Your best bet would be to use Google Hangouts. Once you sign up with Google Voice, you will receive a Google Voice number. Hangouts app on both iOS and Android allows both incoming and outgoing calls. Its quite reliable. Voice quality is good compared to several VOIP providers I used. I had to rely on this when I was in Vermont this summer where reception for AT&T was pretty much non-existent for much of the countryside.

Look for positions in your university or college. Usually depts have part-time jobs that might require programming skills. The university libraries are also a good place to look for these. Even if they advertise for tech support or audio-video related jobs, apply. There is a good chance you can get into programming side once you join the department. They will definitely prefer students. The pay might not be great but the job is easy, not much pressure and they will work with you to accommodate your class and exam schedule. I had a job in the library during my sophomore and junior years. It was best of both worlds. Got real life training in programming while still being in university environment. Also, helped because I could fit my work hours between class hours and they were pretty accommodating during exam weeks. My job was maintaining a few internal websites which used PHP and mySQL.

How is this "new" tax any worse than the gasoline tax we all pay today? The state needs money to maintain the roads and infrastructure. Everyone has to pay! In this case its even more fair than applying this tax to your electric bill.

Apple store has them for $199 - starter pack with 3 bulbs and the wireless bridge (supports upto 50 bulbs). Each additional bulb is only $59.50 (Dont you love that its 50 cents less than $60). No thanks! Not going to spend $200 when I can move my butt, get off the couch to turn off the light!

If she was brown (Asian brown, not Mexican brown), you would see FBI, DHS, ATF, CIA, NSA, [fill in 3 letter Federal agencies] at that school and international news coverage on the case.

Why not kids in Asia, Africa or any other continent? Obviously, Google does not generate their revenue from US alone. They might be 'US-based' or whatever that means, but the people who work there are from tens of countries around the world and their products are consumed by people around the world. I understand you are American and obviously want to know why your fellow citizens are not benefiting from this. But this is not a zero-sum game. Every bit, anywhere in the world helps!

So a 4 yr old brown skinned Indian/Pakistani/Middle eastern girl can be patted down?

You got it wrong. Pakis are majority Sunnis and Iranians are majority Shiite. That's why most of middle east hates Iran. Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, Iraq are all Sunni majority.

I agree. Shipping15k packages a day is nothing. I work in the controls industry (software side, not PLC). Some of our biggest customers are big retailers. The most recent DC that I worked on ships no less than 150k cartons a day. They run 24x7 during peak seasons (Thanksgiving and Christmas). The conveyors we installed run at 500ft per min to accommodate the throughput.

I disagree. The Persians were the one of the most advanced scientists and engineers in the world before Arabs i.e. Muslims took them more over and destroyed their knowledge base.

This kind of setup would be god-sent for people like me who live in Florida! Freaking old people take hours to checkout. And then they have to chat with the checkout person and use thousands of their coupons even in the 10 items or less line too! Grrrr.....

What if that female TSA agent turns out to be Rosie O'Donnell? You really want to take that chance?

Arjun MBT is one of the finest tanks in our part of the world. The problem with its development is not because of just DRDO. It has to do with the govt policy, the army constantly changing its requirements and finally the penetration of Russian arms agents in the Ministry of Defense. All these factors have delayed the induction of a tank that kicked Russian T-90s in every environment that the Indian Army fights in. The comparative field trials of the Indian Army a few months ago showed Arjun MBT has consistently performed better than T-90. So, DRDO came out with a better tank that Russians who have decades of tank-building experience.