The Wright brothers had 5 major innovations that set them apart: 1. A propellor design that was 90% efficient rather than 50% 2. Wing warping for roll control 3. Rudder attached to the wing warping for controlled turns, solving the adverse yaw problem 4. Innovative balance in the wind tunnel, used the wind tunnel to design the airfoil, as all existing data proved to be wrong by a factor of 2 5. Lightweight gasoline engine The Wrights also engaged in an organized, step-by-step method of development, and carefully documented each step. Modern aircraft design can be traced directly back to the Flyer, and no other claimants. This is all in stark contrast to other claimants to first flight.

If someone takes something you bought, without permission, stealing? Even if they leave you a check for it?

"Take me to your leader."

Since taxes discourage whatever it is they tax, then let's tax things we want to discourage. Let's start with taxing pollution.

Never mind all the jobs lost from sucking $10 billion out of the economy to pay for those stimulus jobs.

Every year, people accidentally kill themselves with home generators. If you're going to use one, do not bring it indoors. Do not run it in the garage, even with the garage door open. I had mine outside and was still getting CO inside from it - turns out the generator must be a minimum of 10 feet away from the house, with the exhaust port pointed away. The next thing is, don't plug the generator wiring into your home electrical wiring. This will put juice back into the electric company's wires, and can electrocute the poor guy trying to repair the wires to your house. So, to use a generator, use extension cords with it. Make sure they are heavy duty ones, a lamp cord will fry. Let me emphasize heavy duty. At least 12 guage. Pay attention to how much amperage you're trying to draw through the cord and make sure it is heavy enough. You can hook it up to your home wiring system using a device called a "gentrans", which will isolate the generator from the power grid. You'll need a decent electrician to install one, but if your power goes out a lot, it's worth it.

You signed a non-compete agreement. Isn't your word any good? Or is it just what you can get away with that matters? Secondly, I would suspect you (if I was your employer) of not putting your best efforts into making it a good product. You are not being paid to do a deliberately crappy job, you are paid to do your best. If you can document that management shot down your attempts at doing your best, then fine, but if you're holding back your good ideas so you can compete with the company that trained you and paid you, that's just plain wrong.

So many companies have been hung out to dry based on emails one wonders why officers and above in the organization are even allowed to use email. They should go back to voice only, and have someone else write a memo if it is really important.