In an ideal world where it wouldn't impair your chances of publication, it would be nice to include Wikipedia in your acknowledgements like you would a librarian who helped you find sources. Perhaps do it subtly by acknowledging Jimbo Wales (without including an important message from him) or something.

There is a correct answer - but it is the set approximately {x|18x122}.

I use a 12C emulator on mine, and it adds at speed just fine.

"Hey Siri, show me pictures of schnauzers" is far more accurate that one would imagine.

I'd suggest backing everything up to a hard disk and sticking it in a safe deposit box at a bank. To save trips, have two disks; drop one off and pick the other one up, swapping them out again next cycle. It takes more work than an internet-based solution that runs automatically overnight, but it may be cheaper and (if you encrypt the drives) the security is hard to beat.

I use a 4K iMac with integrated graphics, really more of a Lightroom system, dual booting macOS Sierra and Windows 10. It's probably safe to say that a Mac is the epitome of a non-gaming PC, but I don't play anything more demanding than Watch Dogs, and it handles that fine if I disable my second monitor and don't crank the graphics up all the way.

I have used G Suite for several years - Gmail running my domain's email. I get even more storage than regular Gmail, no ads, and I can still access my mail as an Exchange account on my iPhone so I can get push mail on Apple Mail. Before that, I had a hosted Exchange account with GoDaddy that did the job alright. Today if I wanted to go the hosted Exchange route I'd probably just do Microsoft Office 365's business plans that include email - either the $5 one that just gives you Exchange and OneDrive, or the $12.50 version that gets you all the Office applications as well. It looks like Microsoft offers something called Exchange Online that is just email with no OneDrive, in a couple of flavors. Which way you go depends on how you feel about Google and Microsoft. Microsoft's solutions will naturally play better with Outlook, if that is important to you.

It sounds like an effective idea in theory - until someone sues the instructor and institution for violation of student records privacy (in the United States, FERPA is the relevant federal legislation), depending on the jurisdiction and details, potentially libel.

Same here, though I've wound up using an iMac mostly now. Apple laptops, especially, are tanks. The battery has to be replaced after a while depending on usage, and a new hard drive is wise after 5 years or so, but they're hard to kill and keep performing pretty well (except right before you need to do the hard drive, of course, and the current crop of MacBooks all have SSDs that should last as long as everything else does). And if Unix is your preference and you need more than a Chromebook, where else are you going to go? All of this was even more true in 2003 when I switched over from Windows with a side of Linux.

Without looking at all the details, it could actually be the insurance company suing on their behalf (subrogation). When you file a property insurance claim where a third party may be liable - the most common case is a car accident where you file a collision claim under your own insurance instead of a liability claim under the other guy's - the insurance company acquires your underlying right to seek reparations, either through an insurance claim or a lawsuit. If this is successful, you often get your deductible back. (There is no subrogation for life insurance, in case you were wondering - presumably because the insurance companies would tie up the courts with wrongful death suits that nobody would want to settle)

Coal power might not be much cleaner than internal combustion engines in the long run (though possibly more efficient due to economies of scale), but it's easier N faster to replace a power plant as better generation technologies become available or economically feasible than to replace everyone's car. Once the cars are electric, they automatically benefit from any changes in how the electricity is made without any action or investment by the end user.

....considering as I am a salesman. If I or my customers are wearing headphones it gets in the way.

You're making several inaccurate presumptions. First, non-academic library users do come from all generations. Second, electronic systems are not more complicated than card catalogs from the user perspective -- most libraries find that general use of the library goes up when an electronic catalog is established, due to their making it easier to find materials. As for the topic at hand, if the group is familiar with library automation, I presume that some of them may also be familiar with cataloging enough to be able to make good use of something like Evergreen -- it scales down to small libraries quite well. Delicious Library sounds like a good idea but it can't handle MARC records like you can download from the Library of Congress for many books (or using the Z39.50 protocol, from many other institutions including research libraries), and I've found it to be rather weak on authority control. Evergreen and similar will allow for proper copy cataloguing from LC or other major libraries instead of just Amazon, which Delicious seems to use.

On the bus, train, or streetcar, or an airplane if you're going between cities, you can use any device you want except a music player without headphones (which is against the rules on probably most systems). I take the Chicago Transit Authority's buses and trains all the time, plus Metra trains on occasion, and loads of people are always using newspapers, books, Kindles, smartphones, iPods, iPads, you name it. They had to crack down on the drivers using phones a while back, but for everyone else it's not a problem.

::scurries across the apartment to take a look::

One on my wife's hearing aid dryer, one LCD clock (and another with what I believe to be an incandescent bulb backlighting the dial), one to help me find my flashlight in the dark, and whatever shines through our windows overlooking the Chicago Loop.