If you've not already seen it, hpmuseum.org has guides for disassembling the HP48, but all of them are destructive in some manner. Mine was starting to have trouble with the top row and I was about to bite the bullet and disassemble it (or replace with a Swiss Micros calculator), but for whatever reason started working correctly again a few weeks ago. I'll call myself lucky for the moment.

I recently decided to go back to University and one of the classes I'm taking has a rule prohibiting graphing or programmable calculators. Every one of the HP calculators I have is programmable in some manner, so I'm told that I have to use a calculator from a rather short list. I really wish HP was still selling something other than the prime and the two remaining financial calculators.

That's not quite true. The supreme court had, in fact, ruled twice that the federal government couldn't restrict the ownership of private arms, the first of which wasn't really related to firearms, but rather to the bill of rights and the federal governments role in protecting citizen's right, I think. The specific contexts, though, were to say that states could restrict or limit ownership, while the federal government could not. A 1939 decision interpreted it such that the 14th amendment didn't extend itself across the entire bill of rights. What changed in 2008 with the Heller, and 2010 with the McDonald decisions was that the court decided that the 14th barred the states from infringing on constitutional 2nd amendment rights.

You and I clearly didn't have the same high school civics teacher. Also, I'm neither a lawyer nor a constitutional historian, and am happy to be corrected. In trying to dredge up the details of now-distant lessons, I found this from the library of congress. It's a reasonably short, informative, unbiased discussion. (On the issue of guns, a bias-free discussion is hard to find.)

Thanks. . . .and to be clear, I wasn't trying to disagree. The page that you linked to tells why Alaska received more: ***Jurisdiction will receive a "Sovereign Nation Supplement" for American Indian/Alaskan Native populations that elected to receive vaccines through the state instead of Indian Health Service.

Huh! My immediate response on reading your post was that we don't import gasoline. It turns out that I was wrong. I found a 2016 article by the Alaska Business Journal that informed me that we import about 25% of the gasoline consumed in the state from the Pacific Northwest.

Anecdotally, Fairbanks has been fairly warm this year. Mostly, it hasn't been colder than -20F, although I see -35F in the forecast. Amusingly, there are actually testing facilities that have very large cold freezers because winters aren't reliably cold.

Communities gather, and sometimes people within a community travel to other places and bring it back. Lots of villages closed themselves to outsiders, but places like Bethel had very bad infection rates for a time. Also, most villages have a gathering place of some sort. Once a single case arrives, spread can happen very quickly.
The people coming into the communities to administer the vaccine have already been vaccinated. Also, read about the Iditarod on Wikipedia. Using unusual methods to get medication to remote areas is old news for Alaska.

I don't know that there are more per capita doses, but the doses that are here are being given out very quickly. That is because of two factors:
1. The vaccine is being distributed and administered by multiple agencies. The Alaska Native Health Service, the Veteran's Administration, the military and the by the state through hospitals, clinics, et c. A good buddy of mine who is Eskimo, with no health risks, is not a senior citizen, et c. has already received the first dose of a vaccine. (I'm glad he was able to, but I'm envious that I can't yet.)
2. The sites that were prepared for patient overflow have been repurposed now for vaccines. These are large sites (relative to our small population) that can handle significant traffic.

All of that said, there are also attitude differences that work in Alaska's favor, and a relatively small population to organize for. Besides, last summer was lost to much of the population. Summers are very important, and nobody wants to lose another. (Lots of space mitigates it, but there are still lots of social activities.)

. . .or possibly an airport runway.

Oh go piss on yourself. I don't deny the jewish claim to erets israel, and in fact support it. I won't, however, suggest that the recent history isn't complicated and hasn't caused pain to people, most of whom are decent.

The real shitter is that I've probably wasted time on this reply, which you'll likely never read.

I strongly agree with your sentiment, but some of your support for it is slightly in error.

It's a common misconception that the majority of Israelis are from Europe. On the contrary, the majority hail from western Asia and north Africa. 1948-1949 emigration from middle-eastern countries exceeded the then extant jewish population. Much of the emigration from Europe predated WWII, with the notable exception of Russian Jews.

Despite being a minority, Israelis of recent European origin haven't really been "very welcoming." In the constitution that they prepared, they made Israeli citizenship open to all jews, but they initially fostered a very condescending attitude toward Mizrahi and Sephardi Jews. While they had a place to go, it hasn't been entirely roses and open arms.

It depends on the timing of when you look. From the mid-19th century until about 1930, much of the emigration to the area was by europeans and voluntary. They had been buying land, often with an artifice, so that the buyer wasn't known. By the '30s, the Jerushalmi were outnumbered by Ashkenazim 3:1.

It was in 1948, when the state of Israel was founded, when countries in the middle east began to expel jews. (Europe, quite famously, had a drastically different reaction than expulsion.) By 1949, the population of Israel doubled from it's 1948 number, when 55% of the new population were (largely) forced emigrees from other middle-eastern countries.

butchersong wasn't wrong in the two sentences above, nor are you. The subject of recent jewish migration to eretz Israel is a complicated one.

Ah. The agreements among the consortium that will own, operate and finance the pipeline and the chinese gas company that intends to buy the bulk of the gas should be finalized within two months. I suppose that we'll have more information then.

LNG thing? My impression is that the LNG project is proceeding, if somewhat slowly. Why would an "LNG thing" contribute to his withdrawal from the race? Honestly, I thought that it had more to do with polls and Mallot's antics.

Nah. The soil up here is just fine. In my distant youth, I worked for barley farmers at about 64 degrees N Latitude, about 100 miles south of Fairbanks, AK. It's hard, poor-paying work, but it put gas in my car and paid for a portion of my schooling.

Here's an article if you want a few minutes reading.

I think that you're underestimating the flexibility of kids in particular, and people in general. I, my wife and my children, all flop around between ios, android (one of the kids), windows, linux (Arch, mostly) and MacOS. I don't see any reason to limit myself (or my kids) to Windows to be successful.