Fixed that for you:

Either Entrope's tongue is firmly in cheek or...

Look at the teardown videos of their competitors. For example the 2015 Blackberry Priv, has a curved screen with display to the edge, wireless Qi charging, magnetometer, gyro, gps, barometer, QWERTY slide-out keyboard.., The teardown to replace the battery takes about 1 minute. Pulling out the main board keyboard, and everything until you get to the screen, another 5. But then the tech mentions that it is also possible to replace the curved screen from the front in about 5 minutes. And compared to cars, appliances, commercial technology, home entertainment systems, sewing machings, my 1999 Pismo... the Priv isn't easily repairable.

Apple simply chooses planned obsolescence over serviceability. And so I've chosen not to buy into their environmentally wasteful products.

By traveling from Wisconsin to Paducah via Cincinnati (to visit Grandma and cousins along the way) we avoided the southbound Chicago eclipse traffic. But we had to cope with ordinary Cincinnati traffic. The GPS told us we were on the fastest route but a highrise interstate parking lot told us otherwise so we meandered through Low Price hill and found ourselves at the next Ohio River crossing, Anderson Ferry. It took 10-15 cars at a time and the near side backed onto a railroad which discouraged a long queue. As expected, there was very little traffic on the far side of the river. We didn't really encounter many other bottlenecks along the way that were any worse than typical northbound Chicago traffic in Wisconsin every Memorial Day, July 4th, Labor day and Packer/Bear game.

One thing that only people who've seen totality can understand is that almost seeing a total eclipse (99.x%) is so different from a total eclipse, they should come up with another name for it. For example the difference in ambient light between 99% and 100% is a factor of 10,000. Even 1 minute before totality you'd be tempted to say, "Meh. I've seen this before." Then you hit 100% and scream "Holy #)@* God tore the sun from the sky and replaced it with a portal to another dimension!"

So this is why my wife's trip to Minot with the UW-Green Bay astronomers on Feb 26, 1979 led to her convincing me to go to Antigua on Feb 26, 1998 (1 Saros later) where I asked her to marry me during the second diamond ring while the Montserrat volcano smoldered in the half-light. We planned our honeymoon around the 1999 total eclipse which passed through Europe (rained out in Stuttgart.) And finally planned to take our children and 21 other family members and friends from Wisconsin to the Kentucky Dam Village campground near Paducah. We scouted out the beach, dam, boat launch and considered the Golden Pond Observatory and Planetarium or one of the several other public viewings between Hopkinsville and Carbondale but decided on walking to a clearing at the south edge of the campground where oak trees would provide shade in the time between first contact and totality. We set up a few tarps in the grass (thankfully fire-ants have not yet gotten a solid foothold here but ticks have.) We set up a sun tent for the kids.

My brother-in-law is a professional photographer who brought a Sony DSLR, lens and filter and we found even better equipped astrophotographers within the park and along the dam so even though this was my 4th totality, I didn't feel any pressure to take photos. We considered flying a drone, but we were too near an airport. I considered leaving a CHDK interval timer script, android FP5Cam intervalometer and Wemos D1 mini temperature logger running but these weren't as much of a priority as enjoying it as much as I did the previous 3 totalities. There is only so much you can do in 2 minutes and 20 odd seconds.

The leaves of the oaks cast crescent shadows across the tent and everyone during the partial phases. I'd bought a pack of used cards from the Menominee casino where they had neatly cut holes to mark that the cards were no longer legal for gambling. 52 eclipse projectors for 50 cents! I handed them out to our gang and to our campground neighbors. Totality hit everyone with a wave of wonder. The hot whirring sound of cicadas was replaced with the nocturnal chirp of crickets. My niece's boyfriend asked to look through the telescope during totality. At first I explained that it's too hard to aim (I had no tracker) but then I decided to give it a try so he and I and my niece got a brief glance. I handed binoculars around to a few people.

One of the artists in our group compared it to a weird photoshop filter, a sci-fi movie. "WOW No one told me!" It reminded me of the scene in Contact where Ellie sees something indescribably beautiful that no one else will ever know. This was the most photographed total eclipse in history, drones, DSLRs, iPhones, 4k 60FPS video, VR... and yet I have not found anything that does it justice.

Imagine if sunsets were rare events that only one in every 1000 people had ever witnessed. Describing it would be like explaining the color green to a blind person. Photos of sunsets work for us because nearly everyone has witnessed a sunset but very few have witnessed totality. Ray Bradbury's All summer in a day was published in 1954, just three months before a total solar eclipse would have been visible from Northern Wisconsin, a few hours drive from his native Waukegan, Illinois. Like Ellie in Contact, Margo in this short story has witnessed something she can explain but her classmates can't understand (so, naturally they bully her.)

