Here in the interior of Alaska we have to plant trees close together in our campgrounds. That keeps the mosquitos with the larger wingspans from getting through. Heck, some of them have their own landing strip at the airport. Our mosquitoes are big -- scary big.
So, wouldn't that be 'mastroturfing'? That is, interjecting into any conversation the particular Object of your fanboi-ism that you are fantasizing about?
Actually, we have a pretty well developed secession 'infrastructure' already and get to go first... Heck Joe Vogler took his case to the UN (claiming that the 1958 vote in favor of statehood was illegal) and the Alaska Independence Party has a pretty big following (including the Palins at one point). Anyway, letting California, Texas or Alaska go would be pretty much the death knell for the US since, I think, that the remainder of the country would fracture along regional lines. So, no, I don't favor Alaska leaving the union, but I do have to stop and think when I see the "Maybe Joe Was Right" bumper stickers up here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaskan_Independence_Party
Plus, we can also have a large radio telescope that is shielded by the moon itself from all the stuff we broadcast on Earth. Not only that, but just the knowledge that we have people living and working on the moon may be enough to get folks to remember that there is more to this existence than just grubbing around in the mud.
They'd be Climbing the Stairway to Heaven
The answer to that is 'yes' OS X 10.5 is Posix compliant http://www.apple.com/macosx/technology/unix.html
"Yes, they are real. They are not mine, but they are real."
It is also important to note that for many colleges and universities, foreign nationals make up a large portion of the student body _and_ the faculty in several departments. As these highly talented folks go back, they leave big holes in the departments they leave behind. I think that if all the FNs left our petroleum engineering, for example, department the place would be a ghost town.
"... It was a rant encouraging a change to the way we were building Windows at the time.... Taken out of context, this comment could be confusing. Let me set the record straight: This email is nearly 3 years old, and I was being purposefully dramatic in order to drive home a point. The point being that we needed to change and change quickly. We did: We changed dramatically the development process that was being used and we reset the Windows Vista development project in mid-2004, essentially starting over.
[Fuel cell expert Ulf Bossel's] overall energy analysis of a hydrogen economy demonstrates that high energy losses inevitably resulting from the laws of physics mean that a hydrogen economy will never make sense. The advantages of hydrogen praised by journalists (non-toxic, burns to water, abundance of hydrogen in the Universe, etc.) are misleading, because the production of hydrogen depends on the availability of energy and water, both of which are increasingly rare and may become political issues, as much as oil and natural gas are today."
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