You're driving Suzuki Swift 2025 mild hybrid, which I happen to own and achieve those numbers in real world. And I have kids - they fit in there when needed to take them to school, but most of the time I drive alone surrounded by ever increasing numbers of SUV's. It seems a bit more sane here in EU where we can get small hatchbacks, but situation is getting worse and small cars are being phased out. Sub 20k Euro car with 50MPG covers 95% of my needs, but what do I know, maybe you need to drive two oxen every day to your off road location...

Yes.

From article: "It is worth noting that the 14-inch MacBook Pro is €100 cheaper in some European countries". Also any amount of reduced electronic waste is good, so thanks EU. From happy EU citizen with Apple iPhone with USB-C, and who remembers mobile phone chargers hell, when every manufacturer (Nokia, Ericsson, Samsung, Sony, Apple) had their own charger plugs.

Insurance companies in USA made 88B in profits in 2023, so first target them for cancer 'cure'.

My take: Israel knew or pushed specific pager model to hesbolah. To make it quick and easy for middleman to modify pagers, they made battery with explosives (BBC reports of 10-20g high explosives, so the best place to hide is battery) and tampered with FW and SW, if pager architecture allows they wouldn't even need HW modifications. How it possibly works: pager gets specific message to devices that are suspected to be used by hesbolah (previous monitoring of paging activity), hacked software and firmware through third battery wire (usually for thermistor) sends specific length impulses to MCU in battery enclosure (3x2mm MCUs are off the shelf components), then MCU detonates explosive with few seconds delay. That would explain few details: hiding explosives in battery is hard to detect, since probably no hardware modifications are needed. Most injuries are to bottocks, heads and hands - those who didn't read message had their bottoms exploded, if they there fast enough to pull out pager and read - then hands and heads would take injuries. Israel had to rush this, because smaller battery means it would be suspicious and examined in long term, probably batteries could be started to be replaced due to short battery life. Also we don't know main objectives of this mission, but what it achieved: taken out thousands of combatants, seeded untrust within hesbolah due to laced devices, severed communication channels, reduced recruitment to obvious imminent danger to being in hesbolah, exposed lots of hesbolah agents. Moral things are dubious, but seems like very successful operation in the short time.

- I will work harder. I read that book and remember what happened to that horse. Strangely enough Boxer was pushed into karoshi by communist pigs and now real life capitalists are playing by that book... This will not end well.

- I know we shot our feet last time. But now it is healed, so we bought few more bullets and we are ready to do it again, LET'S GO!

It ceased to be and went to meet CmdrTaco...

You think that factories making semiconductors on another side of the world is making them out of Virgin Marry tears? At least you can control companies a bit more here than in some autocratic hell run by communist entrepreneurs. Manufacture localy, keep standards and have import tax for poluting industries from abroad.

You talk like EUV is something that no one bothered to do. If anybody could do it, they would and save some pretty penny, but it is a colossal task. Also there is more than machines, pure chemical reagents and other stuff is important. We have to stop feeding the dragon and then it will eat itself in the long run.

All individuals are unique, but are equal under the eyes of God. Every individual is to be protected against unfair discrimination on the basis of age, gender, race, national origin, sexual orientation, religion or political beliefs. No person shall be denied the equal protection of the laws; nor shall any person be denied the enjoyment of his civil or political rights.

If less pollution is the benefit, so it might be very well be worth it. Solution is simple and used in other areas with great success https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... If you buy coffee in you can pay deposit that is returned after you return cup. This worked very well in Christmas fairs, where you pay like 2euro deposit when buying hot wine and upon returning cup you get your coin back. Hell even some business, like gas stations, would love this - they could tie in you with their brand cup system. You cant evade all single use containers, but you can heavily reduce amount of it. I'm from EU and I very much support this effort.

I'll wait for dialup modem sound adapter for my laptops' wifi card! Probably it would be damn easy to make just monitoring network traffic and playing sounds through inbuilt speakers...

I don't know which is closer to BSD Linux or OSX. Was thinking about it for my laptop, but boy they are picky about WiFi cards. Maybe next time.