Which is why you don't bother with machines, period.

Up here, it's paper ballots, marked with pens, counted using Mk1 eyeballs at the polling station in full view of witnesses from any candidates that wish to send one. The only machines involved in anything are the printers used to make the ballots and the telephones used to call in the stations' results to the Returning Officer.

The entire nation of Canada says you're full of shit.

Only if "where you want to go" is in the same city as where you are.

Sure there is. With existing car sharing systems or rentals, you either need to go to where the car is via some other means, or someone needs to drive it to you, then drive back to the office, before you can go where you're wanting to go.

With autonomously driving cars, the car can drive itself to you and then you go directly from where you are to where you want to go. It makes it far more practical.

One could always go the old school route and move the backup offsite yourself. e.g. an external drive in a safe deposit box.

Has anyone taken a shovel to the coordinates in part 2?

Monitor, modem, and router plugged into a UPS
Actual computer (which is a laptop) plugged into a surge protector.

You mean the various municipalities being told by state governments "Oh, no you won't."?

Competition? What competition?

No need to be that complicated. Just use an absorption chiller.

They did learn. These things aren't clipped together. They're held together with electropermanent magnets.

Twice, I think (Cray Laboratories and Cray Computer Corporation) though the name has been passed around a bit.

The current Cray (Which was formerly known as the Tera Computer Company) bought up the remnants of Cray Research from Silicon Graphics in 2000, who had bought them up in 1996, and appropriated the name.

No, this law has been in progress since March of this year.

They're just using this incident as an excuse to try to fast-track it through Parliament without any further debate.

1. It's both actually. His cousin was charged earlier this month with funnelling corporate money to his campaign, using employees as straw donors.

2. Yes, he was charged last year, though I haven't heard anything since the charges were laid.

See also : Del Mastro, though he's actually getting charged, 5 years after the fact.