"Maker Shed"? Really? People have been using the phrase "workshop" in some variant for probably 1000 years. You don't need to make a up a new phrase for it.

Yeah, the universe- what a gyp!

Perhaps racist behaviour should be punished independent of any mindless "free speech" worship.

        You, sir and or madame, are the worst kind of imbecile. Because as soon as you accept the notion that speech should be censored, you put someone else in the position of deciding which speech is to be censored.

      Yes, that does mean you have to put up with all sort of racists, anti-semites, and plain old lunatics spewing anything they feel like. That's far better than ceding your rights.

Yes, because 99 weeks of warning that the benefits would run out simply aren't enough. Hey, here's an idea that will no doubt go over well in this venue - let's just pay people indefinitely! Why should it ever run out?

Huh? If he is in his 70's, it's very likely that he never used anything like a desktop/laptop personal computer at work.

        I work in a very high technology field and we didn't have anything resembling a personal computer until the early 90's - about when this guy would have been retiring.

      The answer is blindingly obvious, get an iPad.

Coding for it's own sake is *easy* and boring.

Uh, what? Plate tectonics can push Mt. Everest to 29000 feet, and we are going to fix it with concrete and rebar?

This in an article that amounts to a nerdgasm over academics spending their efforts to model the climate of a fairy tale.

Even more people would sit home on their dead asses waiting for their check, while an ever-decreasing work force would have ever-increasing tax burden.

        It's already like that, to some extent. Something like 50% of the population takes government handouts already, and workforce participation is as low as it has been since records have been kept.

HP-35s. Not as good as the original HP-35 u some respects, but plenty usable:

http://www.amazon.com/HP-F2215AA-ABA-Scientific-Calculator/dp/B000TDRHG8

It was chosen, no-bid, to a political ally of Michelle Obama.

As long as you define "politics" as the second rate copy of DU.

Because it's HERESY, pure and simple! My indignation that someone might not believe is beyond description. Burn them at the stake!

Compared to what? 480i? If you can't tell the difference at ANY distance, you have something wrong with your equipment, or with you. It is DRAMATIC. Watch a baseball game and tell me it is the same.

        Brett