First of all, have you sat with a stopwatch and timed yourself, or does the mouse just feel slower? When TOG created the mac he did that, and discovered many tasks where the CLI felt faster, but by the stopwatch the mouse was. This includes time switching back and forth between the keyboard and mouse! Note that this is a more limited statement than most mac users think, the mouse is not a perfect input device. Nobody normal person writes a novel with only the mouse.
As for data, when you are working with graphics the mouse is often the best tool for entering it.
Wildlife isn't concerned about humans in general. Humans are more concerned about wildlife, and tend to wipe it out. In addition human activity tends to limit some animals, but those animals are not afraid of people, they just want to eat. Thus we have imbalances, in areas where humans are. Now that we have reached a point where we are not so concerned about eat animals and things are changing. There are deer in Minneapolis, and once in a while one makes it downtown. (parks and yards just outside of downtown are good deer habitat, downtown itself isn't) Bear have been known to eat from bird feeders not too far away either.
Humans do not intimidate animals. They are scared at first, but that passes. After that it is a matter of can they live. Some do better around humans than others, but unless humans are hunting animals do not learn fear of people. (and in city situations hunting is rare)
Very limited if you are within 60 days of an election. Course some will argue that it is fair, it keeps those "evil special interests" from advertising and influencing an election. However it is still a limit on freedom of speach.
The US allows gambling in some areas, and not others. So I would call it fair if I could go to Nevada and gamble on line, but cannot do it in a different state where gambling is not allowed.
Of course my home state has both a lottery, and charitable gambling (pull tabs); so gambling is allowed and I have to agree with that on line gambling should be allowed to.
A state in the US may not ban gambling outside its borders. Anything that crosses state lines is a federal issue, and the federal government supplies the money and requires it to be accepted. The federal government is required (not allowed) to allow unlimited transportation between the states. A state's laws apply only in the borders of that state.
I agree that the stupid tax should be eliminated. However that is a state issue, and the Constitution does not allow the federal government to do anything. For that matter, the federal government cannot prevent a state from outlawing gambling.
The federal government has the responsibility to allow someone to cross state borders to gamble if they choose, even though the state they live in doesn't allow it.
Of course the federal government is doing a lot of things they are not allowed it. Thats a different rant though.
Casinos WANT you to win the big prize, in fact a new casino that is manipulating the odds in the first week is likely putting them in your favor! Losing a little money now is a great idea if you can get people talking about the big prize they won. A reputation for paying big prizes can survive the lower odds that you eventually settle on.
No casino starts without knowing how they will pay that big prize if it is won the first day. If you have calculated your odds correctly and can't afford the chance that the big once a year prize is won the first day, then there are insurance companies that will be happy to help you out. Part of doing business.
No, if it wasn't for the success of the American revolution I would be speaking french right now, since I live in territory that was once owned by France. France sold a large part of what is now the US, to the US. France and England (I'm not sure how the UK, england, Great Britton, and Britton differ, so I'm not sure which name is correct) were enemies, we can be pretty sure that France/ Napoleon would not have sold this part of the "new world" to an enemy. OTOH, they might have lost it in some treaty.
In short you can make a lot of speculation about what-ifs, but you need to understand what really happened before you can make blanket statements like that. Not acknowledging that France (not to mention Spain/Mexico) owned a large part of what is now the US in your speculations means you have not thought it through enough to make any predictions.
Mostly I agree, but your first question starts with an incorrect assumption: a 600mph vertical dive. Pilots are trained at ditching an airplane at sea, and planes do float for a short time after this happens. In fact (though I don't know of any specific cases off hand) it has happened before, and many passangers have survived ditching at sea. Vertical dives do not happen in a significant amount of emergency situations, wings are simple devices and don't break all that often, and a wing is all you need to prevent a vertical dive.
Airplanes have backup batteries, and backup radios. You can be sure that before the plane hits the water emergency people know that it is going down, and about where. They might not be able to get to you in time to save you, but they at least know where to look just in case.
