And recognizing a familiar face in a crowd might be a good survival skill for a species so it knows when to flee. Where as the math calculations are rarely fatal so no driving force for the species to develop speed at this task. Now if everyone who was slow at the task were to be killed off, then those genetically able to do the math would be left over to pass on those genes.

I live in Minnesota, but just over the WI/MN boarder. And WI roads are the envy of us in MN. They have a higher gas tax and use the money to maintain their roads well. So many people live in WI and work in MN, and buy their gas over here.

I too am a Mac user at home. I use Yojimbo as a catchall for important emails and web pages that I "print to Yojimbo). I also save many of these in my email program in appropriate folders (thus doubling my chances of finding something). With documents I am a good filer of information in fairly well organized folders and sub folders. At work on a PC I don't have an equivalent of Yojimbo (I wish I did and this thread reminds me to look into this further). The corporate email system (Notes) is really non-intuitive on how to save emails in folders that will be available for a long time in the future. The Notes mail database size is limited by the company so files are "archived" without my permission. And yet this does not really work well (and since not under my control I can't attempt to fix). Archives get moved to different locations (server, my computer, various folders) with each revision of Notes and receipt of new computers over time. So I gave up. I am just as good at saving documents so I can find them in the future, I just can't find the email that might have been with them. I keep a phone log at work and urgent things come in by phone or I can put down urgent To Do items as I have to look at this log regularly. Don't really use stickies on a computer for this stuff.

I suspect if we look hard enough we could find some music industry comment freaking out about how this new technology was going to end the world...

I agree. They need to not be party to this bullying tactic by these repressive regimes. Regardless of any side benefits or underhanded motives one might ascribe to MS.

When two such large object collide in outerspace does it make any noise?

As a Minnesotan I too am dismayed that we would be leading this transition. No matter what the proposed savings might be, it will certainly cost money in the short term. We don't have any money, but a $4B hole in the budget to fill for the next biennium. Recently we had some flooding in the southern part of the state, and it looks like we will have to borrow money to cover any aide we might want to spend on this emergency. Let some other state be the guinea pigs and see if the savings pan out. By then the economy might recover and we can get competitive bids for the services offered. Like many fads in IT or business (anyone remember Six Sigma) it does not pay to be the first on your block adopting the fad.

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Thanks for posting this link, actually answering the question asked and helping those of us with these frustrating wifi performance issues. Sorry I don't have any mod points. Also this model works with Macs if you use the Lite version of the software.

I noticed that web pages were loading the info-line at the bottom of my browser was going out to an ad server. The page would not load hardly anything until the ad server finished. So I installed an ad blocker and the speed to load a page increased quite a bit. There are some web sites I support and I give them a pass and let their ads come through.

Same with my company, all intranet web pages run IE6 great. Meanwhile if you surf outside the intranet, you have to use something else (google is now gagging at IE6 browsing). But there is a light at the end of the tunnel, we just started rolling out Win7. So maybe Win7 is the key to killing large bulk users of IE6.

Later I was reading more on this and I did see that each state has its own rules. Some had multiple different levels of punishment based upon the age differences (someone posted here about NY state).

In Minnesota we have civil commitment for sex offenders after they have served their time. In theory they can complete treatment but no one has ever been let out in 13 years . We have 149 people in our program. So they have not been denied due process, but in effect have received life sentences.

Regarding the 18 yr old, it is not statutory rape if their age is withing 2 yrs of the younger person. So boyfriend/girlfriends don't get charged with rape all the time. Of course if there is forcible rape this does not apply. But it makes the assumption an underage person can "consent" to sex with their boyfriend/girlfriend. Had to look this up regarding a niece running away from home with her boyfriend (so only may apply to Wisconsin law in the 1990's).