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Your information is out of date. KC is a huge engineering/tech hub, with Sprint HQ, Garmin HQ, Burns & McDonnell HQ, Black & Veatch HQ, and Honeywell/NNSA (where most of a modern nuclear weapon is made). There are tens of thousands of highly educated technical people in the KC metro area.

Come on down to south JoCo, Nehmo. There's still a lot of cheap places to live way down here, and I'm pretty sure I'm one of the scarier people on the streets late at night south of 151st in Olathe. Lenexa also has some nice, cheap places to live. A couple friends of mine just moved out of KCK to Lenexa and have been very happy there.

Lawrence has some very hilly areas. Its really pretty to take off from Lawrence airport, head east, then south, then west along 15th Street . There's some lovely rolling hills.

Kansas in general is surprisingly hilly. As another poster said, the Flint Hills are spectacular. Even in eastern Kansas and KC itself you'll see a lot of hills. There's even cave systems excavated in the hills for business and storage.

Garmin still believes in doing work in the USA.

All of their consumer electronics products for sale in the USA (except nuvis) were designed and developed in the USA. (Kansas, Arizona, Oklahoma) Nuvis have about 5% development in Taiwan, 95% in Kansas.

All avionics are designed, developed, and manufactured entirely in the USA. (Kansas, Arizona, Oregon)

The vast majority of the Marine devices are designed and developed in the US, with some assistance from the UK.

Most in-dash car stereo work is done in the USA, but out of the necessity to work with car stereo manufacturers, there is development done in Taiwan as well.

" built-in superconducting magnets in the souls"

I believe Massive Dynamic has a patent on these actually.

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There's nothing wrong with GPS coverage, your receiver has a problem. It may require a firmware update or an external antenna.

I witnessed this also. Our IT department is mostly a Dell shop, and dsm_om_connsvcd went completely bonkers.

"I have to wonder why Samsung doesn't flip the disable bit on the features Apple is suing about"

Samsung didn't write any of the features Apple is suing over. The Galaxy Nexus is running AOSP Android 4.0. Outside of the modem, there is *zero* Samsung code running on the device. They're suing Samsung over something they don't like that Google wrote.

I had firearms training as part of my old job, and own several for recreation and personal defense. Here's some facts:

- my 70 year old Mosin-Nagant (Russian) rifle operates flawlessly.
- my 40 year old HK (German) rifle has a sticky charging handle, but otherwise cycles perfectly.
- my 60 year old Cugir (Romanian copy of a Russian design) semiautomatic pistol has operates flawlessly; in the several years I have owned it, it has NEVER failed to fire or jammed. I trust my life to it.
- my 25 year old Ceska Zbrojovka (Czech) semiautomatic pistol works perfectly if I give it quality ammo. Laquered case rounds jam it up when the ambient temperature is hot.
- my 10 year old Mossberg (American) shotgun has rust, a flimsy pump, and the mag tube is stuck on. The weapon is operational, but I can't break it down.

I've been at the range too many times watching guys delicately treating their AR-15s that jam up, while I blast away with my beat up HK 91. Yeah, good luck getting me to buy another American made firearm.

Its becoming a primary system. As the FAA decommissions radar stations and other navaids, GPS and ADS-B interrogation are replacing those technologies and services. Similarly, small aircraft can use GPS for precision approaches in instrument meteorological conditions instead of ILS. Many small airports don't have ILS runways, and many small civilian aircraft aren't equipped to use ILS. In the case of a GPS approach, if a fix is lost or wrong, the pilot must abort the landing and execute a missed approach.

FD: I'm a pilot and engineer with a background in avionics.

Or the hundreds of Fedora workstations they have for their engineers...engineers that the business doesn't want twiddling their thumbs while updates apply and boxes reboot.

Unfortunately, Volkswagen plays a similar game on a daily basis. Their TDI models specifically require #2 diesel fuel, with no more than 5% biodiesel content. Any different fuel will void the warranty and (they claim) may damage components in the fuel delivery and exhaust systems. In Illinois, "#2 diesel" can contain up to 20% biodiesel, and you aren't guaranteed a specific percentage. Essentially, VW is selling cars in a state where you cannot fuel them.

A lot of the people I see use iphones. However, most of these people are completely non-technical. They have iphones to talk to Siri and giggle in marvel. Or they want to use it as an entertainment device.

On the flip side, there are a few highly technical people I know with iphones. However, these people have jailbroken and modified the phones so extensively they are hardly what Steve would have approved of.

Most of my friends and coworkers that want something functional that they can get work done on carry an Android device of some sort. Heck, with VPN, ConnectBot, and 2X Client, its possible for a sysadmin to run a company from the beach.