These stories always have an armful of puns.

That's one record that's sure to fall!

The majority of cattle are fed grass for most of their lives because it's cheaper. Sometimes grains are used through winter when there isn't hay available, and grains are also used on a supplemental basis for more rapid growth. It's usually when they have about six weeks left that they're shipped off to CAFOs (concentrated animal feeding operations) where they are fed grains to fatten them up. Many (most?) people prefer the fattened meat as it's sweeter and more tender, and the price paid for the animal is by the pound. Grain fed cattle are usually raised through one winter. Grass-fed only cattle usually need two winters to reach the more profitable sizes.

12 years ago was 2000. A great x86 chip back then was a 1.4 GHz Thunderbird Athlon.

To go back to a time when the Pentium Pro was the best x86 consumer chip, you'd have to back to at least early 1996, or 18 years ago.

Yes, time does fly.

Hey, I can't help that I'm an object oriented guy.

Industrial meat production, I agree, is very inefficient. Harvesting and shipping food to animals makes no sense from a sustainability standpoint.

But if the animals are pastured, they do all the work, and no inputs are needed. Why pay anything to harvest a field when a cow will do it for free? Proper rotational grazing practices will restore balance to ecosystems, increase soil quality, increase water retention, and vastly increase land productivity.

Ruminants are also far more efficient at digesting cellulose than humans, and humans are very efficient at digesting meat.

No, but I have some land on Bajor!

1) Austrian economics does not predict when an event will occur, just that it will. It is so good at predicting future events many Austrians fail to realize non-Austrians don't share the same foresight. This lack of foresight of the non-Austrians leads to them behaving in irrational ways (according to Austrian theory), which in turn delays the arrival of the predicted events. The biggest weakness in Austrian economic theory is that Austrian economics is built on the premise that man is rational, which is not always the case.

2) Many economists have established their careers on other schools of thought and would have to admit they were wrong. Also, economists who advocate a role for government are popular with government and keep their government sponsored jobs.

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How expensive was it? For how much cabling?

Edmonton, Alberta has bigger swings. It goes from -48.3 C (-54.9F) to 34.5 C (94.1F). That's an 83 (149) degree temperature range.

The roads are asphalt, and the runways are concrete.

It's the Pseudo Apple Research Center. That's why the P is there.

While the Sennheiser HD 280 PROs are about double the asked for price range, I think they're worth every penny. They're good for about 30 db of noise cancellation, have an excellent and balanced response across the audio spectrum, and stellar audio reproduction. I've had mine nearly three years now, and I use them about 20 hours per week (about 3000 hours of usage so far). I still absolutely love them, and if I ever needed to replace them, I would get the same model in a heartbeat.

Considering my cost per hour usage is about $0.04 and dropping, and the headphone will easily last 10,000 hours, spending a little extra money is absolutely worth it in my opinion to get some totally amazing ear cans. I've heard several people say they like them better than the $500 headphones they've tried, so they're also a bargain in any sense. You would not be disappointed!

If you're willing to accept a 2 seat self-launching electric glider (which can glide that far in the right conditions), such a plane is already in production.

Handling uranium is relatively safe, since the callouses in our hands and the outer most (dead) layers of skin easily block the alpha radiation. Ingesting it is far worse though, as you mention, though not foremost due to the alpha radiation, but due to uranium being a toxic metal. Wikipedia gives a good summary.