The animals really aren't downsides, they keep the tourist population in check.... well them and the insane prices for everything here.

US military is mostly metric.

Why does this take creative thinking? this is something other countries have been doing for years. In Australia my parents quite often sell some or all of their water license to others downstream or upstream in the river when they are rotating crops or using crops with lower water requirements. I am somewhat stunned this doesn't already happen in the US?

maybe for you, personally I nearly always book my taxi through a dispatcher or online use a PC or a mobile app. tracking is the same, but on top of that I get insurance coverage and a reasonable certainty that the driver is actually licensed and his vehicle is regularly inspected (pretty important in an accident).

Tag prices actually are one of the more reasonable in the quality brands. having said that I still can't understand why the fuck people are racing to create smart watches. how many times does this segment have to fail before they realize this is a case of them searching for a problem that doesn't exist.

Well many of us predicted this day was coming rapidly. You can't just ignore a countries laws because you don't like them and expect them to just sit idly by, especially after receiving so many warnings. I predict many more shutdowns and potentially arrests to come yet! and thoroughly deserved. No company should ever be permitted to make decisions on what laws to obey, It can be excusable for individuals out of protest etc, but companies get away with enough shit without allowing them to dictate which laws they need to obey.

To accept a request just because the email address "looks" like it could be legitimate is worse than moronic. 10 combinations?, you could easily come up with 100's if not 1000's of subtle versions, misspellings etc. The fact all the register does is say, "well that address looks legit lets trust it" is fucking scary. People laugh at users for falling for phishing attacks and that is against people that know no better.

obviously he wasn't using ECC and the flare had corrupted 2 bits.

The same thing happened to my mother in a shopping mall a few years ago. She had an older Renault, literally got half way home before she realised it wasn't her car.

laptops and desktops don't have the space restrictions and hence heatpipes and many other cooling solutions are readily available and already in use.

I would be shocked if they could site a study that shows less than 90% fail!

Who told you FLOSS doesn't have those problems? they lied. many FLOSS projects fall apart because of the "virtual teams" of people with different goals and aspirations. I would not be surprised if the failure rate is even higher than 70%

If you remove the blackberry android references it sounds like they are describing a windows tablet, complete with Bitlocker, applocker, MS store and hooked up to active directory. Is android really that far behind in security and flexibility that this requires a such an expensive service?

barter agreements aren't always as trouble free as many think. you run the risk of not just the other party reporting the income but also someone else finding out and reporting. My brother ran afoul by the person he had bartered with deciding he had a loss on his business so it was in his interest to report the income and costs in the exchange and he did so without telling my brother leaving my brother with a nasty letter from the tax department of please explain.

Citizens ARE allowed to trade in whatever means you desire. however those that operate businesses have reporting and legal obligations. you can trade in potatoes and Spanish onions as your currency if you want, but even then expect regulations if you make transfers between people and in and out of other currencies possible.