Minnesota is usually in the high 70% range and usually is top 3 in the nation. I think there's a lot of apathy out there.

Do you mean congressional district or county? If you mean county you're just creating the same problem where large sparse counties have the same pull as Los Angeles.

I would read stuff in BYTE that I had never heard of and then 6 months - 1 year later see it pop up in other places as the next big thing.

Maybe some former PETA people work for the EFF now (make outrageous claims to bring attention to "the cause")

Do you think Obama will pardon him on his way off to the inauguration in 2017?

Stuart Chiefet had the "Computer Chronicles" show on public television stations, which was important to me to see all sorts of different computer technologies in the late 80s early 90s.

Barley usually isn't irrigated, not sure about hops. They irrigate the hell out of corn though.

Pretty much this. They didn't except it to be a big deal

The model 5100 didn't sell all that well, why would the 5150 do all that much better?

Have you looked into BEST? I volunteer for that at the hub and regional level and according to the FAQ it's free for teams.

So you're defending their creeps' actions?

I've cut down to 12 oz of pop a day (from the 40-50 oz) and it was tough the first week and I've pretty much stuck to it.It's about changing habits and like in the like he did some changes then some more than some more. It's working well so far.

Most (80-90%) corn grown in the US is field corn for animal feed, not sweet corn

Fascinating link. I wonder how the Mercury and Gemini G curves look.

Werner Klemperer, but I know who you meant