If you just try to plug this into a wall socket, you could feed electricity out of your house into the power lines people are working on. Something that idiots installing home-center purchased generators have been known to do. This is why when power generators are properly installed, they use cutoffs and safety switches between the house and the main utility meter to prevent back feeding power into the grid when nothing is coming in. Anyone that does this should only run a line from the car to an outlet strip to power a few critical items, unless a proper system is installed and inspected to prevent that back-feed.

Check the calendar, it's 40 years since the 1970's Modern diesel cars do not have soot coming out of them. they use low sulfur fuel, and the engines do not cost twice as much. Just go to the VW US site and compare the prices for the diesel version of any of the cars with the gas model of equivalent power. And compare the diesel mileage to both the equivalent gas engine or the most economical gas engine, diesel wins both times. The only wonder is the stupid prejudice manufacturers have about how the public will react to diesel. It scared Honda from offering the what many consider to be the best passenger car diesel in the world to US consumers. A decision I am still mad about. The other wonder is why small diesels are not offered in the US in light duty pickups, like F150, Dakota, Tacoma. The efficiency and power make all kinds of sense there too.

Releasing secrets is often good, as many secrets just protect the asses of corrupt vested interests. But why do we see no releases of secrets from potential threats to free societies? Like China, various idiot countries like N. Korea, Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, Iran, etc? Just sayin'...

It issues degrees based on granting credits for life experience, CLEP testing, and self-study course. They have no classrooms and are fully accredited and are a NJ state school, not a private Phoenix-like school. There are a few other schools like it around if you look. One of them is likely to offer a degree you want. http://www.tesc.edu/

I concur. I bought a Lenovo T61 a few years back because of the quality of the hardware and support. And I worked for Sony and used a co. issued VAIO. (I bought it with SLED as the OS, tired of it and installed XP, and then upgraded to Win7. Solid with all of them) The support software that comes with it is top notch and the support site is easy to figure out. I do not know whether the same support software is available on the consumer laptops, but I would definitely keep Lenovo on your list to look at.

I have been investigating ways to avoid shoveling, or buy a snow-blower. I have no garage to store it in and my driveway is below grade, so hauling that thing to and from the driveway is at the least inconvenient. And that is without worrying about some drive-by theft if I try leaving it in the driveway over the winter. After looking at the various alternatives, electric cables, hot water from a tank or geo-thermal pumped through plastic pipes, I ran across infra-red heat lamps being used for this. Looks interesting. I have no clue practical this is, or how much it will cost to install yet. But since I need to move and rebuild my driveway anyway, I figure I will ask some contractors for estimates on how much these would add to the cost. Or cost to run for that matter. Here is one link to a somewhat biased source: http://www.infraredheaters.com/snowice.htm#3.0%20%20Overhead

"The other thing I am finding is that, while you don't have be a salesperson, having some level of social skills and the ability to work with clients makes a big difference."

Then hire a friggin' salesman.

If I wanted to be a people person I would have gone into porn, not I.T.

It's all over their parents basement.

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'It's only a matter of time before regulators catch wind of just how many times we're being charged for the exact same thing.'" They do know this. they do not care. The regulators are in the pockets of those they regulate. Look at any regulated industry. Most of the time they support being regulated because they use those regulations for their own benefit. Oil, gas, Finance, banks, autos, pharma, etc. Even if an industry fights against initial regulation, they support it afterward, when then end up controlling it. They use the regulations to justify anti-consumer actions and to drive UP the cost of entry to keep competition down. Or even to eliminate competition if they can slip in a regulation that damages competitors. That is why lobbying is such a big business. the lobbyists win no matter what happens with regulations. They get paid to fight against or for any regulation that comes up. They are worse than lawyers.

"No end in sight for the politicizing of the science and research surrounding climate change." Duh. Since the funding for it comes from government it is politicized from the start. What the OP is saying is that only disagreement or challenge to one viewpoint is politcs, the other side is pristine pure selfless logic. Crap. It's ALL politics. Why else do progressives attack anything that questions AGW? True science accepts challenges either as corrections to a theory or as test of validity.

7 projects, 2 of which are corporate mandates with no additional funding or 'resources' to do them, 4 other administrative tasks, plus an hour or so each day dedicated to HR-related corporate marionette-ing to satisfy the Political Correctness Police. All for 2 shell scripts and a mainframe extract. That took 3 months to get done. And this isn't even a government job.

Only when done correctly

So you are saying they are Democrats?