Alarm clock? I haven't needed an alarm clock for almost 4 years.

I'm sure it's merely a coincidence that my eldest child is almost 4 years old now.

You're talking about Rob Hall. May 1996 was a very bad month on Everest. I'm not sure how to feel about Hall - he was a very accomplished climber and guide, and was very conscious of safety concerns.

However, on that expedition, he had a client with him who had previously attempted Everest with him, and they were unable to make the summit. Hall pressed forward in 1996, hell-bent on getting that client to the summit to make up the previous failure, completely ignoring his 2 PM "point of no return" deadline - all climbers in his group were to turn back & return to the high camp regardless of where they were on the mountain, but he kept pushing forward instead.

I don't want to ever hear that conversation. If you want to read first-hand accounts of what happened that year, read Into Thin Air (I hate Krakauer; that book is more like first-and-a-half account, because Krakauer spent a lot of time in his tent) and The Climb (co-written Anatoly Boukareev, who had summited w/o supplemental Oxygen and then went back out to rescue people), and what he wrote is why I don't like Krakauer). It's haunting.

The IMAX crew helped with the rescue effort for several of the climbers who got caught out in that storm that blew in that day and summited later in the month. Those guys are the heroes.

The map & schematics were packaged with the letter.

Then I guess it's a good thing that every computer Omni Outliner can run on is capable of using Time Machine, isn't it?

There won't be version numbers. They'll just roll out updates, fixes & new features over time. Just like Google Docs and GMail - I don't recall seeing version numbers there, updates just roll out every now and then.

one of the trustees was also a high level employee at a local enterprise. He used his company discount to get them a new copy of Microsoft Office

Most likely, his company discount only got him a license to use that copy of Office on his own computer(s) for his own personal use. He may have saved them money that day, but if anyone should happen to do a software license audit on the church, it'll cost them much more than they "saved."

If you visit a local meeting of whatever autism or other handicap support organization is in your community, I guarantee this is NOT what you will see. You will meet families struggling to keep their homes and their sanity in the face of impossible demands on their time, health and budget.

My wife works with a lot of kids like yours, all over the Autism Spectrum (social worker/service coordinator). Her clients range anywhere from families living in 11,000 square foot mansions to those living in a seedy motel & having to choose between diapers for their newborn, putting gas in the car, and making this week's rent payment (yet both parents smoke at least a pack of cigarettes a day).

The parents in the middle to lower income brackets (excluding those at the absolute bottom) tend to be the most invested in getting their kids the services they need and more understanding of the policies & procedures that go along with everything. The really rich ones tend to either be in denial about their kids' needs, are actively unhelpful, or unreasonably demanding (demanding things that simply can't be done/given to them).

Or, if you leave your blinds open and your big screen T.V. on, should I be able to stand on the public sidewalk and watch?

At least until the NFL catches wind of it and drops lawyers on you for a public showing of their broadcast without express written consent.

And here I thought they just buried it on the site and I couldn't find it. They completely did away with it? Jerks.

They said that because they don't want to get sued for violation of his civil rights. Some shyster will want the case.

The ACLU is already involved.

That's a lot of time & money to spend on such an endeavor.

Verizon Wireless is a separate company from the rest of Verizon. Just like the catalog & web operations of many retailers are separate from their brick & mortar stores.

because I prefer to get my bits from the official location. Yea, I know a checksum should be good enough but I'm old school here.

"Old school" is downloading from your nearest mirror (official or otherwise) and validating the checksum anyway. So what's the difference?

There have been news articles about terrorist organizations specifically recruiting engineers for their skills so they can build weapons. This is not some coincidence of psychology, it is a fact of necessity.

I had a bunch of Iranians ask me to build them a nuclear bomb. I gave them a box full of pinball machine parts & kept the Plutonium to use as fuel for my time machine.

Jeez, spend 4 years in USA attending a university and go back to Korea without knowing English? Money well spent...

If it got him that high-paying job back home when he was finished, it was money well spent.