Yes... that is one of the problems with great whites, they eat everything else. However, even with eating everything else in the tank, they can't be kept alive for long.

Also note that dog lifespans have gone down since WWII. It's difficult to prove the exact cause, but the change to dry dog food and dogs spending less time outdoors are two of the suspects.

Breed specifications are the other reason. German Shepherds used to look like that. Now they look like this.

Being intelligent does not have any correlation to being able to be confined. Great white sharks, for example, cannot be kept in captivity. At all. They die after a couple of weeks, at best, generally. The world record is 44 days.

Unless you're downloading games regularly, watching high def videos online, or torrenting stuff, data caps should never be a problem.

The trouble is a lot of people are now doing most of the above. People who aren't don't care about caps, since they'll never get close to 100gb a month without those three.

Amontons' First Law: The force of friction is directly proportional to the applied load.

Therefore, in a perfect world, it doesn't matter at all how heavy your car is, it should go around corners at the same speed all other things being equal. However, it's (obviously) more complicated than that. Generally the lighter your car, the better it will go around a corner. This is mainly due to the way the tyre interacts with the road, and the way it deforms under load.

The Lotus Elise has far fewer electronic nannies than those it is competing against - it's a very basic (in a good way) car.

The problem is not completely dead batteries - if your battery is completely dead, your petrol car won't start whatever you do. However, there are loads of times when your battery doesn't have enough power to turn the starter motor, but does have enough to spark the plugs. In these cases, bump starting is desirable.

I used to have an old diesel XM hand me down whose alternator died. I drove it for about a month before I had enough money to get it fixed... I just parked at the top of hills, and bump started it by rolling down them every time. You had to careful no one could park in front of you, and angle the wheels outwards (low speed no power steering is not fun). My friend had an old Peugeot 205 that failed the same was when we were at university... that didn't get fixed until it died about 2 years later.

The first automatic I ever drove was an 18 tonne truck. I got in, and was just confused for a second. I then went and asked my boss how to drive it.

I'm glad I had that experience, though, because temping as an HGV driver you often turn up to places with a keycode to get in, directions, and not much else (including no one there). No one ever checked what kind of trucks I'd driven before, I'd only driven Mercedes manuals up until that point. My first experience with a semi-auto full size artic truck was at 4am in the morning with no one about. This semi-auto used a clutch pedal to get started, then switched to full auto when moving - the trouble was remembering to drop the clutch when you're stopping (often hours after you last used it). It was relatively intuitive, though.

In France, they fought heavily for their cheese, as EU wanted to force all cheeses to be pasteurized. This would have been bad news for cheese lovers. I think the French farmers won on this, and we can still eat lovely cheeses from strange places, but likely the war against fresh food is still going on, with more and more regulation making small farmers' life and direct sales increasingly difficult.

The EU is actually much more liberal than just about everywhere else in the world in regards to raw milk. It's actually illegal to sell something called Roquefort made with pasteurized milk (you can make it, just not call it Roquefort). Other cheeses are also commonly unpasteurized, like Gruyere and Emmental.

And in any event, unless you buy in at the IPO, you don't "help" a company or technology by buying their stock since the said stock is owned by some other dude and the sale does not bring a single more dollar to the company

This is like claiming there is no point voting because some other dude also voted. Companies live and die by how many people are willing to invest in them, so, in my opinion, buying stock is a company is definitely helping them.

Some things don't get a lot of wear. You touch them at most a few times a day.

Amusingly, my Logitech MX510 did die. The left click button failed (after about 5 years). However, I loved that mouse, and therefore bought another Logitech (a g9x, which I am still using). It was expensive, but I had no reservations about buying it because of the reviews and the performance of the previous mouse.

You see, when my MX510 died, I bought another Logitech product. It had served me well, and perhaps I could have got a replacement after it failed. My use was not typical, probably, but that shouldn't matter. Now an owner of a g9x, and when that dies.... I'll buy another Logitech mouse, because they have served me well.

I was replying to this post. I wasn't talking about literacy, and neither was your post.

I never said Brazil didn't have native tribes. I said they have fewer distinct tribes. That's a fact.

You said that Brazil had fewer than 4 or 5 distinct Indian tribes. That is... wrong.

Places like Brazil are more racially diverse than the US, and places like England have more religious diversity than the US.

That's all I was saying, and you disagreed with it.

Brazil has a lot of diversity but being 50 percent white means being 50 percent being something else.

That remaining 50% is lots of other things, mainly black, brown (this is closer to how it is described in Brazil, although not politically correct in the US), indigenous, middle eastern, east Asian, and others. The US, by contrast, is almost 3/4 white.

Do they have as many Russians? As many people from the middle east?

In my original post I mentioned Brazil has more people of Lebanese descent than Lebanon, they also have a large Syrian population. I don't know the Russian population of Brazil, but they do have relatively large populations of other east European peoples, such as Ukranian and Polish.

As many Muslims? Do they have large Buddhist communities? Do they have Amish?

You probably don't want to conflate religious diversity with racial diversity, they're not the same thing.

Brazil is _slightly_ less religiously diverse than the US, I admit. About 75% of Americans are Christian, whereas about 86% are Christian in Brazil. In the US Islam is at 0.6%, Buddhism is at 0.7%, Hinduism is at 0.4%. Contrast this to somewhere like England : Christianity 59%, Islam 5%, Hinduism 1.5%, Buddhism 0.5% (and 0.7% Jedi). This shows that England is much more religiously diverse than the United States.

How many distinct Indian tribes do they have? I doubt more then four or five. We have that many in some states.

You're really beginning to show your ignorance. I'll start you off with this. That list does not include many original tribes that have been integrated into the main Brazilian population (like American Indian tribes have been in the US).

And here's another question, does Brazil have a high level of non-spanish speaking immigrants? I doubt it. Which impacts literacy... Right?

Look, I'm right. So don't get mad when my facts line up. I have an unfair advantage... I'm right.

Ok, I think you must be trolling. How, exactly, does being Spanish speaking help in Brazil? I'll give you a hint : Spanish is not the language of Brazil.

I'll try to start getting mad when you get your facts to line up.

I'm assuming it was a translation, unless GP was reading English as well as German in grade 2.

To be fair, I think it may be something in the water, as this clip of Steve McLaren shows.

(For those who don't know, Steve McLaren is English, born in York. This interview was from a Dutch TV station after he had been managing a Dutch football side for a while. And yes, it is hilarious).

Brazil is more diverse, with just under 50% white (mainly consisting of those of Dutch, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish and Ukrainian descent). It has more people of Lebanese descent than Lebanon, and the largest population of those of Japanese descent outside of Japan, as an example of two surprising stats.