I'd prefer to float around the North Atlantic than die. Though I think it is safe to assume that if it really is several days before rescure workers find you they will find a dead body. However depending on where the crash happens, rescure workers may find you sooner.
There are many different models of SUVs, some get 25 mpg, some 12.
Hybred vechicals do better in city stop and go driving. They do worse on the hiway. A good modern tranmission system is a lot more efficant than a generate, moter, and battery system, a fact that you cannot get around. Now there is the one advantage that engines tuned to run at one and only one RPM are more efficant, but it isn't enough to make up the extra costs of the rest of the system for hiway driving.
As my local electric co-op likes to point out, the munis have lower rates, but they are not investing in generation. Both the coop, and the big infester owned utilities in the area have higher rates (by a little), serve much less customers per mile of line (~100 for the munis, 45 for the company, and 14 for the co-op. The latter are real numbers as of the annual meeting this week). They can also legally take over any line the others have built, at no cost (but this varies from state to state).
You can be sure town governments who know nothing about telecoms will screw this up in the long run too, but you won't even know how until it is too late. Low prices are not everything, as all the wal-mart haters point out.
I had a 55 mile commute for a while, right through the heart of Minneapolis, and through the worst strechs of traffic in the twin cities. I looked at all the traffic info I could, but in the end I rarely changed my route. Sure I had a few alternates, but a couple miles of stop and go is still faster than any of the alternates that take me 20 miles out of the way. Side streets do not go through, nobody wants traffic in their neighborhood (the kids can and do play ball in the street) so they make it impossible to take anything but major routes. Combine that with traffic lights timed to stop you on the secondary streets and you are much better off stoped on the freeway than moving on a "empty" side street.
Course public transportation would be better, if it worked... I'm not holding my breath.
Towing the boat, driving on gravel roads. Ever notice how most the SUV ads say "kids" in them? Front seats in cars are fine, but I've never been comfortable in the backseat of ANY car, and haven't been since I was 15. (And I still had a lot of growth left at that age, girls who mature fast will run into problems sooner) SUVs, vans, and minivans are the only cars I know of that I would want to sit in for long pierods of time.
Look closely at those SUVs, most that I've seen have 2 inch receivers, and the owner keeps the rest of the hitch elsewhere expect when towing. So you wouldn't see the hitch, except in the cases when it is actually towing, maybe 5% of the time. The other 95% of the time the hitch is in storage, while the owner drives to work.
Everyone I know with VW TDI cars have been very happy with them. I think you would be too if you would try it.
A counterbalance won't help the two year old who climbs into a freezer and can't reach the top after if falls on him. Most 2 year olds know how to drag a bench to the freezer and open the lid. Crawling in isn't hard believe, though it is more a case of falling in once they get over the top. Combine that will all the floor space it takes, and how hard it is to organize anything, and I think it is a foolish option. OTOH it would be a good idea to find a conventional fridge with better insulation, that would save a lot, in the end perhaps more than a normal chest freezer.
I did the analysis to convert my house to a ground source heat pump. Nobody could convince me that everything would last 20 years. Equipment breaks, wells go dry, and so on... Still I know of rich people who have put those systems in, and got their yearly HVAC bills to about $100/year! That for a 3000 sq foot mansion. The guy in question owns a SIP (Structural insulated panel) company and used the best materials he could find to show off what his company could do.
Mount the coils outside how? Paying some tech $500 to install a $1200 fridge, instead of pluging in a simple factory built all in one system for $800? False ecconomices in many cases, if you consider all the energy needed to make and install that more complex system.
Chest freezers exist are dangerious, kids do fall into them and die if nobody discovers it. Sure you are strong enough to lift the lid from the inside, but little kids are not.
