I spent the last half of my career with the Feds as a statistician after working as an engineer for the first 15 years (MS degree in Physics). It pays a lot better than teaching and the retirement benefits are pretty good, especially the health care. You don't make all that much to start, but, if you have something on the ball, you can move up easily. The only disadvantage is you have to work where the job is.

It just magically appeared. I am no more fond of it than you are.

Bridge of Birds has the best ending of any work of fantasy I have ever read.

Helps all the drunks start their cars.

I suspect that we have fallen into a trap similar to the Ptolemaic system. Just because it works mathematically doesn't mean the universe is obligated to actually match the predictions. I wonder if there is an underlying false assumption that is causing all the current uncertainties. Simply put - has the speed of light been absolutely constant since the big bang? If not, a lot of things look entirely different.

Didn't work then, doesn't work now.

N/T

Sorry, I missed the earlier post with a similar joke.

...out hunting for ducks. The first one fires and misses a foot high. The second shoots and is a foot low. The third one yells "We got it!"

I have had an iPhone 3G for almost 2 years. I mainly use wifi so I have the minimum data plan. I just checked my AT&T account usage for the past 5 months and I'm seeing an average of 16.5 MB. That does not seem to leave a lot of room for any extra transmissions.