Jeg og :-)

that there is no training. There IS training for FOSS products available, but you may have to actually look for it ... of course, the MS reps and shills deny it. Redpill Linpro here makes money giving FOSS courses in several cities. The ad supplements to the IT journals carry course schedules. And no, the courses are not free, similar price per day as other computer courses.

Last two chapters of Judges - these are probably the "worst". Of course, Ezekiel 23 would have the parent throwing a fit.

Exactement. And besides, a Moroccan is unlikely to use Canadian French. (I understand some of la langue métropolitaine, but spoken Canadian French just bounces off me ...)

And how does this relate to an incident at Heathrow Airport, London? You know, London in the UK?

You are sounding more and more like the wintrolls on c.o.l.a.
Wipe the foam off your mouth and go to the rear of the class. You may come forward when you have gained some understanding of what you are talking about.

Agree with all of the above, and also: I once had a motorized table that could be raised and lowered at a touch of a button. It was wonderful. I could raise the table and stand up to stretch my back and legs, it had room for two monitors. The "desktop" PC was actually hanging under the table, but out of the way so I didn't bang my knees on it when sitting down.

ITYM String: I'm a frayed knot!

The fries would have to say like Hercule Poirot does: "I happen to be Belgian!". Now isn't it time to forgive the French for being right?

Professor Giæver's specialty isn't exactly climate science ... but he ought to be qualified to judge the evidence for AGW, assuming he ever looked at it. Somehow it reminds me of the geologist professor Ivan Rosenqvist, who - if I recall correctly - denied that the acid rain over northern Europe was due to gases transported over long distances. He did have other valid points, but later events have shown that it was indeed sulfuric and nitrous gases from central Europe that gave (most of the) acid rain over Scandinavia.

When security is involved, the question is "are you paranoid *enough*". BTDT.

And I wanted so much to come visiting again. Right now the exchange rates are such that I could afford an extensive trip around the places where I've been before, and to new places. (The US was a great place to visit, but I don't want to live there. )

My son and his wife are a pair-of-docs, you anonymous clod.

Using microbe strains it can be done a lot faster. And it is being done, see Lenski et al. Of course, the fundie creationists replied that the results showing evolution were obviously faked, since there is no such thing as evolution.

A hot-water spa in Iceland using the waste water from a geothermal power station, its intake is 2000 meters down. Great place, I was surprised to find that the water is salty, at about 1/3 the salinity of ocean water.
If you fly trans-Atlantic, make a stopover in Iceland and spend a day at that spa. It's worth it.