Well, Nixon went and opened the US up to China, for starters.

I'd imagine they reduced tariffs as well..?

Bingo. The reason many of our antibiotics, pesticides, etc, are losing effectiveness is because massive overuse by farmers. You can't apply something to that many animals continuously, or that much dirt, and not expect it to foster rapid resistance.

Typical myopic thinking. Our progeny are going to wonder what made us so stupid, while they are hanging out in a sanatorium with everything-resistant TB. (or dying from a scrape).

Pathetic really.

If you start counting embedded things as 'computers', traditional 'computers' must fall to a few percent.

Think of it... at least one in each car, often several. Most every modern TV, router, etc.

With narrower scope, most appliances really... though the microcontrollers are often doing pretty lame tasks that were previously done with (electro)mechanical trickery. The electronic replacement now has more efficiency and features, and (generally, but certainly not always - implementation is important!) is more reliable. Often cheaper, too.

Trees can't spit, though.

Most of our heavy industry and manufacturing was centered around the great lakes. From the dawn of manufacturing they had dumped some pretty nasty effluent, raw, into the lakes. They didn't even slow down until things like the EPA came about, in the '70s.

Some of the tributaries even caught on fire, FFS. That might be a sign you're doing it wrong, when the river catches on fire. Multiple times, no less!

This is also true in backwater parts of Canada. Apparently they get bonus points for having the truck jacked so high that the bumper is inline with the windshield of a car, and two points for belching black smoke.

I think it's likely true everywhere between Vancouver and Toronto.

Trucks (which includes minivans and SUVs, apparently, not sure who decided on that...) outsell cars 3 to 1 out here in the boondocks. YEEHAW!

Is there anything that they won't use the 'think of the children' line on?

Pathetic.

Depending how far you are from the nearest wire, a microwave link may be feasible, faster, and cheaper.

Of course if you're in a mountain valley 1000mi from anywhere, that's obviously not possible. (well, without repeaters and such).

Need more infos.

Well, technically they're 40' long.

Seems awfully silly making something in China, shipping it to the US, and then shipping it back to Australia.

They'll just do like wire gauge after that. Nexus 0000 aka Nexus 4/0, etc.

Any kraut car (i suppose any car, full stop) with ASR / ESP has electronic throttle, not mechanical cable. (by definition - the system has to be able to cut the throttle, and it can't with a mechanical cable).

There's not much far-left anything in the US. Certainly not 'the press', unless you're counting some random blog or the communist party's paper.

In OpenBSD at least, editing /etc/rc.conf shouldn't happen (as it gets nuked on upgrades). /etc/rc.conf.local contains your overrides to rc.conf.

Then things that aren't part of the system you want to start go in /etc/rc.local. The networking stuff is also split into separate files, one per interface, one for the gateway, etc.

I have no experience this decade with other BSDs, so I don't know if any others do this too.

IBM released schematics for PC, as well. There is a difference between releasing schematics, and 'open hardware'!

A circuit could be patented, the firmware (and source) may not be supplied or is otherwise encumbered, board layouts not supplied, etc. OSHW projects usually have all of this... everything you need to make it, unencumbered from any restrictive licensing.

Since the PC schematics were readily available, all the clones had to do was make a functionally identical BIOS (as the firmware was copyrighted) and (physically) layout their own motherboards. The circuit can be a copy of the schematic verbatim, and the bulk of it has to be. Only one place you can stick ram to an 8088. Peripheral addresses can't vary, and implementation can't vary much without killing software compatibility, so they all have the same (or code compatible) timers at the same address, etc. It's why the first serial port is always at 0x3F8... nothing special about the address, except IBM used it, and everyone did the same to maintain compatibility.