Which is fine, but that just means you have grown past the bar scene or your bar locations currently stink. Paying for a $5 drink in a bar is basically the cost of hanging out in the bar and not the cost of drinking. For an extreme example clubs in LV charge $500-$1000 for a big bottle of liquor that just happens to come with a table to sit at. The only way to sit in a table is the buy the liquor. For groups of guys sometimes the only way to get into the club is to buy the liquor. So while your bill at the end of the night just shows drinks X $ it's really the location, experience, etc... that you paid for.

Actually this is true for almost any modern structure. Look at the WTC. The cleanup took a very long time with many many people getting sick and some having life long medical issues from the incident. Containment, remediation and after effects all needed to be cared for.

If you look all over Japan where the earthquake and tsunami hit there also has to be containment and remediation. Modern city life is great when it's working, but very dirty when destroyed - especially on the scale that just happened in Japan. Fukishima will definitely provide its own challenges, but don't act like the rest of the Japan can just be 'rebuilt' without also cleaning up first.

So instead we keep burning coal plants and expectedly make the oceans completely toxic and uninhabitable? We already can barely eat the fish because of mercury that primarily comes from burning coal. Pregnant women are urged to not eat tuna at all, and everyone else is urged to limit their amount.

Yeah, each month Amazon rotates a bunch of albums into the $5 or less category. I usually scan through and find a couple things I want, and been having luck trying a bunch of new to me classical music.

I'm with you! I listen to nearly everything (not much country though) depending on my mood.

Lady Gaga is actually a very good singer. You can find her old stuff on youtube that she did pre being famous. Her current act is all about entertainment with music and visuals and I think she delivers.

In general business I think what you're seeing is mac desktops then Windows/*nix in the server room.

As for Apple themselves they have likely developed their own server for their datacenter. I wouldn't be surprised to see something like what Google uses, a custom board, DC power supply etc... since Apple already has the experience in designing hardware.

Dell support has been okay. They will send a person out same day to replace most things.

Most support that we use is provided by a 3rd party contract now. If they end up supporting Macs too then it will not matter what type of machines we have.

At one point a 27" IPS screen alone was about the same price or more than the 27" imac. If you wanted a screen of that size and quality it made complete sense to buy an imac and wasn't a waste of money at all.

They would and users were expected to virus scan before moving files. Since the networks are separate though a virus would not lead to information leaving the network.

I was one of a very small team that wrote a system (using Zip disks for storage) that pulled data from a mail server on our secure network and pushed it to a mail server on the Internet, and vice versa.

Are you sure this is how it worked? Who sanitized the data? Generally speaking any writable media that enters a secure network then also becomes secure and must be verifiably erased (commonly just destroyed) before plugging back into an nonsecure network.

So nonsecure -> secure is fine. Secure -> nonsecure big time no no requiring many signatures and approvals.

See my other comment about how great current reprocessing is.

Wow. You still haven't even ready the original article I posted.

Also, if coal is really as radioactive as you trying to fear monger, then nuclear power plants should actually use coal instead of uranium since it is far cheaper and much easier to mine.

I'm not sure what you're rambling about here, but once again I'll bring in some facts to the conversation. You'll probably just ignore these too.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=coal-ash-is-more-radioactive-than-nuclear-waste

And given the fact, that there has been a serious nuclear accident on average every 20 years, and that when nuclear power plants produce just tiny 2% of our current power needs. If there were so many nuclear power plants as there are coal power plants at the moment, we would have a meltdown every single year.

2% of who? the US? France produces 75% of their power from nuclear (from the first article that you have ignored twice).

Clearly you didn't read the article or even the quote I posted from the article. If the US reprocessed its waste like they should there would be very little waste to store or dispose of. In fact, I would prefer the waste from power generation in a compact form instead of what we have now - mercury levels so high in the oceans that it isn't safe to eat fish anymore. There was a recent scientific american article that detailed how much *nuclear* waste coal plants put out into the atmosphere. Guess what? It's more than nuclear plants.

Fear monger all you want about nuclear power. It's not perfect, but it's far cleaner than any other large scale method of power production we current have at our disposal.

You really are a douche bag...NUCLEAR REACTORS PRODUCE NUCLEAR WASTE!

They actually produce very little waste (much less than the crap spewing from coal or from producing solar panels). Go education yourself here: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123690627522614525.html

Key quote:

What remains after all this material has been extracted from spent fuel rods are some isotopes for which no important uses have yet been found, but which can be stored for future retrieval. France, which completely reprocesses its recyclable material, stores all the unused remains -- from 30 years of generating 75% of its electricity from nuclear energy -- beneath the floor of a single room at La Hague.

The supposed problem of "nuclear waste" is entirely the result of a the decision in 1976 by President Gerald Ford to suspend reprocessing, which President Jimmy Carter made permanent in 1977. The fear was that agents of foreign powers or terrorists groups would steal plutonium from American plants to manufacture bombs.

Remains to be seen. Many think the Kindle app may somehow end up with an exclusion from the rule.

You're story is unbelievable and scary. What did the police have against this teacher? I have no doubt that the police do things like you said, but it would seem a large risk and a waste of time just to pick on some random older teacher.

I wonder if the teacher could have filed civil suits against everyone involved for slander, police misconduct, and prosecutorial misconduct? The only way to fight this sort of thing is if people aggressively fight back.