The DSO Nano from Seeed Studio almost fits that bill. The specs aren't amazing, but at $89 with its own screen it's useful for education or light tasks. I keep one in my bag for emergency troubleshooting in the field.

They have a more capable version, too, for anyone who's interested.

Most of the elements you listed are period 4 or lower (sorry, I said "group" in my previous post, ugh) and within the first 30 elements: iron (26), magnesium (12), lithium (3), zinc (30), copper (29), chromium (24), nickel (28), cobalt (27), vanadium (23), and manganese (25).

The only exceptions from your list are arsenic (33), selenium (34) [both period 4], and molybdenum (42). Arsenic is largely extremely toxic to biological systems and is only used by a few specific bacteria species as a homolog for a more commonly used element (phosphorus). Selenium and molybdenum do have slightly more common biological roles, but are toxic in high concentrations. Many of their roles could probably be filled by sulfur and chromium, respectively, if they were not present (though perhaps less efficiently).

Life here has certainly made use of the available elements, but (assuming it could get started without heavy metal catalysts) most of the elements required are a pretty small subset.

Elements past period 4 aren't plentiful enough to appreciably change planet formation. 90% of the mass of the earth is contributed by just iron, oxygen, silicon, and magnesium. The relative abundance of period 5 and above elements is absolutely tiny.

Biological systems don't tend to use anything heavier than group 4 elements, and the heavier elements actually tend to poison their proper function. Assuming the "primordial soup" didn't need platinum or something to catalyze early reactions, our flavor of life could be made with a much smaller vocabulary (the first 30 elements or so).

That entirely depends on the institution/department and the negotiated contract. At no university I've been at could a tenured professor totally check out (stop teaching/researching/administrating) and continue to collect a paycheck or remain employed. It makes no sense for an institution to not have certain performance expectations of the faculty set in the contract.

In any case, it's unlikely an absentee professor would make it past the next post tenure review. Tenure doesn't make you unfirable, it just ensures you have access to due process before being fired.

316.081 Driving on right side of roadway; exceptions.—

(2) Upon all roadways, any vehicle proceeding at less than the normal speed of traffic at the time and place and under the conditions then existing shall be driven in the right-hand lane then available for traffic or as close as practicable to the right-hand curb or edge of the roadway except when overtaking and passing another vehicle proceeding in the same direction or when preparing for a left turn at an intersection or into a private road or driveway.

(4) A violation of this section is a noncriminal traffic infraction, punishable as a moving violation as provided in chapter 318.

The Missouri "Keep right" laws don't support your scenario, though. According to this, all drivers should drive as far to the right as safely possible except if passing or preparing to turn left. If another car is able to pass you on the right, then you are not driving as far right as possible. In your scenario, the person in the left lane is violating the "keep right" law and the person in the right lane is violating the speeding law. Both of your hypothetical drivers are in the wrong.

In fact, the wording in the statute doesn't mention the speed limit at all, but refers to a "regular flow of traffic". If everybody else is speeding and you're driving the speed limit, you are violating the statute by refusing to move into the right lane. Leave speed limit enforcement up to the police... it's not your job.

Ask, and you shall receive.

That must vary by field.

In the sciences, if a professor doesn't bring in funding for research, doesn't have any administrative roles, and doesn't teach, they don't get a paycheck. Their lab space will eventually be taken away and they will be left with only an office (which may be downgraded, Office Space style, to let active faculty have the nicer offices). It's a pretty pathetic way to go out and very few people seem to do it.

Although of questionable constitutionality, as it may run afoul of the right to due process, an increasing number of criminal laws in the US are strict liability only, meaning that intent is not required to be demonstrated. Theoretically, prosecutorial discretion keeps these laws from being applied in ridiculous circumstances, but practically...

It's not only kids that like the walls. Adults are fond of them, too.

But anyway, you didn't have to drink gasoline to be exposed to the lead it contained. Burning leaded gas increased the amount of lead oxides in the air and in the dust layer on surfaces, both of which were easily ingested.

I got pulled over for speeding through a notorious speed trap in a little town with 400 residents and the cop walked to up me with no less than four 30 round magazines for his M4 strapped to his belt. There is quite literally no crime in this town besides people speeding on the stretch of highway that runs through it and he feels he must have immediate access to 150 rounds for a rifle. The mind boggles.

I couldn't help but actually laugh out loud at him when he waddled up to the window (which didn't help my suave talk-myself-out-of-the-ticket routine at all). It was almost comic in an over the top disturbing way.

This little dialog you've got going on here is stupid and I hate Cadillacs anyway, but the whole comparing-liking-fun-things (fast cars, guns, aircraft, etc) to small penises meme has got to stop. It really says more about your fixation with penises (and penis size) than anything else.

Looking at the console to find the appropriate knob or button is completely different from having to tap through seven different screens of icons to perform a simple task. The goal should be to make regular tasks easy to perform in a normal context. When the context is driving, the design should encourage the driver to keep looking at the road.

From my time on the road, it seems that you're making some serious assumptions about the risks taken by many drivers out there.

They did serve a tour in Japan. "It’s the Curies! We must flee!"

So you bring out some examples of crazy people from the past and hold them up as your definitions of everything. Impressive argument.

Race is involved, in that participation in that culture is responsible for the failure of many black people to do well in our society, but the problem isn't race. Race is tangential to the entire issue, which is correcting dysfunctional cultures, and only figures into this because you care more about the color of people's skin than their behavior. There are plenty of white people caught up in thug culture, too, but they don't figure into your thoughts because their skin is the wrong color for you.

You don't seem to understand... you are the racist. You are the one who is making everything about the color of people's skin, even when it isn't.

Your whole post is just a long string of ad hominem attacks and attempts to associate the opposing viewpoint with something nasty that it is not. Are you the same person who always jumps into debates about Israeli foreign policy crying "antisemitism"?