You can put the PC to sleep. It'll wake at the designated time and do the Windows Update cycle, then go back to sleep.
Texas and Oklahoma both execute a higher percentage of its population than China does.
Clunkers did play a role, but probably not as big of one as you think.
People are keeping their cars longer (average 11 years, possible now due to vastly improved quality across the board), and many good used cars are being shipped to new overseas consumers (SE Asia, former Soviet bloc) both bringing used car prices for 3-5 year models within 15% of a new car's price.
One theory I keep thinking about is - why SHOULD a new car depreciate 20%-30% the moment you drive it off the lot? The functionality of the car doesn't diminish by 20%-30% during this time. This depreciation cliff made more sense when crappy domestic makes required a new transmission at 25k miles. But with cars routinely making 100k-150k at the very minimum without blinking an eye (except German makes, of course), maybe the market is responding to the fact that the functionality of a car over its now increased lifespan should be reflect a less steep depreciation curve.
Some updates needed:
Vietnamese - fish sauce.
Thais - more pungent fish sauce.
Hawaiians - Spam.
Filipinos also love Maggi sauce.
As if they wouldn't have been bulldozed economically and/or militarily over by its vengeful neighbors a decade later had the US not come and got their back. Also economically, both Japan and Europe got quite a head start on rebuilding with massive US assistance. Without their huge head start, would Japan be where they are today had their, say, cars been competing head to head with Korean and Chinese models of equal quality?
Don't forget that the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere was the ultimate result of a "broken, dysfunctional culture of perpetual victimhood, lecherousness, filth and ignorance". Everything but the "laziness" you described.
Do what anyone would normally do in a company - write an email to the principal/administrator and have them basically put on (electronic) paper that you have permission. CYA.
I have a lemon 20MB Quantum hard drive in an ancient box. It's a lemon because it still reads and writes!
Yeah, there was a what one would call a short-lived "rebellion" against the new tolls put on a bridge in Seattle, where a lot of drivers drove an extra 10 miles and added an extra hour to their commute rather than pay $3.50 on the bridge. That didn't last long. The only large contingent of people left complaining loudly are people who don't actually live in Seattle.
Darwinism only affects the population if the dead driver has not yet reproduced. Since the minimum age for obtaining a driver's license is generally greater than the median breeding age in rural Texas, the increased speed limit may not have any impact on Darwinism's effects on the population there.
On the eighth day, God created FORTRAN.
