What is this, the 20th century?

On the other hand, due to my work environment, I need a law passed that would make it a crime for people to annoy me in person.

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You forgot the in-state tuition prices for college.

Descant? You recommend storing it with some medieval music? "A descant is a form of medieval music in which one singer sang a fixed melody, and others accompanied with improvisations.". Perhaps you meant dessicant?

Based on the "choices" we've had over the lasts several decades, I've concluded that the whole thing is rigged just like professional wrestling, and it deserves no more of my attention that that does. Nothing else can explain the farce that's been going on when it comes to the people who are chosen to lead this country.

Sounds like a lot of these climate change folks don't like any solution that doesn't include more central control of everything...with them at the controls...

Domesday? Is the King doing a census? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...

I love Geany. There's a windows port as well, if people aren't aware of it.

They're also awesome. Think of them like the AVR or PIC with more.. everything. More RAM. More ROM. More IO. More interfaces, both type and quantity. More Hz. Same price, they work with GCC.

I've been getting STM32s from china for cheaper than the basic AVRs on an arduino (not sure how, as even qty 1000 is like 4x the price on digikey, but they work like the real thing, so who knows?!).

I used to love AVRs, but whenever I go back to them now, they seem so limited. the ARM MCUs have a bit of a learning curve, but it's so worth it. With GCC and libopencm3, it's an entirely open source setup. The nucleo boards are dirt cheap arduino-ish things, to get started on, with integrated programmer & debugger.

There's really no reason to use 8bit MCUs anymore, unless you're making a $0.40 gadget, and need to squeeze out that last nickel.

That's a myth. Asbestos based linings were never banned, and still exist.

I learned that a couple years ago. I swore it was banned too, but it isn't the case.

There are roughly 8.7 Wales to an Oklahoma.

Yah, but I would have become a lawyer in the early 70s....long before the law glut...

After the Russkis launched Sputnik, there was a massive push in the US for science and engineering in education. I'm old enough to remember if personally - science, math and engineering were all the rage. And Progress - we weren't scared of what science would do - it was going to build The Future! If not for this big push, I wouldn't have wasted all my time on technical studies and be a millionaire lawyer now...

Heck, state law in a lot of states allows common civilians to use deadly force in an encounter like this, much less the military.