Will it help anything that the people of central Nebraska, Wyoming, South St. Louis, Kentucky, Nashville have something in common with the people who have seen eclipses in Iran, Antigua and Turkey that they won't ever have in common with people who stayed home in NYC, Washington DC, Chicago, North St. Louis, Atlanta?

This day of the eclipse was also the anniversary of the death of a beloved Aunt. And when my mother died on 3/14/15 at 9:26 it was only a few days before the moon's shadow touched Svalbard in the high arctic, an event I was not able to witness but I believe that mom and my aunt and all of those who go before us into this undiscovered country are able to witness all of this and so much more. For there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in our philosophy.

Dmitry: Boss our election was rigged!
Putin: Excellent, I'll make sure you get a medal for th...
Dmitry: But boss no it wasn't our rigging.
Putin: Wasn't our... what do you mean Dmitry?!
Dmitry: I'm sorry boss, please don't shoot me or poison me with polonium but the next Russian president is...
Putin: Spit it out Dmitry.
Dmitry: Donald J. Trump
Putin: (Smiles and pats Dmitry on the back): Well done Dmitry, I'll make sure you get a medal for this.
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of Chinas less than $1 photovoltaics in the same way the U.S. software and computer industry once took advantage of less than $1 microchips.

Imagine if Trump's protectionism had been used against chip offshoring in the 1970s-1980s. Upwards of 100,000 U.S. jobs would have been saved from low-skill to highly specialized electronic and microprocessor engineering jobs. IChip manufacturing would have never been set up in places such as Mexico and El Salvador. These countries would have to figure out another path to economic survival. With the Soviets having a regional interest, maybe the cold war wouldn't have ended, saving another half a million U.S. technology jobs. With Mexico aligned with Soviet interests, there very well might be a wall built by Mexico to keep its own citizens in.

Single core CPUs would remain upwards $1000 and the costs of FPGAs and ASICs certainly wouldn't have spiraled down to where microelectronics do not add significantly to the cost of anything from toys to toaster ovens to cars. An iPhone might cost $10,000 (as 1980s Apple Macintosh computers did.) People like Donald Trump would still be able to afford $10,000 iPhones, $15,000 iPads, $20,000 laptops. Of course, the microcomputer, gaming, smartphone and tablet App software industry would be a shadow of what it is today. There are only so many apps required by billionaires and millionaires. With such a limited market I'm underestimating the cost of Apple products and overestimating how viable Apple would be as a company serving a market of only a few thousand millionaires and billionaires.

Look at how well Trump-style protectionism has worked elsewhere. To save a handful of low-tech legacy U.S. jobs in the steel industry, we've sacrificed hundreds of thousands of jobs in our domestic auto industry. To save competitive domestic oil, coal and solar industry jobs, we've made thousands of U.S. companies uncompetitive with the rest of the world who are rapidly taking advantage of China's

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No, it's not a joke. It's not a joke that millions of immigrants are blamed worldwide if one commits a crime somewhere in the world but hundreds of crimes by racist, fascist anti-democrats are too common to be news anywhere. How many people know about the 64 arson attacks on refugee centres in Sweden and numerous similar attacks in Germany, Denmark and daily incidents of violence against immigrants in Ireland, the UK and elsewhere? How many know of the Afghan refugee driven to suicide in Sweden this week?

It's funny that here in Ireland, people shun the immigrants in the local repair shops but happily send hundreds of Euro to multinational sweatshops overseas where 90% of the money leaves the EU, never to return. The repair tax break is a good start but I can see right now that this is a small problem. We really need to repair our society so that we don't have so much shit for people like you to shovel onto the backs of immigrants and refugees.

Kudos for quoting an Irish poet to make your point. But language variations within the UK and Ireland are broader than between Ireland and the U.S. And if you think there are no cultural variations within the US, you need to broaden your circle of friends. A New Yorker is far more likely to understand an Dubliner than a creole from the rural Louisiana. Culturally Ireland is nearer to the US than the UK is, more cliques than classism. Politically Ireland is also nearer to the NorthEastern US and even Silicon Valley than either is to the rural south or Midwest. Germany may have more cultural similarity to the upper Midwest.

Anyway, according to the EU, Ireland speaks Irish Gaelic, and when the UK leaves, there will no longer be any officially-English-speaking countries in the EU. That's going to have some interesting repercussions! (Unless Scotland manages to wrangle a way to stay when the rest of the UK leaves. Which I know they desperately want to do.)

