Nope. https://www.eia.gov/ EIA did a study. I couldn't find the detail but about 40% of Texas heating was gas fired furnace. 60% was electric, mostly in the South and mostly resistance heat. Anecdotally from someone who has lived here 40 years, I didn't know a single person with a heat pump until last year. I priced one. It was much more expensive than an AC gas furnace. I know it shouldn't be. But its still a novelty here slowly wearing off.

El Paso doesn't have it's own grid. EPE is a regional electric utility that is a member of the Western Interconnection. As such they are subject to federal oversight of reliability and winterizing standards that the Texas Interconnection is not . Through I'm sure EPE has gone beyond and has reason to be proud of their performance.

Many airlines, including some very large ones, use a CICS application called Maxi-Merlin to manage aircraft maintenance planning, compliance recording, material requirements, order management, and warehouse operations. At least one airline in particular is still actively developing new features with a large development team each with their own expertise of a particular module of the system. Maxi-Merlin is still used not because no one understands it and how to replace it, but because it is extremely expensive and complex to migrate a fleet of aircraft off of one maintenance ERP system onto another, while the business builds familiarity with it and gets FAA/EASA signoff, even with one of the many modern COTS systems.

As soon as the information was released, the CIA was going to figure out very quickly who was responsible. Becoming famous was probably the only reason he wasn't quietly assassinated or kidnapped and spirited to a dungeon in a middle eastern ally before anyone figured out.

Lucky you. I don't mind the interface changes. But my N5 with Lollipop 5.0.1 has been laggy when task switching or going back to the home screen, crashy especially with Chrome, and turns into a good impression of a pocket warmer to kill a full battery. Even when it doesn't turn into a pocket warmer, the battery life seems worse than KitKat. I'm planning to install Cyanogen this weekend.

New ones don't come from nowhere. You trade an investment in compuing equipment and electric costs to mine the next bitcoin.

I'm not certain on the newest designed planes like the 787, but on all older planes the 2 data systems (aircraft data and IFE data) use seperate transponders and seperate antennas and even broadcast to seperate satellites, or in the case of air data by shortwave. Air data goes by ARINC, IFE by Row44, Gogo, etc.

The slits you are thinking of is RK. I had wavefront PRK. It is basically the same thing as LASIK. The only difference is instead of cutting the flap, they put a chemical on your corneal skin and scrape it off. After the procedure it regrows. PRK is what military pilots are allowed to get and is paid for because after it heals it is more structurally stable. It just hurts some more.

I'd say you are lucky and possibly have a really good Federal Security Director at your airport. I regularly spend a half hour in the TSA line and have spent over an hour multiple times in different cities. Though to be fair I've also gotten through in 5 minutes, and the time isn't necessarily predictable. If you need to check a bag that can add 5 minutes to an hour, plus the 20 minutes in advance that you should be at the gate and the fact that airlines and the TSA aren't generally sympathetic if you are running late means being at the airport 2 hours in advance usually makes sense to do.

Has SAP really ever made a company more efficient?

Holy cow. My electric rate is 10 cents per kwh, not tiered. Where is it 3x that?

Relatively common on Colorado interstate highways.

There have been claims that this particular aircraft did not have the satellite transceiver installed to do this.

"some illegal military operation" Why does it have to be illegal? It could be a simple as we don't want to disclose our full worldwide surveillance capabilities. We've also been told that the transponders were turned off or quit working. But I haven't read anyone claim the same of the radios. Possibly the circuit breakers on the VHF/HF transceivers weren't pulled and the plane did to continue sending ACARS engine performance data on VHF/HF and for whatever reason MAS didn't receive or is denying receiving it, and US signal intelligence did pick it up.

I knew that organic farmers use a few basic pesticides like different salts and soaps, but I was surprised that there are about 20 pesticides approved for organic certification and not all of them are well studied including one no longer used on plants that is toxic to humans and still used as a pesciside. This wasn't my crusade, though I am definitely against some of Monsanto's practices and FDA's lax oversight. But I did forward a couple stories about it from reputable scientific journals to my wife.