Not quite: Wisdom could give you a bonus to your save against mind affecting spells, but the base value depended on your class and level. And you needed to roll over ... probably better to say that he failed his save.

Both Valhalla and Folkvang were located in Asgard. Both were most certainly afterlives!

True, but it still requires continual physical access to sensitive areas as well as agents that continually steal and post copies, putting themselves at risk of exposure every time.

That depends on the actual working of the proposed law. TFS seems to suggest that the miner gets the rights to both the mined minerals as well as any minerals in the asteroid.

While that is technically true, the time where solar cells produce power is the time where the general power consumption is largest: During working hours. Thus, solar power reduces the peak power output needed by power plants. As power plants based on coal, nuclear and oil must support the peak need at all times, usage of solar power to lower the peak output needed means that power plants can reduce their power production, reducing their need for fuel as well as their environmental impact. (As power plant must produce enough power to support peak power needs, much of the power production during the night is simply wasted. This is why some are pushing for battery powered cars as these would be able to put the wasted capacity to use, even store it for use during day hours.)

Given that those subsidies are tax funded, people are already paying ;-)

You have got a zero too many there, it is actually $0.007 per stream. As you note, it is difficult to get a handle on what is good enough, partly because all we usually hear is what artists get without any note on how much the label gets.

... and what will happen when non-US entities decides to charge NSA operatives for similar crimes?

That depends on why the police does not follow up on these thefts. I would expect that the police prioritize which crimes they spend their resources on. So they may ignore pickpockets (and the like) to focus on armed robbery and other violent crime? It could be interesting to find out more about that, though. Especially given that all the evidence is basically served to them on a silver plate, not to mention that following a stolen phone around could give them a wealth of information on the people that do the fencing and reselling.

What about the other part of the police officers statement? Do you really want to risk your life over an inanimate object?

Sometimes links die because the site did an update without implementing a redirection scheme (msdn.microsoft.com, I'm *glaring* at you). In some instances, it is possible to figure out the address in the new scheme and find whatever page you were looking for. If the url is hidden, this becomes a bit harder.

Yup. Link is to Fox News, and TFA is extremely void of actual infomation.

If I understand you correctly, any marijuana sold at Dutch coffee shops must then have been either grown illegally or smuggled into the country?

I was about to make a comment like this. After playing Civ: V a lot, I had only logged some 40 hours of play!

Having a state religion is not necessarily as bad as it sounds. In Denmark (where I live) the state religion is Lutheran Christianity, run by the People's Church. And the name is intended to be taken literally: At the local level, the Church is controlled by the Congregation Council, whose members are elected by the members of the congregation. Among other things, they hire the local priest(s). Priests (and other religious officials) are not allowed to use the Church floor (or in any other official capacity) to do political propaganda, whether it is against abortion or for a certain politician. The People's Church is also open to a wide array of ideas among its members - it is acceptable to believe in reincarnation, that the bible is just a book of wisdom. A priest even managed to get away with publicly stating that he did not believe in a creating god.

In Denmark, the effect of having a People's Church is that the Church plays no political role. Even though I am an Atheist, and ideologically opposed to the idea of having a state religion, I cannot help realizing that this particular instance helps secularization rather than impede it. I am also not a member.