Lets see that Hybred car tow my boat out of the lake. Now if those hybreds where cheap enough that a person could afford to own both, and use whichever is best you would be right. However most people cannot afford (don't forget the extra storage space needed) that many more vechicals. So they compromise, the SUV can tow the boat and get to work, so they buy both. I also assume you have not tried to make a long road trip in a hybred car, they are not comforatble, while the SUV is comfortable and if you figure passanger mile getting close to 60. (IIRC Airplanes get ~40)
Have you looked at the cost of a ground source heat pump? 6 times the cost of a regular furnance. How are you going to pay for it? Sure they are better, but are they really that much better? You have to be positive you will live in one spot for 20 years to make it worth while, and then get lucky in getting a model that doesn't break down too often. I looked at putting on in, even doing work myself I couldn't justify the cost. Thats assuming you get it installed correctly, around here there are a few systems that don't work so good because they didn't get far enough below the frost line and end up no better than an air source heat pump. (read doesn't work when the air temp is below 0F)
Maybe the average person is an idiot, but even still things do not work out near as well as you say. Which of the above have you done? Resteraunts normally have coils on the roof, so you could find someone to install it for you if you really belived what you said. Do you have a chest fride taking up room in your kitchen, or do you also have a normal upright model? Is your heat from a ground source heat pump?
Honestly the only thing that makes sense for anyone is the Hybred car. Even then a diesel will beat it in some cases. My Geo Metro gets nearly as good milage, and is a lot less complex. I ran the numbers many times before a change in jobs made it worthwhile, and even then I just barely gain in the long run. My truck gets 21 mpg though. Many SUVs get similear.
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On my window manager that is accomplished by seting always on top. Perhaps you need to switch, or learn how to use your.
ARound here the little guys: ACE hardware, and Maus Foods both have customer cards. Cub Foods, the giant of the Twin cities doesn't (and in advertising has made fun of those cards that others have), nor does Home Depot or Menards (though both have store credit cards that sometimes offer a discount, only sometimes though). So I have to shop at the big guys with lower prices to avoid those stupid cards.
Despite the claims, I don't see how administrating a card program can really save that much money. Some stores like it though. I vote with my wallet: go to the big guy with lower prices and no card.
Or a few GPS transmitters in the warehouse itself. Would be easy enough to do technically, I'm not sure if the military would let you use their frequencies, but even without it is easy enough to use a different band.
Since they are tracking by useless information, they can't infringe on our rights to buy 50 copies and 'Catcher in the Rye' and a crate of ammunition. Both are totally legal, and the men in the black helicopters should not have access to information on who does buy such things, except with a warrent, which gives them plenty of other ways to investigate.
My parents have utility control of their HVAC system. Well AC anyway, the rest doesn't use enough power for the utility to care. They also have utility control of their water heating system. The Water heating only runs between midnight and 4am. (The utility supplied extra water heaters for storage so this lasts all day) The AC runs 15 minutes on, 10 off when demand is highest. In exchange my parents pay half rates for the power those devices use. (They have two meters)
It works great, more utilities should do it. I've seen the numbers, the utility has saved a lot in generation not needed, and that savings is passed on.
Why do you want pre-paid for a few weeks? I'm sure it makes sense, for some, but why? Personally I'd tell my friends to only call in emergency's, and use my Tmobile sim over there. Sure you pay roaming, way to much, but you also get one number that you can give everyone, and can always be reached in emergencies. Use the hotel phone.
If you really will make a lot of calls over there, to others over there, pick up a prepaid phone there, they are cheap enough.
BTW, while you are at it, call your carrier and complain that roaming in Europe is so high. It is all accounting, they can do whatever they want (Okay, I know those undersea cables cost money) with the billing. And get your friends in Europe to complain too. Perhaps someday we can do something about it.
No, this is good design. They couldn't make sure that it would be installed correctly, so they made sure there was enough redundancy that one could be installed backwords, and it would work anyway, though not as good.
Still doesn't excuse someone for installing it wrong, but at least there is enough reduncancy that it isn't a critical failure.
