Being full-electric is one issue. The full electric apartment down stairs from me is probably cranking at least 500kwh / month. Up here, where I'm heated with gas it's around half that with a fair amount of AC use. It may or may not be cheaper. Of course I'm all CFL and light weight computing now, but it's mostly your heating and cooking that's killing you.

For "newspaper" read "website somewhat more professional than /."

If I only had modpoints...

A thousand dollars here, a thousand dollars there, sooner or later it adds up to real money. I don't see why it's unfair for Microsoft to say that it will cost them more money to recruit talent. Because it will either cost the talent money, or the company money, but it's costing somebody money. Let's not forget that filling out income tax forms is a drag too, no matter how simple or low.

Yeah - I'm looking at the west coast and the mess that is California is pretty much off the table.

All things being equal - and I'm pretty sure that its a wash between say, suburban Chicago schools and comparable suburban Seattle schools.

It doesn't make it impossible to attract talent. But all things being equal, would you like to make 3% more money? 5% more?

And the sales tax is still no worse than here in Chicago, where we have income tax and about 50% higher property tax if I'm figuring it right. It really makes Seattle noticeably more attractive.

I know that there are open source library packages, but not what they are. Anybody know how many bibliographic records we're talking about? As a professional library upgrader I recognize the caveats in the FAQ, and wish these kids the best of luck. May whatever god or gods you believe in protect you against librarians who can't be bothered to read and patrons who... And for my part I'm just glad that it's not one of my employer's actual or potential customers.

I think he's slimy as eternity is long, and deserves to be in prison on straight principle. But going into the trial I wasn't convinced that the government had a case. Without sitting through the trial I'd hesitate to say one way or the other.

point.

That sounds like more cascading paranoia. But I won't say I haven't wondered if that might happen. I don't know if we'll ever really know the truth.

He may in fact be stark raving mad. I've said "he'd have to be monumentally stupid to really do that" too many times about too many people. I usually turn out to be wrong.

Child porn can be added later.