The government is still paying farmers to not grow corn. It's called the Conservation Reserve Program.

http://beta2.tbo.com/news/nation-world/2008/jul/11/na-usda-urged-to-end-paying-farmers-not-to-grow-cr-ar-151982/

"At issue is the Conservation Reserve Program, under which the government has paid farmers to stop growing row crops, such as corn and soybeans, on 34 million acres across the country. "

http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/programs/crp/

  So supply equals demand and supports the current price. News at 11:00?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_mining_in_Utah
"All of Utah’s numerous uranium mines closed prior to 2000, because of low uranium prices."

Wow! Will you be my neighbor? I could discuss life with you for hours and then send you home and sleep the deep sleep of resolution. It's a magnificent post.

It's a far bigger country than you may think.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia :
The two widest separated points in Russia are about 8,000 km (5,000 mi) apart along a geodesic line.

  Sort of like attacking New York by invading California. And there was one railroad spanning that distance (iirc) and it would have been easy to attack the line and close it down.

Your Honda isn't as robust as you think. It's an interference engine design and if you don't keep replacing the timing belt, it will catastrophically fail.

http://www.aa1car.com/library/2003/us70343.htm

I'd add evil enemy, although the change seemed to be done with good intentions. I used to run four desktops with cranky old engineering applications, including matlab, in each one. Then I updated RHEL and got thrown into a focus stealing hell. Blinking items were appearing on the current taskbar from another desktop. My taskbars were already full and organized and this meant that to restore my organization, I had to go service some app on another desktop and return. Over and over, many times per hour. KDE could disable it once I could name what was happening to me, but KDE has a little windowing delay that randomly messes with my main application being able to pop a window . The application isn't going to adapt so KDE was out.

I use IceWM for vnc sessions of the same setup and updated to the (then) latest version, thinking that I'd get some new and useful feature, and it did the same darn thing. I reverted to the old IceWM and would have stayed forever at that version as it was my only useful solution. Then life took a left turn and here I am lurking Slashdot. Focus stealing is not my main issue today.