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Thanks for a fascinating comment! Do you have any opinion on the parenscript project? http://common-lisp.net/project/parenscript/

"Touch-computing is a fad, according to Newell. The future is in things like wrist-bands with highly-accurate motion controls."

http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2012/12/10/why-valves-s...

You're being rude. Anyway:

http://www.wsvn.com/news/articles/tracking_tropics/210089292...

6.5k km2 is actually more than 1/4 of Israel's land area (20,770/22,072 km)

I'm very happy they do what they do. Cool online services often take a long time to become availiable Europe. Because of people like the Samwer brothers, that delay has a cost.

yeah, no bags of rice, AFAIK

You're assuming too much. It's not adequate shelter. You'd get sick living in a shack in an indian slum or in a hut in the amazon without modern medicine plus expensive and time consuming precautions--precautions a slum dweller can't take. Read up on public health in slums, particularly slums in the tropics.

"many missionaries throughout history easily decided to go native"

Err, no. Missionaries (as well as soldiers and merchants) used to have crazy high mortality in the tropics.

Maybe you should let that emotion go, it will inevitably affect your thinking.