Last time I looked, Norcal doesn't use on average of 1ton of salt per 10 miles per road either, we do. Unless of course it's too cold for it, then we use sand or gravel. Yep it really does get cold enough here in Canada that salt and chemical deicers stop working on road surfaces.

It's funny how the same groups aren't throwing a hissy fit over the head of OKCupid or Obama. Oh that's right, the head of OKCupid supposedly supported someone over a "tech" issue...something totally different...yep. And Obama supported exactly the same issue...

We have had C64 emulators for a while.
The Raspberry PI is more than enough to do the work of a 30 year old personal
computer.

It isn't really that interesting the fact that it has been done.
But for the person who did it, I would say it was pretty cool that they tried.

I'm guessing you don't actually live anywhere that has serious wear and tear on their roads, otherwise you'd know that by the time half the winter is over that the paint is already worn down to the point where it's useless. And of course, if it's raining good luck on seeing those lines at all. Luckily HID lamps have helped with this, but don't get stuck driving on any Canadian highway anywhere between the months of: January(sometimes if it's really bad, this can hit as early as early November) through June when there is: Snow, rain, slush, mud, slop, dirt, or less than 50% sunlight.

And don't count on the shoulders to be a guide, because we don't really use them in most cases. Though if you're driving on a major highway like the 400 series(401,402,403,etc), some parts of the Trans-Canada, and a few other busy highways, we do have rumble strips.

Oh I see. It's a classic case of, it doesn't fit my tidy little view of the world therefore I won't read it. After all it might shatter my fragile ego and endanger my strongly held viewpoint that an environmental organization is responsible for killing people by starving them to death.

I guess I need to draw you a picture.

Scratch a leftist, find a malthusian. I'll bet you're against GE crops and the green revolution too, not to mention golden rice. And are more than happy that greenpeace let millions of people in Africa die, over a lie.

Would that be like the no more snow in the UK, or there won't be any glaciers in the Himalayas? Or they'll all be gone in Greenland in the next 10 years(as said in 2000ish). Don't worry I'm sure it can be blamed on everything.

Sure, then again that really doesn't mean too much does it. Especially considering the large scale taint of many of the stations over a 30+ year period now does it? And you're just happy to bring up "Koch brothers" because as we all know, one group is all that matters. Never mind Soros, or MM, or OFA, or one of the dozen other left leaning groups.

Having seen where we actually put stations for recording temperature data in Canada? Yes. In the shade, next to a cold water mountain stream, surrounded by pine trees, where it gets 1hr of sunlight per day. Or, right next to a major highway where it sees 50k+ vehicles per day. Seems to me like yes, I do. And I can keep going.

Well we have a few groups who would be resistant.
1. They are sick of being told how evil and bad we humans are! The news organization/scientific community. Have done a piss poor job at explaining the issues. By making us feel bad that we are killing cute animals or will cause New York City to flood. Will cause some people into action. But others who feel they cannot help, because it means giving up stuff they really need or like, is like telling a kid that he is Bad all the time, after a while they believe it and will live up to the expectation.

2. Religious humility. Normally Humility is a good aspect that religion teaches. However in this case, the idea how can we such little people be causing a world wide problem. Then you can combine some religions who feel a god will come down and save them.

3. Inconvenient truth. There are a lot of good people working for the Oil and Gas companies. However if it means their jobs are at risk and they won't be able to feed their families. They will not believe the science as it will cost them.

4. Conspiracy: There are a lot of people afraid of some dark secrete society trying to control people. If this society infuses the schools and scientists to believe that CO2 causes global warming. They can use that to control peoples lives, by having them go use less efficient energy, Where we cannot grow food, causing a famine where we will need to go to them for help. Thus infusing their power base.

5. Misunderstanding and distrust of science: Their biggest argument is that during the 1970's when we had a lot of smog, there was talk about global cooling, as the smog will block out the sun. The media doesn't help when they tout every hypothesis before there is any solid evidence as fact. So these people get mixed messages so they just choose to pick what they like and not.

Be honest with yourself. Most temperature records outside of cities don't exist before 1977, especially in countries like the US, Canada, Russia, Australia or Africa. Do you know why? Because there were no stations to record the information.

Even without computers. Computer Science is a damn useful skill.
Computer Science is the Science of Computation.
So in this theoretical world where technology is gone, which will mean that we won't know how to make electricity by spinning a magnet in a bunch of wires, or how to make a battery with Zink and copper in an Acid. Then sending this electric current threw some sand to make a transistor. Then we arrange these things into Not gates, And Gates, Or Gates. We seem to know quartz can vibrate so we can remake a counter.... We can save stuff with magnetizing it on rust suck on something sticky.

So the idea were we cannot have a computer made from scratch within a few years, as we already know about them and how the basic components work, is rather silly.

However in the mean time, these computer scientists can use these skills to manage a labor work force. Giving them simple jobs, aligning them so they can perform complex actions. For example in college cafeteria. I found there was a long line for the utensils, Because all the forks were group together, the spoons were grouped together then the knives were grouped together. The computer science people saw that this line was being inefficient as only 1 person was at the table at once because they almost always needed the fork. So we moved the forks, spoons and knives into clusters next to each other and were able to improve the line speed threefold.

Computer Science disciplines the mind to think of things in terms of efficiency, and patterns, as well figuring in the unpredictable actions from people, and their more predicable actions in masses.

So in this theoretical Apocalypse work the computer scientist is still a useful person in such a world.

Now this said, in order to get such an world, you will need to kill off all the information and including the smart people. So you will need to kill of all the computer scientists, engineers, and other educated people to really create such a world.