But yeah, Brexit could be a real boon for Ireland. Possibly enough to make up for the fact that their current biggest trading partner is planning to leave the union. I'd certainly be looking at Dublin as a strong alternative to London. If I were the Irish government, I'd be out pitching "we're not leaving!" to all sorts of companies!

I wish this were true but Dublin is currently a very poor alternative to London. Its planning laws restrict development both vertically and horizontally. Decent architectural firms might be able to raize or remodel the thousands of derelict buildings but nothing happens overnight here and the transportation infrastructure is abysmal. Another of a series of planned strikes by Dublin Bus tomorrow will bring an already clogged city to a screeching halt. Ireland's real-estate bubble was the worst in the world and its government has been trying to reinflate it since 2007. As a result rent to wage ratios are about as bad as London with the caveat that the properties here are kips (look it up, if it's not an American word, it should be.) Ireland's government-owned "bad bank" NAMA may have organized some sweetheart deals on foreclosed properties with foreign REIT firms including one managed by former US VP Dan Quayle. Where the military-industrial complex and agribusiness own the US, the property industry seems to own the Irish government.

As for "not leaving the E.U.",Britain's Brexit Minister David Davis seems to have forgotten that Ireland isn't part of the UK. In fact several EU diplomats and nearly all US corporations and websites treat the Republic of Ireland as a part of the UK, now 100 years after the 1916 Easter Rising eventually led to this terrible beauty that we call Ireland.

Given access to the pixels in a bit-mapped character, how would you blink a cursor? You'd XOR the pixels in the cursor. It's trivial. Give a kid access to the logical operations available on 8-bit microprocessors and she'll probably reinvent this within a week. But cadtrack was granted U.S. Patent 4,197,590. They filed a lawsuit against Commodore computers. A US judge filed an injunction against Commodore blocking its sale of the Amiga CD32. This cemented Microsoft's virtual monopoly on desktop computers, setting back the PC industry a decade. (Amiga had unix-like pre-emptive multi-tasking, Windows 95 color windowed desktop, multimedia capabilities, stereo sound, built in speech synthesizer.. in 1985 when you were still looking at the A:\> prompt and that ugly green blinking cursor.)

You'd better check your sources. Ireland's Citizenship referendum ended Irish citizenship by birth in 2005 after a campaign reminiscent of UKIP's xenophobic frothing at the mouth. Tax-funded RTE and the Irish newspapers played up rumors of hundreds of "non-national" anchor babies being born in Dublin airport every day, just as state media, BBC decided to report scary UK immigration statistics on election day. Contrary to popular belief, public funding of broadcasting doesn't magically make it less biased than the US corporate-owned media, the BBC used TV licenses from white and non-white British citizens to fund shows such as George Mitchell's Black and White Minstrel show until the late 1970s.

Ireland's citizenship referendum didn't do as much damage as the Brexit vote because sensible heads in Dáil Éireann interpreted that populist vote as slightly less tyranny of the majority than the majority would have preferred. A grandfather rule allowed parents of Irish born children born before 2005 to have the equivalent of a dodgy green card, with expensive renewals every three years via a chaotic and draconian bureaucracy, proof that we are supporting ourselves and proof that we had not committed ANY crimes (we had to submit documentation of any parking tickets and speeding fines.) This was not citizenship, it was limbo and I wouldn't wish it on anyone. If you've found a short-cut to Irish citizenship, don't tell the others who've wasted years, spent thousands of Euro and presented their first born child (I kid you not.) They will tell you to get to the back of the queue.

Let's hope Britain's parliament has as much courage to do the right thing despite what mob democracy prescribes. Referendums would have kept institutionalized slavery and segregation well into the 21st century.

And your arrogance ^ my friend, is the root of the problem. If we in the IT community are so much smarter than end users, why was telnet, ftp, smtp, http, Microsoft Windows, IoT... all designed without even the most basic considerations for security? Shouldn't an information appliance be designed so that a child, grandmother, astronaut or household pet be able to "click on" or view anything without damaging the information appliance, leaking personal details, joining a botnet.

The scum and script kiddies who write the ransomware are not rocket scientists. They're simply vandalizing a cyber-society where front and back doors are left unlocked. If we built cities as we build software, the first woodpecker would destroy civilization.

Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury is more of a poetic look at the topic of youth, ageing and death. I vaguely remember a short story which touched on the specific topic of what eternal youth was possible by drinking a potion made out of something cheap and ubiquitous, like a dandelion. How would a person decide when to stop taking this elixir? I don't remember the name of that story but it might have been in the book Dandelion Wine.