So let's tell the public that it is now ILLEGAL for anyone within a 30 mile radius of DC is to buy a gun of any size.

Right. I'm sure everyone would just say, "Yeah, that's a good idea. I feel more safe now."

1) Set your Garmin sampling frequency to 1-second. Always. The default of "auto-magically" or "as-needed" is not sufficient. Especially when doing a run or bike ride on a course with lots of turns or on a track.

2) If the over-estimation is fairly consistent, then what does it really matter to the average amateur? If a route that you regularly time is actually 5 miles and not really 5.15 miles, who cares? What matters is your time over that same distance. It's a like a scale that is low by 2 pounds. It doesn't matter; what matters is if you are trying to lose weight and the scale shows a decrease over time, then you are succeeding.

No, not at all. Like I said "their salaries dwarf what they earn for publications." She earns a salary being a full professor. She writes books because it's something she loves. And also because publishing is important in academia.

I would add that the list of fiction authors that actually got rich from their books are few and far between.

Philosophy. Which probably explains the low royalties (apologies to the wife). 100-level through graduate level.

Written many years ago when self-publishing was not really a viable option.

I see many comments saying something along the lines of department chairs / professors "lining their pockets" by requiring books that they wrote.

While it very well may be an ego thing, it is definitely NOT a money thing. My wife has written many collegiate level textbooks and they are used at many different schools. She netted a whopping $600 in royalties for 2014. The authors are not getting rich on sales of textbooks. Their salaries dwarf what they earn for publications.

Next conspiracy theory ...

The cost of owning a car (let alone fueling it) will FAR exceed any savings you obtain by getting "deals" on your weekly groceries.

Why is obesity "so common now" when it has never been so common in the past? Over-consumption of shit food like pop-tarts and Mt.Dew combined with excessive non-mobile time. You simply cannot consume calorie-dense food when the only exercise you get is walking from your car to your next long-term sitting location.

Have you ever looked at old-time photos from the 20s, 30s or 40s? Notice how almost no one is fat? Those few that were fat actually had a true metabolic or genetic reason for the condition.

Eat nutrient-dense foods, avoid calorie-dense foods and get your ass out and move around as much as you possibly can EVERY SINGLE DAY. You don't need to be a gym rat or run a marathon, you just need to move.

Moto X Pure Edition is a tremendous phone (or, at least based on the pre-release specs, it is).

Starting at $399 with no carrier lock-in. Pure Android experience.
microSD up to 128GB.

To hell with carrier lock-in.
To hell with the horrible crapware that comes pre-installed from Samsung and the carriers.

Avail Sep 3rd, according to TheVerge

Always loved Delphi. Went to a dev conference way back in the day when Anders Hejlsberg was still the chief architect at Borland for Turbo Pascal and then the Delphi product.

Have a look at the Lazarus Project if you don't want to get the current Delphi product from Embarcadero.

This!

Despite NE Ohio's obvious downside (namely, the weather), I would never leave the area for a job in SF making $150k / year. That's a fine salary - more than I'm making now - but would diminish my standard of living as compared to NEOH. Answer? Open an office in Solon or Beachwood or on the west side in Westlake or Rocky River (but please, not Cleveland proper - what a dreadful city that is). Paying $100-$150k / year would allow a family to live quite nicely in those areas.

Anywhere/everywhere there's a system that does not need to run on the web. Like say, an ERP system.

Now, I'm sure you think, "but order entry is part of an ERP system and you must be able to take orders on the web!" True, but the front end that receives those orders is usually just that - a front end. The "grunt work" is done by the back-end systems and is most likely not written in a language like C/Java/VB.

These are the systems that rely on middleware and/or messaging services of some kind to get data in/out. There's still a TON of coding to be done on the back end.

Become an expert is some BI system (yes, not truly a "language", but still). Execs are constantly fooled into thinking that buying a BI system will instantly give them magical reporting and analytical powers over their burgeoning "big" data. Except they don't - all the dashboards, automated reports, etc. need to be developed, configured, rolled out and maintained and are invariably uniquely tied to the company in which they are being used.

I've been using Progress 4GL (now given the num-du-jour ABL) for 25 years. It's a niche. As is the eponymous RDBMS, at which I am also an expert. Progress does not own a significant portion of the DB or application market. But where it is used, folks like me are in high demand. The exact opposite of you, I have not programmed in C/C++/Java/VB since early 90's. And I don't miss it.

So I can get a 4k display for less than $700. Where can I get content worth watching on that display? Not only worth watching, but is somehow made better by all those extra pixels.

All that aside, seems like it would make for a really nice PC monitor.