Whether it's a failure or not depends on whether they're living in yurts by choice because it's their traditional way of living, or they're doing it because it's cheap and they can't afford anything else. (There are probably also some sanitation issues—I don't think most yurts have running water, so public infrastructure would have to make up the difference there.) And you do need some minimal qualifications for assessing that: talking to the people living in the yurts would be a good start.
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or we still used oracles.
We do. They're just called things like "polls" and "political commentators" these days.
Ironically, we probably could get the US to pay for it, if we didn't mind making trade relations with them even worse, by lying about what's going in the opposite direction.
The original article contains some statistics by party, and yes, there is a correlation between voting Conservative and not wanting to fund Canada Post. Other correlations: rural people tend to support funding Canada Post, people who seldom or never receive mail tend not to. (The rural and Conservative tendencies are going to pull in opposite directions for a fair number of people.) I wouldn't be surprised to discover that there's also a correlation with income brackets, but they don't seem to have collected that information.
I do wonder about the whole parts-compatibility issue. There's a tendency when you're constructing an electronic device today to standardize on common hardware and interfaces as much as possible, because it makes manufacturing cheaper. I would have expected the male and female humanoid-hotelier-bots, at minimum, to be distinguished only by cosmetics and programming, not functional hardware. I suppose the parts from the bots in the robot graveyard could have been damaged by improper storage, but still . . .
(Also, I was suspicious of that "horse" from the beginning, because equine facial marking Just Don't Look Like That.)
Voice acting in Japan is a separate profession that can get you quite a bit of fame. Voice acting in the English-speaking world is usually something second-rate actors do when they can't earn enough money from live-action roles. So the quality of the voices provided is usually (but not always) higher in Japanese.
(As for the show itself, the action scenes are fairly well-done, but the plot is no great shakes. It's entertaining so long as you don't expect too much of it.)
Oh, I wasn't suspecting the excavators of a hoax, I was suspecting the people who put the thing there in the 18th century. There were a whole series of "Vikings in the Americas" hoaxes in (mostly) the 19th century, although this would be early for that type of thing, and all the runestone-specific hoaxes I'm aware of were down in the States. The choice of runes for this carving was almost certainly deliberate—by the 18th century, the Latin alphabet would have been dominant in most of Scandinavia—but there's no way of telling whether it was intended to be deceptive.
Because it's traditional to leave a grace period before enforcing a new law. Think of it as a leftover from the days when everything was done on paper and part of a large company's hiring process for some positions might involve printed materials whose wording had to be decided a couple of months in advance.
Don't tell me this is another "Vikings in central NA" hoax (except that they're somehow supposed to be Christian Vikings this time).
Not complete—lists only five of the most common DMs, so it's missing Entrance, TDM, and a bunch of mostly small, console-oriented oddballs.
There are reasons I went to Seamonkey for a couple of years, then to Pale Moon (which is divergent enough now that I expect it to keep chugging along even if Firefox folds—most of Mozilla's patches are no longer relevant to its codebase). I'm interested to see what Ladybird will bring to the table, though.
Available information suggests that the source material is considered seinen rather than shounen, so it is indeed aimed at an older crowd. Good seinen material tends to be more thoughtful than shounen. (Bad seinen material is just shounen with added hentai, though.)