I presume you have alternators between the exercise wheels and the jumper cables? Otherwise it wouldn't do much...

Which broker?

That's a feature! :-p

In that case go to bed early, next to a window facing north. Wait 4 months. Wake up in sunlight.

Dreamhost, in addition to being cheap and fairly reliable, provides subversion access. It's quite nice.

This is a statewide system that needs to be deployed on all 26 UW campuses, administration and UW-Extension (which has an office in each of Wisconsin's 72 counties). It handles all types of employees from student LTEs to professors to staff to administration, all of their benefits through the state retirement fund and the state employees healthcare plan (which itself is fairly complex). It has to deal with union and non-union employees and their different pay structures, special deals for certain faculty, etc. It's a complex system that is specific to the State of Wisconsin, so no, there is no off the shelf solution.

On top of all that, much of the cost is in deployment and training of all the people who have to use the thing.

As I understand it, they've totally scrapped the old system and are starting over from scratch using PeopleSoft - which they should have done from the beginning rather than trying to roll their own solution.

So yeah the title is misleading; it's a $12 million system. And that includes deployment across 24 campuses statewide, training costs, etc.

Wisconsin passed similar legislation about 3 years ago after a couple communities built successful networks. TWC's lobbying dollars were well spent...

hey cts, are you ever going to finish that film?

It will fsck you up. Unless you're running linux - then it's just really annoying.

Pumping it into the ground 1500 feet down into the earth's crust in the middle of a tectonic plate and far below any water tables is perfectly safe. Leaving it above ground waiting for some weird freak accident to allow contaminates to somehow get into the water table is a tiny bit less so.

It should be noted though that the casks they use at US nuclear power plants to store spent rods are really really freakin' tough. So it's really more just a problem of the stuff taking up space and not having a permanent home. That, and uneducated hippies hearing "nuclear" or "radioactive" and going off their rockers.

Have you?

http://www.beanblossom.in.us/larryy/polyworld.html

Yes we have common ancestry, as do all living things. But the common ancestor between humans and crustaceans is nowhere as close as between, say, humans an lizards.

Convergent evolution? You're just throwing out terms without knowing their meanings now aren't you? Convergent evolution means similar environmental factors tend to push the evolution of dissimilar species into similar directions. An example of this would be dolphins and sharks. They share a lot of common features, but their history could not be more different. Dolphins' ancestors are land mammals. Sharks have always been fish. But because they both live in water, they've both evolved similar structures (fins) for their environment.

Yea intrauterine devices!

I think it's pretty silly to categorically state "compared to america". Perhaps your undergrad college sucked, but in my experience it really depends on a) the institution and b) the individual professor.

I'm currently a student at a major research university (Wisconsin-Madison), at which some profs are excellent teachers while some are.. well, consumed by their research. I've also attended a small teaching university (Wisconsin-La Crosse) where the professors were hired largely for their teaching abilities. Most of the courses I took there were excellent.

If you're at a university that has an engineering college, there are very likely already exchange programs set up for students in technical majors. I would check that out. Otherwise, nearly every university/college has some sort of international study office. You could ask them for help/advice as well.

Also, perhaps look through this list
http://www.aacu.org/resources/globallearning/studyabroad.cfm

IIE is specifically geared toward technical students. Take a look at them:
http://www.iienetwork.org/?p=StudyAbroad