make it so, number1!

yes, exactly. in places where the min wages is over the federal, it is almost always because the cost of living is so much. like DC, or San Fransisco. try to find somewhere to stay in DC for less than $900/month, i dare you. or how about this... im hourly, $18/hr, about 36-38 hours per week. now take out taxes (i usually figure it at about 25% for all of it), child support $440/mo, and the company health plan im forced to get ( due to custody and paperwork from the state) at $220/mo, im left with what someone making $10/hour would get. conversely, it costs me more than minimum wage in my area just to cover taxes, child support and health insurance for my son. Don't leave much left over.

no but wal-mart is to payments what porn was to video 20 years ago. what porn wants porn gets. so all hail CurrrenC

you have 3 types of cooling all 3 present different problems. -passive cooling. typical of embedded and low poer, pretty much precludes your fancy GPU. -active, usually fans. suck air in, breath hot out. obvious any rain or spray would get sucked in to, and damage the insides. -liquid cooling. would essentially seal your gear in, and prevent water damage, but is unlikely to fit in your space constraints. so either figure out how to live without the GPU, or see if you can get a small enough container for your oil ( still will have to worry about the pump and radiator parts but that can be made water - resistant). or have the number crunching done remotely, and just live with a raspberry pi encased in something.

And if they had just one, or maybe even no warranty repair facilities ( not a dealership cause sell direct) in your state? would you be willing to drive 400 miles just to get a part changed/fixed under warranty? But i digress, selling the car, and getting it fixed are 2 separate things. they should be allowed to sell direct, so many examples both ways of direct/dealerships there seems to be no clear cut line. thinking about expensive things, most things have repair close by, notable exemption, computers. i would hate to think of shipping off a tesla to a repair depot.

Simpsons did it! Simpsons did it .. i mean xkcd of course ...

im drunk so pardon the rudeness, but .. off the top of my head, is NC State, Cisco, and Redhat , then the rest of Research triangle. Charlotte is a banking hub plus the international airport. there is an apple data center, Duke energy, plus several major Military installations ... i don't know much about the Dakota's but there is plenty going on here on the coast.

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target practice.. has to be worth somehting greater than 0 ?

this 1000x this. who in thier right mind want to jump through the AP hoops, when a CC is right down the road... and less headache transferring the credits.

right but thats the point, if the core app is html based any os should work. stick some linux or bsd on there to talk to the network card.

soon, after april, any updates that come out for 7, vista, 8, etc,, will be scrutinized to see if same hole will work against xp. which will not be patch, and never will be ( barring a few gov exemptions)

im pretty sure that is n reference to 8, 8.1, and 9 all released within a few years of each other.

yeah but what would you call an import? the FORD's made in Canada/Mexico, or the BMW's made here in SC?

its funny cause its true.. no its so sad ...