Yet, I felt a disturbance in the Force. It was as if billions of souls were suddenly...illuminated.

In other news, that space station is now operational.

LSE & TSE are both 24-hr electronic trading exchanges, right?

no, "those damned hollywood/liberal "special interests" and their stoogies worked against this wholesome legislation".

Not sure it's the paycheck they want, but the built-in pension plan once they're out of office, and the cushy lobbyist or corporate executive jobs (where they do lots of lobbying) they're probably banking on getting.

Unfortunately, the IT job maxim probably more justly applies to politicians..."your current job is training for your next job".

Put in a new car stereo in a Ford Focus, for example. Good luck with that.

Commodore 128 used the 65816. The 16-bit mode on that chip is separate from the 8-bit mode.

The Commode 128 used the chip to have some degree of backwards compatability with C64 software.

The Commodores used their own video chips (VIC (VIC 20), VIC-II (64), and something else for the 128).

The asocial-ness of WoW depends on a couple of things. Last place I worked at had several WoW addicts, who often raided together. Others who played also had some good wow stories to share, too.

...and you can't work with the data inside the database itself?

maybe not, but how much spitting vinegar do you do when you get code that, while syntactically correct, is not indented at all, or was coded by someone using spaces instead of tabs (or vice versa) for indents, or they set up their code editor to use a non-fixed pitch typeface, and thus whatever indenting they've done is incredibly whacky, and your tool set does not have very good code indenting functionality available to fix it?

Strange, I just got a new email from Amazon Web Services and how they've got some new service offerings coming on line soon for the Virginia area...Hmm...

In this case, then, there's a market for the NSA to send trade secrets from company X in country Y to a different company in country W, too. Maybe that's how they're funding the whole operation...

Well, at least two of the ISPs (Time Warner, Comcast) are part of "content" provider companies...

They might. Seeing as how they bury current neutrino detectors either several thousand feet below ground to help block out the background neutrinos from the sun as well as background cosmic radiation, I'm not seeing a practical solution in play for this right now.

Theoretically, they can see the resulting disturbance of a sub moving under water on the sea surface with lasers, even if the sub is several hundred feet below the surface...

Who's your meth dealer, then?

ironically, there is case study info out there that fetuses have a sense of taste.

Measure fetal heart rates after mother drinks regular coffee. It goes up as expected.

Measure fetal heart rates after same mother then drinks decaf. Fetal heart rate still goes up...

...but then add in financials - AP/AR, treasury, billingcstatements (but that is likely outsourced).
I'm going to guess that payroll done by ADP is donre on mainframe...