>> The NSA, its policies, and the politicians who support the same are directly responsible for massive losses of money and jobs.

Melodramatic.

I couldn't believe revenues of Red Hat topped 1.2 billion! Where does it all go?

I hear that Woburn/Billerica is the next fork of Wayland/Weston, while Wellesley/Southboro is the next fork of Northfield/Norwood. Coming on the heals of Woburn/Billerica is the Provincetown/Gloucester fork. And they're really planning a breakout with a Providence/Cranston fork....

This is a better write-up on Mailbox, and why it is indeed a very good mail application.

Seems like perhaps the Mailbox folks realize this is the absolute top for this simple, albeit, well designed application, and jumped at a chance to sell.

Useless busy-work after-the-fact documentation is overrated and plentiful.

Useful documentation is rare.

Would be good to monitor various locations on a golf course for turf management. If it were hardened for the weather....

By executive order, I authorize that construction begin immediately on a Death Star!!

By executive order, all personal property and assets are now the property of the Empire, and these assets shall be used to build this Death Star.

Hardened Cisco switches.

Just make sure they aren't the counterfeit Cisco switches circa 2008...which were from...China.

http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/china-may-have-back-door-us-military-computer-networks

Romney is going to win. My highly accurate personal polling system predicts this to a certainty level of 98.4%.

By this time in southern New England, it was supposed to be much worse. Still waiting. I'm finally hearing a little bit of back-tracking from the radio weather person. Likely will be much worse from NYC to PHL.

This is spot-on.

The single with no kids and over 40 folks are becoming more common. They work 60 hours, and get so very little accomplished. I don't understand it...

Some companies (Genzyme is one example) do a lot of work in the orphan-drug area. Diseases that inflict small portions of the world population. Indeed, rare conditions.

These are often very expensive drugs, since the market is small, they often cost a patient tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars per year for the rest of their lives. These drugs often get extra patent protections and fast-tracking to the market.

These drugs are not created by accident.

>> we have the gov do things that we rely on for common good. pharma should be one of them.

Yikes. You can't be serious.

Anyone else watch that awful TV show, which I always seem to watch, "Hard Core Pawn".

The XBox 360 is a very popular item. Not to mention laptops and other gaming consoles....

I did not know that the two problems described were unsolved. I thought that "how to calculate exactly the path of a projectile under gravity and subject to air resistance" was already figured out. I guess "exact path" is the trick here. An the other about an "object striking a wall"...

Should make for even better gaming physics...