The terrorists the TSA is trying to stop don't exist. This is the reason that after all the money spent trying to secure air travel, the terrorists didn't move to softer targets such as shopping malls, cinemas, etc.

They don't have to share with the whole country, just the region. Transmission loss is a big factor in how far electricity is distributed. The Pacific Northwest has lots of hydro power capacity, and that's precisely the reason it is so cheap.

Software engineers must be able to keep up.

Many restaurants can prepare better food than people can at home. Also restaurants can afford to stock a far greater variety of food than a normal pantry/fridge.

Because the other portions were written in x86 assembly? I just don't get it.

Where do you come up with that? Standard of living is reasonably difficult to measure, but there's the UN HDI.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Human_Development_Index#Europe

Moldova has the lowest, but perhaps you meant EU -- in which case it's Bulgaria.

That's not spam. He's just doing what he can to make the world a worse place.

They don't actually pay as well. YMMV

With Bulldozer, you're not going to be happy either way.

Orbital solar seems pretty smart as a long term energy source. But it's not so nice here on earth where there's an atmosphere and plants that would also like a little bit of sun.