Well you can play Team Fortress 2 and get the best of both worlds!

My system has a total of nine 120mm fans (two front, two top, two side, two internal and one exhaust); five of them being 120mm CoolerMaster JetFlo's (four intake, one exhaust) and two of them for a Corsair H110i closed loop radiator. Now granted the system does sound like a jet airplane at 100% but if you use something like AMD Cool'and'Quiet or SpeedFan it's generally not all that loud, in fact from across my room the OTB filter in my 55g fish tank is probably louder. GPU card is a Sapphire Vapor-X Radeon HD 7970 and generally it won't be loud enough to notice unless it's under heavy load in which case I'm probably playing loud video games anyway.

The woman on the school board who decided this was a great idea is trying to use a law that addresses preference to childbirth and adoption over abortion (not by means of censorship mind you) to enforce her ideals on contraception but the law (A.R.S. 15-115) itself does not address contraception at all. In fact the state department of education said the pages in question do not endorse abortion but merely present information about contraception and related drugs as plain fact.

So long story short this woman with a power complex seems to think the law applies to contraception when the law itself in fact says nothing about it, and even if it did the law doesn't enforce censorship but mandates an alternative as a preferred option.
Local school boards are full of these types of people regardless of where you go.

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer haven't done any indepth research on this.

Since significant cash prizes are involved I'm thinking this might be able to be considered a type of fraud. Criminal legal action could be taken against the cheater but if there isn't some sort of law in criminal code that addresses this type of fraud then I suspect there will be in the future as e-Sports become more mainstream. Undoubtedly the tournament organizers could take civil action against the cheater.

Because no formal version of PPAPI exists but rather is an ever changing header file in the Chrome source code. Mozilla will not commit to spending the time and resources to implementing PPAPI only to have Google significantly break it on a whim and have everyone blaming Mozilla for their plugins not working. In contrast NPAPI is a rather old interface that has not seen significant modification in a long time and still works fine.

I agree. It's as if the OP has never played Kerbal Space Program.

Very rarely do news articles saying "X is against the law" ever actually cite the law in question. The applicable law in this case, if I understand correctly, is 47 U.S.C. 227.

As you can imagine this is potentially illegal in many jurisdictions so these crooks were probably breaking the law to begin with.

I also remember when someone figured out how coupon UPC's worked and got XBox controllers for unrealistic prices. Ultimately I imagine one of the reasons people get away with this type of thing with such ease is because retailer workers paid minimum wage with little or no benefits probably don't care at all.

Except in North Carolina where the sky is #56a0d3

According to CNN and Forbes North Carolina is the only state without civil forfeiture where the actual property owner must be convicted of a crime before the property can be seized.
Unfortunately as the Forbes article points out local law enforcement often gets a federal agent involved so they can use federal overreach to usurp the state's rights so ultimately it doesn't matter what the state law is.

That's a shame. Grin did one of my favorite break neck reflex twitching racing games and I've never found anything quite like it since.

Why a Macbook? Are they exceptional in battery life? Otherwise I might suggest a heavy duty workstation like an HP EliteBook; they're built pretty solid and would be hard to break if you plan on being away from civilization for a full year where damaged equipment might be difficult to get repaired, and their battery is replaceable so you can bring a sack full of batteries for you to swap out and charge when power is available. Can't really comment on HP's newer ZBook as I haven't seen one in person yet but it's the successor to the EliteBook line so it's probably just as solid.

If you like taking pictures, as I do, you might also want to bring a film camera so you always have access to taking pictures of your adventure without having to worry about batteries.