Wait for the next round of papers to examine the shiny new ideas of universal age climate change.

From TFS: "Now that Google's modular phone effort, Project Ara, looks a bit less like vaporware"

Wait... what hallucinogenics is "anymous reader" overdosing on to come to the conclusion that Project Ara "looks a bit less like vaporware"? It's nothing but a bunch of sketches, pretty graphics, cheap models, and vague design concepts. It's practically the very effin' definition of vaporware.

Pretty sure the sidereal movement of the Earth is going to cause a "sunrise" in a few hours, irrespective of the state of this unresolvable argument.

And the Amish shall inherit the North American Earth.

Difference between erratic & erotic:
A whiskery shambles isn't exotic.
Before your fashion goes fully sclerotic,
Have women find you scientifically hypnotic.
Burma Shave

What riches, then?

Actually, what I did was listen to the words that were spoken, and applied to them an understanding of the world and the specific people involved as anybody past the age of three would do. A little critical thinking goes a long way.

According to this article, it seems that many of the people who do survive, do so because the flights were shorter.

Might also be useful if you wanted to pass data through the router without being noticed?

Really. You're going to hand-pump fuel for hundreds of thousands of trucks, trains, and aircraft feeding hundreds of millions of people? That will effectively shut down transportation, at least at the pace it's needed to feed cities full of people who keep nothing beyond their next couple of meals' worth of food in stores, let alone in their own kitchens.

Right. We only refrigerate meats, fruits, vegetables, dairy, bread, medicines, that sort of thing.

So you're saying that trucks and planes that have had ignition and control systems destroyed by an EMP can continue to operate? How does that work, exactly?

Which is what starts happening within short days of food shortages. Witness food/water drop-offs in New Orleans getting violently mobbed, with people throwing shots at helicopters.

And because the entire chain is rigged around JIT, the high level of efficiency is the only way it can work. It would take weeks or months to alter that, and that presumes that everything that goes into production behind the scenes can be ramped UP in the middle of a situation where logistics are compromised.

Only the ones you're cherry picking. Are "survivalist types" that bother to keep a couple weeks of food and water around more, or less clueless than their neighbors who do not?

Which is what - your lame way of wishing away the fact that it didn't happen? That thousands of people were wandering to places like the dome in NO without so much as a gallon of water for their kids? Is my "interesting narrative" interesting because it lines up with photos of lots full of school busses parked under water? What's your point?

We're not talking about a passing snow storm, here. We're talking about weeks of no electricity and lots damaged infrastructure. Your couple of days estimate is ridiculous on the face of it.

I would attribute it more to economy of scale: It's cheaper to produce one speedometer that will work across your entire product line than to produce one tailored to the maximum speed of each model you sell.

The Soviet Army's logistical apparatus would have fallen apart without Lend Lease, so again, you're welcome.

The Government fights the last war, because it's reactive rather than proactive. If 9/11 had consisted of four blown up airliners via wheel well bombs this hole would have been closed a long time ago. Likewise, if some jackass hadn't tried to light his sneakers on fire we'd still be able to board without taking our shoes off.