You are sounding more and more like the wintrolls on c.o.l.a.
Wipe the foam off your mouth and go to the rear of the class. You may come forward when you have gained some understanding of what you are talking about.

Agree with all of the above, and also: I once had a motorized table that could be raised and lowered at a touch of a button. It was wonderful. I could raise the table and stand up to stretch my back and legs, it had room for two monitors. The "desktop" PC was actually hanging under the table, but out of the way so I didn't bang my knees on it when sitting down.

ITYM String: I'm a frayed knot!

The fries would have to say like Hercule Poirot does: "I happen to be Belgian!". Now isn't it time to forgive the French for being right?

Professor Giæver's specialty isn't exactly climate science ... but he ought to be qualified to judge the evidence for AGW, assuming he ever looked at it. Somehow it reminds me of the geologist professor Ivan Rosenqvist, who - if I recall correctly - denied that the acid rain over northern Europe was due to gases transported over long distances. He did have other valid points, but later events have shown that it was indeed sulfuric and nitrous gases from central Europe that gave (most of the) acid rain over Scandinavia.

When security is involved, the question is "are you paranoid *enough*". BTDT.

And I wanted so much to come visiting again. Right now the exchange rates are such that I could afford an extensive trip around the places where I've been before, and to new places. (The US was a great place to visit, but I don't want to live there. )

My son and his wife are a pair-of-docs, you anonymous clod.

Using microbe strains it can be done a lot faster. And it is being done, see Lenski et al. Of course, the fundie creationists replied that the results showing evolution were obviously faked, since there is no such thing as evolution.

A hot-water spa in Iceland using the waste water from a geothermal power station, its intake is 2000 meters down. Great place, I was surprised to find that the water is salty, at about 1/3 the salinity of ocean water.
If you fly trans-Atlantic, make a stopover in Iceland and spend a day at that spa. It's worth it.

Actually they do have to comply with the law and with requests from the police. It's just that with the VPN solutions the retained traffic data are meaningless. Better than wearing Anonymous masks wherever there's a surveillance camera.

I think you mean health insurance reform, which is what the bill is all about. The opponents call it care reform, so so they can shout "Death Panels!11!!"

The rest of the world, huh? Have you ever had a look north of the US border? Tell me, are your absolute poorest covered by national health insurance, or are they just brought into ER and dumped back out on the street when they have been resuscitated? If a type-1 diabetic can't afford to buy insulin, does he depend on charity, or will the larger society take care of him? Do you ever compare the US to other countries (e.g. Northern Europe) with a similar economic and technological level, or just to the so-called third world countries? As someone here has in the sig, " I like paying taxes. With them I buy civilization".

When that law was passed here in Norway it was quipped that a man would have to get consent in writing from the woman before having sex.

Patents. SCO was about everything else but patents.

Of course, software patents are not valid in all countries, so Linux will survive, somewhere, somehow.