...how very long a time the federal government would put me in jail if *I* got caught doing this.

Costs extra if you want the half acre to be roughly horizontal and have electricity and water to the site.

"That's great Jim, you got it to hold pressure at sea level! Now make it work at 10,000 feet."

I'm doing just that with our dishwasher as we're on wicked-hard well water. Sears keeps asking about the fridge, but they haven't canceled on the washer yet. Might try Sears next time you get a washer.

Yes, we all know Nebraska state grants are a never ending gravy train, so they need never again worry about pissing off the powers that be at the federal level. ;-)

You study whether there are period inputs into global temperature, identify the most prominent, if any, and report what you find be it good, bad, or ugly. Are they seriously saying *every* study that examines inputs besides man-made warming is biased and political? This sounds like a much more slanted perspective than "please take my money to consider other inputs as well."

Who said anything about parties?

I was trained in college as a HW guy, did a few boards and ASICs, and now I'm a SW guy. Hardware is increasingly done in ASIC's / programmable gate arrays, and PLD's which are now written in programming languages like Verilog and VHDL. It's much like software, but massively parallel. With machines coming with more and more cores now, the differences are shrinking rapidly. The real difference is that it costs hundreds of $k to compile the final package in silicon. ;-)

...rises by one.

You can't just close Friday out at 5:00, and roll the rest into Monday?

The business of actuarials is to accurately estimate risk. Ask them what the risks of global warming present to increased claims: they are experts on the subject. As to the causes of global warming, there opinions are no more or less informed than anybody else as it doesn't impact their bottom line. Since nobody but straw men are arguing that global warming isn't happening, the "story" here is that insurance companies confirm that global warming is likely to be happening. Also, the world is round. News at 11.

Generally an *over*reaction to an event.

They are very into mobility, 'tis true.

No notice is fine with me. Give me the money in lieu of notice, and we're golden. More time to look for new work is a good thing in my book.

Yes, but he stopped, so it's ok now.