I don't think an easy-bake-oven will work with an LED or fluorescent bulb. You need a heat ball for one of those.

Or just write faster!

Actually I did hear the "Star Wars" project relating to satellites that can shoot down enemy ICBMs was an imaginary project. The US even had sci-fi authors come up with ideas and then made it seem to the US public as well as the USSR that we were working on those. It helped to bankrupt the USSR as they were spending money on these futuristic weapon systems while we were not.

It isn't that hard to just not take a job at a criminal organization. If you work there then you are complicit of the illegal actions done by your organization. It is that complicity that has marked you for death. Each and every NSA employee and contractor deserves death and if I were to govern the New US, they would all be lined up for the firing squad!

Isn't compartmentalization a big part of any terrorist organization structure? They want to keep the different parts unaware of what the other parts are doing. So it sounds like the NSA is just another terrorist organization that needs to be taken out with remote drones. In this case we have the proof that they are illegal and unconstitutional so I have no problems with drones or just armies of upset citizens storming their compound and taking them all out execution style. We need to take back our government from the illegal terrorists that have stolen it from us!

Declaring open season on any NSA employee or contractor would be a good way to fix it. Once all the people that have a conscience leave, then you are only taking out the psychopathic sickos and making the world a better place. Since they are breaking the law and the constitution anyway, it is really just a big illegal gang and if the police can't handle it perhaps we need an old-fashioned lynch mob to round them up and end them all. And people will think much more thoroughly about applying for a job there in the future.

I've heard this argument before. Then just last week I learned of a new cure for hepatitis C that seems to be pretty reliable. I would say that blows your theory out of the water!

I know people who have made great strides is the symptoms of their autistic children by changing their diet and especially cutting out gluten. I thought there was already a known connection between the gut bacteria and autism. Oh, well. Sometimes it takes the mainstream a while to catch up on what some people are figuring out.

Yeah really!! Do we all have to start worrying about being arrested when at the airport waiting area and we plug in our smart phone to top off the charge. What about coffee shops that don't have explicit signs saying it's ok to plug in your laptop. But what about my rechargeable toothbrush? Will plugging that in instead of a laptop get me arrested.

The steering and brakes may be manual and work fine if the engine cuts out, but the engine braking that starts up suddenly while doing 65 down the freeway might cause your rear wheel to slip out or something. All I can say is I would not want to be on a bike going at speed when you suddenly let out the clutch on a dead engine!

They knew about zombies in Shawn of the Dead also. Shawn didn't want his friend to say the 'Z' word.

That's really the point right there. You are perfectly fine to try to convince people that your way is right. If you can change many people's opinion you can make great progress in shifting public opinion. If you pass laws to outlaw things, you haven't convinced anyone that you are right and they will either fight back and forth about the law (abortion rights), or just lose respect for the law and break it.

Reference or learning material is definitely paper book for me. Reading a sci-fi novel at lunch time or whenever I find myself waiting in line or with time to kill for some reason, the ebook is always in my phone in my pocket ready to go.

This is the biggest benefit of ebooks to me. I have them with me wherever and whenever I am. I don't have to carry an extra book in my hand to lunch. Even a small paperback won't really fit in pants pockets, but my phone does. And if I find I end up having to wait in line for something unexpected, I will never be in a situation where I didn't remember to bring a book, it's there on my phone.

Trader Joe's does something close. It's not a deposit return, but they give you 10 cents off your bill for each bag you bring with you to be reused. There is a big 10c mark printed right on the bag to remind you to bring them back. They use the paper kind with good strong handles, so I use them for keeping recycled stuff in until I take it out to the recycling can outside which also works good as they are being reused. And if you don't have enough with you when you are shopping you don't pay for the extra, it's money back for reusing, but not an extra cost to get new ones.