You should be able to sue for the damages to your house and what you spent to have the tree trimmed back. A judge may also grant an injunction against your neighbor to keep plants from growing onto your property (technically this is how property works but people need reminding sometimes). However you neighbor could sue you for damaging her tree or at least modifying it without here permission.

Seems like something hard to justify in a standardized testing world. Having said that, I agree wholeheartedly.

But changing is hard. I think it's funny that you can say you want to reduce dependence on oil and that is fine but then say that you might as well do something cleaner if we are going to invest the money anyway and everyone freaks out.

I know at least 3 people who believe this. Also, there was a Tea Party spokesman on NPR a few weeks ago implying that armed rebellion was a real possible outcome of there movement and one of there talking points is that the current government is socialist so a few of them probably believe a Communist over throw is a real possibility as well. Just because it's ludicrous doesn't mean people don't believe it.

Google is a publicly traded company so why not both? All kidding aside China is way scarier.

I didn't mean all of Slashdot... I self identify as a citizen of the United States so yes us refers to the USA. Having said that, I don't think we (the US) are the only Country on earth that is beholden to China. Time will tell how good or bad that is, but big change often hurts the little guy the most in the long run.

Standing up to China takes stones. Having said that, I am more and more afraid that they'll own all of us in my lifetime anyway.

Am I the only person ion earth that likes the ribbon? And yes, I use OO.o to and don't have a problem with that interface ether.

As a Virginian I have to agree totally with this and I live an hour from D.C.

I'm sure FF support is coming one way or the other.

I doubt our definition of life is anywhere near broad enough to ever be sure what is out there.

I love pointing this out to strict (read evangelical) creationists right after they quote the Pope on something else.

I see what you did there.

That's fine by me. Tried it, didn't like it after a while, quit. I don't want to change them, I'll just find a new game to play. I love the concept of EVE but in practice it's easy to be overwhelmed by the shear size and depth of the sandbox and the seemingly titanic time investment required for any kind of fulfilling game play. I don't want to change myself to play the game and I wouldn't change the game to suit my needs.