My hurricane check list includes checking the ammo supply level... I live across the road from just over 1000 acres of forest, has the potential to be a grocery store....

If I lived more urban, the check list would still include an ammo check, for "social issues" that may arise.

Thing is, currents changed with the big earthquakes that have happened in the past few years. If it was enough of a change to affect migration patterns (it has), it was also probably enough of a change to alter the predictable long term weather models. Anyone know if the modeling software has been updated with the new data?

communicate in real-time faster than anybody else: it's called high-frequency trading.

Yup, the plane'arium manager here at the college I work for is one of the new Hustlers...

http://www.sfcollege.edu/planetarium/

With links to old Star Gazer episodes with Jack and the new ones at http://www.youtube.com/user/MiamiScienceMuseum

Well, it sorta has unified all of us who hate it....

So they're going to prosecute themselves?

But then again, most makers that sell both direct and thru distributers/wholesalers/dealers will typically price their in-house sales to the public at full retail price (hey, lets call that the MSRP!) and heavily discount to the distributers/wholesalers/dealers, which lets the second tier dealer charge the same or less and still make $.

Or a total lack of a hard drive.....

Well, they can always cheat to go faster...

Just you hope Oracle maintains the batteries properly, especially since an emergency save-to-disk is going to take more than a few minutes...

Of course, depending on when it was bought it may have come with all of the "animal books" about Perl on CD with it (mine did anyway). And, your local library may have a Safari subscription - mine does. No need for paper in the majority of cases. As a teacher its great because I can assign just a few great chapters from various books and not cost the student $250 in books for a 3 credit class.

9 to 10 per week? Beer guts are usually associated with people who drink 9-10 beers a day or more. I got mine years ago when I generally drank a 12 pack a day.

Wow, I don't know if I could survive that for more than 3 days. The most I ever drank on a regular basis was maybe 3 large strong beers and a quarter bottle of scotch a day, and I couldn't stand that for too long without gaining a ton of weight very quickly.

What gives you the idea that I'm not already older? :)

Hint: I was in my late 20s when I registered on /. You have my UID number, work it out.

This. my BMI is 21, I exercise a lot, my belly is flat as a pancake, yet I drink at least 9 or 10 brown Belgian trappist beers per week (and those are loaded with alcohol at over 10 percent). I've been doing it for years too.

I know you're being sarcastic, but it's not just nuclear power plants that generate revenues. Where I live, there's a large wind farm that pays millions a year through council and business taxes: they make my small sleepy town mega-rich and pose zero threat to the environment, save for a few birds that think they can fly through the spinning blades now and then.