We're suddenly back in 1994, and "the job's not done until WordPerfect won't run!"

I normally program 60+ hours/wk, but I'm only in my 60's. I know a guy in his 80's, who normally programs 80+ hrs/wk.

You young punks are pathetic.

That's not necessarily so.

Indiana got a Telecommunications Reform Act a few years ago, written by the telecommunications industry (thanks to Mitch Daniels).

Cities are forbidden from competing with private telecomm. Regulation is done at the state level (which is reliably Republican, so only regulates consumers).

If each of the 26 DNA sections were reduced to "Yes" or "No", the would be 2^26 possibilities.

If instead of 2 possibilities, there were 10, how many times does 3x10^8 go into 10^26? Just saying.

Really, a Faraday Box would totally make this a non-issue.

It's OK to have some holes in them, like for a door. Minor perturbation (use conformal mapping to verify).

Math is fun!:)

That's still the goal of Science.

But it's not the goal of everyone. Just as with tobacco and cancer, there are a lot of people with vested interests.

But the ice is melting.

First, that sounds a lot like "if you're not willing to get beat up by my goons, don't say things I don't like."

Second, your emotional attachment to dollars seems to be driving your brain.

Don't neglect "gravity exists because of a difference in concentration of information." Plato was as good a physicist.