Aye, grounding sticks are your friend!

I'm not an electrician either (I'm an EE), but if you take some decent precautions (insulated sleeve screwdriver, or a stubby), it's not so dangerous to open out a wall switch. What's a lot more dangerous is if you have anything with both hot and neutral close together - then you're in danger of arc flash, which IMO is quite a bit more dangerous than live-to-ground leakage.

Also, don't fog machines use glycol? It does leave a residue that can, at first glance, look oily, but its not the same thing

Oh you can fix that easy - just use a Golden Sound Intelligent Chip, I'm sure they've upgraded the technology to work with SSDs too. Of course, there's always the old standby, the Altmann Tube-o-lator, I suppose it makes all the MP3 files stored on the NAND flash take on a warm "tube sound".

What about stories of how RAM chips today are too slow to keep up with cutting edge CPUs?

The competition was called the MRCA - Multirole Combat Aircraft, for a medium weight aircraft (max takeoff weight 25 tons). The Su-30MKI has an MTOW of nearly 39 tons, and if you've ever seen one up close, they are HUGE aircraft.

India's military relationship with the US has not always been very good. For example, when India supported the Bangladeshis during their Liberation War, Nixon's response was to send in a carrier battle group to support Pakistan, despite evidence of genocide by the West Pakistani army. Given India's closeness to the USSR, the US was always somewhat wary of military ties. Operation Smiling Buddha and Operation Shakthi didn't help very much either, but the US rather quickly learned that economic sanctions against India didn't really prove effective and withdrew them in a few years.

The IAF also has a relatively long history of using fighter aircraft and helos of French origin. The French are not shy about sharing technology either, such as the Master AP system that's integrated into India's Ballistic Missle Defence network, or SAGEM's numerous avionics subsystems that are part of the HAL Tejas.

Bottom line, then, is that while I'm sure US support of Pakistan would have had some influence, many other factors (much of it historical) contributed to the final decision.

If they had babies, would they be bomblets?

So what you're saying is in Soviet Russia, navigation satellite tracks you?

Ebola is a possible bio-weapon. Any vaccine developed would have an immediate market within the armed forces - quite an incentive to develop one, if you ask me.

Isn't this also true of carbon-based proteins (usually what membranes and catalysts are made of)?

Agreed, this is my reason for having a Windows box and a Linux box at work. I use, on a fairly regular basis, Solidworks and Altium Designer. Both are DiretX/3D heavy, and don't work well under emulation. Most of the software dev work, though, is under Linux. At home, I normally have a Linux box, and a Windows laptop.

There was a rather large field campaign called The Severe Thunderstorm Electrification and Precipitation Study (STEPS) to study electrification done around the year 2000 that involved the use of polarimetric weather radar to observe electrified storms, in conjunction with the New Mexico Tech Lightning Monitoring Array (LMA).

One of the nice things about polarimetric radar is the ability to measure the aggregate orientation of particles, including ice crystals. When scanning active electrified storms, the radars observed polarimetric signatures indicating increased vertical orientation of particles aloft (ice crystals), which then suddenly snapped back to roughly random orientation. This event corresponded well with measurements from the LMA. In other words, they could, using radar, predict lightning strikes. I love science!