Ice storms can often make tree branches break onto powerlines and in extreme cases have put enough ice on the power lines themselves to make them sag to the ground and bend telephone poles. Missouri and Oklahoma, a couple of years ago had one of the worst ice storms in 20 years. Followed by a few days of serious work to repair them and almost a year worth of clean up from all of the destruction that the ice made. Looking at the scene after the event it looked like a hurricane had hit. I doubt America is in big trouble. There is no way to mount a serious DDOS attack without removing anonymity and making yourself a target by physically connecting to the grid. Americans can deal with a few days of power failure. Nature itself has already put us in a position to be ready for grid failure.

Apple along with Acron formed a subsidy called Arm (acorn risk machine) back in the 80s. Acron is no longer around but ARM which is now called ARM unlimited still is. It is the company responsible for the ARM core and it's licensing. A core which has improved over time always with power efficiency in mind and which Nvidia is now using in tegra. The cookie with the power of apple is the arm processor because apple is associated to arm's origins indirectly. It's power is efficiency and growing performance which is becoming more comparable to the cpus of desktop computers. Only problem is window's won't run native on this architecture. And if you don't believe it you will be eaten by a Grue!

You say Dijkstra was wrong. The guy made a simple comment and it changed the way we look at how we make our computer languages today.

The problem with GoTo was pointed out by Dijkstra. It makes it hard to analyze and read a program which uses goto statements. Higher level languages are supposed to abstract the goto statements away so when code jumps to another location in memory it's in a scenario that is clearly understood. The purpose of language is communication, programming languages are no different. Besides, think of the big picture-- hashing, memoization, heaps, trees, all of the tried and true algorithms we have at our fingertips. Given increasingly large data sets an effective use of these ideas will outperform the short sighted approach. In the world of computers hardware moves data so fast that these kind of optimizations mean so much more than a few cycles saved for using a simple instruction. To implement these more holistic approaches you have to design in a way which makes sense, so that you can analyze everything you are doing as part of the bigger picture.

Athletic alpha male and submissive cheerleader-- lol. You are talking about sexual role play-- not marriage. Maybe check your sources? If the cover of the books portray an image of a lewd nature on the front then you are probably looking at the wrong material.