Mistake Not… (My Current State Of Joshing Gentle Peevishness For The Awesome And Terrible Majesty Of The Towering Seas Of Ire That Are Themselves The Mere Milquetoast Shallows Fringing My Vast Oceans Of Wrath).
]]>(I still/yet haven't read Banks. Yes, I intend to fix that very soon!)
]]>In other news a "doctored" (Coated) graphene sheet can filter seawater for a fresh output ...
]]>Although no US state has a population as large as Germany (California is ~40 million), There are quite a few US states that have populations much smaller than the countries you've cited: five states1 with populations under a million (the smallest of which, Wyoming, only has 585k, or 0.18% of the US population), and eight more states with populations between one and two million.
So, I'm not sure that the US is actually more balanced.
[1] Ignoring the existence of territories like American Samoa (55k) or Guam (160k).
]]>It may be less painful than you think, programming languages that automate more of the correctness and correctness-checking to eliminate entire classes of bugs such as buffer overflows are gaining in popularity (Erlang, Rust, etc.), and developers are already using them to write replacement low-level system components as well as high-level applications and systems.
]]>(Unpacking: Jay Leno once made a joke about Al Qaeda fighters protesting against being bombed from 30,000 feet. Mr. Leno said, "Why do we do it? Because we can.")
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