In my county (midwest America) communication between lawyers and courts is still entirely by fax. I don't know if that's the case of other counties in my state, but it wouldn't surprise me at all.
It's logically dishonest to say "There are no gods." How do you prove there isn't something? Maybe you just can't see it right now. Agnostic atheist is the only logical position one could take.
Best piece of advice I can give about learning anything (that doesn't involve risk of injury): don't try to learn everything there is to learn. Decide what you want to do and learn what you need to do that. Tell me something you'd be interested in doing...
Arduino and hobby electronics. It started out as a continuous loop pad dye machine to save me having to dye fabric by hand, strictly mechanical, but then I wanted to automate adding the chemicals at the right times. Then it was keeping the dye liquor a consistent temperature. Then it was draining the trough automatically. Then I figured out I could design my own PCBs and have them fabricated. It just keeps going...
That's how RICO works: you don't have to have committed the actual crime, but if your actions materially contributed to the commission of the crime, that's considered pretty much the same thing.
Developer here: can confirm. (#4 is actually true.)