In the best case train is like being driven in a Limo on a free interstate

The normal case is far better than that. Smoother, faster, you can’t get up and stretch your legs, walk to a shop (or have the shop come to you in many cases), plug in your laptop, no bouncing up and down, no car sickness when you’re reading

> no car sickness when you’re reading

It depends how sensitive you are. I get nauseous when reading even on relatively smooth inter-city trains.

Amazing, do you have issues on planes too?

And no traffic :)

I think, actually that the region would have had its melt-down one way or the other. The Arab spring would have happened anyway. And he most likely would have swept Hussein away. Vietnam told us, that in the long run, no foreign power projection prevails against local interests aligned with local powers.

And it will happen again, in about 1.5 generations- waving over a region, who will be very much beyond peak oil. Which will have all those in power at that moment, trying to vent the tension the good old European style- by sending those revolutionary's with all the emotional words and no plans on how to make the world a better place into endless ditch wars.

So the board for the great game is been lay out- now the most relevant game piece has to be determined. Who is the Germany of the middle east?

As in a currently disassembled power-house without resources, that reassembled is capable of innovation and thus is a danger for all current major players.

If a lawyer would look at the contract, he would say we fulfilled the requirements of the contract.

If a customer would look at the contract, he would say "Never again, and will warn everyone i meet".

Never think like a spy. Never think of other people just as assets, constantly scanning for flaws and weakness to roll them "downhill", think about all the people you know - your family, your spouse, your kids, your neighbors as individuals you could get to do anything, so entangled in lies and corruption. Never be a spy. Because once you are a spy, can can never stop being one.

There was a lot of meta-game you could not grasp as a newb in arena-shooters. You heard the opponent grab the shotgun shells, you knew he could either reach door a or door b in 5 seconds. So you grenade launched into Door A and flung yourself at Door B.

For newcomers this resulted in dying horrible most of the time, all the time.

Sounds strange. Just have a collector service, that cleans them and you get a certified fresh package at the super-market?

Yeah, good idea, swapping is faster than refilling. It'd work as long as all the containers are a standard.

Those enthusiasts do go all the way for the medieval dresses. As in buying wool and dying themselves, following medieval recipes. They even have books on the garments and stitches found with ancient bodies in those swamp ponds. Or they recover them from wood carvings - as seen here.

We had a dinner following the ancient roman cuisine with one of these history buffs once. These guys definitely overdid it with fish-paste and spices- to show off there riches.

If you are a deer, the save zones are obviously the territory borders. You migrate from one voronoi cell of trouble into the next.

If you could have a liquid 3D printer below the starting surface and a solid PLA printer above, you could start in the middle of the object and print into two directions, at twice the speed. Of course- the basic question remains, what holds the middle? Retractable titanium bolt?

Actually, participation often ruins the hobby. If your dad is better then you at a game/sports its loosing its value to differentiate you from your siblings.