Great idea, but the workers stamped the wrong side on some versions, and the part cannot be remade in time.
This is a real problem in industry, you can put any sign on something, but then you gotta make sure the signs are right too. Indeed the wrong sign leads some workers to put it in backwards, even knowing the right way, while others will get in the habbit of putting it in with the lettering wrong, and not correct themselves when the next version is ships with the right parts.
I don't know much about washington state, but I do know that in MN where most of the logging is Aspen (for paper, a fast growing tree), the best way to harvest them is clear cutting a small area, and letting nature take over and re-seed. There is a lot of wildlife in MN that prefers this system. Some like the forest just after the cutting, while others like it just before, but if they would leave it, the forest would change again.
Note that I'm talking about one particular type of forest, and this practice is only done on land the lumber company owns. State and private land is managed differently, for different growth, even there though, clear cutting and then replanting gives all the new trees a better chance at survival.
Not exactly. This best boxer at the gunfight is also the only one that happens to own any guns. Take your chances with the boxing, where numbers might help, but if things get too hard the boxer pulls out the guns...
Last I checked Russia was the only country with a working nuke program. (Though I'm not sure if they have kept it maintained) Europe has people smart enough to do it, and all the supplies, but it still takes time to turn know how into something that works.
Still, a war between the US and Europe is unlikly at that time. I'd like to keep it that way, I hope you would too.
OH come on, even if the plane ticket to the US alone cost $4000, and the laptop, after all taxes are paid costs $2989 (ie saves $10) he is still ahead by come to the US to buy it. At least if he does anything other than grad the laptop and leave. The US is a large country with a lot of culture (despite how Europe jokes otherwise), and many wonderful things to see and do. Everyone should visit. Actually the US is large enough that one visit won't be enough to see it all, but then you cannot see the entire world in your lifetime.
Enjoy the trip. New York isn't my favorite place to visit in the US, but it is worth seeing.
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First of all, have you sat with a stopwatch and timed yourself, or does the mouse just feel slower? When TOG created the mac he did that, and discovered many tasks where the CLI felt faster, but by the stopwatch the mouse was. This includes time switching back and forth between the keyboard and mouse! Note that this is a more limited statement than most mac users think, the mouse is not a perfect input device. Nobody normal person writes a novel with only the mouse.
As for data, when you are working with graphics the mouse is often the best tool for entering it.
Wildlife isn't concerned about humans in general. Humans are more concerned about wildlife, and tend to wipe it out. In addition human activity tends to limit some animals, but those animals are not afraid of people, they just want to eat. Thus we have imbalances, in areas where humans are. Now that we have reached a point where we are not so concerned about eat animals and things are changing. There are deer in Minneapolis, and once in a while one makes it downtown. (parks and yards just outside of downtown are good deer habitat, downtown itself isn't) Bear have been known to eat from bird feeders not too far away either.
Humans do not intimidate animals. They are scared at first, but that passes. After that it is a matter of can they live. Some do better around humans than others, but unless humans are hunting animals do not learn fear of people. (and in city situations hunting is rare)
Very limited if you are within 60 days of an election. Course some will argue that it is fair, it keeps those "evil special interests" from advertising and influencing an election. However it is still a limit on freedom of speach.
The US allows gambling in some areas, and not others. So I would call it fair if I could go to Nevada and gamble on line, but cannot do it in a different state where gambling is not allowed.
Of course my home state has both a lottery, and charitable gambling (pull tabs); so gambling is allowed and I have to agree with that on line gambling should be allowed to.
A state in the US may not ban gambling outside its borders. Anything that crosses state lines is a federal issue, and the federal government supplies the money and requires it to be accepted. The federal government is required (not allowed) to allow unlimited transportation between the states. A state's laws apply only in the borders of that state.
