I noticed that web pages were loading the info-line at the bottom of my browser was going out to an ad server. The page would not load hardly anything until the ad server finished. So I installed an ad blocker and the speed to load a page increased quite a bit. There are some web sites I support and I give them a pass and let their ads come through.

Same with my company, all intranet web pages run IE6 great. Meanwhile if you surf outside the intranet, you have to use something else (google is now gagging at IE6 browsing). But there is a light at the end of the tunnel, we just started rolling out Win7. So maybe Win7 is the key to killing large bulk users of IE6.

Later I was reading more on this and I did see that each state has its own rules. Some had multiple different levels of punishment based upon the age differences (someone posted here about NY state).

In Minnesota we have civil commitment for sex offenders after they have served their time. In theory they can complete treatment but no one has ever been let out in 13 years . We have 149 people in our program. So they have not been denied due process, but in effect have received life sentences.

Regarding the 18 yr old, it is not statutory rape if their age is withing 2 yrs of the younger person. So boyfriend/girlfriends don't get charged with rape all the time. Of course if there is forcible rape this does not apply. But it makes the assumption an underage person can "consent" to sex with their boyfriend/girlfriend. Had to look this up regarding a niece running away from home with her boyfriend (so only may apply to Wisconsin law in the 1990's).

I do wear my wallet in the front pocket (from years ago where I read it is harder to pickpocket from the front) but all keys and everything else in the fanny pack.

I am glad someone else was willing to expose themselves to ridicule. I also use a fanny pack, but it must be smaller than the one above. No room for a Glock in mine.

Patent keeping the not side hot and the cold side cold.

Mr Roger's testimony also helped Stevens writer the majority opinion about Video Taping : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Rogers#Mister_Rogers_and_the_VCR

I concur. Through high school I missed out on Geometry. When I got to college and started Calculus the prof asked if anyone had not had Geometry and Trigonometry, so I raised my hand. He tutored me for a few hours and I was good to go. Much of geometry and trig is taking the time to prove the various relationships. I just had to accept that they were correct, never went through the pain of the proof process. One could argue that I missed something valuable, but it has never come up in 30 yrs of working as a scientist.

I attended a small liberal arts college and the professors were all about teaching. My prof was a very good teacher, so that may account for his skill in getting me up to speed. So try to seek out the best teachers (small colleges, maybe community colleges) and pay for a tutor, these profs can always use the cash.

I agree with an earlier post that I have used calculus rarely (and just went to the book to look up the integration/ differentiation rules). On the other hand in the last 10 years the use of statistics has really jumped in industry (I am a chemist/mauf engineer not a programmer) with Six Sigma and the like. So again you don't need to learn all the proofs behind the statistics, but you need to know how to run software for analyzing the data and what the results mean. How to run a DOE, how to plot an M&IR, how to use ANOVA to prove that a statistically significant exists/doesn't exist with data sets.

Your mileage may vary, since you might be in a vastly different arena. And of course there is the internet and various web sites where you could get help if you get in too deeply.

Blame the publishers for hanging onto their "agency" model (where publishers set the prices and the ibookstore is just the agency). The Amazon model will eventually win out, but the publishers have to go through their death throws.

In the mean time, look at the indie authors on Kindle. They set their own prices. There are some very good books and authors out there. The Amazon book review and rating method helps you find good quality books. You are no longer beholden to some publisher's decision about what is good writing. It is truly liberating.

It is like one of those time travel conundrums - did we name it Enterprise because we saw the future, or was the future influenced by what we named it here in the present?

Our company six sigma training included two weeks of collecting and analyzing data with a stats package. I got enough experience to even train me how to use the program. I can still do a few things that come up regularly. Probably the best thing to come out of six sigma (for me at least).

Sign of the times. I thought the question was if I had employment, not if at that instant was I at work reading slashdot.

You don't want to be on a floor higher than the tallest ladder available to your local firefighters. Normally in the US this is 7th story. I attended a conference a few years ago and the fire marshall for the city basically said they could not reach you above 7 and thus reducing your chances for survival in case of a fire.

Are you trying to get to Kelvin to double the temperature of water? Water boils at 373 Kelvin x 2 = 746 K