Mine's a cheapy, bought at an army surplus. 2 or 3 kilos and doesn't pack tight at all.

What do you sling a hammock between in Iceland? Two rocks?

Google 'lightning incidence map' and avoid looking like a smug idiot next time.

SF would have PUDed long ago, but PG&E owns all the transmission into the bay area anyhow.

So they prefer to continue getting fucked the old fashioned way. Kind of surprising for SF.

Mythbusters notwithstanding.

When asked to polish a turd, what they are really asking you to do is cover it in glitter and spray paint.

Never forget that and actually try to polish a turd.

Only runs on LPG. Right out.

My old Primus stove is great and light. Will burn anything short of diesel fuel. White gas is much more energy dense vs. LPG.

Windscreen/heat exchanger are part of the pot set. Was pricy, but doesn't wear out.

Only with extruded food. So your pallet is 'Cheesy Poof', 'Slim Jim' and 'Noodle'.

Pressure cookers cook faster by raising the boiling point/temperature of steam. Less cooking time beats time to boil.

Because cooking is all about how fast you can get the BTUs into the food?

Is there any kind of cooking, besides bringing water to a boil, where this will actually help? Any market beyond English/Scottish food?

Buy a couple of immersion heaters before you hurt yourself. 1800/heater wattage is the number you want.

Also learn to cook a hot dog/brautwurst etc on a cutoff extension cord. That's classic 'dorm food'. Just get any junk 120 appliance and cut-off the cord, strip 3/4'' off the ends and plug the bare wires into the ends of the sausage. Hot dogs will cook in 30 seconds. Don't electrocute yourself.

I've owned a 'tent/hammock'. It's useless for backpacking, too heavy and bulky. Hammocks have to be strong.

I suppose you could build an ultralight version, for jungle backpacking. Lose the end bars, make the hammock out of kevlar and make the cover mosquito net.

You must be new here.

The words you are looking for are 'electrostatic precipitators'.

They're not perfect but 99% better than nothing. Last I heard there were still many old coal plants in the USA grandfathered so they don't need them. They should finally be getting retired or retrofitted real soon now.

Always thought an emission allowance certificate would be a good gift for a greeny. They could frame it and act even smugger, knowing that, for example, 100 tons of SO2 would not be emitted and dirty old plants retired sooner.

I'd be selling them on Ebay today, but couldn't find an original to copy.

medical experiments

'medical' is a good woody word. 'science' is tinny.

Your blame is at least partially misplaced. Manufacturers also bundle software, regardless of the carrier. The last two Android phones I had were bought directly from the manufacturer as never-locked phones (not to be confused with unlocked, which means the carrier lock has been removed). Yet there still was plenty of bundled and uninstallable software, including Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Drive, Hangout and Picasa apps and integration for pretty much everything. I have disabled more than 20 bundled apps.

The manufacturer assumes that everyone uses the big social media sites and want to tell their friends (and their friends) about everything they do, including what music (or audio books) they play, what pictures they take, and where they currently are.

It's good that social exhibitionism became acceptable (thanks to Jennifer Ringley more than anyone), but that it became the norm to the point that it's bundled is something I strongly object to. It's like buying a toilet and finding out that it (unadvertised) comes with wan connected crotch cams that can't be removed, just temporarily disabled.

... we're having Peking Witch for dinner?