I agree that the stupid tax should be eliminated. However that is a state issue, and the Constitution does not allow the federal government to do anything. For that matter, the federal government cannot prevent a state from outlawing gambling.
The federal government has the responsibility to allow someone to cross state borders to gamble if they choose, even though the state they live in doesn't allow it.
Of course the federal government is doing a lot of things they are not allowed it. Thats a different rant though.
Casinos WANT you to win the big prize, in fact a new casino that is manipulating the odds in the first week is likely putting them in your favor! Losing a little money now is a great idea if you can get people talking about the big prize they won. A reputation for paying big prizes can survive the lower odds that you eventually settle on.
No casino starts without knowing how they will pay that big prize if it is won the first day. If you have calculated your odds correctly and can't afford the chance that the big once a year prize is won the first day, then there are insurance companies that will be happy to help you out. Part of doing business.
No, if it wasn't for the success of the American revolution I would be speaking french right now, since I live in territory that was once owned by France. France sold a large part of what is now the US, to the US. France and England (I'm not sure how the UK, england, Great Britton, and Britton differ, so I'm not sure which name is correct) were enemies, we can be pretty sure that France/ Napoleon would not have sold this part of the "new world" to an enemy. OTOH, they might have lost it in some treaty.
In short you can make a lot of speculation about what-ifs, but you need to understand what really happened before you can make blanket statements like that. Not acknowledging that France (not to mention Spain/Mexico) owned a large part of what is now the US in your speculations means you have not thought it through enough to make any predictions.
Mostly I agree, but your first question starts with an incorrect assumption: a 600mph vertical dive. Pilots are trained at ditching an airplane at sea, and planes do float for a short time after this happens. In fact (though I don't know of any specific cases off hand) it has happened before, and many passangers have survived ditching at sea. Vertical dives do not happen in a significant amount of emergency situations, wings are simple devices and don't break all that often, and a wing is all you need to prevent a vertical dive.
Airplanes have backup batteries, and backup radios. You can be sure that before the plane hits the water emergency people know that it is going down, and about where. They might not be able to get to you in time to save you, but they at least know where to look just in case.
I'd prefer to float around the North Atlantic than die. Though I think it is safe to assume that if it really is several days before rescure workers find you they will find a dead body. However depending on where the crash happens, rescure workers may find you sooner.
There are many different models of SUVs, some get 25 mpg, some 12.
Hybred vechicals do better in city stop and go driving. They do worse on the hiway. A good modern tranmission system is a lot more efficant than a generate, moter, and battery system, a fact that you cannot get around. Now there is the one advantage that engines tuned to run at one and only one RPM are more efficant, but it isn't enough to make up the extra costs of the rest of the system for hiway driving.
As my local electric co-op likes to point out, the munis have lower rates, but they are not investing in generation. Both the coop, and the big infester owned utilities in the area have higher rates (by a little), serve much less customers per mile of line (~100 for the munis, 45 for the company, and 14 for the co-op. The latter are real numbers as of the annual meeting this week). They can also legally take over any line the others have built, at no cost (but this varies from state to state).
You can be sure town governments who know nothing about telecoms will screw this up in the long run too, but you won't even know how until it is too late. Low prices are not everything, as all the wal-mart haters point out.
I had a 55 mile commute for a while, right through the heart of Minneapolis, and through the worst strechs of traffic in the twin cities. I looked at all the traffic info I could, but in the end I rarely changed my route. Sure I had a few alternates, but a couple miles of stop and go is still faster than any of the alternates that take me 20 miles out of the way. Side streets do not go through, nobody wants traffic in their neighborhood (the kids can and do play ball in the street) so they make it impossible to take anything but major routes. Combine that with traffic lights timed to stop you on the secondary streets and you are much better off stoped on the freeway than moving on a "empty" side street.
Course public transportation would be better, if it worked... I'm not holding my breath.
