Ok. the carp can be a problem, but the OP is whining about how the politicians in Michigan aren't doing anything about a river that is in Illinois.

A technical college is good if you want to pick up a skilled trade, but from what you said in your post it might be better to go to a traditional college, community or otherwise. As far as getting a job goes, you need to consider the reputation of the school that you graduate from because that is something many companies consider when reviewing applicants. A good way to impress prospective employers as a CS or IT grad is to have some tangible project to tell them about or better yet show them.

There are Insulin pumps that currently use IR to transmit and receive data form other devices, like blood glucose meters, and certain cell phones;My grandfather has an Accu-check Insulin pump System where the pump and meter used IR to store their log data in a Palm Centro phone. While IR might be more secure than any other form of wireless communication for these devices, based on range as you suggest, It is not convenient to transmit the data between devices regularly, due to the fact that all devices need to be set to transmit/receive mode, which is not always straight forward, and have the IR ports lined up within an inch of each other.

I agree. Once a police officer puts on thier uniform s/he waves any right of privacy until they are off duty. Recording officers on duty creates evidence that can be used in court or by the departments internal affairs personell to punish bad cops or reward good cops.

I keep windows around for games that wine cant handle, and Visual Studio. Mono is ok for .NET work, but it is has been a few steps behind MS in features that I need to use.

To a majority of people Peter Parker is the real Spider-man just like Clark Kent is Superman and Bruce Wane is Batman. While it is SOP to shake things up with who a super hero is in the comic books, characters that have become well established outside of comic books through other media exist in the public mind as the most common variation of that character. Through the various movies, cartoons and video games the average person associates Peter Parker as Spider-man, and may not know or care about Miles Morales as Spider-man, just like they may not know or are about Dick Grayson being Batman.

I once saw an older woman come into a local super market a few years ago and ask a fellow employee where the AOL CDs were. before the greeter could send the woman on a pointless trek to the opposite side of the store, I told the woman that we didn't have any and that I haven't seen an AOL CD in years, and that she should contact her phone company for internet access. The customer then asked if I knew of any other stores that might have AOL CDs.

Great, now when the terminators come we just have to find the rats that control skynet.

English on a daily basis and enough Spanish to say yo soy un gringo estupido, and to call my boss una rubia tanta.

getting arrested on the job. I currently work for a company in which you are more likely to be arrested on the job than laid off. I once saw an entire department loaded into the back of a paddy wagon.

... don't take pennies, so they sit in my car until i have enough to take to a Coin-star.

Since I work outside the ambient temperature ranges from below freezing in the winter to well above 80F in the summer. My only complaint is the rain/snow.

Stuffed into the nearest dumpster.

Some times there is only one professor that teaches a particular class that is required to graduate, so it doesn't matter if he has good ratings or not you still need to take his class. This is especially true in some smaller universities.

Some of the best profs that I had were active professionally in their fields a few years before I took their classes, and they each had thier own style from "chalk talk" to in-depth discussions and explanations of what was on the PowerPoint.