Also, my (mostly) hydropower-sourced electricity here in Seattle is billed at 4.75 cents per kWh. :)

The problem here is you're not comparing apples to apples. The 'cost' of fossil fuels doesn't include environmental cleanup that isn't necessary with renewables. It also doesn't take into account the real cost - when you take out all the tax incentives for fossil fuels, the math becomes quite different.

Also, the cost of fossil fuels will continue to go up due to environmental laws and more difficult to process sources (like tar sands), fighting unnecessary wars to secure foreign oil sources; meanwhile, while the cost of renewable technology keeps going down.

I just got back from watching the simulcast, and it was so fantastic, I can hardly see straight!

"Inhaler!"

My favorites: The "War Doctor", the Brigadier's daughter, Dr Who - King of England(!), Gallifrey Stands!, and my VERY favorite, the "Curator". Holy crap, I wasn't expecting the Curator!

Doesn't D have that?

I've got:

Tandy Model 102 (new in box!)
Tandy CoCo 3 (new in box!)
2 Commodore 64s
Commodore 64C
Commodore Amiga 1000
Apple //gs (ROM3, with TransWarp accelerator)

I have a TI PEB waiting for a TI 99/4a to connect it to.

Still haven't decided on which old Atari I want. Probably an 800.

I'd *love* to get a working IMSAI 8080, but I can't justify the kind of money that purchase would require.

Too dumb to use AdBlock Plus, also too dumb to hide that fact. #epicfail

We're number one in denial!

WE'RE NUMBER ONE! WE'RE NUMBER ONE!

You don't seem to recognize the type of shit that has hit the fan that I'm referring to. Unfortunately, it's the kind that small arms or hidey holes won't help with. I'm referring to problems like gerrymandering, Citizens United, the gutting of parts of the Voting Rights Act, etc. While civilization hasn't, for the most part, fallen, the Republic certainly has.

I believe you've prepared (prepared well, mind you) for the wrong scenario.

IMO, of course.

The shit has already hit the fan; it's just not the apocalypse that preppers were worried about, or even recognize.

Are these specific places? Are there any of them in cities/countries you've not lived in? If that's the case, I'd take the opportunity to live someplace I haven't before (assuming it was an interesting-sounding place), and use it as a base for tourism on the cheap while the opportunity lasts.

You might also think about the tax implications of one place over another.

Yup.

It's most likely a corrupted profile. I heard they were working on a profile cleaner feature, but I don't know if it ever got released or not. I'd backup your Firefox with MozBackup, then run the standalone installer and hope it fixes it. If not, reinstall the old version and restore via MozBackup.

You're never, ever, going to get me to fight on the side of Firefox on that kind of thing. :)

My only concern is people deliberately not keeping up with the times; it harms everyone. IE 6 held those of us in the industry back for FAR too long; we're just now beginning to catch up in being able to implement modern web standards. We just dropped IE 7 support at work a month ago. *sigh*

Feel free to use Chrome if you want.

"New and/or trendy"? Implementing support for updated web standards is not the same as being 'trendy', and that's what the concern here is. Ignore the trendy nonsense as you will, but you really WANT support for web standards.

It's not a threat, I'm just saying that the industry can't keep supporting Model Ts on the Information Superhighway. Things will start to break (if they aren't already). I think Firefox 18 is probably the oldest version of FF I'd use at this point, if I were a general user.