Well, if the bible said that anybody wearing the crown of thorns got the powers of Jesus, then yes.

In the comics, whoever holds the hammer and is worthy is Thor, or at least has the power of Thor. Storm has had it. Beta Ray Bill had it. Well within Marvell pre-defined canon to have a woman get it.

Thor's been many people in the Marvel universe. Thor's been female as well as alien. Once even a frog. Whoever picks up the hammer and is worthy is Thor is a pretty much standard bit of Marvel character and lore. There is certainly precedent for a female Thor in the Marvel universe. Personally, I think Marvel can do a lot better at making a decent female character than DC. Hell, DC isn't even trying and whenever they start to get a strong female fanbase, they try and ruin it as shown with several titles and stupid remarks lately. Will, the old Thor come back? Who knows. I'd probably side with you and say yes, but if they do pull off a comic with a strong female backing (and sales to go with it), I can see her staying.

I'm actually thinking these are more for internal discussions or notifications to superiors more than anything else. Don't want future administrations of your government that might not be so keen on your current policies and don't want to make things suspicious by deleting the email servers? Type a letter and pass it to somebody else who can type their own letter and send it back through a trusted courier. The people involved would be able to make their own copies if there was email, so it's not really less secure. All copies should be destroyed later and there is easy deniability.

Hrrm. Pretty much all only deal with what seems to be opportunistic growth after the fall of Borders since 2009, and based on the same American Booksellers Association data. Assuming these numbers reflect the reality and are a constant percentage of all total bookstores in the USA, it still only deals with a recent phenominon with obvious cause, and even then "The current total is less than half the 1990s peak of around 4,000." Although amounts vary, everything else I've seen says the same thing, the number of bookstores is going down.

Not buying it without some sort of citation. I've seen too many small bookstores disappear in the past decade and none to replace them. Seattle may be an outlier because the general population has changes a lot in the last two decades also, but when I moved here there was at least a dozen book stores within walking distance of my apartment. Currently, there are four, including the Barnes & Noble.

I've had to do a lot of soul searching with buying music and books online, but in the end, that's what won. Stores pretty much competed against themselves on selection and price. They can't beat the online stores for that and only have instant gratification. In many cases, the used stores just don't have the selection of stuff I want to buy as they are mostly filled with stuff people didn't want. Add in eBay to Amazon and I can get pretty much get what I want, not what the brick and mortar store happens to have, for cheaper. I just have to wait a few days. Given that I have fringe tastes and brick and mortar stores usually don't have what I want anyway, it's even more not worth my time to go over racks of music or books to see if they do so I've had to stop really even considering brick and mortar stores and option, unless I'm just in the area and want to waste some time browsing.

In general, anything without a removable battery and a camera or microphone is a threat to national security. The US declared this a long time ago. My cousin works as a civilian on an army base. Everybody, workers, soldiers, generals, etc, has been required to leave their phones in their car if they don't have a removable battery since cell phones were a thing, and IIRC, I think they just made that a no phone on base thing completely with the coming of smart phones.

No, but it's fun to, because it's just some silly fight from 100 years ago.

Actually, we usually say "damn Yankee".

Because, when I am done with it, it is essentially an wifi enabled mp3 player with browser that I can take and use in situations where I might fear getting my new phone broke, lost, or wet.

Certainly Adobe has never replaced a current product with a new one (eg Pagemaker and InDesign, or Bridge with Lightroom, in function anyway).

Pretty much. The police went to great efforts to make sure that if anything happened, their role in legalization was clear, and that pretty much boiled down to that they don't have to give a damn. Sure, there's a ticket for smoking it in public, just like there is for jaywalking. I suspect that Seattle will end up giving out both tickets in the same situations, either because you're really unlucky or talking back to a cop who asked you politely not to do what you are doing. Getting such a ticket will be a mark of honor that you can show your friends from out of state. I've known enough cops to guess that if somebody complained to a cop about not having a legal place to buy it, they'd just look at them funny and say "Jesus Christ, where were you getting it before it was legal? Just back there, they still have it."

Hah! You probably do all the time but just don't know it.

Then again, you're just an agumentative AC who is probably just trolling.

"Stop quoting laws, we carry weapons!" - Pompey