This distinction is all the more important when we are in a jurisdiction where the free-handed mortgage of a stock in trade is unlawful.

There’s a weaselly feel to the plan, a sense that tough decisions were postponed even as President Obama warns about our “perfect storm of financial problems.”

Gregory L. Peck (2010) Exercise for the Mind, Body and Soul: Pathway to a Better Life, →ISBN, page 11: “There are always a thousand and one reasons not to do something. But there are also always a thousand and one reasons to do something, particularly exercise.”

Thanks to cheap storage and easy copying, our digital souls have the potential to be truly immortal. But do we really want everything we’ve done online – offhand comments, camera-phone snaps or embarrassing surfing habits – to be preserved for posterity? One school of thought, the “preservationists”, believes we owe it to our descendants.