Towing the boat, driving on gravel roads. Ever notice how most the SUV ads say "kids" in them? Front seats in cars are fine, but I've never been comfortable in the backseat of ANY car, and haven't been since I was 15. (And I still had a lot of growth left at that age, girls who mature fast will run into problems sooner) SUVs, vans, and minivans are the only cars I know of that I would want to sit in for long pierods of time.
Look closely at those SUVs, most that I've seen have 2 inch receivers, and the owner keeps the rest of the hitch elsewhere expect when towing. So you wouldn't see the hitch, except in the cases when it is actually towing, maybe 5% of the time. The other 95% of the time the hitch is in storage, while the owner drives to work.
Everyone I know with VW TDI cars have been very happy with them. I think you would be too if you would try it.
A counterbalance won't help the two year old who climbs into a freezer and can't reach the top after if falls on him. Most 2 year olds know how to drag a bench to the freezer and open the lid. Crawling in isn't hard believe, though it is more a case of falling in once they get over the top. Combine that will all the floor space it takes, and how hard it is to organize anything, and I think it is a foolish option. OTOH it would be a good idea to find a conventional fridge with better insulation, that would save a lot, in the end perhaps more than a normal chest freezer.
I did the analysis to convert my house to a ground source heat pump. Nobody could convince me that everything would last 20 years. Equipment breaks, wells go dry, and so on... Still I know of rich people who have put those systems in, and got their yearly HVAC bills to about $100/year! That for a 3000 sq foot mansion. The guy in question owns a SIP (Structural insulated panel) company and used the best materials he could find to show off what his company could do.
Mount the coils outside how? Paying some tech $500 to install a $1200 fridge, instead of pluging in a simple factory built all in one system for $800? False ecconomices in many cases, if you consider all the energy needed to make and install that more complex system.
Chest freezers exist are dangerious, kids do fall into them and die if nobody discovers it. Sure you are strong enough to lift the lid from the inside, but little kids are not.
Lets see that Hybred car tow my boat out of the lake. Now if those hybreds where cheap enough that a person could afford to own both, and use whichever is best you would be right. However most people cannot afford (don't forget the extra storage space needed) that many more vechicals. So they compromise, the SUV can tow the boat and get to work, so they buy both. I also assume you have not tried to make a long road trip in a hybred car, they are not comforatble, while the SUV is comfortable and if you figure passanger mile getting close to 60. (IIRC Airplanes get ~40)
Have you looked at the cost of a ground source heat pump? 6 times the cost of a regular furnance. How are you going to pay for it? Sure they are better, but are they really that much better? You have to be positive you will live in one spot for 20 years to make it worth while, and then get lucky in getting a model that doesn't break down too often. I looked at putting on in, even doing work myself I couldn't justify the cost. Thats assuming you get it installed correctly, around here there are a few systems that don't work so good because they didn't get far enough below the frost line and end up no better than an air source heat pump. (read doesn't work when the air temp is below 0F)
Maybe the average person is an idiot, but even still things do not work out near as well as you say. Which of the above have you done? Resteraunts normally have coils on the roof, so you could find someone to install it for you if you really belived what you said. Do you have a chest fride taking up room in your kitchen, or do you also have a normal upright model? Is your heat from a ground source heat pump?
Honestly the only thing that makes sense for anyone is the Hybred car. Even then a diesel will beat it in some cases. My Geo Metro gets nearly as good milage, and is a lot less complex. I ran the numbers many times before a change in jobs made it worthwhile, and even then I just barely gain in the long run. My truck gets 21 mpg though. Many SUVs get similear.
On my window manager that is accomplished by seting always on top. Perhaps you need to switch, or learn how to use your.
ARound here the little guys: ACE hardware, and Maus Foods both have customer cards. Cub Foods, the giant of the Twin cities doesn't (and in advertising has made fun of those cards that others have), nor does Home Depot or Menards (though both have store credit cards that sometimes offer a discount, only sometimes though). So I have to shop at the big guys with lower prices to avoid those stupid cards.
