Simple, it has become a political thing. Despite my warnings ( as loud as I could make them but OK not that loud ), to keep arguing it as a nonpartisan issue. THe opponents of net neutrality have an advantage that we who support it do not. Once net neutrality is gone, it will be hard to bring back. The ISP cartel knew this and were fighting very hard for politicization to happen.

Instead of, for example, arguing that this action swaps in one set of regulations for another, ( In fact the old set gave all the power to the ISP cartels, and they took us from #1 internet service to middle of the rtoad. ) some proponents let the ISP cartels make it a political issue. The fact is that some people would rather have Title II as a political argument instead of actually having the ISPs be controlled by Title II.

So here is what will happen, the ISP cartel will tie up the implementation for the next two years in court. Then who becomes President? Hillary? Seems to be imploding right in front of us. John Kerry? The guy who helped bring back the cold war. and Al Queda in the form of ISIS and who couldn't win before? Joe Biden. The guy whose interactions with women is so creepy he makes BIll Clinton seem normal.

here is an interesting fact for you , since World War II there has only been one person elected as President that came from the same party as the sitting President-- Bush (41) (following Reagan).

So we have a Republican, who when the next seat on the FCC comes up names a Republican FCC member who replaces a Democrat. The new Chairman becomes Ajit Pai. Bye bye net neutrality.

I see a big plume of smoke and steam, accompanied by a lour roar. What is that? Oh yeah. It's the space shuttle taking off -- over your head.

I don't think many British are actually offended, it's just that higher caste Brits don't want to admit they are not.
I mean have you ever seen British humor?

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At which point I would suggest that they talk to our states attorney general.

I don't know that many store managers who would in the first place.

BTW make sure to get the clerks info, store id, name whatever.

Walk into the store with your phone recording. Ask the clerk if the computer's UEFI is locked, because you want to install Ubuntu.

If the clerk says yes, buy it. If it turns out you can't install Ubuntu then return it. Demand no restocking fee. If they balk play the recording.

Even better if the clerk says, yes I run Mint ( or something ) on the same computer at home. As if anyone believes that anymore.

You are incorrect in understanding.
In the final round of voting, you get to choose from the candidates of each party. Democrats and Republicans are the primary vote getters and usually the only significant vote getters. There is a third party called libertarian which usually get betweeen 5% and 10% of the vote.

Then there are the very small parties. My understanding is the Communist party fields a candidate but they only receive >1%.

Occasionally there is another party which shines for one or tqwo elections.

Before the main election each party must choose their candidate. The usual way of doing this is by "primaries or cacuses". Primaries are straight votes, cacuses ( which are less common ) are something like that but the people meet in "voting areas" and debate each other till the end of the night when they vote..

So you first vote for a bunch of candidates, then from that bunch you vote for one of effectively two.

First let me make clear. I do not suggest a Cintiq which is expensive as hell. I suggest a Cintiq clone which are a lot cheaper. Hell if the Galaxy Note Tablets were a bit bigger and could work better with a laptop I would recommend them.
A starting grad?
Let's see. She is still going to have to do some serious studying. At least GR and QFT. She's going to need to take notes and annotate her books. She is going to need to annotate her LaTeX documents ( probably as pdf ) for editting. She is going to need to mark up electric homework of her students ( assuming she is doing some sort of teaching as a grad ), She is going to need to mark up journal articles. Since most of that will all be electronic, if for no other reason then to save the space.

Seems like something she can use quite a bit.

Yes but if not physics then what? THere don't seem to be that many good choices out there.

I would suggest that you include a graphics tablet. The field you describe is wide. Ranging from heavy number cruncher to equation pusher, so the capabilities of the laptop needed will vary a lot. ( But as a student that's probably not her next laptop but the one after that. )

Also if she needs very heavy processing the university will provide that.

However any physicist will make good use of a graphics tablet, especially a Cintiq type tablet. Though you could save yourself a ton going for Bosto or Yiynova. II understand there are also kits out there that will convert an LCD monitor to a Cintiq clone. BUt such a mod may make your laptop unclosable.

Keep in mind that most of the remaining case is IBM suing SCO. most of the other part has gone away( but not all.).

One can only hope.