Taxing it in the United States will just push these tourism operators outside of US jurisdiction. How many major Cruise Ships are flying a US flag (almost none).
Moreover,
  Mr. Musk has US, South African, and Canadian citizenship. He can pack up and move if any one country gets too greedy.
  Sir Branson is (obviously) a UK subject and not a US citizen. His US holdings can easily move to the BVI or any other British Overseas Territory.
  Mr. Bezos is the only of the space faring trio who is burdened with solely US citizenship.

USA blocking Android going to China. This is an opportunity for the South Koreans to fill a market void created by the US Administration.

Depends on your serving size and brew.

According to Wolfram Alpha:
http://www.wolframalpha.com/in...

250 mg

and yes, I drink coffee in programmer-sized vessels.

I've never understood why Firefox makes it so difficult for web site users to use unsigned keys. Now it makes sense, the "authorities" probably have a back-door into the companies that sell "authenticated" keys and can access those keys "when necessary" (and with what counts as "due process" nowadays).

Did the spy agencies infiltrate the crypto system in Firefox and put these scary warnings in place to prevent a proliferation of self-signed keys that they can't access? The Wired article mentioned the FBI was "entitled" to the Lavabit SSL key - how many other SSL keys are they "entitled" to?

Correct. Google might outsource the Gmail service to India.

I've worked in high-altitude mines in northern Chile and suggest that the working conditions are similar, but the pay is better in mining. There is a large pool of skilled and semi-skilled people who work in the high altitude mines (Collahuasi, Quebrada Blanca, Pascua Lama, Los Bronces, Andina, El Teniente just to name a few) that are the same labour pool that the telescopes are competing for.

The demand for skilled people in mining is driving up wages in Chile. Since these telescopes are competing for the same skilled people, they better pay competitive wages or else watch their people head elsewhere.

How about giving me back my lost sense of smell? Lost it to medical problems over a decade ago.

I have two Das Keyboard Ultimates (the black ones with no lettering) and gave one to my brother for Christmas some time ago. He took it to work and succeeded in never having the IT "professionals" muck with his machine (unless they bring their own keyboards).

About 1000 km each way here. And we got another dump of snow last night, so I get double-credit for driving in it!

> Honest question, do the Canadians give us "special pricing", or do they sell at market rates?

Short answer is "special pricing", for two reasons.

First reason is the "Brent-WTI spread" that makes land-locked oil delivered to Oklahoma (WTI, today= $85.12) cheaper than sea-borne oil (Brent $107.78). Second reason is that a lot of Canada's current exports to the USA are "heavy crude" that trade at a discount to WTI (varies up to $30) because they require extra equipment to process (delayed cokers or hydrotreaters). This equipment is common in refineries near tide-water (Texas gulf coast, for example), but few exist in the US mid-west. The glut of heavy crude in that market has driven down the land-locked price that Canadians get by about $50/bbl.

Most oil in Canada comes from land-locked Alberta and Saskatchewan. Since Canada doesn't have a major pipeline connecting these provinces to the Pacific coast (yet), our American neighbours are getting our oil at a discount to what, for example, Korea would pay.

Avoid using overly abstract concepts, and try to put things in terms they can understand. Since you are teaching statistics, try to use a lot of gambling references (lotto, roulette, etc.) since nearly all the students will have some familiarity with those.

I've found I can teach engineering concepts to elementary school teachers as long as I avoid formulae (and avoid using Latin references, so use the term "formulas" :-) ).

Yes.

Good news: rsync works as root.

Bad news: After numerous reboots and combinations of user passwords, I'm still only able to rsync using the root account. Next step will be to dig through the user permissions in the device (ssh as root and play with combinations of groups and maybe the settings for ssh in the /etc directory).