts or strings of original wording verbatim from other works, but you can certainly rearrange them to your own version of an old story.

A case in point which I thought would surely go to the plaintiff, but didn't, was when the authors of Holy Blood Holy Grail (non-fiction) sued Dan Brown over The Da Vinci Code (fiction). Having read Holy Blood Holy Grail first, I thought that Brown had taken quite liberally from the text of that book. Large areas of quoted research were very similar as well as the basic premise of Jesus' blood line continuing after having a child with Mary Magdalene. The courts ruled in Brown's favor. Of course someone could probably point out a different outcome for other suits, but if you use your own words to recast a story, you should be on fairly safe ground. That is not to say that someone couldn't bring a nuisance suit to try to deter you. Take care. Vern

Edited for PS: As stated in the Copyright Act: In no case does copyright protection for an original work of authorship extend to any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery, regardless of the form in which it is described, explained, illustrated, or embodied in such work.