Despite the claims, I don't see how administrating a card program can really save that much money. Some stores like it though. I vote with my wallet: go to the big guy with lower prices and no card.
Or a few GPS transmitters in the warehouse itself. Would be easy enough to do technically, I'm not sure if the military would let you use their frequencies, but even without it is easy enough to use a different band.
Since they are tracking by useless information, they can't infringe on our rights to buy 50 copies and 'Catcher in the Rye' and a crate of ammunition. Both are totally legal, and the men in the black helicopters should not have access to information on who does buy such things, except with a warrent, which gives them plenty of other ways to investigate.
My parents have utility control of their HVAC system. Well AC anyway, the rest doesn't use enough power for the utility to care. They also have utility control of their water heating system. The Water heating only runs between midnight and 4am. (The utility supplied extra water heaters for storage so this lasts all day) The AC runs 15 minutes on, 10 off when demand is highest. In exchange my parents pay half rates for the power those devices use. (They have two meters)
It works great, more utilities should do it. I've seen the numbers, the utility has saved a lot in generation not needed, and that savings is passed on.
Why do you want pre-paid for a few weeks? I'm sure it makes sense, for some, but why? Personally I'd tell my friends to only call in emergency's, and use my Tmobile sim over there. Sure you pay roaming, way to much, but you also get one number that you can give everyone, and can always be reached in emergencies. Use the hotel phone.
If you really will make a lot of calls over there, to others over there, pick up a prepaid phone there, they are cheap enough.
BTW, while you are at it, call your carrier and complain that roaming in Europe is so high. It is all accounting, they can do whatever they want (Okay, I know those undersea cables cost money) with the billing. And get your friends in Europe to complain too. Perhaps someday we can do something about it.
No, this is good design. They couldn't make sure that it would be installed correctly, so they made sure there was enough redundancy that one could be installed backwords, and it would work anyway, though not as good.
Still doesn't excuse someone for installing it wrong, but at least there is enough reduncancy that it isn't a critical failure.
Great idea, but the workers stamped the wrong side on some versions, and the part cannot be remade in time.
This is a real problem in industry, you can put any sign on something, but then you gotta make sure the signs are right too. Indeed the wrong sign leads some workers to put it in backwards, even knowing the right way, while others will get in the habbit of putting it in with the lettering wrong, and not correct themselves when the next version is ships with the right parts.
I don't know much about washington state, but I do know that in MN where most of the logging is Aspen (for paper, a fast growing tree), the best way to harvest them is clear cutting a small area, and letting nature take over and re-seed. There is a lot of wildlife in MN that prefers this system. Some like the forest just after the cutting, while others like it just before, but if they would leave it, the forest would change again.
Note that I'm talking about one particular type of forest, and this practice is only done on land the lumber company owns. State and private land is managed differently, for different growth, even there though, clear cutting and then replanting gives all the new trees a better chance at survival.
Not exactly. This best boxer at the gunfight is also the only one that happens to own any guns. Take your chances with the boxing, where numbers might help, but if things get too hard the boxer pulls out the guns...
Last I checked Russia was the only country with a working nuke program. (Though I'm not sure if they have kept it maintained) Europe has people smart enough to do it, and all the supplies, but it still takes time to turn know how into something that works.
Still, a war between the US and Europe is unlikly at that time. I'd like to keep it that way, I hope you would too.
OH come on, even if the plane ticket to the US alone cost $4000, and the laptop, after all taxes are paid costs $2989 (ie saves $10) he is still ahead by come to the US to buy it. At least if he does anything other than grad the laptop and leave. The US is a large country with a lot of culture (despite how Europe jokes otherwise), and many wonderful things to see and do. Everyone should visit. Actually the US is large enough that one visit won't be enough to see it all, but then you cannot see the entire world in your lifetime.
Enjoy the trip. New York isn't my favorite place to visit in the US, but it is worth seeing.