No, this is wrong. No permit is required. If you move to a different province, you cannot use social services, such as hospitals, subsidized housing, and public schools, but you can live and work there. Use of the social services is NOT tied to employment. Instead rural workers just get screwed and there is nothing they, or their employer, can do about it. They pay taxes to support services they cannot use. Furthermore, this status is hereditary, so even if someone is born in the city, they still are considered "rural" if their grandparents lived in the countryside in 1949.

Can you provide a citation? I certainly believe that an 8 hour shift is more productive per hour, but I have a very hard time believing that overall, more work is accomplished by working 8 hours than by working 12 hours.

No. There is one HUGE difference between these factories and a labor camp: In a labor camp, you can't say "I quit" and walk out.

It is unlikely they would have done that. All three of these guys were troublemakers. They had been in and out of jails, and were in Alcatraz because they were disruptive in other prisons. They were not the type to just disappear and live a quiet life in some tropical backwater.

Makes it seem like the people choosing the training sets are morons.

That is somewhat of a myth. An EMP can damage electronics attached to antennas or long power lines that can act as antennas. But an EMP will do little or no damage to isolated electronics, or to electronic devices that include countermeasures, such as shielding and isolation circuits.

Other than costing 10 million times as much, how would that differ from putting a telescope on a high altitude balloon in the earth's stratosphere?

I attended public school, and remember learning in 5th grade that Eratosthenes of Alexandria accurately calculated the radius of the earth around 200 BC. In addition to changing shadow heights as you move from south to north, the curve of the earth is visible against the moon during a lunar eclipse. Both the Ancient Greeks and the Romans were well aware that the earth was a spheroid, and knew the approximate radius.

Either the school you attended was exceptionally bad, or you spent a lot of time not paying attention.

It will happen approximately 47 years ago.

No, not near enough to justify the cost. Most residential water use is lawn irrigation. People should get rid of their grass lawns, and use xeriscapic plants. My yard is mostly rocks and cacti. The only irrigation is for my vegetable garden and fruit trees, and those are all drip irrigation, so they likely use less water than if the same fruit and vegetables were grown commercially.

Warren Buffet still lives in the same modest suburban house that he bought in 1958. So I guess that makes him just a regular middle class guy.

My grandmother had a better heuristic: Paper towels. According to her, when you can afford to buy paper towels, you are no longer poor.

Not when you include all the robots in the count.

There is absolutely no reason to believe this is true. Deep Blue could easily defeat any of the engineers that created it. Stupid parents occasionally have smart kids. There is no "Conservation of Intelligence Law".

It is about 10cm or 4 inches spread over the entire state.

There are 264 gallons per cubic meter. So 11 trillion gallons is 4.16e10 m^3. California has an area of 424,000 km^2, or 4.24e11 m^2. So divide the volume by the area, and you get the depth = 4.16e10/4.24e11 = 0.098 m or 9.8 cm or about 4 inches.

I live in San Jose, and we have gotten more than 4 inches of rain in the last week, and it is still raining. There are areas of California (the Mojave Desert) that get a lot less, but also areas (the North Coast) that get a lot more.

This is not unique to tech. Ask any public school teacher about the educational methodology fads they have to deal with.