Those of us with mortgages & kids have to keep budgets, etc... Apple maintains a 5 year cycle on supporting products. Let's put a figure on it:

Apple laptop $1500
Apple Desktop $1200
iPad $600
iPhone $130 (contract) *2 (3yr cycle)

I freely admit I pulled these numbers out of my head. The desktop & laptops figures are amalgams of the product lines, and the iPad & iPhone include some accessories you ALWAYS end up walking out of the store with. Screen protectors, cases, etc...

Total: $3560 / 5 years... $712/yr to live the Apple life. Those 5 year update/support cycles and the corresponding lack of freedom they include become remarkably sharply defined after you've lived thru a few of them. My wife and I love Apple products, and they do tend to last, but we're getting ready to leave the orchard, at least for desktop/laptops. The coupling between expensive closed phones/tablets and "partially closed and getting worse rapidly" desktops/laptops is simply too expensive. I can sync my phone/pad to Windows running in a VBox VM on Linux.

Cluster munitions are remarkably effective against small wooden and fiberglass boats, as are 20mm CWIS / F-18 gun rounds. But as someone mentioned... the USS Stark provides a pretty good look at the survivability of the US Navy's smaller ships. The bigger ones are even more formidable. You're not going to put a hole in a cruiser or capital ship with something carried by a Donzi. You need a 500lb shaped warhead just to scratch the paint, and then all you're going to do is make the crew really really mad.

Another vote for Linode. I've been with them for years. Highly recommended.

Temkin

The Apollo J-2 was designed to restarted way back in 1967, as was the Aerojet AJ-10 from the late 1950's.

AJ-10 variants were used for both the Apollo SM engine, and the Shuttle OMS pods. They were designed to remain fueled for long periods of time and be re-ignightable. This is a solvable problem.

So you're saying their QoS really works? :)

Salvage 1 was actually a TV series... I remember its cancellation being one of my first introductions to the stupid inner workings of network TV as a pre-teen... The funny thing is... Completely out of the blue, I remembered that show today, but I was trying to remember it's name, and here you brought it up of Slashdot... Thanks!

It doesn't seem to be available on Hulu or Netflix, so I can't go back and see how corny it probably was...

Which is why I don't buy games that use Steam...

I got the opportunity to buy one back in the 80's, and couldn't pass it up. But I hate to disappoint you, it was just a linear power supply and a Q-bus backplane kit. The PDP-11/03 board, memory card, and serial interface were all straight from the DEC plant.

That said... It ate TRS-80 model 1's for breakfast! :)

True. The problem is actually a bit more complex. The system needs to remain "closed". Each radiometric dating method has a different set of circumstances under which it will remain "closed. K-Ar begins getting reset by heating to temp achievable in your kitchen. Rb/Sr requires a much more substantial heating event. The minerals in a single specimen can yield different dates. This can happen when for example a zircon in a granite gets "recycled" via subduction and re-erupted.

Earth is rife with examples. Kistler found that Lamoille canyon region of the Ruby Mts. had been partially "reset" by a post formation heating event, with K/Ar and Nd/Sm and Rb/Sr yielding different dates. Fleck examined some Siderites from the Idaho region that yielded Rb/Sr dates several multiples of the age of the universe. They had been "washed" by hydrothermal fluids, profoundly altering the ratio. In each case the geochronologist used the geologic principals to reconstruct the history and deduce the correct age, and appropriateness of the method to the sample.

On the Moon, we lack such history. With only one exception, the astronauts were not geologists. They did not have the time to explore in enough detail to gather the needed info. They mostly wandered around and collected stuff on the surface. These samples could have been ejecta from a late arriving meteorite, or partially reset by some similar means.

Has to run as a privileged user... That's the show stopper for me. Clearly, someone hasn't done their homework. So I'm afraid I will not be joining.

Does anyone have a problem with governments spending money trying to model ways to "nudge" our personal behavior? I'm all for sound city planning, etc... But this seems to dive headlong in to limiting freedoms. I'm not comfortable with any government getting this up close and personal with me. I already have a wife that nags me about exercise...

The body of work has some holes in it. The debate is far from over, as this paper demonstrates.... But... The real problem is the proposed solutions. The proposals create a global framework that is so strict and so rigid that it requires the creation of a global government to enforce it. In order to be effective, such a government would require teeth. No regional or national government is willing to place themselves under such a regime, and individual people are often horrified at the thought of having yet another government they can run afoul of. One that is completely antagonistic, necessarily undemocratic, and unresponsive to their wishes.

Which is why nothing is going to get done about it. Learn to swim.

At the moment, diesel and regular unleaded is about the same in central Texas. Your state may have a different tax rate on diesel.

But if that's the case.... Can you link it to the GPL Linux kernel?

Tempest in a teapot...

You're leaving out an interested third party. The local government. The HOA is the vehicle for the local government to enact regulations they could not muster the political will for, or are otherwise prohibited from enacting. So they use the development & planning commission to collude with the developers and enact regulations with zero-democratic input. That's how you get "no flag pole", and "vegetables are unsuitable" regulations past the court system. For the homebuyer, it's an agreed to private contract, all dressed up as a feature (which you've bought into apparently). But the fact is, the city/county wouldn't allow the developer to build without them.