And Bloom County, Calvin & Hobbs, etc.

Has happened quite a bit in the past... even now, some firearms have "California models" vs. "everywhere else". Example would be the GSG and/or SIG 1911 clones in 22lr that have threaded barrels for "everywhere else" and the thread protector is either silver soldered in place or a different barrel is used for the California model.

A less inflammatory example would be the Porsche 930 from '84 to '89. The California emissions laws wouldn't allow them to be imported into the US at all (greymarket cars from Canada aside, and now the old age exemption). Porsche solved this by offering the factory Turbo Look option, priced about half way between the normal 911 model and the 930 model. To make them, they took a 930, removed the rear windshield wiper, the turbo script under the whale tail, and the turbo engine, putting in the 3.2l normal engine. These were known as "M491" cars after the option package code, and just over 1000 were produced in the 5 year model span (420 for the '83 model year, dwindling down to 15 or so in '89 and almost all were coupes - very few cabriolets were made, and only a few targa models), almost all of which were for US delivery. Buyers got that great wide back end sexy body look, the better brakes, suspension, etc. of the 930, but the regular 3.2l engine that could pass California's emissions laws.

Don't know, don't care as long as it is well documented for us non-coding sysadmin types so we know how to configure our systems to behave in the manner we want. And big blatant announcements when $DISTRO_OF_CHOICE implements it for a release. And a smooth easy painless upgrade/change path would be appreciated too.

Dunno but it may help to keep him on ice ice baby if he is under pressure a lot ....

And, not nearly as fun as a FN-FAL or similar with milsurp ammo.

For tech/it we have community colleges (or junior colleges or state colleges or whatever non-University places are called where you live) that offer AS degrees. Some University type places also offer BAS - Batchelors of Applied Science - more in-depth tech and hands on, plus a little more gen-ed stuff.

The League for Innovation also does conferences. Educause may be good.

  Both of these are education focused, but there is plenty of technology going on as well.

Depends on the quality of the web apps running under LAMP

If they get hacked, it may be possible for the attacker to spawn a new process running on some other port (ie, a shell), or sending stuff out to other machines, so having a firewall that only allows the services you have listening may be good, as well as possibly having it restrict new outgoing connections.

And no, you don't need to write complicated iptables scripts/rules to do this. The ufw utility (available in Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, etc) has truly simple syntax

ufw allow ssh
ufw allow http
ufw allow https
ufw enable

Indeed. While I may know the technical details of how style sheets work, etc. I'd rather write the back end code and spit out HTML/CSS that a web designer has generated for me to format the text I'm generating. Works great - he doesn't need/want to learn PHP, I don't need/want to learn about design, and our web apps look good.

Tall and skinny... tricky to do.

With appropriate lighting, etc. you could maybe duplicate part of a kelp forrest/bed w/ one or to plants going all the way up and then the wee beasties like sea horses, etc.

Noting on the case is allowed to indicate it contains a firearm.... just gotta get an airline approved case for it, put said case in larger "regular" luggage, and off you go.

Perfectly legal, but to smooth your way you may want to print the FAA policy as well as the airline you are flying's policy.

Is Verizon service even available wherever the main netflix datacenter(s) is/are? If it is, wouldn't they just need to offer a better monthly connection rate, or better speed for the same rate, and let it be a "normal" competitive service for business?

If residential use was closer to symmetric, just what would the outgoing content be, and how many people would want to be consuming it?

Not only that, but just how many of the residential type customers *want* to be hosting services and offering content? How many kernel source mirrors, debian/ubuntu/mint/whatever binaries mirrors, etc. do we need?

Residential, and probably quite a few business accounts, are always going to be consuming more than producing.

Take a gun with you. Doesn't even have to be a complete gun, just enough for the ATFE to consider it a gun. Less than $100, often closer to $50 for a old single shot shotgun. Ditch barrel, stock, etc. and just keep receiver.

Then you can put it in a true locking case, declare it, and by law you do not have to give a key to anyone, and you can't use the "TSA keys" which they all have master copies of.

Get your luggage lost? Simply look at the airline rep and say "Well, you gonna call the BATFE or am I?"

Pro photographers, etc. use this trick....

except there are the lovely post-9/11 laws about "not following the orders of flight crew"