When I was there the local brewery, Löwenbräu of Grafenwöhr (not München) delivered to your door untill they went out of business.

Actually the cable company we had wasn't too bad execpt they didn't have enough capital to upgrade the system. Comcast just bought them out, upgraded to a fiber-based system, then went all draconian on us.

Hughesnet Gen4, 10 Gb anytime, 10Gb from 02:00-08:00, it's pretty hard to not hit the cap for me. No DSL possible, they'd have to replace the telephone line from the DSLAM to the house, comcast just laughes. Our electricity comes in single phase, we don't even have cross beams on the power poles, just hot and neutral one above the other. OBTW I am in the US, not Afganistan or Hati.

The only rational reason that ACA exisists is to make Insurance-funded heathcare so bad that a socialized single payer system looks better in comparison. Under US law, Income taxes are specifically excluded from discharge via bankruptcy proceedings so we've gone from a system where people were forced into bankruptcy for medical expenses, to a system where even bankruptcy will not save you from your medical expenses and if for any reason the IRS finds that your subsidy was in error, they will not only required repayment, but tack on penalties (which are typically the amount to be repayed) and interest.

Research suggests that blind people are superior to sighted in echolocation, but systematic psychoacoustic studies on environmental conditions such as distance to objects, signal duration, and reverberation are lacking. Therefore, two experiments were conducted. Noise bursts of 5, 50, or 500 ms were reproduced by a loudspeaker on an artificial manikin in an ordinary room and in an anechoic chamber. The manikin recorded the sounds binaurally in the presence and absence of a reflecting 1.5-mm thick aluminium disk, 0.5 m in diameter, placed in front, at distances of 0.5 to 5 m. These recordings were later presented to ten visually handicapped and ten sighted people, 30-62 years old, using a 2AFC paradigm with feedback. The task was to detect which of two sounds that contained the reflecting object. The blind performed better than the sighted participants. All performed well with the object at 2 m was not by chance. Detection thresholds showed that blind participants could detect the object at longer distances in the conference room than in the anechoic chamber, when using the longer-duration sounds and also as compared to the sighted people. Audiometric tests suggest that equal hearing in both ears is important for echolocation. Possible echolocation mechanisms are discussed. Human echolocation: Blind and sighted persons' ability to detect sounds recorded in the presence of a reflecting object.

I would certainly suspect that a non-sighted person who echo-locates would be far better than a sighted person, if for no other reason than getting much more practice, I would be interested in comparing a non-sighted and sighted echo-locator in a similar investigation. Could be that that part of the visual cortex could be used in both eyesighted and earsighted vision to varying degrees.

I'm seeing a lot of no-till and low-till farming in my area, now the large-scale crop farmers are using precise soil testing and only using the amount of artificial fertilizers absolutely necessary. A lot of what your saying is standard practises have went out of style in the late '70s.

I'm not sure it's something that can be consciencely heard, they just learn to echolocate.

Real geeks read the comics and piss and moan that the movies suck donkey's balls.

No actually anyone can supposedly do it,

A study of sighted people newly trained to echolocate now suggests that the secret to Kish’s skill isn’t just supersensitive ears. Instead, the entire body, neck, and head are key to “seeing” with sound—an insight that could assist blind people learning the skill. ... Although some people are more naturally talented than others at echolocation, most got “quite good” after 2 to 3 weeks of training, Wiegrebe says, and could reliably orient themselves to walk down the corridor without running into any walls using just clicks and echoes.How blind people use batlike sonar

does seem like they learned to do it about twice as fast as I've seen reported elsewhere too.

No they aren't used in the US, except by a few old farts like me and all those young whipper-snapper don't understand me anyways unless I'm yelling "Get off my lawn".

Which means if you eat or drink the stuff, the radiation is totally absorbed by your tissues, unlike Gamma radiation that for the most part goes through you like light through glass.

Yes indeed, Craig Breadlove's "Spirit of America" a tricycle set an average speed of over 400 mph (640 km/h), and still holds the World record for making the longest skid mark.
Fred Rompelberg from Maastricht, the Netherlands is the holder of the motor paced speed world record cycling with 268.831 km/h (166.9 mph) and was oldest professional cyclist in the world at the time.

36-year-old Austrian Markus Stöckl, director and owner of the MS Evil Racing Team, set a new world speed record for serial mountain bikes on gravel on a volcano in Nicaragua when he hit 164.95 kph. By doing so, he eclipsed the record which the Frenchman Eric Barone set nine years ago. Downhill moutainbiker Markus Stöckl sets new world speed record

Gissy's feat just seems lame.

Hillary is now unelectable, her chance really went to Obama and Benghazi sealed that fate.

I know, "The point is you're arguing about grammar, and I'm arguing about politics." the political point my sig is making is that the relationship between the several States and the Federal Government isn't necessarily hierarchical, therefore in many cases, the united States of America could more properly being a plurality of States rather than a singularity of a Federal Government and by butchering the grammar I've sometimes made the statement more visible.

Well if your asserting that I'm in denial of the problem because I don't like the solution, then in all honesty, you have to seriously consider that there are significant numbers of persons that have created a problem for the purpose of requiring their desired solution, such as UN Agenda 21.

Climatologist generally avoid any reference to Chaos theory, they'll even make up their own terms to avoid references to standard Chaos theory terminology. They know that weather is an instance of climate, and if weather is chaotic, then by definition climate is chaotic, it's that pesky Self-similarity, and even that is complicated by the fact that some models are counting butterflies in a 22.5 km^2 cell and others in a 62.5 km^2 cell. Even worse is 70% of the planet is water and water is where most of the planet's most effective heat engine is, and there is almost no monitoring of conditions there. The bottom line is if we can't predict the weather 30 days out, there is no reason to believe we can predict the climate a century from now.