Thanks God for my Flash blocker. :)

Same for Arizona.

That's quite surprising. The UK is absolutely plastered with rides, but France not so much. I thought it would be the other way around, I've always thought of the French being much more cycle friendly (the UK seems very cycle hostile most of the time).

... Can we keep it there forever? Stop changing it back and forth please.

Don't be quite so complacent in what you think students CAN'T do, especially saying "far beyond what students can do". When I was 16 I was writing assembly language competently, if I were 16 now, I would be (successfully) finding ways to tunnel stuff through normal HTTP traffic via a machine outside the network (it's not hard, certainly easier than learning asm). In a school of any appreciable size you'll have at least one student with the capability to do this.

He is a human. All humans lie. :(

Do other people genuinely hear ringing (like the repeated sound of a bell?) or is it just a figure of speech?

Mine doesn't sound like a ring, it's a continuous tone at what seems about the frequency of a CRT TV flyback (about 15kHz or so. I went to the effort of putting my signal generator through headphones and turning the knob until it matched the constant tone I always hear). It never goes away. I can ignore it though, but it never goes away regardless of whether I'm in silence or a lot of noise.

If he does it commercially, yes.

It's an FAA matter because the FAA regulates the National Airspace System in which this RC aircraft was flying. No one else regulates airspace in the United States, not cities, not states, airspace is a federal matter and many cases have settled this (for example when cities try to enact their own overflight rules, the FAA slaps them down, and has been doing for a long time). It doesn't matter what you're flying, you are still subject to 14CFR if you fly something. It doesn't matter how small or light it is.

The FAA doesn't regulate cars, RC or otherwise so the RC car example is not relevant.

A few years letters? :P

Change is only constant if the degree of the leading term is 1 :-)

Anyone have any examples of the "rarefied vocabulary" used by the SAT?

Like YouTube, Hulu, etc.?

If so, then yes a lot and daily. Who needs a TV unless you use it to watch there? ;)

Jack Bauer, I know it was you. :P

I still use 2000 and third parties (e.g., OpenOffice and LibreOffice). I also dislike the ribbons. I am forced to use it at work. :(