I LOVE the lolcat one!

I used to work for an ISP, and if we got reports of copyright infringement coming from your IP address (usually reported through our abuse channels), we had to shut the connection off after three reports. This was company policy.
Granted, you can always switch ISP's. But if the next one won't even allow any kind of file sharing- getting to be more and more common, see COmcast's completel blocking of it through their routers- you have just allowed your own ISP connection to be compromised due to the stupidity of allowing unauthorized access to your wireless.

And it happens, believe me, I worked enough of those issues. Clueless customer with unsecured network + Clueless downloader in the neighborhood sharing bandwith = No network connection after detection.

Secure with a password, and do what we do in my neighborhood- tell your closest neighbor the password so they can use it if their own goes down. It's the best thing to do.

I was 13 and a Freshman taking all Sophomore classes- and a girl.

If a teacher had given me this material, I would have loved it! I was sick and tired of being coddled and ignored by teaching staff- as a difficult, intelligent and progressive student, I pretty much had to watch myself get dumber because of the idiots my peers had for parents. My own parents weren't cool enough to know of or recommend good comics, and all my friends at the time were X-Men nerds, so I had no idea this stuff existed until college.

To be forced to resign is idiocy. If the parents have issues with their 13 yr old coming into contact with adult themes, they shouldn't have let her skip whatever grades necessary to end up in that unique position of being in a semi-adult class at age 13. Nuff said. My own skipping had to be approved by all my teachers and my parents, so it's not like they didn't know what they were doing as it happened.

If you are smart enough to read Homer, you are old enough to read Clowes. It's not even that racy! It's not like, I dunno, Song of Solomon!