That gives me an idea. The North Carolina legislature can easily create a space exploration industry in the state (boosting economic development and creating plenty of jobs.) All they need to do is to pass legislation outlawing gravity for all vehicles designated as "space vessels" inside a region designated by lines extending from the center of the Earth through the borders of the state out into space. Want to launch something to the ISS? Just put it in a trash bag and formally state "I dub this trash bag to be a space vessel." Zip, up into space it goes. Simple as that.

Which God was that? Would that be Uranus, Cronos, or Zeus? Osiris, Seth, or Horus from Egypt? Brahma, Shiva and/or Vishnu from Hinduism? Quetzacoatl? Izanagi? Marduk, Coyote, Odin (although that seems more like a Loki trick)? I can keep going for a while based on Wikipedia's list.

Who died and made _their_ god king? [If they worship someone like Zeus or Cronos, who did inherit power from a previous god that did die, fair enough.]

"So that means that the Flying Spaghetti Monster is not actually God but is in fact ... SATAN?!?!"

"Yes, Church Lady."

Does that include free software like Linux, Firefox, etc? So Microsoft should be able to download that software and do whatever they want with it? If you disagree with that statement, what's the difference between Linux, Firefox, and this guy's photograph? What makes the first two copyrightable and the last one not?

Before she started going nuts on the guy, I'm guessing describing that her sites were intended to promote a charity and attributing the photo might have worked.

Now? If I were the photographer, her next communication to me in ANY form would be answered very simply: "Address any further communications to my lawyer, here's his or her address."

That's what he said.

If there isn't such a person in the government, see if your local television station has a "consumer watch" reporter. This reporter investigates stories of companies not living up to their promises and names and shames them (if necessary.) If faced with the possibility of bad PR, the ISP may be willing to go a little farther than they would otherwise.

The Dragon Ball manga wouldn't be my first choice for a 3-year-old's first manga, considering how Bulma convinces Roshi to give up his dragon ball. In the anime she promises him a kiss; in the manga, if I remember correctly (it's been a while since I read that volume) she promises him a peek at her underwear ... which she somehow didn't realize Goku had innocently (yes, really) removed during the night. Dirty old man indeed.

That depends on what you're trying to do with the "Tech / TV / CARs" -- if you're trying to repair existing ones, then a vocational school may be a good option. If you're trying to design new ones from scratch (or even design significant modifications to one that already exists) that I'm going to use, I'd kind of like at least one (ideally most) of the designers to have advanced engineering or science degrees.

That's why the May 2011 data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (the first set of data I found; I didn't dig for more recent data) indicates that "automotive service technicians and mechanics" (occupation code 49-3023) made an average annual salary of $38,560 while "mechanical engineers" (17-2141) made an average of $83,550.

Given that the article described the little girl as having nightmares for the next several nights:

Croft said that for the first few nights after coming home, Isabelle had nightmares and talked about kidnappers. She said TSA agents had shouted at the girl, telling her to calm down and saying the suspect wasn't cooperating.

doesn't that make the TSA agents, by the dictionary definition of the word, terrorists? Dictionary.com has as the second definition for the word "a person who terrorizes or frightens others" and it sounds like this girl became extremely frightened or even terrified.