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** And to cap this off his actual travel cost every month was effectively zero, as he simply made the trip by travelling as air crew in a company plane.
* Back in 2009, and yes a clip of the case can be found [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVyg_IBZGKE here], a teenager in Texas had trouble getting her car started and didn't want to be late for school. Luckily for her, she happened to have a horse since there wasn't any rule on what kind of mode of transport a student can take to school. This ended up a bit subverted, as the principal demanded to know why a horse was being brought in the first place after being asked.
* The semi-protection rule on MediaWiki sites such as [[Wikipedia]] in theory should deter if not prevent newly-registered vandal accounts from defacing articles protected under said rule, on the grounds that they should make a dozen or so legitimate edits to be given access to protected articles. However, enterprising trolls can take advantage of the sandbox feature by making innocuous edits for their account to count towards an autoconfirmed status, and thus be able to vandalise even supposedly-protected pages. This caused an issue when pages on contentious topics such as the state of [[Israel]] and [[The Holocaust]] became a prime target for vandalism and antisemitic sentiment even from autoconfirmed accounts, forcing Wikipedia to [[Obvious Rule Patch|adopt]] what is called an extended-confirmed protection rule where pages receiving heavy vandalism or those that pertain to controversial subjects can only be edited by established accounts, as while giving the pages full protection (i.e. only admins can edit) would have been anathema to the site's principle of a "free encyclopedia", they wouldn't want to see antisemites and trolls savage articles on Jewish subject matter either.
* "Antique firearms" <ref>Short version: blackpowder weapons that don't use fixed cartridges</ref> are (despite the name) not legally firearms in the United States (though they are still a "deadly weapon" and some state laws do consider them so). There is indeed a market for concealed carry cap and ball revolvers.
* Going back on the ''BetaMax'' issue, the concept of home videos introduced a new market for many indie studios since the rating system only dealt with films released in the theaters at the time thanks to children being part of those going to them. However, it was often seen as a form of censorship, and [http://www.filmadvisoryboard.com/ratings/ rating system] for the DTV market wasn't around. This lead to many to simply release their films as DTV, but it meant a film meant for adults could end up in the hands of children. If you ever heard of [[Video Nasties]], well, you can thank to this loophole.
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