Probably similar to bison - the only real ice age megafauna left.

You say this as though China is innocent of such shenanigans. It's been known for years that they backdoor stuff made in China - we still buy all our crap from them.

Virtualization extends the life of a lot of applications that would otherwise need to be replaced, but once an OS vendor stops supporting an OS, even virtualization can only go so far.

So you have a choice - less energy use via lighter cars, or easily recyclable cars. Where is your particular environmental itch?

> Please cite a source for that

Hard to find a non-biased source for this, most of my searches pulled up anti-gun advocacy pages whose figures wouldn't stand up to scrutiny, but I did find this article from 2009 that cites a CDC report stating that around 100 children annually, on average, died from accidental shootings between 2000 and 2005.

> If they programmed it correctly

As a server admin, if this is your standard for correct server side programming, I've never seen a correctly programmed application in my entire 30 year career.

In my experience, server application migrations rarely function flawlessly across OS versions. Most of the time, major application modifications need to be made.

I agree with you on the server code, however. If they're going to abandon it, they might as well open source it.

>My question is what purpose it would solve. By the time the route is finished, there won't be any way for the US to import anything from China. Food exports from USA to China, perhaps, as an attempt to pay the interest on what is owed?

Your post displays a lack of knowledge of how the trade deficit works.

In a nutshell, we don't borrow money from China. We buy goods and services from China, and we use US Dollars for the transaction.

China can then spend those US dollars in the American economy - perhaps to buy American goods in exchange - but they choose instead to put those greenbacks into US treasuries, which is the single safest investment in the world. Other countries would sell those greenbacks on the currency markets to obtain their native currencies, causing currency prices to fluctuate accordingly, but China has decided to keep their exchange rates at artificial levels that advantage them and disadvantage the rest of the world, especially the United States. But I digress.

The US treasuries that China owns can't be all called in at once. They can be sold on the open market, which technically could cause US treasury rates to rise, making borrowing more expensive for the United States, but in all likelihood they would not impact those rates by very much. The important thing here is that China can't roll up to the US Treasury with a briefcase (well, okay - trucks) full of bonds that haven't matured yet and expect to cash in. It doesn't work that way. While the US does pay interest on those treasuries, the interest rates are quite low right now.

There's a lot more to this - but suffice to say, macroeconomics is not microeconomics - things you need to take care of at a household level often don't mesh with what governments have to do in order to keep the books balanced. It's a common misconception that the US national debt is necessarily a bad thing.

I don't know about that -- Seen what model T's are going for these days?

>providers are FORBIDDEN to upgrade any portion of their networks to IPv6 without NSA direct approval.

Source? The signal you're picking up through your tinfoil hat doesn't count.

Pretty sure that firing all of the hot shot CPU designers and having such algorithms design their CPUs for them is how they wound up with the Bulldozer fiasco.

Looky here.

There's a lot of stuff in those filters that can be processed into useful, marketable minerals. Just gotta figure out a good way to separate it all.

You know as well as I do that it's not the radiation, it's the radiotoxicity of the Strontium, Caesium, and other nuclear byproducts that's spewing out of that place.

Of course, you also know as well as I do that all those nasties will be filtered out by the reverse osmosis membranes at the desalination plant.

How is that any different from a groundwater well? How are those cost effective and is method isn't?